John 4:24
Context4:24 God is spirit, 1 and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
John 4:23
Context4:23 But a time 2 is coming – and now is here 3 – when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks 4 such people to be 5 his worshipers. 6


[4:24] 1 tn Here πνεῦμα (pneuma) is understood as a qualitative predicate nominative while the articular θεός (qeos) is the subject.
[4:23] 3 tn “Here” is not in the Greek text but is supplied to conform to contemporary English idiom.
[4:23] 4 sn See also John 4:27.
[4:23] 5 tn Or “as.” The object-complement construction implies either “as” or “to be.”
[4:23] 6 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.