23. But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Yes, the Father wants such people to worship Him.
24. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
25. The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ ). “When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”
26. “I am He,” Jesus told her, “the One speaking to you.”
27. Just then His disciples arrived, and they were amazed that He was talking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do You want? ” or “Why are You talking with her? ”
28. Then the woman left her water jar, went into town, and told the men,
29. “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did! Could this be the Messiah? ”
30. They left the town and made their way to Him.
31. In the meantime the disciples kept urging Him, “Rabbi, eat something.”
32. But He said, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”
33. The disciples said to one another, “Could someone have brought Him something to eat? ”
34. “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work,” Jesus told them.
35. “Don’t you say, ‘There are still four more months, then comes the harvest’? Listen to what I’m telling you: Open your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ready for harvest.
36. The reaper is already receiving pay and gathering fruit for eternal life, so the sower and reaper can rejoice together.
37. For in this case the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’