the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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John 4:22
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You Samaritans don't know who you are worshiping. Y'all wander around like cowboys trying to gather black cattle at night, but the Jews have the light of day to gather by. God's outfit and eternal life comes from the light of day that the Jews have.
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
"You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
You give worship, but without knowledge of what you are worshipping: we give worship to what we have knowledge of: for salvation comes from the Jews.
Ye worship ye know not what; we worship what we know, for salvation is of the Jews.
You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.
You Samaritans worship what you do not know. We worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.
You worship that which you don't know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
Ye worship ye know not what; we know what we worship; for salvation is from the Jews.
You worship One of whom you know nothing. We worship One whom we know; for salvation comes from the Jews.
Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for saluation is of the Iewes.
Ye wote not what ye worshippe, but we knowe what ye worshippe, for Saluacion commeth of the Iewes.
ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is from the Jews.
"You [Samaritans] do not know what you worship; we [Jews] do know what we worship, for salvation is from the Jews.
Ye worship that which ye know not: we worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
Ye worshippe ye wot not what: we knowe what we worshippe. For salvacion cometh of the Iewes.
You worship that which you don't know: we worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship, for salvation is from the Jews.
You Samaritans worship something you don't understand. We understand what we worship, because salvation comes from the Jews.
You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.
You Samaritans don't really know the one you worship. But we Jews do know the God we worship, and by using us, God will save the world.
You people don't know what you are worshipping; we worship what we do know, because salvation comes from the Jews.
Ye worship that which ye knowe not: we worship that which we knowe: for saluation is of the Iewes.
You worship what you do not know; but we worship what we do know; for salvation is from the Jews.
You worship that which you don't know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Yehudim.
You don't know what you're worshiping. We know what we're worshiping, for salvation comes from the Jews.2 Kings 17:29; Isaiah 2:3; Luke 24:47; Romans 9:4-5;">[xr]
you worship something you know not; but we worship whom we know; for salvation [fn] is from the Jihudoyee.
Ye worship, ye know not what; but we worship what we know; for life is from the Jews.
You Samaritans know very little about the one you worship, while we Jews know all about him, for salvation comes through the Jews.
You people do not know what you worship. We Jews know what we worship. It is through the Jews that men are saved from the punishment of their sins.
Ye worship that which ye know not: we worship that which we know: for salvation is from the Jews.
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
Ye, worship, that which ye know not; We, worship, that which we know; because, salvation, is, of the Jews.
You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know. For salvation is of the Jews.
Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.
Ye worshippe ye wote not what. We knowe what we worshippe: For saluation commeth of the Iewes.
You Samaritans worship something you don't understand. We Jews understand what we worship, since salvation comes from the Jews.
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
"You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.
You Samaritans do not really know whom you worship; but we Jews know whom we worship, because it is from the Jews that salvation comes.
Ye worschipen that ye knowen not; we worschipen that that we knowen; for helthe is of the Jewis.
ye worship what ye have not known; we worship what we have known, because the salvation is of the Jews;
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
ye know: 2 Kings 17:27-29, 2 Kings 17:41, Ezra 4:2, Acts 17:23, Acts 17:30
we worship: 2 Chronicles 13:10-12, Psalms 147:19, Romans 3:2, Romans 9:5
for: Genesis 49:10, Psalms 68:20, Isaiah 2:3, Isaiah 12:2, Isaiah 12:6, Isaiah 46:13, Zephaniah 3:16, Zephaniah 3:17, Zechariah 9:9, Luke 24:47, Romans 9:4, Romans 9:5, Hebrews 7:14
Reciprocal: Exodus 15:2 - my salvation Ezra 4:3 - Ye have nothing Psalms 45:11 - worship Psalms 85:4 - O God Isaiah 45:15 - O God Jeremiah 3:23 - in the Lord Ezekiel 23:4 - Aholah Joel 2:32 - for Jonah 2:9 - Salvation Matthew 10:5 - of the Samaritans Luke 17:16 - and he Acts 13:46 - It was Acts 17:24 - dwelleth Ephesians 2:12 - having 1 Peter 2:5 - spiritual Revelation 7:10 - Salvation Revelation 19:10 - worship Revelation 22:9 - worship God
Cross-References
And this is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, and silver, and bronze;
only the gold, the silver, the copper, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
a land in which you shall eat bread without want; you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron; and you shall dig copper out of its mountains.
May your shoe latches be iron and bronze, and your days as your strength.
And now, send to me a skilled man to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and violet, and knowing how to engrave all kinds of engravings with the skilled men who are with me in Judah andin Jerusalem, whom my father David has prepared.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Ye worship ye know not what,.... However, as to her question, he more directly replies by condemning the Samaritans, and their ignorance in worship, and by approving the Jews; and so manifestly gives the preference to the Jews, not only with respect to the place, and object of worship, but with respect to knowledge and salvation. As for the Samaritans, he suggests, that they were ignorant, not only of the true object of worship, but knew not what they themselves worshipped; or, at least, were not agreed in it. The original inhabitants of those parts, from whence these Samaritans sprung, were idolatrous Heathens, placed by the king of Assyria in the room of the ten tribes he carried away captive; and these feared not the Lord, for they "knew not the manner of the God of the land": wherefore lions were sent among them which slew many of them; upon which the king of Assyria ordered a priest to be sent to instruct them: but notwithstanding this, they had everyone gods of their own, some one, and some another; and so served divers graven images, they and their children, and their children's children, to the time of the writer of the Book of Kings; see 2 Kings 17:24. And though after Manasseh, and other Jews were come among them, and they had received the law of Moses, they might have some knowledge of the true God, yet they glorified him not as God; and though they might in words profess him, yet in works they denied him; and even after this they are very highly charged by the Jews with idolatrous practices on this mount. Sometimes they say g the Cuthites, or Samaritans, worshipped fire; and at other times, and which chiefly prevails with them, they assert h, that their wise men, upon searching, found that they worshipped the image of a dove on Mount Gerizim; and sometimes they say i, they worshipped the idols, the strange gods, or Teraphim, which Jacob hid under the oak in Sichem; which last, if true, may serve to illustrate these words of Christ, that they worshipped they knew not what, since they worshipped idols hid in the mount.
