23. But an hour is coming—it is here now—when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people as His worshipers.
24. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
25. The woman tells Him, “I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called the Anointed One.) When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”
26. Yeshua tells her, “I—the One speaking to you—I am.”
27. At this moment, His disciples came back. They were amazed that He was speaking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do You want?” or “Why are You speaking with her?”
28. So the woman left her water jar and went back to the town. She tells the people,
29. “Come see a man who told me everything I ever did! He couldn’t be the Messiah, could He?”
30. The people left the town and began coming to Him.
31. Meanwhile, the disciples were pressing Him, “Rabbi, eat!”
32. But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
33. So the disciples were saying to each other, “No one brought Him food to eat, did they?”
34. Yeshua tells them, “My food is to do the will of the One who sent Me and to accomplish His work.
35. Don’t you say, ‘Four more months, and then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields! They are white and ready for harvest.
36. “The reaper receives a reward and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the sower and reaper may rejoice together.
37. For the saying is true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’
38. I sent you to reap what you haven’t worked for. Others have worked hard, and you have joined in their work.”
39. Many of the Samaritans from that town put their trust in Him because of the word of the woman testifying, “He told me everything I ever did!”
40. So when the Samaritans came to Him, they kept asking Him to stay with them. He stayed there two days,