John 4:23-24

4:23 But a time ¹  is coming – and now is here ²  – when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks ³  such people to be ⁴  his worshipers. ⁵  4:24 God is spirit, ⁶  and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

¹ tn Grk “an hour.”

² tn “Here” is not in the Greek text but is supplied to conform to contemporary English idiom.

³ sn See also John 4:27.

⁴ tn Or “as.” The object-complement construction implies either “as” or “to be.”

⁵ tn This is a double accusative construction of object and complement with τοιούτους (toioutous) as the object and the participle προσκυνοῦντας (proskunounta") as the complement.

⁶ tn Here πνεῦμα (pneuma) is understood as a qualitative predicate nominative while the articular θεός (qeos) is the subject.