This mountain. . .Garizim, where the Samaritans had their schismatical temple.
4:21. Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe me that the hour cometh, when you shall neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, adore the Father.
4:22. You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know. For salvation is of the Jews.
4:23. But the hour cometh and now is, when the true adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeketh such to adore him.
4:24. God is a spirit: and they that adore him must adore him in spirit and in truth.
4:25. The woman saith to him: I know that the Messias cometh (who is called Christ): therefore, when he is come, he will tell us all things.
4:26. Jesus saith to her: I am he, who am speaking with thee.
4:27. And immediately his disciples came. And they wondered that he talked with the woman. Yet no man said: What seekest thou? Or: Why talkest thou with her?
4:28. The woman therefore left her waterpot and went her way into the city and saith to the men there:
4:29. Come, and see a man who has told me all things whatsoever I have done. Is not he the Christ?