then do you ask me for water?'
Jesus said, 'IF YOU KNEW WHO I AM, YOU WOULD HAVE ASKED ME, AND I WOULD
HAVE GIVEN YOU LIVING WATER.' Jesus meant the Holy Spirit. He gives
the Holy Spirit to everyone who asks Him.
Then Jesus spoke to the woman about the bad things she had done, and
she tried to make Him talk about something else. But she could not
stop His wonderful words. At last she said, 'I know that the Messiah
is coming. He will tell us all things.' Then Jesus said to her, 'I
THAT SPEAK UNTO THEE AM HE.'
Just then His disciples came up to the well, and they were very much
astonished to see Him talking to the woman. The Jew men were too proud
to talk much to women, even if the women were Jews; and this was a
Samaritan. But the disciples did not ask Jesus any questions about why
He talked to the woman. They brought Him the things they had been
buying, and said, 'Master, eat.' But Jesus was so happy that He had
been able to speak good words to that poor woman that He did not feel
hungry any more. He told His disciples that doing God's work was the
food He liked best.
After this Jesus lived for awhile first at Nazareth, and then at
Capernaum. There was a boy ill in Capernaum just then with a fever.
It is so hot near the Sea of Galilee that the people who live there
often get fever. That sick boy's father was rich, but money could not
make the dying boy well. His father had heard of Jesus, and when he
knew that Jesus had come into Galilee, and that He was only a few miles
away, he came to Him, and begged Him to come down to Capernaum and make
his child well. At first Jesus said to him, 'You will not believe on
Me unless you see Me do some wonderful thing.' But when He saw how
eager the poor father was, He thought He would try him, and He said to
him, 'Go thy way, thy son liveth.' Directly Jesus said that, the man
felt sure in his heart that his boy was well. He did not ask Jesus any
more to come with him, but he just went back home quietly by himself.
Next day, as he was going down the long hilly road from Cana to
Capernaum, some of the servants from his house came to meet him, and
they said to him, 'Thy son liveth.' Then the father asked them what
time it was when the boy began to get better, and said, 'Yesterday, at
the seventh hour (that means at one o'clock) the fever left him.' Then
the father knew that that was the very time when Jesus had said to him,
'Thy son liveth,' and he and all
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