John 4:17 The woman answered and said, "I have no husband." Jesus *said to her, "You have correctly said, 'I have no husband';
John 4:18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly."
John 4:19 The woman *said to Him, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet.
John 4:20 "Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship."
John 4:21 Jesus *said to her, "Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
John 4:22 "You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
John 4:23 "But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers.
John 4:24 "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."
John 4:25 The woman *said to Him, "I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us."
John 4:26 Jesus *said to her, "I who speak to you am He."
John 4:27 ¶ At this point His disciples came, and they were amazed that He had been speaking with a woman, yet no one said, "What do You seek?" or, "Why do You speak with her?"
John 4:28 So the woman left her waterpot, and went into the city and *said to the men,
John 4:29 "Come, see a man who told me all the things that I have done; this is not the Christ, is it?"
John 4:30 They went out of the city, and were coming to Him.
John 4:31 ¶ Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."
John 4:32 But He said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about."
John 4:33 So the disciples were saying to one another, "No one brought Him anything to eat, did he?"
John 4:34 Jesus *said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.
John 4:35 "Do you not say, 'There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest.
John 4:36 "Already he who reaps is receiving wages and is gathering fruit for life eternal; so that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.