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Christ and the

CHAPTER 4.

ST. JOHN, 4. woman at the well. himself, and his children, and his cattle?

13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh

WHEN therefore the Lord of this water shall thirst again:

knew how the Pharisees 14 But whosoever drinketh of
the water that I shall give him
shall never thirst; but the wa-
ter that I shall give him shall be
in him a well of water spring-
ing up into everlasting life.
15 The woman saith unto
him, Sir, give me this water,
hither to draw.
that I thirst not, neither come

had heard that Jesus made and
baptized more disciples than
John,

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

4 And he must needs go through Samaria.

5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well; and it was about the

sixth hour.

7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy

meat.)

hither.

16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come 17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:

18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly 19 The him, Sir, I perceive that thou saith unto art a prophet.

woman

20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place 9 Then saith the woman of where men ought to worship. Samaria unto him, How is it 21 Jesus saith unto her, Wothat thou, being a Jew, askest man, believe me, the hour comdrink of me, which am a wo- eth, when ye shall neither in man of Samaria? for the Jews this mountain, nor yet at Jehave no dealings with the Sa-rusalem, worship the Father. maritans. 22 Ye worship ye know not

10 Jesus answered and said what: we know what we wor unto her, If thou knewest the ship: for salvation is of the gift of God, and who it is that Jews.

saith to thee, Give me to drink; 23 But the hour cometh, and thou wouldést have asked of now is, when the true worshiphim, and he would have given pers shall worship the Father thee living water. in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to wor ship him.

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

24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must wor ship him in spirit and in truth. 12 Art thou greater than our 25 The woman saith unto father Jacob, which gave us him, I know that Messias comthe well, and drank thereof eth, which is called Christ:

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when he is come, he will tell us all things.

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

his son healed.

man, which testified, He told
me all that ever I did.
40 So when the Samaritans
were come unto him, they be-
sought him that he would tarry
with them: and he abode there
two days.

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27 And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest 41 And many more believed thou? or, Why talkest thou because of his own word; with her? 42 And said unto the woman, 28 The woman then left her Now we believe, not because waterpot, and went her way in- of thy saying: for we have to the city, and saith to the men, heard him ourselves, and know 29 Come, see a man, which that this is indeed the Christ, told me all things that ever I the Saviour of the world. did: is not this the Christ?

30 Then they went out of the

city, and came unto him.
31 In the mean while his
disciples prayed him, saying,
Master, eat.

not of.

43 Now after two days he departed thence, and went into 44 For Jesus himself testified, Galilee. that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.

32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know.45 Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilæans re33 Therefore said the dis- ceived him, having seen all the ciples one to another, Hath things that he did at Jerusalem any man brought him ought to at the feast: for they also went

eat?

34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

unto the feast.

46 So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose 35 Say not ye, There are yet son was sick at Capernaum. four months, and then cometh 47 When he heard that Jesus harvest? behold, I say unto was come out of Judæa into you, Lift up your eyes, and Galilee, he went unto him, and look on the fields; for they are besought him that he would white already to harvest. come down, and heal his son: 36 And he that reapeth re- for he was at the point of ceiveth wages, and gathereth death.

fruit unto life eternal: that 48 Then said Jesus unto him, both he that soweth and he Except ye see signs and wonthat reapeth may rejoice to- ders, ye will not believe. 49 The nobleman saith unto 37 And herein is that saying him, Sir, come down ere my true, One soweth, and another child die. reapeth.

gether.

50 Jesus saith unto him, Go 38 I sent you to reap that thy way; thy son liveth. And whereon ye bestowed no la- the man believed the word bour: other men laboured, that Jesus had spoken unto and ye are entered into their him, and he went his way. labours.

51 And as he was now going 39 And many of the Sama- down, his servants met him, ritans of that city believed on and told him, saying, Thy son him for the saying of the wo-liveth.

Christ asserts

ST. JOHN, 5.

his power.

52 Then enquired he of them was made whole, and took up the hour when he began to his bed, and walked: and on amend. And they said unto the same day was the sabbath. him, Yesterday at the seventh 10 The Jews therefore said hour the fever left him.

unto him that was cured, It is 53 So the father knew that it the sabbath day: it is not lawwas at the same hour, in the ful for thee to carry thy bed. which Jesus said unto him, 11 He answered them, He Thy son liveth: and himself that made me whole, the same believed, and his whole house. said unto me, Take up thy bed, 54 This is again the second and walk. miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judæa into Galilee.

CHAPTER 5.

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12 Then asked they him, What man is that which saiĺ unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?

13 And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a

AFTER this there was a multitude being in that place.

feast of the Jews; and 14 Afterward Jesus findeth Jesus went up to Jerusalem. him in the temple, and said 2 Now there is at Jerusalem unto him, Behold, thou art by the sheep market a pool, made whole: sin no more, lest which is called in the Hebrew a worse thing come unto thee. tongue Bethesda, having five 15 The man departed, and porches. told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole. 16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.

3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: who- 17 ¶ But Jesus answered soever then first after the trou- them, My Father worketh bling of the water stepped in hitherto, and I work.

was made whole of whatso- 18 Therefore the Jews sought ever disease he had. the more to kill him, because 5 And a certain man was he not only had broken the there, which had an infirmity sabbath, but said also that God thirty and eight years. was his Father, making himself equal with God.

6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been 19 Then answered Jesus and now a long time in that case, said unto them, Verily, verily, he saith unto him, Wilt thou I say unto you, The Son can do be made whole? nothing of himself, but what 7 The impotent man answer- he seeth the Father do: for ed him, Sir, I have no man, what things soever he doeth, when the water is troubled, to these also doeth the Son likeput me into the pool: but while wise. I am coming, another steppeth down before me.

8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. 9 And immediately the man

20 For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth : and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.

Everlasting life.

ST. JOHN, 5. The witness of works.

34 But I receive not testithings I say, that ye might be mony from man: but these saved.

35 He was a burning and a shining light and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.

21 For as the Father raiseth 33 Ye sent unto John, and he up the dead, and quickeneth bare witness unto the truth. them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. 22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: 23 That all men should honour the Sou, even as they honour the Father. He that honour eth not the Son honoureth not 36 But I have greater witthe Father which hath sent ness than that of John: for him. the works which the Father 24 Verily, verily, I say unto hath given me to finish, the you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.

37 And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any 25 Verily, verily, I say unto time, nor seen his shape. you, The hour is coming, and 38 And ye have not his word now is, when the dead shall abiding in you: for whom he hear the voice of the Son of hath sent, him ye believe not. God: and they that hear shall live.

39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life and they are they which testify of me.

26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; 40 And ye will not come to 27 And hath given him autho- me, that ye might have life. rity to execute judgment also, 41 I receive not honour from because he is the Son of man. men.

28 Marvel not at this: for the,42 But I know you, that ye hour is coming, in the which have not the love of God in all that are the graves shall you. hear his voice,

43 I am come in my Father's 29 And shall come forth; they if another shall come in his name, and ye receive me not: that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

30 I can of mine own self do nothing as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.

own name, him ye will receive.
44 How can ye believe, which
receive honour one of another,
and seek not the honour that
cometh from God only?
45 Do not think that I will
accuse you to the Father:
there is one that accuseth you,
even Moses, in whom ye trust.
46 For had ye believed Moses,
ye would have believed me:
for he wrote of me.

32 There is another that beareth witness of me; and I 47 But if ye believe not his know that the witness which writings, how shall ye believe he witnesseth of me is true. my words?

Christ walks

ST. JOHN. 6.

CHAPTER 6.

on the sea.

them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and

AFTER these things Jesus above unto them that had

went over the sea of Ga-eaten. lilee, which is the sea of Tiberias.

2 And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased.

14 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.

15 When Jesus therefore

3 And Jesus went up into a perceived that they would mountain, and there he sat with his disciples.

4 And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.

come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.

16 And when even was now come, his disciples went down unto the sea,

5 When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence 17 And entered into a ship, shall we buy bread, that these and went over the sea toward may eat? Capernaum. And it was now prove dark, and Jesus was not come knew to them.

6 And this he said to him for he himself what he would do.

7 Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.

8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, saith unto him,

9 There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?

18 And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew. 19 So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid.

20 But he saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid.

21 Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at 10 And Jesus said, Make the the land whither they went. men sit down. Now there was 22 T The day following, when much grass in the place. So the people which stood on the the men sat down, in number other side of the sea saw that about five thousand. there was none other boat 11 And Jesus took the loaves; there, save that one whereinto andwhen he had given thanks, his disciples were entered, and he distributed to the disciples, that Jesus went not with his and the disciples to them that disciples into the boat, but that were set down; and likewise his disciples were gone away of the fishes as much as they alone:

would. 23 (Howbeit there came other 12 When they were filled, he boats from Tiberias nigh unto said unto his disciples, Gather the place where they did eat up the fragments that remain, bread, after that the Lord had that nothing be lost. given thanks :)

13 Therefore they gathered

24 When the people therefore

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