John 4:23
However, the hour is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to be his worshipers.
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In Context
22You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
24God is Spirit, and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Cross References
Joshua 24:14Now fear Yahweh and worship him with all integrity and faithfulness; get rid of the gods that your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt, and worship Yahweh.
1 Chronicles 29:17I know also, my God, that you examine the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things, and now I look with joy as your people who are present here willingly offer gifts to you.
Psalms 32:2Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh reckons no guilt 1 and in whose spirit there is no deceit. 1
Psalms 147:11Yahweh takes pleasure in those who honor him, 1 who hope in his covenant faithfulness. 1
Song of Solomon 2:14My dove, in the clefts of the rock, 1 in the secret clefts of the mountain crags, 1 let me see your face. 1 Let me hear your voice, 1 for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.” The woman speaking to the man 1
Isaiah 10:20On that day, the remnant of Israel, the family of Jacob that has escaped, will no longer rely on the one who defeated them, but will indeed depend on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel. 1
Matthew Henry on John 4:5-27
Christ at the Well of Samaria. 4 And he must needs go through Samaria. 5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour. 7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. 8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) 9 Then saith the woman of Samaria… Read the whole commentary →