19. The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet.
20. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”
21. Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
22. You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.
23. But a time is coming – and now is here – when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.
24. God is spirit, and the people 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 he comes, he will tell us everything.”
26. Jesus said to her, “I, the one speaking to you, am he.”
27. Now at that very moment his disciples came back. They were shocked because he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, “What do you want?” or “Why are you speaking with her?”
28. Then the woman left her water jar, went off into the town and said to the people,
29. “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can’t be the Messiah, can he?”
30. So they left the town and began coming to him.