23. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth; and indeed the Father seeks 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 the Messiah is coming, the one called the Anointed; when he comes, he will tell us everything.”
26. Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who is speaking with you.”
27. At that moment his disciples returned, and were amazed that he was talking with a woman, but still no one said, “What are you looking for?” or “Why are you talking with her?”
28. The woman left her water jar and went into the town and said to the people,
29. “Come see a man who told me everything I have done. Could he possibly be the Messiah?”
30. They went out of the town and came to him.
31. Meanwhile, the disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat.”
32. But he said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.”
33. So the disciples said to one another, “Could someone have brought him something to eat?”
34. Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to finish his work.
35. Do you not say, ‘In four months the harvest will be here’? I tell you, look up and see the fields ripe for the harvest.
36. The reaper is already receiving his payment and gathering crops for eternal life, so that the sower and reaper can rejoice together.
37. For here the saying is verified that ‘One sows and another reaps.’
38. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the work, and you are sharing the fruits of their work.”
39. Many of the Samaritans of that town began to believe in him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me everything I have done.”