16. He said to her, “Go, call your husband and come here.”
17. The woman answered and said to him, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have said rightly, ‘I do not have a husband,’
18. for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you have now is not your husband; this you have said truthfully!”
19. The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet.
20. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary to worship.”
21. Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, that an hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
22. You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.
23. But an hour is coming—and now is here—when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for indeed the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.
24. God is spirit, and the ones who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
25. The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (the one called Christ); “whenever that one comes, he will proclaim all things to us.”
26. Jesus said to her, “I, the one speaking to you, am he.
27. And at this point his disciples came, and they were astonished that he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, “What do you seek?” or “Why are you speaking with her?”
28. So the woman left her water jar and went away into the town and said to the people,
29. “Come, see a man who told me everything I have ever done! Perhaps this one is the Christ?”
30. They went out from the town and were coming to him.
31. In the meanwhile the disciples were asking him, saying, “Rabbi, eat something!”
32. But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”