You worship that which you don't know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
      b. He hopes concerning her, what she would have done if she had known him; to be sure she would not have given him such a rude and uncivil answer; nay, she would have been so far from affronting him that she would have made her addresses to him: Thou wouldest have asked. Note, (a.) Those that would have any benefit by Christ must ask for it, must be earnest in prayer to God for it. (b.) Those that have a right knowledge of Christ will seek to him, and if we do not seek unto him it is a sign that we do not know him, Psalms 9:10. (c.) Christ knows what they that want the means of knowledge would have done if they had had them, Matthew 11:21.