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OET (OET-RV) You people in Samaria don’t even know who you worship, but we do, because people will be saved by means of us Jews.
OET-LV You_all are_prostrating what you_all_have_ not _known, we are_prostrating what we_have_known, because the salvation is of the Youdaiōns.
SR-GNT Ὑμεῖς προσκυνεῖτε ὃ οὐκ οἴδατε, ἡμεῖς προσκυνοῦμεν ὃ οἴδαμεν, ὅτι ἡ σωτηρία ἐκ τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἐστίν. ‡
(Humeis proskuneite ho ouk oidate, haʸmeis proskunoumen ho oidamen, hoti haʸ sōtaʸria ek tōn Youdaiōn estin.)
Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, orange:accusative/object, pink:genitive/possessor, red:negative.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).
ULT You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
UST You people here in Samaria worship the God whom you do not know. We Jews worship the God whom we know. This is true because the way to be saved from your sins comes from among the Jews.
BSB You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
BLB You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is of the Jews.
AICNT You[fn] worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
4:22, you: Plural
OEB You Samaritans do not know what you worship; we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews.
LSB You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
WEBBE You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
WMBB (Same as above)
NET You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.
LSV you worship what you have not known; we worship what we have known, because salvation is of the Jews;
FBV You really don't know the God[fn] you're worshiping, while we worship the God we know, for salvation comes from the Jews.
4:22 Literally, “what.”
TCNT You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.
T4T You people from Samaria do not know the one you are worshipping. But we (exc) Jews know whom we worship, because it is from us Jews that God has sent the one who will save people from the guilt of their sins.
LEB You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.
BBE You give worship, but without knowledge of what you are worshipping: we give worship to what we have knowledge of: for salvation comes from the Jews.
Moff No Moff YHN (JHN) book available
Wymth You worship One of whom you know nothing. We worship One whom we know; for salvation comes from the Jews.
ASV Ye worship that which ye know not: we worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
DRA You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know; for salvation is of the Jews.
YLT ye worship what ye have not known; we worship what we have known, because the salvation is of the Jews;
Drby Ye worship ye know not what; we worship what we know, for salvation is of the Jews.
RV Ye worship that which ye know not: we worship that which we know: for salvation is from the Jews.
Wbstr Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship, for salvation is from the Jews.
KJB-1769 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
( Ye/You_all worship ye/you_all know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. )
KJB-1611 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for saluation is of the Iewes.
(Ye/You_all worship ye/you_all know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Yewes.)
Bshps Ye worshippe ye wote not what. We knowe what we worshippe: For saluation commeth of the Iewes.
(Ye/You_all worshippe ye/you_all wote not what. We know what we worshippe: For salvation cometh/comes of the Yewes.)
Gnva Ye worship that which ye knowe not: we worship that which we knowe: for saluation is of the Iewes.
(Ye/You_all worship that which ye/you_all know not: we worship that which we knowe: for salvation is of the Yewes. )
Cvdl Ye wote not what ye worshippe, but we knowe what ye worshippe, for Saluacion commeth of the Iewes.
(Ye/You_all wote not what ye/you_all worshippe, but we know what ye/you_all worshippe, for Saluacion cometh/comes of the Yewes.)
TNT Ye worshippe ye wot not what: we knowe what we worshippe. For salvacion cometh of the Iewes.
(Ye/You_all worshippe ye/you_all wot not what: we know what we worshippe. For salvacion cometh/comes of the Yewes. )
Wyc Ye worschipen that ye knowen not; we worschipen that that we knowen; for helthe is of the Jewis.
(Ye/You_all worschipen that ye/you_all known not; we worschipen that that we known; for health is of the Yewis.)
Luth Ihr wisset nicht, was ihr anbetet; wir wissen aber was wir anbeten; denn das Heil kommt von den Juden.
(You know not, what/which you/their/her anbetet; we/us wissen but what/which we/us worship; because the Heil comes from the Yuden.)
ClVg Vos adoratis quod nescitis: nos adoramus quod scimus, quia salus ex Judæis est.
(Vos adoratis that nescitis: we adoramus that scimus, because salus from Yudæis it_is. )
UGNT ὑμεῖς προσκυνεῖτε ὃ οὐκ οἴδατε, ἡμεῖς προσκυνοῦμεν ὃ οἴδαμεν, ὅτι ἡ σωτηρία ἐκ τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἐστίν.
(humeis proskuneite ho ouk oidate, haʸmeis proskunoumen ho oidamen, hoti haʸ sōtaʸria ek tōn Youdaiōn estin.)
SBL-GNT ὑμεῖς προσκυνεῖτε ὃ οὐκ οἴδατε, ἡμεῖς προσκυνοῦμεν ὃ οἴδαμεν, ὅτι ἡ σωτηρία ἐκ τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἐστίν·
(humeis proskuneite ho ouk oidate, haʸmeis proskunoumen ho oidamen, hoti haʸ sōtaʸria ek tōn Youdaiōn estin;)
TC-GNT Ὑμεῖς προσκυνεῖτε ὃ οὐκ οἴδατε· ἡμεῖς προσκυνοῦμεν ὃ οἴδαμεν· ὅτι ἡ σωτηρία ἐκ τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἐστίν.
