His disciples had gone into the town to buy food. Then a Samaritan woman came to draw water from the well.

Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?

Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.

(PAUSES ONE TO 2 SECONDS, PONDERING)
Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem."

You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.

Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.

God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."

Do you not say, 'Four months more and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.

Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.

Thus the saying 'One sows and another reaps' is true. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for.

Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor."