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Christ talketh with

CHAP. IV.

a woman of Samaria. 34 For he whom God hath of me, which am a woman of sent, speaketh the words of Samaria? for the Jews have no God: for God giveth not the dealings with the Samaritans. Spirit by measure unto him. 10 Jesus answered and said 35 The Father loveth the unto her, If thou knewest the Son and hath given all things gift of God, and who it is that into his band. saith to thee, Give me to drink; 36 He that believeth on the thou wouldest have asked of him, Son hath everlasting life: and and he would have given thee he that believeth not the Son, living water. shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

CHAP. IV.

The woman of Samaria.
THEN therefore the Lord
knew how the Pharisees

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11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

12 Art thou greater than our had heard that Jesus made and father Jacob, which gave us the baptized more disciples than well, and drank thereof himself, John, and his children, and his cattle?

2 (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,) 3 He left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.

13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water, shall thirst again: 14 But whosoever drinketh

4 And he must needs go of the water that I shall give him, through Samaria. shall never thirst; but the water 5 Then cometh he to a city that I shall give him, shall be in of Samaria, which is called him a well of water springing up Sychar, near to the parcel of into everlasting life.

ground that Jacob gave to his 15 The woman saith unto son Joseph. him, Sir, give me this water, that

6 Now Jacob's well was there. I thirst not, neither come hither Jesus therefore being wearied to draw.

with his journey, sat thus on the 16 Jesus saith unto her, Go well: and it was about the sixth call thy husband, and come hour. hither.

7 There cometh a woman of 17 The woman answered and Samaria to draw water: Jesus said, I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. said unto her, Thou hast well 8 (For his disciples were gone said, I have no husband: away unto the city to buy meat.) 18 For thou hast had five

9 Then saith the woman of husbands, and he whom thou Samaria unto him, How is it that now hast, is not thy husband: in thou, being a Jew, askest drink that saidst thou truly.

Of the woman of Samaria.

JOHN,

Christ's zeal for God's glory

19 The woman saith unto him, 31 ¶ In the mean while his Sir, I perceive that thou art a disciples prayed him, saying, prophet. Master, eat.

20 Our fathers worshipped in 32 But he said unto them, 1 this mountain; and ye say, that have meat to eat that ye know in Jerusalem is the place where not of

men ought to worship.

33 Therefore said the disc21 Jesus saith unto her, Wo-ples one to another, Hath any man, believe me, the hour man brought him aught to eat? cometh, when ye shall neither 34 Jesus saith unto them, My in this mountain, nor yet at Je-meat is to do the will of him rusalem, worship the Father. that sent me, and to finish his

22 Ye worship ye know not work. what we know what we wor: 35 Say not ye, There are yet ship, for salvation is of the Jews. four months, and then cometh 23 But the hour cometh, and harvest? behold, I say unto you, now is, when the true worship-Lift up your eyes, and look on pers shall worship the Father in the fields; for they are white spirit and in truth: for the Father already to harvest.

seeketh such to worship him. 36 And he that reapeth re

24 God is a Spirit: and they ceiveth wages, and gathereth that worship him, must worship fruit unto life eternal: that both him in spirit and in truth. he that soweth, and he that

25 The woman saith unto him, reapeth, may rejoice together. I know that Messias cometh, 37 And herein is that saying which is called Christ; when true, One soweth, and another he is come, he will tell us all reapeth. things.

26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.

38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.

27 And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he 39 And many of the Samatalked with the woman: yet no ritans of that city believed on man said, What seekest thou? him for the saying of the woman, or, Why talkest thou with her? which testified, He told me all 28 The woman then left her that ever I did.

water-pot, and went her way in- 40 So when the Samaritans to the city, and saith to the men, were come unto him, they be29 Come, see a man which sought him that he would tarry told me all things that ever I did: with them: and he abode there is not this the Christ? two days.

30 Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.

41 And many more believed, because of his own word;

He healeth a nobleman's son, CHAP. V.

and an impotent man. 42 And said unto the woman,] 52 Then inquired he of them Now we believe, not because of the hour when he began to thy saying: for we have heard amend. And they said unto him ourselves, and know that him, Yesterday at the seventh this is indeed the Christ, the hour the fever left him.

Saviour of the world.

53 So the father knew that it 43 ¶ Now, after two days he was at the same hour, in the departed thence, and went into which Jesus said unto him, Thy Galilee. son liveth: and himself believed,

44 For Jesus himself testified and his whole house. that a prophet hath no honour 54 This is again the second in his own country. miracle that Jesus did, when he 45 Then when he was come was come out of Judea into into Galilee, the Galileans re-Galilee.

ceived him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem

CHAP. V.

