John 4:16-30 NIV
16He told her, Go, call your husband and come back.
17 I have no husband, she replied.
Jesus said to her, You are right when you say you have no husband. 18The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.
19 Sir, the woman said, I can see that you are a prophet. 20Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.
21Jesus declared, Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23Yet 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. 24God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.
25The woman said, I know that Messiah - called Christ - is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.
26Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am he.
The Disciples Rejoin Jesus
27Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, What do you want? or Why are you talking with her?
28Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 29 Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ[a]? 30They came out of the town and made their way toward him.
As I look at the passage i found out that the woman has stages of transformation.
1. From curiosity to real thirst - v15
2. From her personal data to true worship - v16-24
3. From her obscure understanding of the Messiah to a close encounter with Him - v 25-26
