When the woman heard this she asked for it, that she might not be thirsty and come to the well for water, but Jesus, seeing that she could not understand His words began to speak of her life, and so truly that she was amazed and said, "Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet." She talked of the mountain near by which had been the place of worship of the Samaritans, and of the Temple at Jerusalem where the Jews worshipped, for she did not want to talk of her own life, which was not good. Jesus then showed her that "God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth," and that the hour had come when He wished people to worship him so 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."