John 4-5

John 4

¹When therefore the Lord knew how that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

²(although Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples),

³he left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.

⁴And he must needs pass through Samaria.

⁵So he cometh to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph:

⁶and Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

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

⁸For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food.

⁹The Samaritan woman therefore saith unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a Samaritan woman? (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

¹⁰Jesus answered and said unto 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 living water.

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

¹²Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle?

¹³Jesus answered and said unto her, Every one that drinketh of this water shall thirst again:

¹⁴but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life.

¹⁵The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come all the way hither to draw.

¹⁶Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

¹⁷The woman answered and said unto him, I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her, Thou saidst well, I have no husband:

¹⁸for thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: this hast thou said truly.

¹⁹The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

²⁰Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

²¹Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father.

²²Ye worship that which ye know not: we worship that which we know: for salvation is from the Jews.

²³But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father seek to be his worshippers.

²⁴God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

²⁵The woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah cometh (which is called Christ): when he is come, he will declare unto us all things.

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

²⁷And upon this came his disciples; and they marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why speakest thou with her?

²⁸So the woman left her waterpot, and went away into the city, and saith to the men,

²⁹Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: can this be the Christ?

³⁰They went out of the city, and were coming to him.

³¹In the mean while the disciples prayed him, saying, Rabbi, eat.

³²But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not.

³³The disciples therefore said one to another, Hath any man brought him aught to eat?

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

³⁵Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh the harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are white already unto harvest.

³⁶He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal; that he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

³⁷For herein is the saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.

³⁸I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not laboured: others have laboured, and ye are entered into their labour.

³⁹And from that city many of the Samaritans believed on him because of the word of the woman, who testified, He told me all things that ever I did.

⁴⁰So when the Samaritans came unto him, they besought him to abide with them: and he abode there two days.

⁴¹And many more believed because of his word;

⁴²and they said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy speaking: for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.

⁴³And after the two days he went forth from thence into Galilee.

⁴⁴For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.

⁴⁵So when he came into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast.

⁴⁶He came therefore again unto Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.

⁴⁷When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son; for he was at the point of death.

⁴⁸Jesus therefore said unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will in no wise believe.

⁴⁹The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.

⁵⁰Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. The man believed the word that Jesus spake unto him, and he went his way.

⁵¹And as he was now going down, his servants met him, saying, that his son lived.

⁵²So he inquired of them the hour when he began to amend. They said therefore unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.

⁵³So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house.

⁵⁴This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judaea into Galilee.

John 5

¹After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

²Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches.

³In these lay a multitude of them that were sick, blind, halt, withered.

⁵And a certain man was there, which had been thirty and eight years in his infirmity.

⁶When Jesus saw him lying, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wouldest thou be made whole?

⁷The sick man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.

⁸Jesus saith unto him, Arise, take up thy bed, and walk.

⁹And straightway the man was made whole, and took up his bed and walked. Now it was the sabbath on that day.

¹⁰So the Jews said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for thee to take up thy bed.

¹¹But he answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.

¹²They asked him, Who is the man that said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?

¹³But he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in the place.

¹⁴Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing befall thee.

¹⁵The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole.

¹⁶And for this cause did the Jews persecute Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.

¹⁷But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh even until now, and I work.

¹⁸For this cause therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only brake the sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

¹⁹Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing: for what things soever he doeth, these the Son also doeth in like manner.

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

²¹For as the Father raiseth the dead and quickeneth them, even so the Son also quickeneth whom he will.

²²For neither doth the Father judge any man, but he hath given all judgment unto the Son;

²³that all may honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which sent him.

²⁴Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgment, but hath passed out of death into life.

²⁵Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live.

²⁶For as the Father hath life in himself, even so gave he to the Son also to have life in himself:

²⁷and he gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of man.

²⁸Marvel not at this: for the hour cometh, in which all that are in the tombs shall hear his voice,

²⁹And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done ill, unto the resurrection of judgment.

³⁰I can of myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is righteous; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

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

³²It is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.

³³Ye have sent unto John, and he hath borne witness unto the truth.

³⁴But the witness which I receive is not from man: howbeit I say these things, that ye may be saved.

³⁵He was the lamp that burneth and shineth: and ye were willing to rejoice for a season in his light.

³⁶But the witness which I have is greater than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to accomplish, the very works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.

³⁷And the Father which sent me, he hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.

³⁸And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he sent, him ye believe not.

³⁹Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me;

⁴⁰and ye will not come to me, that ye may have life.

⁴¹I receive not glory from men.

⁴²But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in yourselves.

⁴³I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

⁴⁴How can ye believe, which receive glory one of another, and the glory that cometh from the only God ye seek not?

⁴⁵Think not that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, on whom ye have set your hope.

⁴⁶For if ye believed Moses, ye would believe me; for he wrote of me.

⁴⁷But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?