John 4:18-33

¹⁸for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now isn’t your husband. What you have said is quite true.”

¹⁹The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet.

²⁰Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”

²¹Jesus told her, “Woman, believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem.

²²You Samaritans worship what you don’t know. We worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

²³A time is coming, and has now come, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers that the Father seeks.

²⁴God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

²⁵The woman said to Him, “I know that the Messiah (who is called Christ) is coming. When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”

²⁶Jesus told her, “I who speak to you am He.”

²⁷Just then Jesus’ disciples returned. They were surprised to find him talking with a woman, but no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”

²⁸Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and began telling the people,

²⁹“Come, see a man who told me everything that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”

³⁰They went out of the city, and started to go to Him.

³¹Meanwhile, the disciples urged Him, saying “Rabbi, eat something.”

³²He told them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

³³So the disciples asked one another, “Nobody brought Him anything to eat, did they?”