Chapter 4

Leaving Jewry because of the Pharisees, in the way to Galilee he talketh with a Samaritane woman, telling her that he will give water of everlasting life, ℣.16 shewing him self to know men's secrets, ℣.19 preferring the Jew's religion before the Samaritane's, but ours (the Christian Catholic religion) before them both, ℣.25 and uttering unto her that he is Christ. ℣.28 which by her testimony and his preaching very many Samaritanes do believe: he in the mean time fore telling his Disciples, of the harvest he will send them in to. ℣.45 The Galilæans also receive him, where again he worketh his second miracle.

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   When jesus therefore understood that the Pharisees heard that Jesus maketh more Disciples, and baptizeth, than John,

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   (howbeit Jesus did not baptize, but his Disciples)

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   he left Jewry, and went again into Galilee.

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   And he had of necessity to pass through Samaria.

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   He cometh therefore into a city of Samaria which is called Sichar; beside the manor that Jacob gave to Joseph his son.

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   And there was there the fountain of Jacob.

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   Jesus therefore wearied of his journey, sat so upon the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.

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   There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water.

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   Jesus said to her: Give me to drink.

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    For his Disciples were gone into the city, to buy meats.

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    Therefore that Samaritane woman saith to him: How doest thou being a Jew, ask of me to drink, which am a Samaritane woman? For the Jews do not communicate with the Samaritans.

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    Jesus answered, and said to her: If thou didst know the gift of God, and who he is that saith unto thee, Give me to drink; thou perhaps wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

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    The woman saith to him: Sir, neither hast thou wherein to draw, and the well is deep; whence hast thou the living water?

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    art thou greater than our Father Jacob, who gave us the well, & himself drank of it, and his children, and his cattle?

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    Jesus answered, and said to her: Every one that drinketh of this water, shall thirst again; but he that shall drink of the water that I will give him, shall not thirst for ever,

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    but the water that I will give him, shall become in him a fountain of water springing up unto life everlasting.

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    The woman saith to him: Lord give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.

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    Jesus saith to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

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    The woman answered and said: I have no husband.

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    Jesus said to her: Thou hast said well, that I have no husband.

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    For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husband. This thou hast said truly.

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    The woman saith to him: Lord, I perceive that thou art a Prophet.

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    Our Fathers adored in this mountain, and you say, that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore.

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    Jesus saith to her: Woman believe me, that the hour shall come, when you shall neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem adore the Father.

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    You adore that you know not: we adore that we know; for salvation is of the Jews.

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    But the hour cometh, and now it is, when the true adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and verity. For the Father also seeketh such to adore him.

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    God is a Spirit, and they that adore him, must adore in spirit and verity.

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    The woman saith to him: I know that Messias cometh, (which is called Christ) therefore when he cometh, he will shew us all things.

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    Jesus saith to her: I am he, that speak with thee.

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    And incontinent his Disciples came: and they marveled that he talked with a woman. No man for all that said: What seekest thou, or why talkest thou with her?

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    The woman therefore left her water-pot: and she went into the city, and saith to those men:

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    Come, and see a man that hath told me all things whatsoever I have done. Is not he Christ?

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    They went forth therefore out of the city, and came to him.

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    In the mean time the Disciples desired him, saying: Rabbi eat.

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    But he said to them: I have meat to eat which you know not.

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    The Disciples therefore said one to another: Hath any man brought him for to eat?

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    Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, to perfit his work.

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    Do not you say that yet there are four months, and harvest cometh? Behold I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the Countries, that they are white already to harvest.

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    And he that reapeth, receiveth hire, and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting: that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth, may rejoice together.

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    For in this is the saying true: that it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth.

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    I have sent you to reap that which you laboured not: others have laboured, & you have entered into their labours.

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    And of that city many believed in him of the Samaritans, for the word of the woman giving testimony, that he told me all things whatsoever I have done.

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    Therefore when the Samaritans were come to him, they desired him that he would tarry there. And he tarried there two days.

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    And many more believed for his own word.

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    And they said to the woman, That now not for thy saying do we believe; for our selves have heard, and do know that this is the Saviour of the world indeed.

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    And after two days he departed thence; and went into Galilee.

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    For Jesus himself gave testimony that a Prophet hath not honour in his own country:

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    Therefore when he was come into Galilee, the Galilæans received him, whereas they had seen all things that he had done at Jerusalem in the festival day: for themselves also came to the festival day.

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    He came again therefore into Cana of Galilee, where he made water wine. And there was a certain lord whose son was sick at Capharnaum.

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    He having heard that Jesus came from Jewry into Galilee, went to him, and desired him that he would come down and heal his son, For he began to die.

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    Jesus therefore said to him: Unless you see signs and wonders, you believe not.

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    The lord saith to him: Lord, come down before that my son die.

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    Jesus saith to him: Go, thy son liveth. The man believed the word that Jesus said to him, and went.

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    And as he was now going down, his servants met him: and they brought word, saying, That his son lived.

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    He asked therefore of them the hour, wherein he was amended. And they said to him, That yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.

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    The father therefore knew that it was in the same hour wherein Jesus said to him: Thy son liveth, and himself believed and his whole house.

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    This again the second sign did Jesus, when he was come from Jewry into Galilee.