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9 food. The Samaritan woman, how- ever, replied to Him : IO II I2 16 18 20 2X 22 ‘How can You, being a judean,

ask a drink from me, a Samaritan [for judeans do not asso- ciate with the Samaritans.] ‘ If you had recognised the gift of

and Who He is Who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink} you would have asked from Him, and He would have given you Living Water} You

have no draw·bucket, and the well is deep; where then have You the Water of Life? Surely You cannot be greater than our forefather jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his ‘ All who drink of this water}

will thirst again; but whoever may drink of the water which I will give hint will never more be thirsty; but the water that I will give to him will become in him a spring of water flowing into life eternal. give me

that water; so that I may not get thirsty, nor have to come all the way here to draw. call your husband, and return here! replied the woman. ‘You answer well, *1 have not a

for you have had Eve husbands; and the one you have at present is not your husband: there you spoke truly! §piz·iiual Wurslyip. said the woman,

‘that You are a prophet. Our fore- fathers worshipped in this very moun~ tain; but you say that in jerusalem is the spot where one ought to worship. jesus an~

the time is coming, when neither in this mountain, nor yet in jerusalem, will you pay homage to the Father. You pay homage without knowledge; we pay homage with knowledge: because the salvation comes from among the judeans. The time will come, however, and is even now here, when the real worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; because, indeed, the Father desires such to be His worshippers. God is Spirit; and those worshipping Him must worship in spirit and truth . I know

that Messiah, the One Who is called Consecrated, is coming; when He Himself arrives, He will tell us all. I AM; He Who speaks to you] At this point, His disciples returned;

and they were much surprised to find Him talking with a woman. Yet none What are You discussing? What do You talk to her about 1 ' The woman leaving her draw—

bucket, thereupon went off to the town, and said to the men: ‘ Come here! see a Man Who has

told all I have ever done! Must not this be the Messiah ? ’ So they left the town, and were

coming towards Him. In the mean~ time His disciples pressed Him, saying, ‘ Master, take something to eat. I have

food to eat, of which you know nothing} The disciples then began asking each other, ‘ Has any one brought Him food? ’ is

to do the will of My Sender, and to accomplish His work. Do you not say, ‘The harvest comes with the fourth month' ? See! Look up, I te1l·you, and survey the fields; for they are already white for harvesting. Now the reaper receives wages, and gathers fruit forteternal life; so that both the sower and the reaper may rejoice together. For in this thought is truth: ‘Tua sowun xs one, AND THR Rnapnn A»N0‘1‘xm1t.’1 I have sent you to reap that which you have not cultivated; others have cultivated, and you enter into their cultivation. Elie Work in Sucker. 26 28 33 34 35 37

Many of the Samaritans of that 39 town believed in Him on account of the statement of the woman, assert- He told me all that I had ever When, therefore, the Samaritans

came, they invited Him to remain with them; and He stayed there two days. Many more then believed be- cause of His own discourse; and they said to the woman: ‘ We no more believe through your

assertion, for we have heard Him our- Micah vi. 15. l02I