“Ye worship ye know not what: 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, for salvation is from the Jews. — this verse affirms the particularity of Jewish covenant history while universalizing its fulfillment. Jesus acknowledges that Samaritan worship is deficient in knowledge; Jewish tradition preserves the true God's revelation. Yet salvation comes to all through Jesus, the Jew. This is John's way of honoring Jewish Scripture while transcending Jewish particularism.
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