God is a Spirit

“God is a Spirit.”
John_4:1-26
John_1:1-3
Not wishing to provoke opposition unnecessarily, or evoke controversy at this early stage.
John_1:4
Not only as the nearest road, but because he had a work of mercy to perform. He felt a necessity laid upon him to seek a poor, guilty woman of that country.
John_1:10
Mark the connection, “Thou wouldest have asked, and he would have given.” It is always so, asking and giving are rivetted together. Who would not ask, when the answer is so sure and the boon so precious?
John_1:11-12
She could not read the Lord’s riddle, she thought only of water which she could carry in her bucket.
John_1:15-16
Hitherto nothing had reached her heart, but this sentence startled her: yet it was a very natural one, and such as eastern custom suggested, for a religious teacher was not allowed to instruct a married woman for any length of time unless her husband was present.
John_1:17-18
This revealed her history; a woman often divorced, and probably not for the best of reasons. Her vicious career was thus unveiled for her own inspection.
John_1:19
She starts aside to talk of external rites. Like ourselves before conversion, she did not wish to have her conscience probed too much. She was curious to know whether the Jews or the Samaritans had the true temple: even ungodly people dispute on such questions.
John_1:21-24
This was new light to her. Spiritual worship she had not thought of. It is well when we begin to see that all true religion must be heart work.
John_1:26
Thus did the Sun of Righteousness shine full upon her in condescending grace, and in his own light she saw and believed.