John 4:23

²³Sed venit hora, et nunc est, quando veri adoratores adorabunt Patrem in Spiritu et veritate; nam et Pater tales quaerit, qui adorent eum.g

John 4 opens with Jesus leaving Judea for Galilee, passing through Samaria—a journey most Jews avoided. At Jacob's well, he engages a Samaritan woman in a conversation that dismantles ethnic, religious, and gender barriers. He offers her “living water,” reveals her personal history,