ciples had gone away into the city to buy food. The Samaritan woman therefore says to him: How 9 is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, being a Samaritan woman? For the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. Jesus answered and 10 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. The woman says to him: 11 Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From whence then hast thou the living water? Art thou greater than our father Jacob, 12 who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? Jesus answered 13 and said to her: Every one that drinks of this water shall thirst again. But whoever drinks of the 14 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 into everlasting life. The woman says to him: Sir, give me this water, 15 that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.

Jesus says to her: Go, call thy husband, and 16 come hither. The woman answered and said: I 17 have no husband. Jesus says to her: Thou saidest well, I have no husband. For thou hast had five 18 husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. That thou hast spoken truly.

The woman says to him: Sir, I perceive that thou 19 art a prophet. Our fathers worshiped in this moun- 20 tain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place 21 where men ought to worship. Jesus says to her: Woman, believe me, an hour is coming, when ye shall neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem wor22 ship the Father. Ye worship that which ye know not; we worship that which we know; because salva23 tion is of the Jews. But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for such the Father 24 seeks to worship him. God is spirit; and they that worship him must worship in spirit and in truth. 25 The woman says to him: I know that Messiah comes (who is called Christ); when he is come, he 26 will tell us all things. Jesus says to her: I that speak to thee am he.

27 And upon this came his disciples; and they marvelled that he talked with the woman. Yet no one said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?

28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went away 29 into the city, and says to the men: Come, see a man who told me all things that ever I did. Is this the 30 Christ? Then they went out of the city, and came to him.

31 In the meanwhile the disciples prayed him, say32 ing: Master, eat. But he said to them, I have food 33 to eat that ye know not of. Therefore said the disci

V. 27. or, was talking with a woman.

ples one to another, Has any one brought him aught to eat? Jesus says to them: My food is to do the 34 will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. Do ye not say, there are yet four months, and then 35 comes the harvest? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are already white for harvest. And he that reaps receives wa- 36 ges, and gathers fruit unto life eternal; that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together. And herein is the true saying, One sows and an- 37 other reaps. I sent you to reap that whereon ye 38 have not labored. Other men have labored, and ye have entered into their labor.

And many of the Samaritans of that city believed 39 on him for the saying of the woman, who testified, He told me all that ever I did. When therefore the 40 Samaritans came to him, they besought him to tarry with them. And he tarried there two days. And 41 far more believed because of his word. And they 42 said to the woman: We no longer believe because of thy saying; for we ourselves have heard, and know that this is in truth the Savior of the world.

And after the two days he departed thence, and 43 went into Galilee. For Jesus himself testified, that 44 a prophet has no honor in his own country.

When therefore he came into Galilee, the Gali- 45 leans received him, having seen all that he did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they also went to the feast.

46 So he came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine.

And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was 47 sick, in Capernaum. He, having heard that Jesus was come out of Judea into Galilee, went to him, and besought him that he would come down and heal his son; for he was at the point of death. 48 Then said Jesus to him: Except ye see signs and 49 wonders, ye will not believe. The nobleman says to 50 him: Sir, come down ere my child die. Jesus says to him: Go thy way; thy son lives. And the man believed the word that Jesus spake to him, and he 51 went his way. And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and brought word saying, Thy 52 child lives. Then inquired he of them the hour when

he began to amend. And they said to him, Yester53 day at the seventh hour the fever left him. So the. father knew that it was in the same hour, in which Jesus said to him, Thy son lives. And he himself 54 believed, and his whole house. This second sign Jesus wrought, when he had come out of Judea into Galilee.

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V. AFTER these things there was a feast of the 2 Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep-gate a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five 3 porches. In these lay a multitude of the infirm, of blind, lame, withered, [waiting for the moving of the

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water. For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water. He therefore, who first went in after the troubling of the water, was made whole of whatever disease he had.] And a certain man was there, who had an infirmity 5 thirty and eight years. When Jesus saw him lying, 6 and knew that he had been now a long time thus, he says to him, Wilt thou be made whole? The 7 infirm 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 goes down before me. Jesus says to him: Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. 8 And immediately the man was made whole, and took 9 up his bed and walked.

And on that day was the sabbath. The Jews 10 therefore said to him that was cured: It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for thee to carry the bed. He 11 answered them: He that made me whole, the same said to me, Take up thy bed and walk. They 12 asked him therefore, Who is the man that said to thee, Take up thy bed and walk? And he that 13 was healed knew not who it was; for Jesus had conveyed himself away, there being a multitude in the place.

Afterward Jesus finds him in the temple. And he 14 said to him: Behold, thou art made whole; sin no

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