John 4:22
New International Version
You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.

New Living Translation
You Samaritans know very little about the one you worship, while we Jews know all about him, for salvation comes through the Jews.

English Standard Version
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

Berean Standard Bible
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.

Berean Literal Bible
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is of the Jews.

King James Bible
Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.

New King James Version
You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.

New American Standard Bible
You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.

NASB 1995
“You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

NASB 1977
“You worship that which you do not know; we worship that which we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

Legacy Standard Bible
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

Amplified Bible
You [Samaritans] do not know what you worship; we [Jews] do know what we worship, for salvation is from the Jews.

Christian Standard Bible
You Samaritans worship what you do not know. We worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You Samaritans worship what you do not know. We worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.

American Standard Version
Ye worship that which ye know not: we worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
You are worshiping what you do not know. We know what we are worshiping, for The Life is of the Jews.

Contemporary English Version
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know; for salvation is of the Jews.

English Revised Version
Ye worship that which ye know not: we worship that which we know: for salvation is from the Jews.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You don't know what you're worshiping. We [Jews] know what we're worshiping, because salvation comes from the Jews.

Good News Translation
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.

International Standard Version
You don't know what you're worshiping. We Jews know what we're worshiping, because salvation comes from the Jews.

Literal Standard Version
you worship what you have not known; we worship what we have known, because salvation is of the Jews;

Majority Standard Bible
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.

New American Bible
You people worship what you do not understand; we worship what we understand, because salvation is from the Jews.

NET Bible
You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.

New Revised Standard Version
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

New Heart English Bible
You worship that which you do not know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

Webster's Bible Translation
Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship, for salvation is from the Jews.

Weymouth New Testament
You worship One of whom you know nothing. We worship One whom we know; for salvation comes from the Jews.

World English Bible
You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

Young's Literal Translation
ye worship what ye have not known; we worship what we have known, because the salvation is of the Jews;

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Audio Bible



Context
Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
21“Believe Me, woman,” Jesus replied, “a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23But a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him.…

Cross References
2 Kings 17:28
Thus one of the priests they had carried away came and lived in Bethel, and he began to teach them how they should worship the LORD.

Isaiah 2:3
And many peoples will come and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths." For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Acts 3:26
When God raised up His Servant, He sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways."

Acts 17:23
For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.

Romans 3:1
What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?

Romans 9:4
the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

Romans 11:18
do not boast over those branches. If you do, remember this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you.


Treasury of Scripture

You worship you know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.

ye know.

2 Kings 17:27-29,41
Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land…

Ezra 4:2
Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.

Acts 17:23,30
For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you…

we worship.

2 Chronicles 13:10-12
But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business: …

Psalm 147:19
He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.

Romans 3:2
Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

for.

Genesis 49:10
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

Psalm 68:20
He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.

Isaiah 2:3
And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

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John 4
1. Jesus talks with a woman of Samaria, and reveals his identity to her.
27. His disciples marvel.
31. He declares to them his zeal for God's glory.
39. Many Samaritans believe on him.
43. He departs into Galilee, and heals the ruler's son that lay sick at Capernaum.














(22) For salvation is of the Jews.--This verse has sorely tried critics who seek to construct the Gospel out of their judgments of what it should be. It can be no difficulty to those who seek to form their judgments from the Gospel as it is. Assume that the Gospel belongs to the Greek thought of the close of the second century, and the verse must be omitted, though it is certainly part of the original text; accept the Gospel as belonging to the Hebrew thought of the first century, and this touch of Jewish theology is in entire harmony with it. The contrast between the Samaritan and the Jewish worship lay in its history, its state at that time, and its rejection of the fuller teaching of the prophetical books of the Old Testament. "In every way the Jews had much advantage, but chiefly that unto them were committed the oracles of God." Little as they knew the treasure they possessed, they were the guardians of spiritual truth for the world, and in a sense deeper than they could fathom, "salvation was of the Jews." (Comp. Romans 3:2; Romans 9:4-5, Notes; Isaiah 2:3; Micah 4:2.)

