The Life of Jesus

but whoever may drink of the water that I will give him, may not thirst--to the age; and the water that I will give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up to life age-during.'

The woman saith unto 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 not a husband.' Jesus saith to her, `Well didst thou say--A husband I have not;

for five husbands thou hast had, and, now, he whom thou hast is not thy husband; this hast thou said truly.'

The woman saith to him, `Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet;

our fathers in this mountain did worship, and ye--ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where it behoveth to worship.'

Jesus saith to her, `Woman, believe me, that there doth come an hour, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father;

ye worship what ye have not known; we worship what we have known, because the salvation is of the Jews;

but, there cometh an hour, and it now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also doth seek such to worship him;

God is a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'

The woman saith to him, `I have known that Messiah doth come, who is called Christ, when that one may come, he will tell us all things;'

Jesus saith to her, `I am he , who am speaking to thee.'

And upon this came his disciples, and were wondering that with a woman he was speaking, no one, however, said, `What seekest thou?' or `Why speakest thou with her?'

The woman then left her water-jug, and went away to the city, and saith to the men,

`Come, see a man, who told me all things--as many as I did; is this the Christ?'

They went forth therefore out of the city, and were coming unto him.

And in the meanwhile his disciples were asking him, saying, `Rabbi, eat;'

and he said to them, `I have food to eat that ye have not known.'

The disciples then said one to another, `Did any one bring him anything to eat?'

Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

do not say that it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh; lo, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and see the fields, that they are white unto harvest already.

`And he who is reaping doth receive a reward, and doth gather fruit to life age-during, that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice together;

for in this the saying is the true one, that one is the sower and another the reaper.

I sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others laboured, and ye into their labour have entered.