"R. Ishmael bar Jose, they say k went to Neapolis, (Sichem, called Naplous,) the Cuthites, or Samaritans came to him (to persuade him to worship with them in their mountain); he said unto them, I will show you that ye do not "worship at this mountain", but "the images which are hid under it"; for it is written, Genesis 35:4; "and Jacob hid them" under the oak which was by Shechem.''
And elsewhere l it is reported of the same Rabbi, that he went to Jerusalem to pray, as before related on John 4:20, and after what passed between him, and the Samaritan he met with at Mount Gerizim, before mentioned, he added;
"and said to him, I will tell you what ye are like, (ye are like) to a dog that lusts after carrion; so because ye know the idols are hid under it, (the mountain,) as it is written, Genesis 35:4 and Jacob hid them, therefore ye lust after it: they said--this man knows that idols are hid here, and perhaps he will take them away; and they consulted together to kill him: he arose, and made his escape in the night.''
But this was not the case of the Jews:
we know what we worship; Christ puts himself among them, for he was a Jew, as the woman took him to be; and, as man, was a worshipper of God; he feared, loved, and obeyed God; he trusted in him, and prayed unto him; though, as God, he was the object of worship himself: and the true worshippers among the Jews, of which sort Christ was, knew God, whom they worshipped, spiritually and savingly; and the generality of that people had right notions of the God of Israel, having the oracles, and service of God, and being instructed out of Moses, and the prophets:
for salvation is of the Jews; the promises of salvation, and of a Saviour, were made to them, when the Gentiles were strangers to them; the means of salvation, and of the knowledge of it, as the word, statutes, and ordinances, were enjoyed by them, when others were ignorant of them; and the Messiah, who is sometimes styled "Salvation", see Genesis 49:18, was not only prophesied of in their books, and promised unto them, but came of them, as well as to them; and the number of the saved ones had been for many hundreds of years, and still was among them; the line of election ran among them, and few among the Gentiles were called and saved, as yet.
g T. Bab. Taanith, fol. 5. 2. h Maimon. in Misn. Beracot, c. 8. sect. 8. & Bartenora in ib. c. 7. sect. 1. & in Nidda, c. 4. sect. 1. i Shalshelet Hakkabala, fol. 15. 2. k T. Hieros. Avoda Zara, fol. 44. 4. l Bereshit Rabba, sect. 81. fol. 71. 1.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Ye worship ye know not what - This probably refers to the comparative ignorance and corruption of the Samaritan worship. Though they received the five books of Moses, yet they rejected the prophets, and of course all that the prophets had said respecting the true God. Originally, also, they had joined the worship of idols to that of the true God. See 2 Kings 17:26-34. They had, moreover, no authority for building their temple and conducting public worship by sacrifices there. On all these accounts they were acting in an unauthorized manner. They were not obeying the true God, nor offering the worship which he had commanded or would approve. Thus, Jesus indirectly settled the question which she had proposed to him, yet in such a way as to show her that it was of much less importance than she had supposed.
We know - We Jews. This they knew because God had commanded it; because they worshipped in a place appointed by God, and because they did it in accordance with the direction and teaching of the prophets.
Salvation is of the Jews - They have the true religion and the true form of worship; and the Messiah, who will bring salvation, is to proceed from them. See Luke 2:30; Luke 3:6. Jesus thus affirms that the Jews had the true form of the worship of God. At the same time he was sensible how much they had corrupted it, and on various occasions reproved them for it.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 22. Ye worship ye know not what — The Samaritans believed in the same God with the Jews; but, as they rejected all the prophetical writings, they had but an imperfect knowledge of the Deity: besides, as they incorporated the worship of idols with his worship, they might be justly said to worship him whom they did not properly know. See the account of their motley worship, 2 Kings 17:26-34. But after Sanballat had built the temple on Mount Gerizim, the idolatrous worship of the Cutheans and Sepharvites, c., was entirely laid aside the same religious service being performed in the Samaritan temple which was performed in that at Jerusalem.
We know what we worship — We Jews acknowledge all the attributes of his nature, and offer to him only the sacrifices prescribed in the law.
Salvation is of the Jews. — Εκ των Ιουδαιων εστιν, Salvation is from the Jews. Salvation seems here to mean the Saviour, the Messiah, as it does Luke 2:30; Acts 4:12: and so the woman appears to have understood it, John 4:25. The Messiah was to spring from the Jews-from them, the preaching of the Gospel, and the knowledge of the truth, were to go to all the nations of the world. It was to the Jews that the promises were made; and it was in their prophetic Scriptures, which the Samaritans rejected, that Jesus Christ was proclaimed and described. See Isaiah 11:3.
