|Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
|Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
|You Samaritans do not know what you are worshiping. We Jews know what we are worshiping, because salvation is from the Jews.
|You Samaritans do not know what you are worshiping. We Jews know what we are worshiping, because salvation is from the Jews.
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|Jesus takes a clear stance in the central Jewish/Samaritan theological dispute: The Jews are correct and the Samaritans are wrong.
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|Jesus takes a clear stance in the central Jewish/Samaritan theological dispute: The Jews are correct and the Samaritans are wrong, and His proof: the Messiah, the source of all salvation, comes via the Jews.
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|Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
|Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
|Jesus said to her, "I, the one speaking to you, am he."
|Jesus said to her, "I, the one speaking to you, am he."
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|Final evidence that the Jews preserved the Word of God more faithfully than the Samaritans: God sent the Messiah through the Jews, not the Samaritans.