004:023 But a time is coming--nay, has already come--when the true
worshippers will worship the Father with true spiritual worship;
for indeed the Father desires such worshippers.
004:024 God is Spirit; and those who worship Him must bring Him
true spiritual worship."
004:025 "I know," replied the woman, "that Messiah is coming--`the Christ,'
as He is called. When He has come, He will tell us everything."
004:026 "I am He," said Jesus--"I who am now talking to you."
004:027 Just then His disciples came, and were surprised to find Him
talking with a woman. Yet not one of them asked Him, "What is
your wish?" or "Why are you talking with her?"
004:028 The woman however, leaving her pitcher, went away to the town,
and called the people.
004:029 "Come," she said, "and see a man who has told me everything
I have ever done. Can this be the Christ, do you think?"
004:030 They left the town and set out to go to Him.
004:031 Meanwhile the disciples were urging Jesus. "Rabbi," they said,
"eat something."
004:032 "I have food to eat," He replied, "of which you do not know."
004:033 So the disciples began questioning one another. "Can it be,"
they said, "that some one has brought Him something to eat?"
004:034 "My food," said Jesus, "is to be obedient to Him who sent me,
and fully to accomplish His work.
004:035 Do you not say, `It wants four months yet to the harvest'?
But look round, I tell you, and observe these plains--
they are already ripe for the sickle.
004:036 The reaper gets pay and gathers in a crop in preparation
for the Life of the Ages, that so the sower and the reapers
may rejoice together.
004:037 For it is in this that you see the real meaning of the saying,