Verse 1
Assoone as the Lord knew, how the pharisees had heard that Iesus made and baptized mo disciples then Iohn,
Verse 2
(Though that Iesus hym selfe baptized not, but his disciples:)
Verse 3
He left Iurie, and departed agayne into Galilee.
Verse 4
For it was so that he must needes go through Samaria.
Verse 5
Then came he to a citie of Samaria, which is called Sichar, besydes the possession that Iacob gaue to his sonne Ioseph.
Verse 6
And there was Iacobs well. Iesus then beyng wery of his iourney, sate thus on the well. And it was about the sixt houre:
Verse 7
And there came a woman of Samaria to drawe water: Iesus sayth vnto her, geue me drynke.
Verse 8
For his disciples were gone away, vnto the towne to bye meate.
Verse 9
Then sayth the woman of Samaria vnto hym: Howe is it, that thou beyng a Iewe, askest drynke of me, which am a Samaritane? For the Iewes meddle not with the Samaritanes.
Verse 10
Iesus aunswered, and sayde vnto her: yf thou knewest the gyft of God, & who it is that sayeth to thee geue me drynke, thou wouldest haue asked of hym, and he woulde haue geuen thee water of lyfe.
Verse 11
The woman sayth vnto hym: Syr, thou hast nothyng to drawe with, and the well is deepe: from whence then hast thou that water of lyfe?
Verse 12
Art thou greater then our father Iacob, which gaue vs the well, and he hym selfe dranke therof, and his chyldren, and his cattell?
Verse 13
Iesus aunswered, and sayde vnto her: Whosoeuer drynketh of this water, shal thyrst agayne:
Verse 14
But whosoeuer drynketh of the water that I shall geue hym, shall neuer be more a thyrst: but the water that I shall geue him, shalbe in him a well of water, spryngyng vp into euerlastyng lyfe.
Verse 15
The woman sayth vnto hym: Syr, geue me of that water, that I thyrst not, neither come hyther to drawe.
Verse 16
Iesus sayth vnto her: Go, call thy husbande, and come hyther.
Verse 17
The woman aunswered, and sayde vnto hym: I haue no husbande. Iesus sayde vnto her: Thou hast well sayde, I haue no husbande.
Verse 18
For thou hast had fyue husbandes, and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husbande. In that saydest thou truely.
Verse 19
The woman sayth vnto hym: Syr, I perceaue that thou art a prophete.
Verse 20
Our fathers worshipped in this mountayne, and ye say that in Hierusalem is the place, where men ought to worshippe.
Verse 21
Iesus sayth vnto her: woman beleue me, the houre commeth, when ye shall neither in this mountayne, nor yet at Hierusalem, worshippe the father.
Verse 22
Ye worshippe ye wote not what. We knowe what we worshippe: For saluation commeth of the Iewes.
Verse 23
But the houre commeth, and nowe is, when the true worshippers, shall worshippe the father in spirite, and in the trueth: For such the father also requireth to worshippe hym.
Verse 24
God is a spirite, and they that worshippe hym, must worshippe hym in spirite, and in the trueth.
Verse 25
The woman sayth vnto hym, I wote that Messias shal come, which is called Christe: when he is come, he wyll tell vs all thynges.
Verse 26
Iesus sayth vnto her: I that speake vnto thee, am he.
Verse 27
And immediatly came his disciples, and marueyled that he talked with the woman: Yet no man saide, what seekest thou, or why talkest thou with her?
Verse 28
The woman then left her water pot, and went her way into the citie, & sayth to the men:
Verse 29
Come, see a man which tolde me all thynges that euer I dyd: Is not he Christe?
Verse 30
Then they went out of the citie, and came vnto hym.
Verse 31
In the meane whyle his disciples prayed hym, saying: Maister, eate.
Verse 32
He sayde vnto them: I haue meate to eate that ye wote not of.
Verse 33
Therfore sayde the disciples among them selues: Hath any man brought hym ought to eate?
Verse 34
Iesus sayth vnto them: my meate is to do the wyll of hym that sent me, and to finishe his worke.
Verse 35
Say not ye, there are yet foure monethes, and then commeth haruest? Beholde, I say vnto you, lyft vp your eyes, and loke on the regions: for they are whyte alredy vnto haruest.
Verse 36
And he that reapeth, receaueth wages, and gathereth fruite vnto lyfe eternall: that both he that soweth, & he that reapeth, myght reioyce together.
Verse 37
And herein is the saying true, that one soweth, and another reapeth.
Verse 38
I sent you to reape that, wheron ye bestowed no labour. Other men laboured, and ye are entred into their labours.
Verse 39
Many of the Samaritanes of that citie beleued on hym, for the saying of the woman, which testified that he tolde her all that euer she dyd.
Verse 40
So, when the Samaritanes were come vnto hym, they besought hym that he would tary with them: And he abode there two dayes.
Verse 41
And many mo beleued, because of his owne worde,
Verse 42
And sayde vnto the woman: Nowe we beleue, not because of thy saying: for we haue heard him our selues, & know that this is euen Christe, the sauiour of the worlde.
Verse 43
After two dayes he departed thence, and went away into Galilee.
Verse 44
For Iesus hym selfe testified, that a prophete hath none honour in his owne countrey.
Verse 45
Then, assoone as he was come into Galilee, the Galileans receaued hym, when they had seene all the thynges that he dyd at Hierusalem, at the day of the feast. For they went also vnto the feast day.
Verse 46
So Iesus came agayne into Cana of Galilee, where he turned the water into wyne. And there was a certayne ruler, whose sonne was sicke at Capernaum.
Verse 47
Assoone as the same hearde that Iesus was come out of Iurie into Galilee, he went vnto hym, and besought hym that he woulde come downe, and heale his sonne: For he was euen at the poynt of death.
Verse 48
Then sayde Iesus vnto hym: except ye see signes and wonders, ye wyll not beleue.
Verse 49
The ruler sayth vnto hym: Syr, come downe or euer that my sonne dye.
Verse 50
Iesus sayth vnto hym: Go thy way, thy sonne lyueth. The man beleued the worde that Iesus had spoken vnto hym, and he went his way.
Verse 51
And as he was nowe goyng downe, the seruauntes met hym, and tolde him, saying, thy sonne lyueth.
Verse 52
Then enquired he of them the houre, when he began to amende. And they sayde vnto hym: Yesterday at the seuenth houre, the feuer left hym.
Verse 53
So the father knewe, that it was the same houre, in the which Iesus sayde vnto hym thy sonne lyueth: And he beleued, and all his householde.
Verse 54
This is agayne the seconde miracle, that Iesus dyd, when he was come out of Iurie into Galilee.