DRC - John - 4

4:1  When Jesus therefore understood the Pharisees had heard that Jesus maketh more disciples and baptizeth more than John

4:2  (Though Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples),

4:3  He left Judea and went again into Galilee.

4:4  And he was of necessity to pass through Samaria.

4:5  He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria, which is called Sichar, near the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

4:6  Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.

4:7  There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus saith to her: Give me to drink.

4:8  For his disciples were gone into the city to buy meats.

4:9  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.

4:10  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.

4:11  The woman saith to him: Sir, thou hast nothing wherein to draw, and the well is deep. From whence then hast thou living water?

4:12  Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank thereof, himself and his children and his cattle?

4:13  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.

4:14  But the water that I will give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting.

4:15  The woman said to him: Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.

4:16  Jesus saith to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

4:17  The woman answered and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: Thou hast said well: I have no husband.

4:18  For thou hast had five husbands: and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. This, thou hast said truly.

4:19  The woman saith to him: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

4:20  Our fathers adored on this mountain: and you say that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore.

4:21  Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe me that the hour cometh, when you shall neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, adore the Father.

4:22  You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know. For salvation is of the Jews.

4:23  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.

4:24  God is a spirit: and they that adore him must adore him in spirit and in truth.

4:25  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.

4:26  Jesus saith to her: I am he, who am speaking with thee.

4:27  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?

4:28  The woman therefore left her waterpot and went her way into the city and saith to the men there:

4:29  Come, and see a man who has told me all things whatsoever I have done. Is not he the Christ?

4:30  They went therefore out of the city and came unto him.

4:31  In the mean time, the disciples prayed him, saying: Rabbi, eat.

4:32  But he said to them: I have meat to eat which you know not.

4:33  The disciples therefore said one to another: Hath any man brought him to eat?

4:34  Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work.

4:35  Do not you 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.

4:36  And he that reapeth receiveth wages and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

4:37  For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth.

4:38  I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour. Others have laboured: and you have entered into their labours.

4:39  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.

4:40  So when the Samaritans were come to him, they desired that he would tarry there. And he abode there two days.

4:41  And many more believed in him, because of his own word.

4:42  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.

4:43  Now after two days, he departed thence and went into Galilee.

4:44  For Jesus himself gave testimony that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.

4:45  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.

4:46  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.

4:47  He having heard that Jesus was come from Judea into Galilee, sent to him and prayed him to come down and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.

4:48  Jesus therefore said to him: Unless you see signs and wonders, you believe not.

4:49  The ruler saith to him: Lord, come down before that my son die.

4:50  Jesus saith to him: Go thy way. Thy son liveth. The man believed the word which Jesus said to him and went his way.

4:51  And as he was going down, his servants met him: and they brought word, saying, that his son lived.

4:52  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.

4:53  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.

4:54  This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judea. into Galilee.