11 There was a good well there. Jesus was thirsty, but He had no cup. There came a woman to the well to draw water. Jesus said unto her "Would you give me to drink?"
12 Then the woman said to Him, "I am a Sumerian. You are a Jew. Jews do not speak to Sumerians. How is it you ask me to give you drink."
13 Jesus answered her, saying, "If you know the gift of God and who it is that says to you 'Would you give me drink?' Would you have asked Him and would He have given you living water?"
14 The woman said to Him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with. The well is deep. From where would you get this living water? Are you greater than Our Father Jacob who gave us this well and drank therefore, himself, his children, and, his cattle, also?"
15 Jesus answered, saying, "If anyone drinks of this water they shall thirst again. But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give them shall never thirst for the water shall be in them a well of water springing up into everlasting life!"
16 The woman said to Him, "Sir, give me this water that I thirst not ever again, and come here to draw water no more."
17 Jesus said to her, "Go! And call your husband and bring him here."
18 The woman answered, saying, "I have no husband."
19 Jesus rebuked her, saying, "You say you have no husband, but you have had five husbands, yet you call the man who is with you your husband, yet truly he is NOT your husband."
20 The woman said "Lord, I know who you are," and gave Him water, then went off to fetch her husband.
DEMETRIUS DEFENDS JESUS AGAIN
Chapter Twenty-Two
"Come!" she cried, "Come and hear that One who the Jews speak of...that Jesus, who they call The Christ! He is at the well, and has told me the most wonderful things!"
2 Her husband came and the elders, besides. The elders asked Him, "Our Fathers worship on this mountain and you say that men should worship in Jerusalem."
3 Jesus answered them. "Good people, believe me. The hour comes when on this mountain or in Jerusalem will any worship The Father. YOU worship, you know not what, WE worship what we know...salvation for The Jews.
4 But the hour is at hand, it has now come, when the true worshippers shall worship The Father in The Spirit and, in truth, for this is how The Father desires that He should be worshipped.
5 God is the Spirit and they that worship Him should worship Him in Spirit, and, in truth."
6 The elders said to Him, "When The Messiah comes He that is called The Christ; will He come and teach unto us, also?"
7 Jesus answered them, saying, "That which you ask for is already done."
8 As He was concluding the disciples arrived and marveled that He spoke with these people. The Sumerians bid Him stay the night that they would find a place for them. Jesus accepted, and the disciples were troubled that He accepted their hospitality. Jesus rebuked them harshly.
9 "Think you better than other men, that I should speak only to you, and none others? And be you too good to accept their hospitality? Perhaps I have been led astray. Perhaps I have chosen unwisely."
10 At this the disciples tried to make amends by offering the food that they had brought, but He said unto them, "I have had meat to eat that you knew not of."
11 The disciples said, one to another, "What man has brought to Him already, that He has eaten?"
12 Jesus rebuked them, saying, "My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me, and to finish His Work.
13 Say you not that there are yet four months then comes the harvest. Behold, I say unto you, open your eyes and look on the fields, for they are already for the harvest. He that reaps now will receive good wages. And he that gathers fruit to eternal life from that that he has sown, he and I shall rejoice together.
14 Therein it is said truly, one sews and another reaps. I send you to reap that which you have not sewn. Prepare you well, that you are ready for the labor."
15 With troubled hearts they understood His words and they stayed there many days, teaching the Sumerians. All was good except the last night when a mad man came upon Jesus with a sword. Demetrius fell upon him and in a bitter struggle slew him. But the Sumerians held it not against him, for this man had been an evil even unto them. 16 As they left Philip asked Jesus, "We all know Demetrius bears a sword, yet we hardly notice it among ourselves. Why is it we have no fear of it?"
17 Jesus answered him, saying, "Only the unrighteous fear Demetrius' blade, for only they can feel its sting. No righteous man takes any notice of it because it bears to them no threat.
18 But there will come an hour that even Demetrius' blade will not protect me, when even his courage will not keep me from the madness of man."
19 When Philip heard this he troubled greatly.
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