John 4:24-41

²⁴God is Spirit: then let his worshippers give him worship in the true way of the spirit.

²⁵The woman said to him, I am certain that the Messiah, who is named Christ, is coming; when he comes he will make all things clear to us.

²⁶Jesus said to her, I, who am talking to you, am he.

²⁷At that point the disciples came back, and they were surprised to see him talking to a woman; but not one of them said to him, What is your purpose? or, Why are you talking to her?

²⁸Then the woman put down her water-pot and went into the town, and said to the people,

²⁹Come and see a man who has been talking to me of everything I ever did! Is it possible that this is the Christ?

³⁰So they went out of the town and came to him.

³¹While this was taking place, the disciples were saying to Jesus, Master, take some food.

³²But he said to them, I have food of which you have no knowledge.

³³So the disciples said one to another, Did anyone give him food?

³⁴Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.

³⁵You would say, Four months from now is the time of the grain-cutting. Take a look, I say to you, at the fields; they are even now white for cutting.

³⁶He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.

³⁷In this the saying is a true one, One does the planting, and another gets in the grain.

³⁸I sent you to get in grain which you had no hand in planting: other men did that work, and you take the reward.

³⁹Now a number of the people of that town had faith in him because of the woman's witness: He has been talking to me of everything I ever did.

⁴⁰So when the people came to him they made request to him to be among them for a time, and he was there two days.

⁴¹And a great number more of them came to have faith in him because of what he himself said.