John 4:22.-" Salvation is of the Jews." Samaritans claimed to be worshipers of God, descendants of Jacob, and to have the proper site for the temple on Mount Gerizim. In reality they were heathen, brought into the land by the king of Assyria (2 Kings 17:24-41) to occupy the territory made vacant by the deportation of the ten tribes. '' They feared the Lord, and served their own gods." They took His name, but continued to be in heart and practice heathen. Our Lord could not recognize anything of God in them, especially as they set themselves up against His revelation and His city. He therefore presses upon this woman the fact that the Jews were the channels of God's revelation, and that they did have the knowledge of the true God, though He was about to reveal a higher truth than that of legal observances and earthly places of worship. At the same time, he would recognize all that was of God in Judaism. In like manner, after Pentecost, when Philip went down to Samaria and preached Christ to them (Acts 8:5, &100:), and many were saved, they did not receive the Holy Ghost until the apostles came from Jerusalem. God would thus link His truth together, and show that His ways were to be recognized by those who had previously disregarded them.