John 4:22 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

John 4:22

20 Our fathers worshiped on ^athis mountain, and you Jews say that in ^bJerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”

21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming ^awhen you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father.

22 You worship ^awhat you do not know; we know what we worship, for ^bsalvation is of the Jews.

23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will ^aworship the Father in ^bspirit ^cand truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.

24 ^aGod is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah ^ais coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, ^bHe will tell us all things.”

26 Jesus said to her, ^a“I who speak to you am He.”

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27 And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You talking with her?”

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John 4:22

Ye worship ye know not what—without any revealed authority, and so very much in the dark. In this sense, the Jews knew what they were about. But the most glorious thing here is the reason assigned,

for salvation is of the Jews—intimating to her that Salvation was not a thing left to be reached by any one who might vaguely desire it of a God of mercy, but something that had been revealed, prepared, deposited with a particular people, and must be sought in connection with, and as issuing from them; and that people, "the Jews."

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Woman, etc.—Here are three weighty pieces of information: (1) The point raised will very soon cease to be of any moment, for a total change of dispensation is about to come over the Church. (2) The Samaritans are wrong, not only as to the place, but the whole grounds and nature of their worship, while in all these respects the truth lies with the Jews. (3) As God is a Spirit, so He both invites and demands a spiritual worship, and already all is in preparation for a spiritual economy, more in harmony with the true nature of acceptable service than the ceremonial worship by consecrated persons, place, and times, which God for a time has seen meet to keep up till fulness of the time should come.

neither in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem—that is, exclusively (Malachi 1:11; I Timothy 2:8).

worship the Father—She had talked simply of "worship"; our Lord brings up before her the great OBJECT of all acceptable worship—"THE FATHER."

Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing John 4:22:

Ezekiel 11:16
Luke 17:14
Romans 11:18

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