John 4:21-30

²¹Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, that an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

²²You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

²³However, the hour is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to be his worshipers.

²⁴God is Spirit, and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

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

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

²⁷At that moment his disciples returned. Now they were wondering why he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you want?” or “Why are you speaking with her?”

²⁸So the woman left her water pot, went back to the town, and said to the people,

²⁹“Come, see a man who told me everything that I have ever done. This could not be the Christ, could it?”

³⁰They left the town and came to him.