4:15 The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I may
never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water."
4:16 Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come back."
4:17 The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her,
"You are right in saying, 'I have no husband';
4:18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not
your husband. What you have said is true!"
4:19 The woman said to him, "Sir, I see that you are a prophet.
4:20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you say that the
place where people must worship is in Jerusalem."
4:21 Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you
will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
4:22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for
salvation is from the Jews.
4:23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers
will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such
as these to worship him.
4:24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit
and truth."
4:25 The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (who is
called Christ). "When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us."
4:26 Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one who is speaking to you."
4:27 Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was
speaking with a woman, but no one said, "What do you want?" or, "Why are
you speaking with her?"
4:28 Then the woman left her water jar and went back to the city. She
said to the people,
4:29 "Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He
cannot be the Messiah, can he?"
4:30 They left the city and were on their way to him.
4:31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, "Rabbi, eat something."
4:32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know
about."
4:33 So the disciples said to one another, "Surely no one has brought
him something to eat?"
4:34 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me
and to complete his work.
4:35 Do you not say, 'Four months more, then comes the harvest'? But I
tell you, look around you, and see how the fields are ripe for
harvesting.
4:36 The reaper is already receiving wages and is gathering fruit for
eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.
4:37 For here the saying holds true, 'One sows and another reaps.'
4:38 I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have
labored, and you have entered into their labor."
4:39 Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the
woman's testimony, "He told me everything I have ever done."
4:40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with
them; and he stayed there two days.
4:41 And many more believed because of his word.
4:42 They said to the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said
that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this
is truly the Savior of the world."
