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and said unto her, "Whosoever drinketh of this water, will 14 thirst again but whosoever shall drink of the water which I shall give him, will never thirst; but the water which I shall give him will be in him a well of water springing up 15 to everlasting life." The woman saith unto him, “Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, nor come hither to 16 draw." Jesus saith unto her, "Go, call thine husband, and 17 come hither." The woman answered and said, “I have no husband." Jesus saith unto her, "Thou hast rightly 18 said, 'I have no husband:' for thou hast had five husbands;

and he whom thou now hast, is not thine husband *: thou 19 hast spoken this truly." The woman saith unto him, “Sir, 20 I perceive that thou art a prophet. Our fathers worshiped

on this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place 21 where men ought to worship." Jesus saith unto her, "Wo

man, believe me, the hour cometh when ye shall worship 22 the Father neither on this mountain nor at Jerusalem. Ye worship what ye know not: we worship what we know: 23 for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for indeed the Father seeketh such 24 worshipers of him. God is a spirit: and the worshipers of 25 him ought to worship him in spirit and in truth." The wo

man saith unto him, "I know that the Messiah cometh: (which signifieth the Christ:) when he is come, he will tell 26 us all things." Jesus saith unto her, " I, who talk with thee, am he."

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And upon this his disciples came, and wondered that he was talking with a woman': yet none said, "What seekest 28 thou?" or, "Why talkest thou with her?" The woman then left her bucket, and went into the city, and saith to the 29 men, "Come, see a man who hath told me all things what

1 So Wakefield. " that he talked with the woman," N.

"Bishop Pearce would read as for σ, and translates, there is no husband whom thou now hast;' or, 'thou hast no husband now.' See ver. 19, 39, 42.” Sn.

30 ever I did: is this the Christ?" Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.

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In the mean time' his disciples besought him, saying, 32 Master, eat." But he said unto them, "I have food to 33 eat, which ye know not of." Then the disciples said one to another, "Hath any one brought him any thing to eat?" 34 Jesus saith unto them, "My food is, to do the will of him 35 who sent me, and to finish his work. Say ye not, 'There

are yet four months, and then cometh the harvest?' Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; 36 that they are already white for harvest. And he who reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth a crop, to everlasting life that both he who soweth, and he who reapeth, may 37 rejoice together. For herein is that saying true, 'One sow38 eth, and another reapeth.' I have sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured: others have laboured, and ye are entered into their labours."

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And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in him, for the words of the woman who testified, "He told me all 40 things whatever I did." When therefore the Samaritans

were come unto him, they besought him that he would abide 41 with them: and he abode there two days. And many more believed because of his own words; and said to the woman, 42 "We no longer believe because of thy report: for we ourselves have heard him, and know that this is indeed [the Christ,] the Saviour of the world."

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Now after the two days he departed thence, and went in44 to Galilee. For Jesus himself declared that a prophet hath 45 no honour in his own country. So when he was come into

Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things which he did in Jerusalem at the feast: for they also 46 had gone to the feast. So he came again to Cana of Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was

But in the mean time, R. T. 2 Jesus, R. T. and N.

one of the king's household, whose son was sick at Caper47 naum. This man, when he heard that Jesus was come out of Judea into Galilee, went to him, and besought [him] that he would come down and cure his son: for he was at 48 the point of death. Then Jesus said unto him, "Unless 49 ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe." He of the king's household saith unto him, "Sir, come down, before 50 my child die." Jesus saith unto him, " Depart, thy son liveth.” And the man believed the words which Jesus had 51 spoken unto him, and departed. And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, "Thy 52 son liveth." Then he inquired of them the hour when his

son began to amend. And they said unto him, "Yesterday, 53 at the seventh hour, the fever left him." So the father knew that it was at the very hour, in which Jesus had said unto him, "Thy son liveth." And himself believed, and 54 his whole house. This second miracle Jesus did, when he had come out of Judea into Galilee.

CH. V. AFTER these things there was a feast of the Jews; and 2 Jesus went up to Jerusalem*. Now there is at Jerusalem, by the sheep-gate, a pool, which is called in the He3 brew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a [great] multitude of infirm persons, of blind, lame, wi4 thered, [looking for the moving of the water. For at a certain season an angel went down into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever therefore went in first, after the troubling 5 of the water, was made well, whatever disease he had +.] And

* It has been conjectured with considerable probability, that the fifth and sixth chapters of this gospel are transposed, and the correction of this error greatly facilitates the arrangement of facts in the history of Jesus. See Maun's Dissert, on the duration of our Lord's ministry, and Priestley's Harm. Prelim. Diss. p. 41.

+ The words in Italics are wanting in the Vatican and Ephrem manuscripts, and the fourth verse is omitted in the Cambridge Ms. In others they are marked as doubtful, and are probably spurious. See Griesbach. It might possibly be a small medicinal spring, which flowed more copiously at some times than at others, and might flow into a bath or basin capable of receiving only one

a certain man was there, that had an infirmity thirty and 6 eight years. When Jesus saw him lying, and knew that

he had been now a long time afflicted, he saith unto him, 7"Dost thou desire to be made well?" The 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, 8 another goeth down before me." Jesus saith unto him, 9 "Rise, take up thy couch and walk." And immediately the man was made well, and took up his couch, and walked. Now on that day was the sabbath. The Jews therefore said to him that was cured, "It is the sabbath it is not 11 lawful for thee to take up thy couch." He answered them, "He who made me well, himself said unto me, Take up 12 thy couch and walk.'" Then they asked him, "What man is that who said unto thee, Take up thy couch, and 13 walk?"" But he that was cured knew not who it was: for

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Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that 14 place. Afterward Jesus meeteth with him in the temple,

and said unto him, "Behold, thou art made well: sin no 15 more, lest some worse thing befal thee." The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made 16 him well. And for this the Jews persecuted Jesus,3 be17 cause he had done these things on the sabbath. But Jesus said unto them, "My Father worketh until now; and I 18 also work." Wherefore for this the Jews sought the more to kill him; because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself like

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Thirty-eight, R. T. 2 the infirm man, Mss. 3 and sought to slay him. R. T.

person at a time. It is not mentioned by Josephus. "The sanative quality of the waters might, in popular estimation, be extended and magnified." See Newcome. The passage is rejected as spurious by Semler, Michaelis, and Marsh; and Griesbach has prefixed to it his mark of probable rejection. The various readings in the manuscripts show that there is some corruption in the text, or some error in the account, which at this distance of time it is not possible to correct. See Marsh's Michaelis, vol, i. p, 293.507; vol. ii. p. 732.

19 God. Jesus therefore spake and said unto them, “Verily

verily I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself; but what he seeth the Father do; for what things the Fa20 ther doeth, these the Son also doeth in like manner. For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth him all things which he himself doeth: and he will show him greater works 21 than these, so that ye will wonder'. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and giveth them life; so the Son like22 wise giveth life to whom he will. For neither doth the Father judge any man: but hath committed all judgement to 23 the Son; that all may honour the Son, as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son, honoureth not the 24 Father who sent him. Verily verily I say unto you, He that hearkeneth to my words, and believeth in him who sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; 25 but passeth from death to life. Verily verily I say unto you, The hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the 26 voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live. For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the 27 Son also to have life in himself: and he hath given him au

thority to exercise judgement also, because he is the Son of 28 man*. Wonder not at this: for the hour cometh, in which 29 all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, to the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, to the resurrection of 30 condemnation. Of myself I can do nothing: as I hear, I judge; and my judgement is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of him who sent me3.

Gr. that ye may wonder. 2 sepulchres, N. 3 of the Father who sent me.

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* a son of man, Wakefield. Our Lord's declaration shows, that whatever is to be understood by his being appointed by the Father to judge the world, his being properly a man, so far from being an objection against his assumption of this office, was itself a necessary qualification for it." That Son of man concerning whom Daniel predicted that a kingdom should be given him over all people that should not be destroyed." Dan. vii, 13, 14. Sn.

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