in every place.

"I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ," she said,

"I that speak unto thee am He," He said. Then the woman left her
water-jar and hurried away without a word to tell the people of the
town.

While she was away His disciples came and begged Jesus to eat, but His
spirit was filled with the thought of life, and he said,

"I have meat to eat that ye know not of."

And when they did not understand He said,

"My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me, and finish His work,"
and when he thought how great the work was that was before Him, it was
as if the harvest-time of gathering the people into the kingdom had
come.

As they looked out along the valley men were ploughing the fields to
sow wheat.

"Say ye not there are four months," He said, "and then cometh harvest?
Behold I say unto you, 'Lift up your eyes and look on the fields; for
they are white already to harvest.'"

While He stayed two days in Sychar many believed on him there.

"Now we believe," they said to the woman, "not because of thy saying
for we have heard Him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the
Christ, the Saviour of the world."

CHAPTER XIII.

JESUS IN THE SYNAGOGUE.

Jesus came back to Galilee through the Valley of Jenin and across the
plain of Jezreel to Cana, where His disciple Nathanael lived, and where
He had wrought His first miracle. While He was in Cana a nobleman who
lived at Capernaum came riding into the little town in great haste to
asked Jesus to come down and heal his son who was near death. To try
him, Jesus said,

"Except ye see signs and wonders ye will not believe."

The nobleman would not stop to talk of this, but besought Jesus, saying,

"Sir, come down ere my child die."

Jesus was glad to see his faith, and ready to meet it.

"Go thy way," He said, "thy son liveth," and the man went away
believing what Jesus had said. On the way down to Capernaum by the
Lake, some glad-faced servants came hastening to meet him.

"Thy son liveth!" They cried--the very words that Jesus had used. When
he asked them when the boy had taken a turn for the better they said,

"Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him."

Then the happy father knew that it was at the seventh hour--one
o'clock--that Jesus had said, "Thy son liveth."

There was joy in the house of the nobleman when the father and mother
and all the household gathered around the boy who had been healed, and
talk