“Revisionist History”

John 4: 5, 12: “So He came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph … ‘You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well?’” Talk about some serious revisionist history! Jacob had not been the father of the Samaritans; their race didn’t even exist until hundreds of years after Jacob’s time! No wonder the Israelites, the real children of Jacob, had no dealings with them! But did this stop Jesus from ministering to this factually-challenged person? Not at all, because He knew the role of Jacob’s children was to love and win those who had not a drop of Jacob’s blood.