Section XXI

¹¹⁴⁷⁹ And Jesus went out again from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and came to the² sea of Galilee, towards the borders of Decapolis.¹⁴⁸⁰ And they brought unto him one dumb and deaf, and entreated him that he would lay his hand upon him and heal³ him.¹⁴⁸¹ And he drew him away from the multitude, and went away alone, and spat⁴ upon his fingers, and thrust them into his ears, and touched his tongue;¹⁴⁸² and looked⁵ to heaven, and sighed, and said unto him, Be opened.¹⁴⁸³ And in that hour his ears⁶ were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spake with ease.¹⁴⁸⁴ And Jesus charged them much that they should not tell this to any man: but the more⁷ he charged them, the more they increased in publishing, and marvelled much,¹⁴⁸⁵ and [Arabic, p. 82] said, This man doeth everything well: he made the deaf to hear, and those that lacked speech to speak.

[8, 9]¹⁴⁸⁶ And while he was passing through the land of Samaria,¹⁴⁸⁷ he came to one of the cities of the Samaritans, called Sychar, beside the field which Jacob gave to Joseph to¹⁰ his son.¹⁴⁸⁸ And 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 the¹¹ sixth hour.¹⁴⁸⁹ ^¹⁴⁹⁰ And a woman of Samaria came to draw water; and Jesus said unto¹² her, Give me water, that I may drink.¹⁴⁹¹ And his disciples had entered into the city¹³ to buy for themselves food.¹⁴⁹² And 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?¹⁴¹⁴⁹³ (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 me¹⁵ to drink; thou wouldest ask him, and he would give thee the water of life.¹⁴⁹⁵ That woman said unto him, My Lord, thou hast no bucket, and the well is deep: from¹⁶ whence hast thou the water of life?¹⁴⁹⁶ Can 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?¹⁷¹⁴⁹⁷ Jesus answered and said unto her, Every one that drinketh of this water shall thirst¹⁸ again:¹⁴⁹⁸ but 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 springing¹⁹ up unto eternal life.¹⁴⁹⁹ That woman said unto him, My Lord, give me of this water, that²⁰ I may not thirst again, neither come and draw water from here.¹⁵⁰⁰ Jesus said unto her,²¹ [Arabic, p. 83] Go and call thy husband, and come hither.¹⁵⁰¹ She said unto him, I have no²² husband.¹⁵⁰² Jesus 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; and²³ in this thou saidst truly.¹⁵⁰³ That woman said unto him, My Lord, I perceive thee to²⁴ be a prophet.¹⁵⁰⁴ Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say that in Jerusalem²⁵ is the place in which worship must be.¹⁵⁰⁵ Jesus said unto her, Woman, believe me, an hour cometh, when neither in this mountain, nor yet in Jerusalem, shall ye worship²⁶ the Father.¹⁵⁰⁶ Ye worship that which ye know not: but we worship that which²⁷ we know: for salvation is of the Jews.¹⁵⁰⁷ But an hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: and the Father also²⁸ seeketh such as these worshippers.¹⁵⁰⁸ For God is a Spirit: and they that worship him²⁹ must worship him in spirit and in truth.¹⁵⁰⁹ That woman said unto him, I know that³⁰ the Messiah cometh:¹⁵¹⁰ and when he is come, he will teach us everything. Jesus said unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.

³¹¹⁵¹¹ And 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?¹⁵¹⁴ And the woman left her waterpot, and went to the³³ city, and said to the people,¹⁵¹⁵ Come, and see a man who told me all that ever I did:³⁴ perhaps then he is the Messiah.¹⁵¹⁶ And people went out from the city, and came to³⁵ him.¹⁵¹⁷ And in the mean while his disciples besought him, and said unto him, Our [36, 37] master, eat.¹⁵¹⁸ And he said unto them, I have food to eat that ye know not.¹⁵¹⁹ And the disciples said amongst themselves, Can any one have brought him aught to eat?^1520381521 Jesus said unto them, My food is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish³⁹ [Arabic, p. 84] his work.¹⁵²² Said 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.^15231524 And he that reapeth receiveth his wages, and gathereth the fruit of eternal life;¹⁵²⁵ and the sower and⁴¹ the reaper rejoice together.¹⁵²⁶ For in this is found the word of truth, One soweth, and⁴² another reapeth.¹⁵²⁷ And I sent you to reap that in which ye have not laboured: others laboured, and ye have entered on their labour.

⁴³¹⁵²⁸ And from that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the words⁴⁴ of that woman, who testified and said, He told me all that ever I did.¹⁵²⁹ And when those Samaritans came unto him, they besought him to abide with them; and he [45, 46] abode with them two days.¹⁵³⁰ And many believed in him because of his word;¹⁵³¹ and 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]¹⁵³² And after two days Jesus went out thence and departed to Galilee.¹⁵³³ And Jesus⁴⁹ testified that a prophet is not honoured in his own city.¹⁵³⁴ And when he came to Galilee, the Galilæans received him.