22. You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.
23. But an hour is coming—and now is here—when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for indeed the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.
24. God is spirit, and the ones who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
25. The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (the one called Christ); “whenever that one comes, he will proclaim all things to us.”
26. Jesus said to her, “I, the one speaking to you, am he.
27. And at this point his disciples came, and they were astonished that he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, “What do you seek?” or “Why are you speaking with her?”
28. So the woman left her water jar and went away into the town and said to the people,
29. “Come, see a man who told me everything I have ever done! Perhaps this one is the Christ?”
30. They went out from the town and were coming to him.
31. In the meanwhile the disciples were asking him, saying, “Rabbi, eat something!”
32. But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”
33. So the disciples began to say to one another, “No one brought him anything to eat, did they?”
34. Jesus said to them, “My food is that I do the will of the one who sent me and complete his work.
35. Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months and the harvest comes’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.
36. The one who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for eternal life, in order that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.
37. For in this instance the saying is true, ‘It is one who sows and another who reaps.’
38. I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have worked, and you have entered into their work.”
39. Now from that town many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me everything that I have done.”