c. iii. 26. Son hath eternal life; but he who disbelieveth the Son, will not see life, but the wrath of God remaineth on him. CHAPTER IV. WHEN, then, the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard, that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, 2 (though Jesus himself baptized not, but only his disciples,) 3 he left Judea, and went again into Galilee; and he was obliged to pass through Samaria. 4 He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph; and Jacob's well was there: 5 Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, so sat down by the well: it was about the sixth hour. 6 A woman of Samaria cometh to draw water: Jesus saith to her, Give me to drink : 7 (for his disciples were gone into the city to buy food:) 8 then the Samaritan woman saith to him, How dost thou, who art a Jew, ask drink of me, who am a Samaritan wo? (for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans:) 9 Jesus answered and said man to her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee springing water: 10 the woman saith to him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that springing water? 11 art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his children, and his cattle? 12 Jesus answered and said to her, Whoever drinketh of this water, will thirst again; 13 but, whoever drinketh of the water that I should give him, will never thirst; but the water that I should give him, will be in him a well of water springing up to eternal life : 14 the woman saith to him, Sir, give me that water, that I may neither thirst, nor come hither to draw. 15 Jesus saith to her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither: 16 the woman answered and said, I have no husband: Jesus said to her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: 17 for thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband; in that thou hast said truly. 18 The woman saith to him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet: 19 our fathers worshipped on this mountain; but ye say, that the place where we ought to worship, is in Jerusalem: 20 Jesus saith to her, Woman, believe me, the hour is coming, when ye will worship the will worship the Father, not on this mountain only, nor yet in Jerusalem: 21 (ye worship that ye know not; we worship that we know; for salvation is from the Jews:) 22 but the hour is coming, and now is, when the true Jer. xxxi. 34. worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him : Heb. viii. 11. 23 God is a Spirit, and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth: 24 the woman saith to him, I know that Messiah cometh, (who is called Christ): when he is come, he will tell us all things: 25 Jesus saith to her, I who speak to thee am he! 26 And at that moment his disciples came; and they marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no one said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her? 27 Then the woman left her waterpot, and went into the city; and saith to the men, 28 Come, see a man, who hath told me all the things that I have done is not this the Christ? 29 they went, therefore, out of the city, and came to him. 30 In the mean while, his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat: 31 but he said to them, I have food to eat that ye know not of: 32 the disciples, therefore, said one to another, Hath any one brought him aught to eat? 33 Jesus saith to them, My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work: 34 say ye not, There are yet four months until the reaping cometh? behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are already white for reaping: 35 he who reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto eternal life; that both he who soweth, and he who reapeth, may rejoice together : 36 for in this is the saying true, "One soweth, and an"other reapeth :" 37 I sent you to reap that on which ye bestowed no labour: others laboured, others laboured, and ye have entered into their labours. 38 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the word of the woman, who testified, He told me all the things that I have done: 39 those Samaritans, therefore, came to him, and be v. 29. Matt. xiii. 57. Mark, vi. 5. sought him to abide with them; 49 Jesus saith to him, Go and he abode there two days: 40 but many more of them believed, because of his own word; 41 and said to the woman, We no longer believe because of thy word; for we ourselves have heard him, and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world. 42 And after those two days, he went forth from thence into Galilee : 43 for, though Jesus himself had testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country; 44 yet, when he came into Galilee, the Galileans that had seen all the things which he did at Jerusalem during the feast, received him for they also had gone to the feast. 45 He came, then, again to Cana of Galilee, where he had made the water wine: and there was a certain nobleman, whose son was ill at Capernaum; 46 who, having heard that Jesus was come back from Judea into Galilee, went to him, and besought him to come down, and heal his son; for he was at the point of death: 47 then said Jesus to him, Unless ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe: 48 the nobleman saith to him, Sir, come down before my child die: away, thy son liveth; and the man believed the word that Jesus had said to him, and he went away: 50 and as he was going down, his servants met him, saying, Thy son liveth: 51 then he inquired of them the hour when he began to amend and they said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him : AFTER these things was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem: 2 and there is in Jerusalem, at the Sheep-gate, a bath called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, which has five porches : 3 in these lay a great number of infirm persons, blind, lame, and withered. 4 And a certain man was there, who had had an infirmity thirty and eight years: 5 Jesus seeing him lie, and knowing that he had now been so for a long time, saith to him, Wishest thou to be made well? 6 the infirm man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is disturbed, to put me into the bath; but while I am going, another goeth down before me: 16 But he answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and now, I work : 17 wherefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he had not only broken the sabbath, but had also called God his Father, making himself equal with God. 18 He answered therefore and 7 Jesus saith to him, Rise, 9 The Jews therefore said to him who had been cured, It is the sabbath day; it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed: 10 but he answered them, He who made me well, said to me, Take up thy bed, and walk: 11 then they asked him, Who is the man that said to thee, Take up thy bed, and walk? 12 but he that was healed knew not who it was; for Jesus had withdrawn himself, on account of the multitude which was in that place. 13 Afterward, Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, thou art made well: sin no more, lest something worse happen to thee: 14 the man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well: 15 and for this cause the Jews sought out Jesus, because he had done these things on a sabbath day. 19 for, the Father loveth the than these, 20 for, as the Father raiseth 21 for neither doth the Father judge any one, but hath committed all judgment to the Son; Philip. ii. 6 willing for a time to rejoice in his light; 35 but I have greater testimony than that of John; for the works which the Father hath given me to perform, the works themselves that I do, bear testimony of me, that the Father hath sent me. 36 And the Father, who hath sent me, hath himself borne witness of me. 37 Ye have never heard his voice, nor seen his form: and ye have not his word abiding in you; for ye believe not in him whom he hath sent. 38 Search the scriptures; for by them ye think to have eternal life and they are they which testify of me: 39 yet ye will not come to Luke, xiii. 35. me, that ye may have life. 40 I receive not honour from men: 41 but I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. 42 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive : 43 how can ye believe, who receive honour one from another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only? 44 Think not that I shall accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuseth you to the Father, even Moses, in whom ye trust: |