The "we" of this verse is in answer to the "ye" of John 4:20. She identifies Him with those who claim Jerusalem as the place of worship. That "ye" contained its own answer. In using it she had said that the Messiah was of the Jews. . . .

Verse 22 - Ye worship that which (not "him whom") ye know not. "That which" points to the essence and inner character of the object of their worship. They gave him a name, but they were comparatively ignorant of, and confessedly hostile as a people to, the revelation that the Father had made. They fell back on a past of rigid orthodoxy but of limited range. They rejected every portion of the Old Testament with the exception of the Pentateuch, i.e. the entire historical treatment of the primeval faith; even that very essence of it which involved the progressive and expanding conception of the character of God - the perpetuity and continuous renovation of relations, the prophetic insight into providence, the sublime liturgy of a ceaseless worship, the prediction of a Messianic glory which, in the fulness of the times, should complete and complement all that preceded. They were, by their prejudices and hostility, kept ignorant of and unacquainted with the Name that was above every name. In contradistinction from this, we Jews, to whom as a nation you rightly conclude I belong, and as a representative of whom I speak - We worship that which we know. Christ in this place, more distinctly perhaps than in any portion of the four Gospels, places himself as a worshipper side by side with his hearers. Here, moreover, he identifies himself with the Jews - becomes their interpreter and mouthpiece and representative. When a question arises, which of the two has the larger amount of truth, Jew or Gentile, Jew or Samaritan, he pronounced in stringent terms in favour of the Jew. The revelation advancing beyond the narrow limitations of Samaritan nationality as to place, and time, and historic fact, with its pregnant ritual, has revealed the Father to us Jews, in this respect and because the salvation of which Moses partly dreamed, but which has been the burden of every prophecy and psalm - the "salvation" which gives meaning to all our knowledge, is from (ἐκ, not "belonging to," but "proceeding from," John 1:46; John 7:22, 52) the Jews. The Jews have been the school where the highest lessons have been taught, the richest experiences felt, the noblest lives lived, the types and shadows of good things to come most conspicuous. We cannot avoid reading between the lines the sublime enthusiasm which Paul gathered from this class of teaching ("To whom pertaineth the adoption,...and covenant,...whose are the fathers, and to whom were committed the oracles of God,... and from whom as concerning the flesh Christ came"). The utterance is profoundly significant, as it is a powerful repudiation of the theory which makes the author of this Fourth Gospel a Gentile of the second century, with a Gnostic antipathy to Judaism and Jews. The contradiction to this theory indubitably involved in this verse has led to the wildest conjectures - even the suggestion of a Jewish gloss on some ancient manuscripts of the Gospel has been one desperate device to save the theory. Taut pis pour les fairs.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
You
ὑμεῖς (hymeis)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

worship
προσκυνεῖτε (proskyneite)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4352: From pros and a probable derivative of kuon; to fawn or crouch to, i.e. prostrate oneself in homage.

what
(ho)
Personal / Relative Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3739: Who, which, what, that.

you do not know;
οἴδατε (oidate)
Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 1492: To know, remember, appreciate.

we
ἡμεῖς (hēmeis)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 1st Person Plural
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

worship
προσκυνοῦμεν (proskynoumen)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's 4352: From pros and a probable derivative of kuon; to fawn or crouch to, i.e. prostrate oneself in homage.

what
(ho)
Personal / Relative Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3739: Who, which, what, that.

we do know,
οἴδαμεν (oidamen)
Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's 1492: To know, remember, appreciate.

for
ὅτι (hoti)
Conjunction
Strong's 3754: Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because.

salvation
σωτηρία (sōtēria)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 4991: Feminine of a derivative of soter as noun; rescue or safety.

is
ἐστίν (estin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

from
ἐκ (ek)
Preposition
Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.

the
τῶν (tōn)
Article - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

Jews.
Ἰουδαίων (Ioudaiōn)
Adjective - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 2453: Jewish. From Iouda; Judaean, i.e. Belonging to Jehudah.


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