John 4:22
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.

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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know. For salvation is of the Jews.

ye know.

2 Kings 17:27-29,41 And the king of the Assyrians commanded, saying: Carry thither one of the priests whom you brought from thence captive, and let him go, and dwell with them: and let him teach them the ordinances of the God of the land. . . .

Ezra 4:2 And they came to Zorobabel, and the chief of the fathers, and said to them: Let us build with you, for we seek your God as ye do: behold we have sacrificed to him, since the days of Asor Haddan king of Assyria, who brought us hither.

Acts 17:23,30 For passing by and seeing your idols, I found an altar also, on which was written: To the Unknown God. What therefore you worship without knowing it, that I preach to you: . . .

we worship.

2 Chronicles 13:10-12 But the Lord is our God, whom we forsake not, and the priests who minister to the Lord are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites are in their order. . . .

Psalm 147:19 Who declareth his word to Jacob: his justices and his judgments to Israel.

Romans 3:2 Much every way. First indeed, because the words of God were committed to them.

Romans 9:5 Whose are the fathers and of whom is Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all things, God blessed for ever. Amen.

for.

Genesis 49:10 The sceptre shall not be taken away from Juda, nor a ruler from his thigh, till he come that is to be sent, and he shall be the expectation of nations.

Psalm 68:20 Our God is the God of salvation: and of the Lord, of the Lord are the issues from death.

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

Isaiah 12:2,6 Behold, God is my saviour, I will deal confidently, and will not fear: because the Lord is my strength, and my praise, and he is become my salvation. . . .

Isaiah 46:13 I have brought my justice near, it shall not be afar off: and my salvation shall not tarry. I will give salvation in Sion, and my glory in Israel.

Zephaniah 3:16,17 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: Fear not: to Sion: Let not thy hands be weakened. . . .

Zechariah 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion, shout for joy, O daughter of Jerusalem: BEHOLD THY KING will come to thee, the just and saviour: he is poor, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass.

Luke 24:47 And that penance and remission of sins should be preached in his name, unto all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Romans 9:4,5 Who are Israelites: to whom belongeth the adoption as of children and the glory and the testament and the giving of the law and the service of God and the promises: . . .

Hebrews 7:14 For it is evident that our Lord sprung out of Juda: in which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priests.

Context
Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
21Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe me that the hour cometh, when you shall neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, adore the Father. 22You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know. For salvation is of the Jews. 23But the hour cometh and now is, when the true adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeketh such to adore him.…
Cross References
2 Kings 17:28
So one of the priests, who had been carried away captive from Samaria, came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should worship the Lord.

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

Acts 3:26
To you first, God, raising up his Son, hath sent him to bless you: that every one may convert himself from his wickedness.

Acts 17:23
For passing by and seeing your idols, I found an altar also, on which was written: To the Unknown God. What therefore you worship without knowing it, that I preach to you:

Romans 3:1
What advantage then hath the Jew: or what is the profit of circumcision?

Romans 9:4
Who are Israelites: to whom belongeth the adoption as of children and the glory and the testament and the giving of the law and the service of God and the promises:

Romans 11:18
Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root: but the root thee.

John 4:21
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