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.”
33. His disciples started asking each other, “Has someone brought him something to eat?”
34. Jesus said:My food is to do what God wants! He is the one who sent me, and I must finish the work that he gave me to do.
35. You may say that there are still four months until harvest time. But I tell you to look, and you will see that the fields are ripe and ready to harvest.
36. Even now the harvest workers are receiving their reward by gathering a harvest that brings eternal life. Then everyone who planted the seed and everyone who harvests the crop will celebrate together.