18. For you’ve had five husbands, and the man you have now isn’t your husband. This you’ve spoken truthfully!”
19. “Sir,” the woman tells Him, “I see that You are a prophet!
20. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you all say that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
21. Yeshua tells her, “Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
22. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
23. But an hour is coming—it is here now—when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people as His worshipers.
24. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
25. The woman tells Him, “I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called the Anointed One.) When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”
26. Yeshua tells her, “I—the One speaking to you—I am.”
27. At this moment, His disciples came back. They were amazed that He was speaking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do You want?” or “Why are You speaking with her?”
28. So the woman left her water jar and went back to the town. She tells the people,
29. “Come see a man who told me everything I ever did! He couldn’t be the Messiah, could He?”
30. The people left the town and began coming to Him.
31. Meanwhile, the disciples were pressing Him, “Rabbi, eat!”