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1378 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. John

heaven. 5 He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria,
28 You yourselves do bear me witness, that I which is called Sichar, near the land which Jacob
said, I am not Christ, but that I am sent before gave to his son Joseph.
him. 6 Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore
29 He that hath the bride, is the bridegroom: being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the
but the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth well. It was about the sixth hour.
and heareth him, rejoiceth with joy because of 7 There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw
the bridegroom’s voice. This my joy therefore is water. Jesus saith to her: Give me to drink.
fulfilled. 8 For his disciples were gone into the city to
30 He must increase, but I must decrease. buy meats.
9 Then that Samaritan woman saith to him:
31 He that cometh from above, is above all.
How dost thou, being a Jew, ask of me to drink,
He that is of the earth, of the earth he is, and
who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews do
of the earth he speaketh. He that cometh from
not communicate with the Samaritans.
heaven, is above all.
10 Jesus answered, and said to her: If thou
32 And what he hath seen and heard, that he
didst know the gift of God, and who he is that
testifieth: and no man receiveth his testimony.
saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou perhaps
33 He that hath received his testimony, hath
wouldst have asked of him, and he would have
set to his seal that God is true.
given thee living water.
34 For he whom God hath sent, speaketh the
11 The woman saith to him: Sir, thou hast
words of God: for God doth not give the Spirit
nothing wherein to draw, and the well is deep;
by measure.
from whence then hast thou living water?
35 The Father loveth the Son: and he hath
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob,
given all things into his hand.
who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself,
36 He that believeth in the Son, hath life ever- and his children, and his cattle?
lasting; but he that believeth not the Son, shall 13 Jesus answered, and said to her: Whoso-
not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on ever drinketh of this water, shall thirst again;
him. 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
Chapter 4 become in him a fountain of water, springing up
into life everlasting.
When Jesus therefore understood that the Phar- 15 The woman saith to him: Sir, give me this
isees had heard that Jesus maketh more disci- water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to
ples, and baptizeth more than John, draw.
2 (Though Jesus himself did not baptize, but 16 Jesus saith to her: Go, call thy husband,
his disciples,) and come hither.
3 He left Judea, and went again into Galilee. 17 The woman answered, and said: I have no
4 And he was of necessity to pass through husband. Jesus said to her: Thou hast said well,
Samaria. I have no husband: