Part 6

004:024 God is Spirit; and those who worship Him must bring Him true spiritual worship."

004:025 "I know," replied the woman, "that Messiah is coming--`the Christ,' as He is called. When He has come, He will tell us everything."

004:026 "I am He," said Jesus--"I who am now talking to you."

004:027 Just then His disciples came, and were surprised to find Him talking with a woman. Yet not one of them asked Him, "What is your wish?" or "Why are you talking with her?"

004:028 The woman however, leaving her pitcher, went away to the town, and called the people.

004:029 "Come," she said, "and see a man who has told me everything I have ever done. Can this be the Christ, do you think?"

004:030 They left the town and set out to go to Him.

004:031 Meanwhile the disciples were urging Jesus. "Rabbi," they said, "eat something."

004:032 "I have food to eat," He replied, "of which you do not know."

004:033 So the disciples began questioning one another. "Can it be," they said, "that some one has brought Him something to eat?"

004:034 "My food," said Jesus, "is to be obedient to Him who sent me, and fully to accomplish His work.

004:035 Do you not say, `It wants four months yet to the harvest'? But look round, I tell you, and observe these plains-- they are already ripe for the sickle.

004:036 The reaper gets pay and gathers in a crop in preparation for the Life of the Ages, that so the sower and the reapers may rejoice together.

004:037 For it is in this that you see the real meaning of the saying, `The sower is one person, and the reaper is another.'

004:038 I sent you to reap a harvest which is not the result of your own labours. Others have laboured, and you are getting benefit from their labours."

004:039 Of the Samaritan population of that town a good many believed in Him because of the woman's statement when she declared, "He has told me all that I have ever done."

004:040 When however the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him on all sides to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.

004:041 Then a far larger number of people believed because of His own words,

004:042 and they said to the woman, "We no longer believe in Him simply because of your statements; for we have now heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Saviour of the world."

004:043 After the two days He departed, and went into Galilee;

004:044 though Jesus Himself declared that a Prophet has no honour in his own country.

004:045 When however He reached Galilee, the Galilaeans welcomed Him eagerly, having been eye-witnesses of all that He had done in Jerusalem at the Festival; for they also had been to the Festival.

004:046 So He came once more to Cana in Galilee, where He had made the water into wine. Now there was a certain officer of the King's court whose son was ill at Capernaum.

004:047 Having heard that Jesus had come from Judaea to Galilee, he came to Him and begged Him to go down and cure his son; for he was at the point of death.

004:048 "Unless you and others see miracles and marvels," said Jesus, "nothing will induce you to believe."

004:049 "Sir," pleaded the officer, "come down before my child dies."

004:050 "You may return home," replied Jesus; "your son has recovered." He believed the words of Jesus, and started back home;

004:051 and he was already on his way down when his servants met him and told him that his son was alive and well.