(Humeis proskuneite ho ouk oidate; haʸmeis proskunoumen ho oidamen; hoti haʸ sōtaʸria ek tōn Youdaiōn estin. )
Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs (from our SR-GNT base).
4:1-42 At a historic well in Samaria, Jesus offered himself as living water. Jesus engaged and confronted people with the revelation of God, and they either followed or fell away.
• The Samaritan woman contrasted with Nicodemus at every turn: a woman (not a man), a Samaritan (not a Jew), a sinner (not righteous), and an outcast (not one of Israel’s rabbis). While Nicodemus fell silent and never responded to Jesus’ challenges (3:1-21), this woman acknowledged Jesus as Lord, remained in the light, and exhibited signs of discipleship (see 1:35-51).
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / you
ὑμεῖς & οὐκ οἴδατε
you_all & not ˱you_all˲_/have/_known
You is plural here in this verse and refers to the Samaritan people. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “you Samaritan people … you all do not know”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / exclusive
ἡμεῖς & οἴδαμεν
we & ˱we˲_/have/_known
We here is exclusive. Jesus is only referring to himself and the Jewish people. Your language may require you to mark this form. Alternate translation: “We Jewish people … we all know”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ὅτι ἡ σωτηρία ἐκ τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἐστίν
because ¬the salvation of the Jews is
The phrase from the Jews indicates that the Jewish people were the people group from which salvation came. This is true because the Savior Jesus was from the Jewish people. This phrase does not mean that the Jewish people themselves will save others from their sins. If this might confuse your readers, you could express the meaning explicitly. Alternate translation: “for salvation comes from among the Jewish people”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
ἡ σωτηρία
¬the salvation
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of salvation, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: “the way to be saved”
John 4
As the story of Jesus’ encounter with a Samaritan woman demonstrates, even simple geography–the divine arrangement of places where God leads us in life–can position us for fruitful ministry if we are willing to reach out to those along our journey. This episode in Jesus’ ministry occurred immediately after Jesus had cleared the Temple in Jerusalem and was gaining even more followers than John the Baptist (John 2:13-25; 4:1-3). Likely wanting to avoid a direct clash with Jewish leadership so early in his ministry, Jesus chose instead to return to Galilee. The most direct route from Jerusalem to Galilee passed through Samaria, and, as the Jewish historian Josephus notes, this was the route normally chosen by most Jews at the time (Antiquities of the Jews, Book XX:6). The city of Samaria (renamed Sebaste by Jesus’ time) was originally the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel, but in 722 B.C. the Assyrians exiled many Israelites to other parts of their empire and relocated other foreign peoples in Israel (2 Kings 15:29; 17:1-24; 1 Chronicles 5:26; also see “Israelites Are Exiled to Assyria”). This diverse population then developed a new religion that mixed elements of Israelite worship with pagan worship (2 Kings 17:24-41), and centuries later they set up their own temple on Mount Gerizim. Because of their mixed ancestry and religion, Samaritans were often detested by many Jews (John 4:9), and hostilities periodically erupted between Jews and Samaritans. Jesus himself would later be refused entry into Samaria while traveling from Galilee to Jerusalem (Luke 9:52-56; also see “Jesus’ Final Journey to Jerusalem”), and Josephus notes that about 20 years after this time a number of Galileans were killed by Samaritans as they attempted to make their way to Jerusalem through the village of Ginae. Probably because of these hostilities, some Jews preferred to take alternate routes that bypassed Samaria. Still other Jews chose these routes to avoid even associating with Samaritans. Jesus, however, appears to have chosen the more direct route through Samaria, which led him to the village of Sychar–right next to the ancient site of Shechem and Mount Gerizim. There he met a Samaritan woman by a well and spoke to her about God’s gift of living water for her soul. He also revealed supernatural knowledge about her, so she asked him whether Mount Gerizim or Jerusalem was the proper place to worship. Jesus gently rebuked her belief in Samaritan worship practices, but he also assured her that one day the physical location of worshipers will no longer matter. Instead, all true believers will worship God in spirit and truth. When Jesus revealed to the woman that he was the Messiah, she left her water jar and told the townspeople about Jesus. Meanwhile, Jesus’ disciples returned, and Jesus urged them to recognize that the fields were ripe for harvesting, presumably meaning that many Samaritans were ready to believe in him. Because of the Samaritan woman’s testimony, many of the townspeople believed in Jesus and persuaded him to stay there two more days before returning to Galilee. Years later the apostle Philip found fruitful ministry among the Samaritans as well, and many came to faith in Jesus (Acts 8:5-13; also see “The Ministries of Philip and Peter”).