John 4:23-36

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?”

³⁴Jesus told them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to accomplish His work.

³⁵Don’t you say, ‘It’s still four months until the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.

³⁶He who harvests is already receiving wages, and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that he who plants and he who harvests may rejoice together.