Who is the "We" Jesus referred to with the Samaritan woman?
A question came up in class today (Sunday, Feb. 6) regarding this passage in the Gospel of John.
22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
Who is the “we” Jesus speaks of hear?
From this resource, the writer postulates that all that is the new testament comes from Judaism.
The Scriptures
- The Scriptures have come through the Jewish people.
- The Bible describes their history and their religion.
- Jewish people wrote the entire Old Testament.
- Jewish people wrote the New Testament with the possible exception of the apostle Luke.
- The Preservation of the Scriptures
- The Jewish people protected the Bible against destruction by its enemies.
- They "guaranteed" the accuracy of our existing text by their painstaking copying methods.
The same analysis appears here.
Because our salvation has come through the Jewish people…
"You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews."
We get additional agreement in this devotional.
We can conclude from these analyses and from our class today that the ‘we’ is the Jews.
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