John 4:19-31

¹⁹“I see, Sir, that you are a prophet!” exclaimed the woman.

²⁰“It was on this mountain that our ancestors worshipped; and yet you Jews say that the proper place for worship is in Jerusalem.”

²¹“Believe me,” replied Jesus, “a time is coming when it will be neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem that you will worship the Father.

²²You Samaritans do not know what you worship; we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews.

²³But a time is coming, indeed it is already here, when the true worshippers will worship the Father spiritually and truly; for such are the worshippers that the Father desires.

²⁴God is Spirit; and those who worship him must worship spiritually and truly.”

²⁵“I know,” answered the woman, “that the Messiah, who is called the Christ, is coming; when once he has come, he will tell us everything.”

²⁶“I am he,” Jesus said to her, “I who am speaking to you.”

²⁷At this moment his disciples came up, and were surprised to find him talking with a woman; but none of them asked ‘What do you want?’ or ‘Why are you talking with her?’

²⁸So the woman, leaving her pitcher, went back to the town, and said to the people,

²⁹“Come and see someone who has told me everything that I have done. Can he be the Christ?”

³⁰And the people left the town and went to see Jesus.

³¹Meanwhile the disciples kept saying to him, “Take something to eat, Rabbi.”