mother of Jesus was there. (2)And Jesus also was bidden, and his
disciples, to the marriage. (3)And wine having failed, the mother of
Jesus says to him: They have no wine. (4)Jesus says to her: Woman,
what have I to do with thee? My hour is not yet come. (5)His mother
says to the servants: Whatever he says to you, do it. (6)Now there
were set there six water-pots of stone, after the Jewish custom of
purifying, containing two or three firkins[2:6] apiece. (7)Jesus says
to them: Fill the water-pots with water. And they filled them up to
the brim. (8)And he says to them: Draw out now, and bear to the ruler
of the feast. And they bore it. (9)When the ruler of the feast tasted
the water that was made wine (and he knew not whence it was, but the
servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called
the bridegroom, (10)and says to him: Every man sets forth the good
wine first; and when they have drunk freely, then that which is worse.
Thou hast kept the good wine until now. (11)This beginning of the
signs Jesus wrought in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory; and
his disciples believed on him.
(12)After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his
brothers, and his disciples; and they abode there not many days.
(13)And the passover of the Jews was at hand; and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem. (14)And he found in the temple those who sold oxen and
sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting. (15)And having made a
scourge of small cords, he drove all out of the temple, both the sheep
and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the
tables; (16)and to those who sold doves he said: Take these things
hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise. (17)And his
disciples remembered that it is written: for thy house consumes me.
(18)The Jews therefore answered and said to him: What sign dost thou
show to us, seeing that thou doest these things? (19)Jesus answered
and said to them: Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise
it up. (20)Therefore said the Jews: Forty and six years was this
temple in building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days? (21)But
he said it of the temple of his body. (22)When therefore he was risen
from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this; and they
believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus spoke.
(23)And when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, on the feast-day,
many believed on his name, beholding his signs which he wrought.
(24)But Jesus did not trust himself to them, because he knew all men,
(25)and had no need that any one should testify of man; for he himself
knew what was in man.
III.
THERE was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the
Jews. (2)The same came to him by night, and said to him: Rabbi, we
know that thou hast come a teacher from God; for no one can do these
signs which thou doest, except God be with him.
(3)Jesus answered and said to him: Verily, verily, I say to thee,
except a man be born again[3:3], he can not see the kingdom of God.
(4)Nicodemus says to him: How can a man be born when he is old? Can he
enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
(5)Jesus answered: Verily, verily, I say to thee, except a man be born
of water and the Spirit, he can not enter into the kingdom of God.
(6)That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of
the Spirit is spirit. (7)Marvel not that I said to thee: Ye must be
born again.
(8)The wind blows where it will, and thou hearest the sound thereof,
but knowest not whence it comes, and whither it goes. So is every one
that is born of the Spirit.
(9)Nicodemus answered and said to him: How can these things be?
(10)Jesus answered and said to him: Art thou the teacher of Israel,
and knowest not these things? (11)Verily, verily, I say to thee, we
speak that which we know, and testify that which we have seen; and ye
receive not our testimony. (12)If I told you the earthly things, and
ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you the heavenly
things? (13)And no one has ascended up into heaven, but he who came
down out of heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven. (14)And as Moses
lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be
lifted up; (15)that every one who believes on him may have everlasting
life. (16)For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten
Son, that whoever believes on him, should not perish, but may have
everlasting life. (17)For God sent not his Son into the world to judge
the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (18)He that
believes on him is not judged; but he that believes not has already
been judged, because he has not believed on the name of the
only-begotten Son of God. (19)And this is the judgment, that light has
come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light;
for their deeds were evil. (20)For every one that does evil hates the
light, and comes not to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
(21)But he that does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may
be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
(22)After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of
Judaea; and there he remained with them, and immersed. (23)And John
also was immersing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much
water there; and they came, and were immersed. (24)For John was not
yet cast into prison.
(25)There arose therefore a question, on the part of John's disciples
with a Jew, about purification. (26)And they came to John and said to
him: Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou hast
borne witness, behold, he immerses, and all come to him.
(27)John answered and said: A man can receive nothing, except it be
given him from heaven. (28)Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said,
I am not the Christ, but I am sent before him. (29)He that has the
bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands
and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice.
This my joy therefore is made full. (30)He must increase, but I must
decrease. (31)He that comes from above is above all; he that is from
the earth is of the earth, and speaks of the earth; he that comes from
heaven is above all. (32)And what he has seen and heard, that he
testifies; and his testimony no one receives. (33)He that received his
testimony has set his seal, That God is true. (34)For he whom God sent
forth speaks the words of God; for he gives not[3:34] the Spirit by
measure. (35)The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into
his hand. (36)He that believes on the Son has everlasting life; and he
that believes not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God
abides on him.
