spoke the
truth."

The woman said to him, "Sir, I see that you are a prophet. Our fathers
worshipped in this mountain; and you Jews say that Jerusalem is the
place where men ought to worship." Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe
me, the time will come when you will worship the Father neither on this
mountain nor at Jerusalem. The time is coming, yes, has already come,
when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in
truth; for such worshippers the Father seeks. God is a spirit, and they
who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." The woman said
to him, "I know that the Messiah (which means Christ) is coming. When
he comes he will explain all things to us." Jesus said to her, "I who am
talking to you am he."

At this point the disciples came up and were astonished that he was
talking with a woman; but none of them said, "What do you want?" or,
"Why are you talking to her?"

Then the woman left her water-pot and going into the city said to the
men, "Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Is not this the
Messiah?" And they set out from the town on their way to him.

Meanwhile Jesus' disciples urged him, saying, "Master, take some food";
but he said to them, "I have food to eat of which you know not." So they
said to one another, "Has any one brought him something to eat?" Jesus
said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to carry
out his work. Do not say, 'Four months and then comes the harvest'; I
say to you, lift up your eyes and see these fields white for the
harvest! Already the reaper is receiving his wages and gathering in a
crop for eternal life, that the sower and reaper may rejoice together.
For here the proverb holds true, 'One sows and another reaps.' I sent
you to reap a harvest for which you had not toiled; other men have
toiled and you are sharing the results of their toil."

Because of the words of the woman who had said, "He told me everything
that I ever did," many Samaritans from the town believed in Jesus; and
when they came to him, they begged him to stay with them. And he stayed
there two days, and many more believed because of what he himself said.
To the woman they said, "Now we believe, not because of your words but
because we have heard for ourselves and know that this is indeed the
Saviour of the world."

GIVING LIFE TO A WIDOW'S SON

Jesus went to a town called Nain; and his disciples went with him
followed by a large crowd.