Tatian: Diatessaron — Arabic Witness

Section XXI.

[1] ^{Edition note 1}And Jesus went out again from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and came to the [2] sea of Galilee, towards the borders of Decapolis. ^{Edition note 2}And they brought unto him one dumb and deaf, and entreated him that he would lay his hand upon him and heal [3] him. ^{Edition note 3}And he drew him away from the multitude, and went away alone, and spat [4] upon his fingers, and thrust them into his ears, and touched his tongue; ^{Edition note 4}and looked [5] to heaven, and sighed, and said unto him, Be opened. ^{Edition note 5}And in that hour his ears [6] were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spake with ease. ^{Edition note 6}And Jesus charged them much that they should not tell this to any man: but the more [7] he charged them, the more they increased in publishing, and marvelled much, ^{Edition note 7}and [Arabic, p. 82] said, This man doeth everything well: he made the deaf to hear, and those that lacked speech to speak.

[8, 9] ^{Edition note 8}And while he was passing through the land of Samaria, ^{Edition note 9}he came to one of the cities of the Samaritans, called Sychar, beside the field which Jacob gave to Joseph to [10] his son. ^{Edition note 10}And there was there a spring of water of Jacob’s. And Jesus was fatigued from the exertion of the way, and sat at the spring. And the time was about the [11] sixth hour.^{Edition note 11 Edition note 12}And a woman of Samaria came to draw water; and Jesus said unto [12] her, Give me water, that I may drink. ^{Edition note 13}And his disciples had entered into the city [13] to buy for themselves food. ^{Edition note 14}And that Samaritan woman said unto him, How dost thou, being a Jew, ask me to give thee to drink, while I am a Samaritan woman?

[14] ^{Edition note 15}(And the Jews mingle not with the Samaritans.^{Edition note 16}) Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who this is that said unto thee, Give me [15] to drink; thou wouldest ask him, and he would give thee the water of life. ^{Edition note 17}That woman said unto him, My Lord, thou hast no bucket, and the well is deep: from [16] whence hast thou the water of life? ^{Edition note 18}Can it be that thou art greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well, and drank from it, and his children, and his sheep?

[17] ^{Edition note 19}Jesus answered and said unto her, Every one that drinketh of this water shall thirst [18] again: ^{Edition note 20}but whosoever drinketh of the water which I shall give him shall not thirst for ever: but the water which I shall give him shall be in him a spring of water springing [19] up unto eternal life. ^{Edition note 21}That woman said unto him, My Lord, give me of this water, that [20] I may not thirst again, neither come and draw water from here. ^{Edition note 22}Jesus said unto her, [21] [Arabic, p. 83] Go and call thy husband, and come hither. ^{Edition note 23}She said unto him, I have no [22] husband. ^{Edition note 24}Jesus said unto her, Thou saidst well, I have no husband: five husbands hast thou had, and this man whom thou hast now is not thy husband; and [23] in this thou saidst truly. ^{Edition note 25}That woman said unto him, My Lord, I perceive thee to [24] be a prophet. ^{Edition note 26}Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say that in Jerusalem [25] is the place in which worship must be. ^{Edition note 27}Jesus said unto her, Woman, believe me, an hour cometh, when neither in this mountain, nor yet in Jerusalem, shall ye worship [26] the Father. ^{Edition note 28}Ye worship that which ye know not: but we worship that which [27] we know: for salvation is of the Jews. ^{Edition note 29}But an hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: and the Father also [28] seeketh such as these worshippers. ^{Edition note 30}For God is a Spirit: and they that worship him [29] must worship him in spirit and in truth. ^{Edition note 31}That woman said unto him, I know that [30] the Messiah cometh: ^{Edition note 32}and when he is come, he will teach us everything. Jesus said unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.

[31] ^{Edition note 33}And while he was speaking, his disciples came; and they wondered how he would speak^{Edition note 34} with a woman; but not one of them said unto him, What seekest thou? or, [32] What^{Edition note 35} speakest thou with her? ^{Edition note 36}And the woman left her waterpot, and went to the [33] city, and said to the people, ^{Edition note 37}Come, and see a man who told me all that ever I did: [34] perhaps then he is the Messiah. ^{Edition note 38}And people went out from the city, and came to [35] him. ^{Edition note 39}And in the mean while his disciples besought him, and said unto him, Our [36, 37] master, eat. ^{Edition note 40}And he said unto them, I have food to eat that ye know not. ^{Edition note 41}And the disciples said amongst themselves, Can any one have brought him aught to eat?^{Edition note 42} [38] ^{Edition note 43}Jesus said unto them, My food is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish [39] [Arabic, p. 84] his work. ^{Edition note 44}Said ye not that after four months cometh the harvest?

behold, I therefore say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and behold the lands, [40] that they have become white, and the harvest is already come.^{Edition note 45 Edition note 46}And he that reapeth receiveth his wages, and gathereth the fruit of eternal life;^{Edition note 47} and the sower and [41] the reaper rejoice together. ^{Edition note 48}For in this is found the word of truth, One soweth, and [42] another reapeth. ^{Edition note 49}And I sent you to reap that in which ye have not laboured: others laboured, and ye have entered on their labour.

[43] ^{Edition note 50}And from that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the words [44] of that woman, who testified and said, He told me all that ever I did. ^{Edition note 51}And when those Samaritans came unto him, they besought him to abide with them; and he [45, 46] abode with them two days. ^{Edition note 52}And many believed in him because of his word; ^{Edition note 53}and they said to that woman, Now not because of thy saying have we believed in him: we have heard and known that this truly is the Messiah, the Saviour of the world.

[47, 48] ^{Edition note 54}And after two days Jesus went out thence and departed to Galilee. ^{Edition note 55}And Jesus [49] testified that a prophet is not honoured in his own city. ^{Edition note 56}And when he came to Galilee, the Galilæans received him.