IV.
WHEN therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard, that Jesus made
and immersed more disciples than John (2)(though Jesus himself
immersed not, but his disciples), (3)he left Judaea, and departed
again into Galilee. (4)And he must go through Samaria. (5)He comes
therefore to a city of Samaria, called Sychar[4:5], near to the parcel
of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. (6)And Jacob's well was
there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with the journey, sat down thus
on the well. It was about the sixth hour.
(7)There comes a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus, says to her:
Give me to drink. (8)For his disciples had gone away into the city to
buy food. (9)The Samaritan woman therefore says to him: How is it that
thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, being a Samaritan woman? For
Jews do not associate with Samaritans. (10)Jesus answered and said to
her: If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that says to thee,
Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have
given thee living water. (11)The woman says to him: Sir, thou hast
nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From whence then hast thou
the 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: Every one that drinks of
this water shall thirst again. (14)But whoever drinks of the water
that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall
give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up into
everlasting life. (15)The woman says to him: Sir, give me this water,
that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.
(16)Jesus says to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither. (17)The
woman answered and said: I have no husband. Jesus says to her: Thou
saidst well, I have no husband. (18)For thou hast had five husbands;
and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. That thou hast spoken
truly.
(19)The woman says to him: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
(20)Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and ye say, that in
Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. (21)Jesus says to
her: Woman, believe me, an hour is coming, when ye shall neither in
this mountain nor in Jerusalem worship the Father. (22)Ye worship that
which ye know not; we worship that which we know; because salvation is
of the Jews. (23)But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true
worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for such
the Father seeks to worship him. (24)God is spirit; and they that
worship him, must worship in spirit and in truth.
(25)The woman says to him: I know that Messiah comes (who is called
Christ); when he is come, he will tell us all things. (26)Jesus says
to her: I that speak to thee am he. (27)And upon this came his
disciples; and they marveled that he talked with the woman[4:27]. Yet
no one said: What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her? (28)The
woman then left her water-pot, and went away into the city; and she
says to the men: (29)Come, see a man who told me all things that ever
I did. Is this the Christ? (30)Then they went out of the city, and
came to him.
(31)In the mean while the disciples prayed him, saying: Master, eat.
(32)But he said to them: I have food to eat that ye know not of.
(33)Therefore said the disciples one to another: Has any one brought
him aught to eat? (34)Jesus says to them: My food is to do the will of
him who sent me, and to finish his work. (35)Do ye not say, that there
are yet four months, and then comes the harvest? Behold, I say to you,
lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are already white
for harvest. (36)And he that reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit
unto life eternal; that both he that sows and he that reaps may
rejoice together. (37)And herein is the true saying: One sows, and
another reaps. (38)I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not
labored. Other men have labored, and ye have entered into their labor.
(39)And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the
saying of the woman, who testified: He told me all that ever I did.
(40)When therefore the Samaritans came to him, they besought him to
remain with them. And he remained there two days. (41)And far more
believed because of his word; (42)and said to the woman: We no longer
believe because of thy saying; for we ourselves have heard, and know
that this is in truth the Savior of the world.
(43)And after the two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.
(44)For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet has no honor in his
own country.
(45)When therefore he came into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him,
having seen all that he did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they also
went to the feast. (46)So he came again into Cana of Galilee, where he
made the water wine.
And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick, in Capernaum.
(47)He, having heard that Jesus is come out of Judaea into Galilee,
went to him, and besought him that he would come down and heal his
son; for he was about to die. (48)Jesus therefore said to him: Except
ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe. (49)The nobleman says
to him: Sir, come down ere my child die. (50)Jesus says to him: Go thy
way; thy son lives. And the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to
him, and he went his way. (51)And as he was now going down, his
servants met him, and brought word saying: Thy child lives. (52)He
inquired of them, therefore, the hour when he began to amend. And they
said to him: Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left him.
(53)The father knew, therefore, that it was in the same hour in which
Jesus said to him: Thy son lives. And he himself believed, and his
whole house. (54)This second sign Jesus wrought, when he had come out
of Judaea into Galilee.
V.
