Bible-Reading.comJohn 4
1When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus makes and baptises more disciples than John
2(however, Jesus himself did not baptise, but his disciples),
3he left Judaea and went away again unto Galilee.
4And he must needs pass through Samaria.
5He comes therefore to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near to the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6Now a fountain of Jacob's was there; Jesus therefore, being wearied with the way he had come, sat just as he was at the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.
7A woman comes out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus says to her, Give me to drink
8(for his disciples had gone away into the city that they might buy provisions).
9The Samaritan woman therefore says to him, How dost thou, being a Jew, ask to drink of me who am a Samaritan woman? for Jews have no intercourse with Samaritans.
10Jesus answered and said to her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that says to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
11The woman says to him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then hast thou the living water?
12Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?
13Jesus answered and said to her, Every one who drinks of this water shall thirst again;
14but whosoever drinks of the water which I shall give him shall never thirst for ever, but the water which I shall give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into eternal life.
15The woman says to him, Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst nor come here to draw.
16Jesus says to her, Go, call thy husband, and come here.
17The woman answered and said, I have not a husband. Jesus says to her, Thou hast well said, I have not a husband;
18for thou hast had five husbands, and he whom now thou hast is not thy husband: this thou hast spoken truly.
19The woman says to him, Sir, I see that thou art a prophet.
20Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship.
21Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when ye shall neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem worship the Father.
22Ye worship ye know not what; we worship what we know, for salvation is of the Jews.
23But the hour is coming and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for also the Father seeks such as his worshippers.
24God is a spirit; and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and truth.
25The woman says to him, I know that Messias is coming, who is called Christ; when *he* comes he will tell us all things.
26Jesus says to her, I who speak to thee am he.
27And upon this came his disciples, and wondered that he spoke with a woman; yet no one said, What seekest thou? or, Why speakest thou with her?
28The woman then left her waterpot and went away into the city, and says to the men,
29Come, see a man who told me all things I had ever done: is not he the Christ?
30They went out of the city and came to him.
31But meanwhile the disciples asked him saying, Rabbi, eat.
32But he said to them, I have food to eat which ye do not know.
33The disciples therefore said to one another, Has any one brought him anything to eat?
34Jesus says to them, My food is that I should do the will of him that has sent me, and that I should finish his work.
35Do not ye say, that there are yet four months and the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, for they are already white to harvest.
36He that reaps receives wages and gathers fruit unto life eternal, that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together.
37For in this is verified the true saying, It is one who sows and another who reaps.
38I have sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others have laboured, and ye have entered into their labours.
39But many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman who bore witness, He told me all things that I had ever done.
40When therefore the Samaritans came to him they asked him to abide with them, and he abode there two days.
41And more a great deal believed on account of his word;
42and they said to the woman, It is no longer on account of thy saying that we believe, for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.
43But after the two days he went forth thence and went away into Galilee,
44for Jesus himself bore witness that a prophet has no honour in his own country.
45When therefore he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem during the feast, for they also went to the feast.
46He came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain courtier in Capernaum whose son was sick.
47He, having heard that Jesus had come out of Judaea into Galilee, went to him and asked him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.
48Jesus therefore said to him, Unless ye see signs and wonders ye will not believe.
49The courtier says to him, Sir, come down ere my child die.
50Jesus says to him, Go, thy son lives. And the man believed the word which Jesus said to him, and went his way.
51But already, as he was going down, his servants met him and brought him word saying, Thy child lives.
52He inquired therefore from them the hour at which he got better. And they said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
53The father therefore knew that it was in that hour in which Jesus said to him, Thy son lives; and he believed, himself and his whole house.
54This second sign again did Jesus, being come out of Judaea into Galilee.
John 5
1After these things was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2Now there is in Jerusalem, at the sheepgate, a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches.
3In these lay a multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, [awaiting the moving of the water.
4For an angel descended at a certain season in the pool and troubled the water. Whoever therefore first went in after the troubling of the water became well, whatever disease he laboured under.]
5But there was a certain man there who had been suffering under his infirmity thirty and eight years.
6Jesus seeing this man lying there, and knowing that he was in that state now a great length of time, says to him, Wouldest thou become well?
7The infirm man answered him, Sir, I have not a man, in order, when the water has been troubled, to cast me into the pool; but while I am coming another descends before me.
8Jesus says to him, Arise, take up thy couch and walk.
9And immediately the man became well, and took up his couch and walked: and on that day was sabbath.
10The Jews therefore said to the healed man, It is sabbath, it is not permitted thee to take up thy couch.
11He answered them, He that made me well, *he* said to me, Take up thy couch and walk.
12They asked him therefore, Who is the man who said to thee, Take up thy couch and walk?
13But he that had been healed knew not who it was, for Jesus had slidden away, there being a crowd in the place.
14After these things Jesus finds him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, thou art become well: sin no more, that something worse do not happen to thee.
15The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
16And for this the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill him, because he had done these things on sabbath.
17But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto and I work.
18For this therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he had not only violated the sabbath, but also said that God was his own Father, making himself equal with God.
19Jesus therefore answered and said to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, The Son can do nothing of himself save whatever he sees the Father doing: for whatever things *he* does, these things also the Son does in like manner.
20For the Father loves the Son and shews him all things which he himself does; and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may wonder.
21For even as the Father raises the dead and quickens them, thus the Son also quickens whom he will:
22for neither does the Father judge any one, but has given all judgment to the Son;
23that all may honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He who honours not the Son, honours not the Father who has sent him.
24Verily, verily, I say unto you, that he that hears my word, and believes him that has sent me, has life eternal, and does not come into judgment, but is passed out of death into life.
25Verily, verily, I say unto you, that an hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that have heard shall live.
26For even as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son also to have life in himself,
27and has given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is Son of man.
28Wonder not at this, for an hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs shall hear his voice,
29and shall go forth; those that have practised good, to resurrection of life, and those that have done evil, to resurrection of judgment.
30I cannot do anything of myself; as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I do not seek my will, but the will of him that has sent me.
31If I bear witness concerning myself, my witness is not true.
32It is another who bears witness concerning me, and I know that the witness which he bears concerning me is true.
33Ye have sent unto John, and he has borne witness to the truth.
34But I do not receive witness from man, but I say this that *ye* might be saved.
35*He* was the burning and shining lamp, and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.
36But I have the witness that is greater than that of John; for the works which the Father has given me that I should complete them, the works themselves which I do, bear witness concerning me that the Father has sent me.
37And the Father who has sent me himself has borne witness concerning me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor have seen his shape,
38and ye have not his word abiding in you; for whom *he* hath sent, him ye do not believe.
39Ye search the scriptures, for ye think that in them ye have life eternal, and they it is which bear witness concerning me;
40and ye will not come to me that ye might have life.
41I do not receive glory from men,
42but I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.
43I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not; if another come in his own name, him ye will receive.
44How can ye believe, who receive glory one of another, and seek not the glory which comes from God alone?
45Think not that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one who accuses you, Moses, on whom ye trust;
46for if ye had believed Moses, ye would have believed me, for he wrote of me.
47But if ye do not believe his writings, how shall ye believe my words?