They said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world."
The Saviour of the world ...  Acute indeed was the perception of that village.  They were not looking for a knight on a white horse who would throw out the Romans and resurrect the vanished empire of Solomon.  They took Jesus for what he truly was and ever is, not a political or military hero, but a Redeemer come to give eternal life to men.  Oh, that Jerusalem might have been as perceptive as Sychar!