AFTER these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem. (2)And there is in Jerusalem by the sheep-gate a pool,
which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
(3)In these lay a multitude of the infirm, of blind, lame, withered
[waiting for the moving of the water. (4)For an angel went down at a
certain season into the pool, and troubled the water. He therefore;
who first went in after the troubling of the water, was made whole of
whatever disease he had][5:4]. (5)And a certain man was there, who had
an infirmity thirty and eight years. (6)Jesus seeing this man lying,
and knowing that he had been already a long time thus, says to him:
Dost thou desire to be made whole? (7)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, another goes down before me. (8)Jesus
says to him: Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. (9)And immediately the
man was made whole, and took up his bed and walked.
And on that day was the sabbath. (10)The Jews therefore said to him
that was cured: It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for thee to carry
the bed. (11)He answered them: He who made me whole, the same said to
me: Take up thy bed, and walk. (12)They asked him therefore: Who is
the man that said to thee: Take up thy bed and walk? (13)And he who
was healed knew not who it was; for Jesus conveyed himself away, there
being a multitude in the place.
(14)Afterward Jesus finds him in the temple. And he said to him:
Behold, thou hast been made whole; sin no more, lest something worse
befall thee. (15)The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus
who made him whole. (16)And for this the Jews persecuted Jesus,
because he did these things on the sabbath. (17)But Jesus answered
them: My Father works hitherto, and I work. (18)For this therefore the
Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only broke the
sabbath, but also called God his Father, making himself equal with
God.
(19)Jesus therefore, answered and said to them: Verily, verily, I say
to you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father
do; for what things soever he does, these also does the Son in like
manner. (20)For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things
that he himself does; and greater works than these will he show him,
that ye may marvel. (21)For as the Father raises up the dead, and
quickens them; so also the Son quickens whom he will. (22)For neither
does the Father judge any one; but all judgment he has given to the
Son; (23)that all may honor the Son, as they honor the Father. He that
honors not the Son, honors not the Father who sent him.
(24)Verily, verily, I say to you, he that hears my word, and believes
him who sent me, has everlasting life, and comes not into judgment,
but has passed out of death into life. (25)Verily, verily, I say to
you, an hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice
of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live. (26)For as the
Father has life in himself, so he gave also to the Son to have life in
himself. (27)And he gave him authority to execute judgment also,
because he is a son of man. (28)Marvel not at this; for an hour is
coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
(29)and shall come forth; they that did good, to the resurrection of
life, and they that did evil, to the resurrection of judgment.
(30)I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is
just; because I seek not my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
(31)If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. (32)There is
another that bears witness of me; and I know that the witness which he
witnesses of me is true. (33)Ye have sent to John, and he has borne
witness to the truth. (34)But I receive the witness not from man; but
these things I say, that ye might be saved. (35)He was the burning and
shining lamp; and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his
light. (36)But I have greater witness than that of John; for the works
which the Father gave me to finish, the works themselves that I do
bear witness of me, that the Father has sent me. (37)And the Father,
who sent me, he has borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his
voice at any time, nor have ye seen his shape. (38)And ye have not his
word abiding in you; for whom he sent, him ye believe not.
(39)Search[5:39] the Scriptures; because in them ye think ye have
eternal life, and these are they that testify of me; (40)and ye will
not come to me, that ye may have life. (41)I receive not honor from
men. (42)But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.
(43)I have come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not; if another
shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. (44)How can ye
believe, receiving honor from one another, and the honor that is from
God alone ye seek not? (45)Do not think that I will accuse you to the
Father; there is one that accuses you, Moses in whom ye have placed
your hope. (46)For if ye believed Moses, ye would believe me; for he
wrote of me. (47)But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye
believe my words?
VI.
AFTER these things Jesus went away, beyond the sea of Galilee, which
is the sea of Tiberias. (2)And a great multitude followed him, because
they saw the signs which he wrought on the sick. (3)And Jesus went up
into the mountain, and there he sat with his disciples. (4)And the
passover, the feast of the Jews, was near. (5)Jesus therefore lifting
up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude is coming to him, says
to Philip: Whence shall we buy bread that these may eat? (6)And this
he said to try him; for he himself knew what he was about to do.
(7)Philip answered him: Two hundred denaries worth of bread is not
sufficient for them, that each one may take a little. (8)One of his
disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, says to him: (9)There
is a lad here, who has five barley loaves and two small fishes; but
what are they among so many? (10)Jesus said: Make the men lie down.
Now there was much grass in the place. So the men lay down, in number
about five thousand. (11)And Jesus took the loaves; and having given
thanks, he distributed to those who were lying down; and likewise of
the fishes as much as they desired. (12)When they were filled, he said
to his disciples: Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be
lost. (13)Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve
baskets with fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over
and above to those who had eaten. (14)The men therefore, seeing the
sign that Jesus wrought, said: This is of a truth the Prophet that
comes into the world.
