<p>4:22 <i>You worship that which you do not know. We worship what we know. For salvation is from the Jews</i>- The Lord went along with her as far as He could, but as in our witness to folks, there comes a time when we have to put our foot down. Salvation was &quot;from the Jews&quot; in that the Messianic saviour would be from them. And the identity of the Messiah was the issue here. The Lord doesn't take away from the Samaritans the fact they worshipped; but they worshipped in ignorance without accepting Messiah as being a Jew rather than one of their re-incarnated prophets (see on :19). There is a very similar situation in Acts 17:23, where Paul declares to people the God whom they had worshipped in ignorance through sacrificing to &quot;the unknown God&quot;. The &quot;we&quot; cannot refer to Jews generally; for they did not know the Father nor His Son (8:19,27). He meant &quot;we&quot; as in Himself and the disciples who were now regrouping around Him. &quot;We worship <i>what</i>&quot; we know could as well be translated &quot;<i>who</i> we know&quot;. Acceptable worship of the Father was predicated upon acceptance of Himself as Messiah, the salvation of and from the Jews.</p>