22. You Samaritans don't really know the one you worship. But we Jews do know the God we worship, and by using us, God will save the world.
23. But a time is coming, and it is already here! Even now the true worshippers are being led by the Spirit to worship the Father according to the truth. These are the ones the Father is seeking to worship him.
24. God is Spirit, and those who worship God must be led by the Spirit to worship him according to the truth.
25. The woman said, “I know that the Messiah will come. He is the one we call Christ. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
26. “I am that one,” Jesus told her, “and I am speaking to you now.”
27. The disciples returned about this time and were surprised to find Jesus talking with a woman. But none of them asked him what he wanted or why he was talking with her.
28. The woman left her water jar and ran back into town. She said to the people,
29. “Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! Could he be the Messiah?”
30. Everyone in town went out to see Jesus.
31. While this was happening, Jesus' disciples were saying to him, “Teacher, please eat something.”
32. But Jesus told them, “I have food that you don't know anything about.”