(15)Jesus therefore, knowing that they were about to come and take him
by force, to make him a king, withdrew again into the mountain,
himself alone. (16)And when evening came, his disciples went down to
the sea, (17)and entering into the ship, were going over the sea to
Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them;
(18)and as a strong wind was blowing, the sea began to rise. (19)When
therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty furlongs, they
see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near to the ship; and they
were afraid. (20)But he says to them: It is I, be not afraid. (21)They
therefore willingly received him into the ship; and immediately the
ship was at the land whither they were going.
(22)On the morrow, the multitude that stood on the other side of the
sea, seeing that there was no other boat there but one, and that Jesus
went not with his disciples into the ship, but his disciples went away
alone (23)(but there came other boats from Tiberias near to the place
where they ate bread, when the Lord had given thanks); (24)when
therefore the multitude saw that Jesus was not there, nor his
disciples, they themselves entered into the boats, and came to
Capernaum, seeking for Jesus. (25)And having found him on the other
side of the sea, they said to him: Rabbi, when camest thou hither?
(26)Jesus answered them and said: Verily, verily, I say to you, ye
seek me, not because ye saw signs, but because ye ate of the loaves
and were filled. (27)Work not for the food that perishes, but for the
food that endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of man will
give to you; for him the Father, God, has sealed, (28)Therefore they
said to him: What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?
(29)Jesus answered and said to them: This is the work of God, that ye
believe on him whom he sent. (30)They therefore said to him: What sign
doest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? What dost thou
work? (31)Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is
written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat. (32)Jesus therefore
said to them: Verily, verily, I say to you, Moses has not given you
the bread from heaven; but my Father gives you the true bread from
heaven. (33)For the bread of God is that which[6:33] comes down out of
heaven, and gives life to the world.
(34)They therefore said to him: Lord, evermore give us this bread.
(35)Jesus said to them: I am the bread of life. He that comes to me
shall never hunger, and he that believes on me shall never thirst.
(36)But I said to you, that ye have also seen me, and do not believe.
(37)All that the Father gives me will come to me; and him that comes
to me I will not cast out. (38)Because I have come down from heaven,
not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. (39)And this
is the will of him who sent me, that of all which he has given me I
should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. (40)For
this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees the Son, and
believes on him, may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at
the last day.
(41)The Jews therefore murmured at him, because he said: I am the
bread that came down out of heaven. (42)And they said: Is not this
Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then
does this man say: I have come down out of heaven?
(43)Jesus answered and said to them: Murmur not among yourselves.
(44)No one can come to me, except the Father who sent me draw him; and
I will raise him up at the last day. (45)It is written in the
prophets: And they shall all be taught of God. Every one that has
heard from the Father, and has learned, comes to me. (46)Not that any
one has seen the Father, save he who is from God; he has seen the
Father.
(47)Verily, verily, I say to you, he that believes on me has
everlasting life. (48)I am the bread of life. (49)Your fathers ate the
manna in the wilderness, and are dead. (50)This is the bread that
comes down out of heaven, that one may eat thereof, and not die. (51)I
am the living bread that came down out of heaven. If any one eat of
this bread, he shall live forever; yea, and the bread that I will give
is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
(52)The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying: How can
this man give us his flesh to eat? (53)Jesus therefore said to them:
Verily, verily, I say to you, except ye eat the flesh of the Son of
man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. (54)He that eats my
flesh, and drinks my blood, has eternal life; and I will raise him up
at the last day. (55)For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true
drink. (56)He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, abides in me,
and I in him. (57)As the living Father has sent me, and I live because
of the Father; so he that eats me, he also shall live because of me.
(58)This is the bread that came down out of heaven. Not as your
fathers ate the manna, and are dead; he that eats of this bread shall
live forever.
(59)These things he said in the synagogue, while teaching in
Capernaum.
(60)Many therefore of his disciples, when they heard it, said: This is
a hard saying; who can hear it? (61)But Jesus, knowing in himself that
his disciples murmured at this, said to them: Does this offend you?
(62)What then if ye behold the Son of man ascending up where he was
before? (63)It is the spirit that makes alive, the flesh profits
nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit, and are
life. (64)But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew
from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who it was
that should betray him. (65)And he said: For this cause I have said to
you, that no one can come to me, except it be given him from the
Father.