24. God is Spirit, and only by the power of his Spirit can people worship him as he really is.”
25. The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah will come, and when he comes, he will tell us everything.”
26. Jesus answered, “I am he, I who am talking with you.”
27. At that moment Jesus' disciples returned, and they were greatly surprised to find him talking with a woman. But none of them said to her, “What do you want?” or asked him, “Why are you talking with her?”
28. Then the woman left her water jar, went back to the town, and said to the people there,
29. “Come and see the man who told me everything I have ever done. Could he be the Messiah?”
30. So they left the town and went to Jesus.
31. In the meantime the disciples were begging Jesus, “Teacher, have something to eat!”
32. But he answered, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
33. So the disciples started asking among themselves, “Could somebody have brought him food?”
34. “My food,” Jesus said to them, “is to obey the will of the one who sent me and to finish the work he gave me to do.
35. You have a saying, ‘Four more months and then the harvest.’ But I tell you, take a good look at the fields; the crops are now ripe and ready to be harvested!
36. The one who reaps the harvest is being paid and gathers the crops for eternal life; so another who sows and the one who reaps will be glad together.
37. The saying is true, ‘One sows, another reaps.’
38. I have sent you to reap a harvest in a field where you did not work; others worked there, and you profit from their work.”