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, х ho (G3739) ouk (G3756) oidate (G1492) ... ho (G3739) oidamen (G1492)] - rather, 'Ye worship what ye know not: we worship what we know'-q.d., 'Ye worship without any revealed authority, and so, very much in the dark; but in this sense the Jews know what they are about.'
For salvation is of the Jews. 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 us Jews. For salvation is not a thing left to be reached by anyone who may vaguely desire it of a God of mercy, but something that has been revealed, prepared, deposited with a particular people, and must he sought in connection with, and as issuing from them; and that people "the Jews." Here, and almost here only, our Lord uses the pronoun "we." But observe in what sense. It is not, He and other individual men: It is He and the Jewish nation, "of whom as concerning the flesh, Christ came" (Romans 9:5). It is, We Jews. In other words, Christ here identifies Himself with others only as touching the family to which as man He belonged; and even that but once or twice. Hence, it seems no proper exception to Remark 3 at the close of the section on Nicodemus (John 3:1-21).