everywhere, but now God had chosen Jerusalem as the place where people should come together to worship him. Jews worshipped at the place God himself had chosen, something the Samaritans refused to acknowledge. Jesus also insisted that God’s purposes for salvation were being worked out through the Jewish people, not the Samaritans. No matter how much grace Jesus was to show to the Samaritan woman, it would not be at the expense of truth. 23. Having made plain that the Jews had the rights of the matter