The woman said to Jesus,
“I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshipped on this mountain; and you Jews say that Jerusalem is the proper place to worship.”
Jesus said to her,
“Woman, believe me, the hour is coming, when neither this mountain nor in Jerusalem shall be the place to worship the Father. You worship ignorantly: We worship intelligently, for salvation is from the Jews.
But the hour is coming, and now is here, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. These are the kind of worshippers that the Father is seeking to worship him. God is Spirit and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and truth.”
The woman said,
“I know the Messiah, the one called Christ, is coming; when he comes, he will declare all things to us.”
Jesus said,
“I, the one who is speaking to you, am he.”
The disciples were coming back from town, and they were amazed to see Jesus speaking to the woman. But no one said anything about it.
The woman left her water pot and went away to the city, and said to the townspeople,
“Come see a man who told me all the things I ever did. Can this be the Christ?”
People began leaving the city to find Jesus.
In the meantime, the disciples asked Jesus to eat. But He said to them,
“I have food to eat that you do not know about. The disciples began to ask one another, Did someone bring him something to eat?”
Jesus said to them,
“My food is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work. Do not say, Aren’t there still four months before the harvest?
I tell you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, they are white and ready for harvest. He that reaps the harvest receives a wage and gathers the fruit; the one that sows the seed and he that reaps the harvest will rejoice together. For here is a true saying: One sows, and another reaps.
I send you to reap where others have sown the seed, and you have become a part of their labor.”
Many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the Samaritan woman who testified that Jesus had told her everything she ever did.
When the Samaritans found Jesus, they asked Him to stay with them. Jesus accepted their invitation and stayed for two days. Then many more believed because of the words of Jesus.
They said to the woman,
“Now we believe, not because of what you said. Now we believe because we have heard him for ourselves and know that he is indeed the Savior of the world.”
