The Life of Jesus

But the water that I will give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting.

The woman said to him: Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.

Jesus saith to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

The woman answered and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: Thou hast said well: I have no husband.

For thou hast had five husbands: and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. This, thou hast said truly.

The woman saith to him: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

Our fathers adored on this mountain: and you say that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore.

Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe me that the hour cometh, when you shall neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, adore the Father.

You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know. For salvation is of the Jews.

But the hour cometh and now is, when the true adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeketh such to adore him.

God is a spirit: and they that adore him must adore him in spirit and in truth.

The woman saith to him: I know that the Messias cometh (who is called Christ): therefore, when he is come, he will tell us all things.

Jesus saith to her: I am he, who am speaking with thee.

And immediately his disciples came. And they wondered that he talked with the woman. Yet no man said: What seekest thou? Or: Why talkest thou with her?

The woman therefore left her waterpot and went her way into the city and saith to the men there:

Come, and see a man who has told me all things whatsoever I have done. Is not he the Christ?

They went therefore out of the city and came unto him.

In the mean time, the disciples prayed him, saying: Rabbi, eat.

But he said to them: I have meat to eat which you know not.

The disciples therefore said one to another: Hath any man brought him to eat?

Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work.

Do not you say: There are yet four months, and then the harvest cometh? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the countries. For they are white already to harvest.

And he that reapeth receiveth wages and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth.

I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour. Others have laboured: and you have entered into their labours.