why Jesus said this?

Question

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

Answer 1

The Samaritans worship an impersonal deity, the Jews worship a personal deity that they experience. The Jews are the people God set his covenant with.

Answer 2

The Samaritans had not been given the law. The Jews were God's chosen people to bring salvation to the world. The Jews, at that time, had the Bible (Old Testament) and knew a Messiah was coming. After Jesus death and resurrection, salvation was available for everyone.

Answer 3

I'll try to answer this question from a historical as well as a Bibical standpoint. When Jesus walked the earth, the people who inhabited Judea were called "Jews", but they were not Hebrews, or even Israelites. The people who answered that the Jews are God's chosen people have been misinformed by organized religion. The words Jew and Israel do not have the same meaning.. God chose Israel, all 12 tribes of Israel, as His "chosen servant people" to take the gospel of the Kingdom to the whole world. The Jews don't fit ANY of the charactheristics of Isreal.

So, when Jesus was talking to the Samaritan women, He said "jew" because that's all she could understand. Jesus always meets us where we are. The history of the sons of Israel is well documented, but little believed because it conflicts with the "traditions of men."

Answer 4

The Samaritans were an offshoot of Judaism. They were seperated during one of the Captivities. I believe they mixed their religion with some Pagan elements, which is why they are hated by the Jews. It's also why Jesus said that they don't know what they worship anymore.

Answer 5

ok, I did a word search throughout the Bible at www.blueletterbible.org. and "You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews."

Does not exist, Here is a list of every verse in the Bible with the word "Samaritan" in It.

2Ki 17:29 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put [them] in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

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Mat 10:5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into [any] city of the Samaritans enter ye not:

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Luk 9:52 And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.

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Jhn 4:9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

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Jhn 4:39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.

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Jhn 4:40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.

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Act 8:25 And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.

Noe of of them say what you asked.

Answer 6

It is basically the same thing us Catholics say to the Protestants and they do not get it either so do not feel like the lone ranger. Substitute Samaritans for Protestants and the Jews to Catholics and that would be it.

Answer 7

Following the exile to Babylon, around 500BC many of the Jews returned to Israel. However, the priest in charge at that time refused to allow any Jews to return who had non-Jewish wives. He believed that they would bring their "pagen" gods and religions with them.

So many of the Jews who had intermarried went and settled in the city of Samaria, rather then returning to the captial city of Jerusalem. They set up their own "temple" and their own priesthood, and separated themselves from the rest of the Jews. Even in Jesus' time they were considered "half-breeds", and not welcome in the Jews synagogues and temple. They also did a re-write of the Jewish scriptures to show that they, not the Jews, were the "real" people of God.

It is to this division in culture and religion that Jesus was speaking. He was stating their their changes in the Jewish faith were wrong, and would not bring them to God.

Answer 8

Jesus is from the jews therefore there's the salvation.

Answer 9

The Jews are God's chosen people. That's why it's called Judeo-Christian. We believe in the same God. God literally used the Jews in the sense of foreshadowing Christ by their history.

Answer 10

I used to know this for sure but I think He may've meant that He came from the Jews and He taught the word of God...STRAIGHT from God and so the Samaritans were off doing their own thing and not exactlly following the exact words of God. ....man im gettin' old....I used to know tis off the bat!!......drats!...somebody will come along and help you understand it better.....God Bless!....sorry....