The impotent man healed.

at the feast: for they also went AFTER this there was a feast

unto the feast.

of the Jews: and Jesus

46 So Jesus came again into went up to Jerusalem. Cana of Galilee, where he made 2 Now there is at Jerusalem, the water wine. And there was by the sheep market, a pool, a certain nobleman, whose son which is called in the Hebrew was sick at Capernaum. tongue, Bethesda, having five

47 When he heard that Jesus porches. was come out of Judea into 3 In these lay a great multiGalilee, he went unto him, and tude of impotent folk, of blind, besought him that he would halt, withered, waiting for the come down, and heal his son : moving of the water.

for he was at the point of death. 4 For an angel went down at 48 Then said Jesus unto him, a certain season into the pool, Except ye see signs and won- and troubled the water: whoders, ye will not believe. soever then first after the

49 The nobleman saith unto troubling of the water stepped him, Sir, come down ere my in, was made whole of whatsochild die. ever disease he had.

Go

50 Jesus saith unto him, 5 And a certain man was thy way; thy son liveth. And there, which had an infirmity the man believed the word that thirty and eight years.

Jesus had spoken unto him, and 6 When Jesus saw him lie, he went his way. and knew that he had been now 51 And as he was now going a long time in that case, he saith down, his servants met him, and unto him, Wilt thou be made told him, saying, Thy son liveth. whole?

The Jews seek to kill Christ. JOHN,

He asserteth his power. 18 Therefore the Jews sought

7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the more to kill him, because the water is troubled, to put me he not only had broken the sabinto the pool: but while I am bath, but said also, that God coming, another steppeth down was his Father, making himself before me. equal with God.

8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, 19 Then answered Jesus, and take up thy bed, and walk. said unto them, Verily, verily, I 9 And immediately the man say unto you, The Son can do was made whole, and took up nothing of himself, but what he his bed, and walked and on seeth the Father do: for what the same day was the sabbath. things soever he doeth, these 10 T The Jews therefore said also doeth the Son likewise. unto him that was cured, It is 20 For the Father loveth the the sabbath-day; it is not lawful Son, and sheweth him all things for thee to carry thy bed. that himself doeth: and he will

11 He answered them, He shew him greater works than that made me whole, the same these, that ye may marvel. said unto me, Take up thy bed, 21 For as the Father raiseth and walk. up the dead, and quickeneth 12 Then asked they him, them; even so the Son quickenWhat man is that which said eth whom he will.

unto thee, Take up thy and walk?

bed,

22 For the Father judgeth no man; but hath committed all 13 And he that was healed judgment unto the Son: wist not who it was: for Jesus 23 That all men should honour had conveyed himself away, a the Son, even as they honour multitude being in that place. the Father. He that honoureth

14 Afterward Jesus findeth not the Son, honoureth not the him in the temple, and said unto Father which hath sent him. him, Behold, thou art made 24 Verily, verily, I say unto whole: sin no more, lest a worse you, He that heareth my word, thing come unto thee. and believeth on him that sent

15 The man departed, and me, hath everlasting life, and told the Jews that it was Jesus shall not come into condemnawhich had made him whole. tion; but is passed from death unto life.

16. And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to 25 Verily, verily, I say unto slay him, because he had done you, The hour is coming, and these things on the sabbath-day. now is, when the dead shall 17 ¶ But Jesus answered hear the voice of the Son of them, My Father worketh hith-God: and they that hear shall erto, and I work.

live.

Christ, by John's testimony,

CHAP. V.

proveth his own mission, 26 For as the Father hath given me to finish, the same life in himself, so hath he given works that I do, bear witness of to the Son to have life in him- me, that the Father hath sent self:

me.

27 And hath given him au- 37 And the Father himself thority to execute judgment which hath sent me, hath borne also, because he is the Son of witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor

man.

28 Marvel not at this: for seen his shape. the hour is coming, in the which 38 And ye have not his word all that are in the graves shall abiding in you: for whom he hear his voice, hath sent, him ye believe not.

29 And shall come forth; 39 Search the scriptures; they that have done good, unto for in them ye think ye have the resurrection of life; and eternal life: And they are they they that have done evil, unto which testify of me. the resurrection of damnation.

40 And ye will not come to

30 I can of mine own self do me, that ye might have life. nothing: as I hear, I judge: and 41 I receive not honour from

my judgment is just; because I men. seek not mine own will, but the 42 But I know you, that ye will of the Father which hath have not the love of God in

sent me.

31 If I bear witness of myself,

my witness is not true.

you.

43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: 32 T There is another that if another shall come in his own beareth witness of me, and I name, him ye will receive. know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.

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44 How How can ye believe, which receive honour one of 33 Ye sent unto John, and he another, and seek not the ho bare witness unto the truth. nour that cometh from God 34 But I receive not tes-only?

timony from man: but these 45 Do not think that I will things I say, that ye might be accuse you to the Father: there saved. is one that accuseth you, even 35 He was a burning and a Moses, in whom ye trust. shining light: and ye were wil- 46 For had ye believed Moling for a season to rejoice in ses, ye would have believed his light. me: for he wrote of me.

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36¶ But I have greater wit- 47 But if ye believe not his ness than that of John: for the writings, how shall ye believe works which the Father hath my words?

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