Jesus in John 4, Himself was quite clear that the Samaritans were more dull than the men of Israel as far as knowledge of the true God was concerned.
“You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.” John 4:22
Jesus said this even though His own brethren would be repeatedly in unbelief throughout the history of Israel. Despite that the generalization that Jesus gives here is still true; Jesus and His people historically knew the true God better than the Samaritans did.
Note also that by today’s standards Jesus Christ is being demeaning to “you Samaritans.” He is saying that in terms of knowing about worship that Jesus and His people were superior to the Samaritans. One might even call it “Judah Supremacism,” as Jesus “Otherizes” the Samaritan.
Slightly alter Jesus words to the Samaritan woman to this arrangement and put it into the mouth of a White European,
“You Africans and Chinese worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for the message of salvation is historically from the White Europeans.”
Suddenly, by today’s insane standard such words would be considered “racist,” despite it being every bit as true as Jesus words. But that is because people are dull in their ignorance of divine sovereignty, and envious of those whom God has blessed much more.
This is not the only time Jesus would be accused of “racist” as measured by modern standards.
We need to remember another case where Jesus was “racist” against a different Samaritan. This is the Samaritan who returned in faith after Jesus healed him;
“There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger?” (Lk. 17:18)
The word ‘stranger’ there in the Greek is *allogenes*, which is a word the blends *allos* (other) and *genos* (race). It literally means “one of another race”.
Jesus commits the racist sin of “noticing” race. There is no sense in which that pericope can be taken which would not today be condemned as ‘racist’.
And of course the best example of Jesus “racism,” is found in Matthew 15:26 but as I’ve written on that elsewhere, I’ll let the reader just look it up and figure it out for themselves.
