- The Holy Gospel of JesusChrist, according to st. John
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CHAPTER 4.
1 WHEN Jesus therefore understood that the Pharisees
had heard that Jesus maketh more disciples, and baptizeth more than John,
2 (Though Jesus himself did not baptize, but his
disciples,)
3 He left Judea, and went again into Galilee.
4 And he was of necessity to pass through Samaria.
5 He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria, which is
called Sichar, near the land which 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. It was about the sixth hour.
7 There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus
saith to her: Give me to drink.
8 For his disciples were gone into the city to buy
meats.
9 Then that Samaritan woman saith to him: How dost
thou, being a Jew, ask of me to drink, who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews
do not communicate with the Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered, and said to her: If thou didst know
the gift of God, and who he is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou
perhaps wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
11 The woman saith to him: Sir, thou hast nothing
wherein to draw, and the well is deep; from whence then hast thou living water?
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us
the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13 Jesus answered, and said to her: Whosoever 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:
14 But the water that I will give him, shall become in
him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting.
15 The woman saith to him: Sir, give me this water,
that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.
16 Jesus saith to her: Go, call thy husband, and come
hither. 17 The woman answered, and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her:
Thou hast said well, I have no husband:
18 For thou hast had five husbands: and he whom thou
now hast, is not thy husband. This thou hast said truly.
19 The woman saith to him: Sir, I perceive that thou
art a prophet.
20 Our fathers adored on this mountain, and you say,
that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore.
21 Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe me, that the hour
cometh, when you shall neither on this mountain, not in Jerusalem, adore the
Father.
22 You adore that which you know not: we adore that
which we know; for salvation is of the Jews.
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true
adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also
seeketh such to adore him.
24 God is a spirit; and they that adore him, must adore
him in spirit and in truth.
25 The woman saith to him: I know that the Messias
cometh (who is called Christ); therefore, when he is come, he will tell us all
things.
26 Jesus saith to her: I am he, who am speaking with
thee.
27 And immediately his disciples came; and they
wondered that he talked with the woman. Yet no man said: What seekest thou? or,
why talkest thou with her?
28 The woman therefore left her waterpot, and went her
way into the city, and saith to the men there:
29 Come, and see a man who has told me all things
whatsoever I have done. Is not he the Christ?
30 They went therefore out of the city, and came unto
him.
31 In the mean time the disciples prayed him, saying:
Rabbi, eat.
32 But he said to them: I have meat to eat, which you
know not.
33 The disciples therefore said one to another: Hath
any man brought him to eat?
34 Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of
him that sent me, that I may perfect his work.
35 Do you not say, There are yet four months, and then
the harvest cometh? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the
countries; for they are white already to harvest.
36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth
fruit unto life everlasting: that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth, may
rejoice together.
37 For in this is the saying true: That it is one man
that soweth, and it is another that reapeth.
38 I have sent you to reap that in which you did not
labour: others have laboured, and you have entered into their labours.
39 Now of that city many of the Samaritans believed in
him, for the word of the woman giving testimony: He told me all things
whatsoever I have done.
40 So when the Samaritans were come to him, they
desired that he would tarry there. And he abode there two days.
41 And many more believed in him because of his own
word.
42 And they said to the woman: We now believe, not for
thy saying: for we ourselves have heard him, and know that this is indeed the
Saviour of the world.
43 Now after two days, he departed thence, and went
into Galilee.
44 For Jesus himself gave testimony that a prophet hath
no honour in his own country.
45 And when he was come into Galilee, the Galileans
received him, having seen all the things he had done at Jerusalem on the
festival day; for they also went to the festival day.
46 He came again therefore into Cana of Galilee, where
he made the water wine. And there was a certain ruler, whose son was sick at
Capharnaum.
47 He having heard that Jesus was come from Judea into
Galilee, went to him, and prayed him to come down, and heal his son; for he was
at the point of death.
48 Jesus therefore said to him: Unless you see signs
and wonders, you believe not.
49 The ruler saith to him: Lord, come down before that
my son die.
50 Jesus saith to him: Go thy way; thy son liveth. The
man believed the word which Jesus said to him, and went his way.
51 And as he was going down, his servants met him; and
they brought word, saying, that his son lived.
52 He asked therefore of them the hour wherein he grew
better. And they said to him: Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left
him.
53 The father therefore knew, that it was at the same
hour that Jesus said to him, Thy son liveth; and himself believed, and his
whole house.
54 This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when
he was come out of Judea into Galilee.
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