“The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.”
Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.' — the woman's shift to religious geography is significant. Mount Gerizim (the Samaritan holy place) versus Jerusalem represents the central sectarian divide. The woman's question addresses the locus of acceptable worship—a perennial problem in her community.
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