But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
But the hour cometh (or, 'But there cometh an hour,') and now is - evidently meaning her to understand that this new economy was in some sense in course of being set up while He was talking to her; a sense which would in a few minutes so far appear, when He told her plainly that He was the Christ.
When the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth - or 'in spirit and truth' х en (G1722) pneumati (G4151) kai (G2532) aleetheia (G225)]; for the Father seeketh such to worship him-or 'seeketh such to be His worshippers' х toioutous (G5108) zeetei (G2212) tous (G3588) proskunountas (G4352) auton (G846)].