Section XXI.

Section XXI.

[1] ¹⁴⁷⁹And Jesus went out again from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and came to the [2] sea of Galilee, towards the borders of Decapolis.  ¹⁴⁸⁰And they brought unto him one dumb and deaf, and entreated him that he would lay his hand upon him and heal [3] him.  ¹⁴⁸¹And he drew him away from the multitude, and went away alone, and spat [4] upon his fingers, and thrust them into his ears, and touched his tongue; ¹⁴⁸²and looked [5] to heaven, and sighed, and said unto him, Be opened.  ¹⁴⁸³And in that hour his ears [6] were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spake with ease.  ¹⁴⁸⁴And Jesus charged them much that they should not tell this to any man:  but the more [7] he charged them, the more they increased in publishing, and marvelled much, ¹⁴⁸⁵and [Arabic, p. 82] said, This man doeth everything well:  he made the deaf to hear, and those that lacked speech to speak.

[8, 9] ¹⁴⁸⁶And while he was passing through the land of Samaria, ¹⁴⁸⁷he came to one of the cities of the Samaritans, called Sychar, beside the field which Jacob gave to Joseph to [10] his son.  ¹⁴⁸⁸And there was there a spring of water of Jacob’s.  And Jesus was fatigued from the exertion of the way, and sat at the spring.  And the time was about the [11] sixth hour.^{1489  1490}And a woman of Samaria came to draw water; and Jesus said unto [12] her, Give me water, that I may drink.  ¹⁴⁹¹And his disciples had entered into the city [13] to buy for themselves food.  ¹⁴⁹²And that Samaritan woman said unto him, How dost thou, being a Jew, ask me to give thee to drink, while I am a Samaritan woman?  [14] ¹⁴⁹³(And the Jews mingle not with the Samaritans.¹⁴⁹⁴)  Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who this is that said unto thee, Give me [15] to drink; thou wouldest ask him, and he would give thee the water of life.  ¹⁴⁹⁵That woman said unto him, My Lord, thou hast no bucket, and the well is deep:  from [16] whence hast thou the water of life?  ¹⁴⁹⁶Can it be that thou art greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well, and drank from it, and his children, and his sheep?  [17] ¹⁴⁹⁷Jesus answered and said unto her, Every one that drinketh of this water shall thirst [18] again:  ¹⁴⁹⁸but whosoever drinketh of the water which I shall give him shall not thirst for ever:  but the water which I shall give him shall be in him a spring of water springing [19] up unto eternal life.  ¹⁴⁹⁹That woman said unto him, My Lord, give me of this water, that [20] I may not thirst again, neither come and draw water from here.  ¹⁵⁰⁰Jesus said unto her, [21] [Arabic, p. 83] Go and call thy husband, and come hither.  ¹⁵⁰¹She said unto him, I have no [22] husband.  ¹⁵⁰²Jesus said unto her, Thou saidst well, I have no husband:  five husbands hast thou had, and this man whom thou hast now is not thy husband; and [23] in this thou saidst truly.  ¹⁵⁰³That woman said unto him, My Lord, I perceive thee to [24] be a prophet.  ¹⁵⁰⁴Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say that in Jerusalem [25] is the place in which worship must be.  ¹⁵⁰⁵Jesus said unto her, Woman, believe me, an hour cometh, when neither in this mountain, nor yet in Jerusalem, shall ye worship [26] the Father.  ¹⁵⁰⁶Ye worship that which ye know not:  but we worship that which [27] we know:  for salvation is of the Jews.  ¹⁵⁰⁷But an hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth:  and the Father also [28] seeketh such as these worshippers.  ¹⁵⁰⁸For God is a Spirit:  and they that worship him [29] must worship him in spirit and in truth.  ¹⁵⁰⁹That woman said unto him, I know that [30] the Messiah cometh:  ¹⁵¹⁰and when he is come, he will teach us everything.  Jesus said unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.

[31] ¹⁵¹¹And while he was speaking, his disciples came; and they wondered how he would speak¹⁵¹² with a woman; but not one of them said unto him, What seekest thou? or, [32] What¹⁵¹³ speakest thou with her?  ¹⁵¹⁴And the woman left her waterpot, and went to the [33] city, and said to the people, ¹⁵¹⁵Come, and see a man who told me all that ever I did:  [34] perhaps then he is the Messiah.  ¹⁵¹⁶And people went out from the city, and came to [35] him.  ¹⁵¹⁷And in the mean while his disciples besought him, and said unto him, Our [36, 37] master, eat.  ¹⁵¹⁸And he said unto them, I have food to eat that ye know not.  ¹⁵¹⁹And the disciples said amongst themselves, Can any one have brought him aught to eat?¹⁵²⁰  [38] ¹⁵²¹Jesus said unto them, My food is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish [39] [Arabic, p. 84] his work.  ¹⁵²²Said ye not that after four months cometh the harvest? behold, I therefore say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and behold the lands, [40] that they have become white, and the harvest is already come.^{1523  1524}And he that reapeth receiveth his wages, and gathereth the fruit of eternal life;¹⁵²⁵ and the sower and [41] the reaper rejoice together.  ¹⁵²⁶For in this is found the word of truth, One soweth, and [42] another reapeth.  ¹⁵²⁷And I sent you to reap that in which ye have not laboured:  others laboured, and ye have entered on their labour.

[43] ¹⁵²⁸And from that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the words [44] of that woman, who testified and said, He told me all that ever I did.  ¹⁵²⁹And when those Samaritans came unto him, they besought him to abide with them; and he [45, 46] abode with them two days.  ¹⁵³⁰And many believed in him because of his word; ¹⁵³¹and they said to that woman, Now not because of thy saying have we believed in him:  we have heard and known that this truly is the Messiah, the Saviour of the world.

[47, 48] ¹⁵³²And after two days Jesus went out thence and departed to Galilee.  ¹⁵³³And Jesus [49] testified that a prophet is not honoured in his own city.  ¹⁵³⁴And when he came to Galilee, the Galilæans received him.