Who is this woman talking about?

Question

The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship."

John 4 = 19 - 20

Answer 1

She is a samaritan and is talking to Jesus (Sir) about the samaritans belief in a coming prophet and their worship on the mountain where Jacob had his heavenly vision.

Answer 2

This is the account of Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well. The woman was saying in passage that she thought Jesus was a prophet because he knew that she had five husbands, but the man she was living with was not her husband. She is saying that her Samaritan forefathers worshipped gods there on that mountain, but the Jews worshipped God in Jerusalem. This Samaritan woman was the first person Jesus openly told that he was the Messiah.

Answer 3

Metaphorically, she's talking about you and me. Everybody.

From time immemorial, groups ["our fathers"] have always thought they had the truth, the right idea of how things should be done and that other groups ["you people"] were altogether wrong.

By the way, that prophet [whom she sees as a representative of "you people"] responds that she has misunderstood him:

Neither this mountain nor Jerusalem, he tells her. Place is not what matters. "Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshippers will worship the [Infinite One] in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshippers that the [Infinite One] seeks. God is Spirit, and his worshippers must worship in spirit and in truth."

She probably didn't understand him perfectly; we probably don't either. But, metaphorically, they are both talking about us all.

Not here or there, brothers and sisters! But in spirit!

I suspect that if "our fathers" and "you people" had understood what the prophet was saying, they might not be bombing each other in Baghdad and Lebanon and . . . . the Pentagon and the World Trade Center.

Shalom!

Answer 4

The Samaritan lady was talking to Jesus and tells him that He is a prophet. Now, the Samaritans worshiped in the mountains outside of Jerusalem, but the Jews worshiped in Jerusalem. The women was questioning Jesus' being in Samaria considering He was a Jew, who traditionally stayed in Jerusalem to worship, but Jesus was in Samaritan territory; although He was only there to get to Galilee.

Answer 5

The Mosaic Law says that worship and sacrifice are supposed to take place only in Jerusalem. The people of Samaria had taken up the practice of worshipping on Mount Gerazim because they wanted their own site at which to worship.

Answer 6

The temple was in Jerusalem, therefore that is where the Jews were to go to worship God. Before the temple was built, God appeared in Mt Sinai to Moses and others. The woman is the woman at the well who was not Jewish, but her people were distant cousins to the Jews.

Answer 7

She is a Samaritan, and Samaritans believed the only true place to worship was a mountain in what is now called Palestine.

Answer 8

The Samaritan woman Jesus met at the well. She perceives that Jesus is a prophet.

Answer 9

She is talking to Jesus and is repeating what he has said to others. That Jerusalem is the Holy place.

Answer 10

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