“You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, because salvation originates with the Jews.

John 4:22

2. On what did the Samaritans base their worship?

² The Samaritans had false religious views. They accepted as inspired only the first five books of the Holy Scriptures​—and these just in their own recension, called the Samaritan Pentateuch. Whereas the Samaritans did not really know God, the Jews had been entrusted with Scriptural knowledge. (Romans 3:1, 2)