we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no one can do these miracles which thou dost, unless God be with him." 3 Jesus answered, and said to him, "Verily, verily, I say to thee, Unless a man be born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God." 4 Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?" 5 Jesus answered, "Verily, verily, I say to thee, Unless a man be born of water, and of the spirit, he cannot 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 Wonder not that I said to thee, Ye must be born from above. 8 The wind bloweth where it will, and thou hearest its sound, but knowest not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: 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 a teacher in 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 yet ye receive not our testimony. 12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not; how will ye believe, if I tell you heavenly things? 13 Now no one hath ascended up to heaven, but he who came down from heaven, even the Son of man, [who is in heaven.]+ 14" And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15 that every one who believeth in him may [not perish, but] have aionian life." 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his well-beloved Son, ‡ that every one who believeth in him should not perish, but have aionian life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world, to condemn the world; but that the world, through him, might be saved. 18" He who believeth in him, shall not be condemned: but he who believeth not, is condemned already, because he hath not believed on the name of the well-beloved‡ Son of God. 19"And this is the condemnation; that light is come into the world, and yet men have loved darkness rather than light: for their deeds were evil: 20 for every one who doth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his deeds should be discovered. 21 But he who doth the truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, because they are Пveuμa, in this verse is rendered both wind and spirit; literally, it signifies air in mo tion; i. e. wind, breath, &c. but figuratively, its meaning is very extensive, and must always be determined by the nature of the subject with which it is in connexion. "Who is in heaven.] This clause is wanting in some of the best copies. If its authenticity is allowed, it is to be understood of the knowledge which Christ possessed of the Father's will.. See John i. 18." Im. Ver. note. See chap. i. 14, 18, note. wrought with confidence in God." 22 AFTER these things, Jesus and his disciples came into the land of Judea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized. 23 And John, also, was baptizing in Enon, near Salem; because there was much water there; and the people came, and were baptized. 24 For John had not yet been cast into prison. 25 Then a question arose between some of John's disciples and a Jew, about cleansing. 26 And they came to John, and said to him, "Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, of whom thou bearest witness, behold, he baptizeth, and all come to him." 27 John answered and said, "A man can receive nothing, unless 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 his face.' 29"He that hath the bride, is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly, because of the bridegroom's voice. This my joy, therefore, is complete. 30 He must increase, but I de crease. 31"He that cometh from above, is above all: he that is from the earth, is from the earth, and speaketh from the earth: he that cometh from heaven [is above all; 32 and] what he hath seen and heard [that] he testifieth; and yet no one receiveth his testimony. 33" He that hath received his testimony, hath set his seal that God is true. 34 For he whom God hath sent, speaketh the words of God: for [God] giveth him not the spirit by measure. 35"The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hands. 36 He who believeth on the Son, hath aionian life and he who disbelieveth the Son, will not see life; but the displeasure ofGod continueth towards him." : CH. IV. 1 WHEN, therefore, the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that he made and baptized more disciples than John; 2 (though Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples); 3 he left Judea, and went [again] into Galilee. 4 Now he must needs go through Samaria. 5 He came, therefore, to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the portion of land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Now Jacob's well was there. And Jesus, being wearied with the journey, sat down by the well. (It was about the sixth hour.) 7 A woman of Samaria having come to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Give me to drink." 8 (For his disciples were gone to the city, that they might buy food.) 9 Then the Samaritan woman said to him, "Why dost thou, being a Jew, ask drink of me, who am a Samaritan ?" (for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.) 10 Jesus an Vengeance of God," &c. Campbell: "the anger of God abideth on him." Im. Ver. swered, and said to her, "If thou hadst known the bounty of God, and who it is that now saith to thee, 'Give me to drink;' thou wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water." "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming, when ye shall wor ship the Father neither on this mountain, nor at Jerusalem. 22 Ye worship what ye know not: we worship what we know: for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for indeed the Father seeketh such worshippers of him. 24 God is a spirit: and the worshippers of him ought to worship him in 11 The woman said to him, "Sir, thou hast no vessel to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then canst thou have that living water? 12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and who drank of it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?" 13 Jesus an-spirit and in truth.” swered, and said to her, " Who- 25 The woman said to him, soever drinketh of this water, will thirst again: 14 but whosoever shall drink of the water which I will give him, shall not thirst to the age; but the water which I will give him will be in him a well of water springing up to aionian life.” 15 The woman said to him, "Sir, give me of this water, that I thirst not, nor come hither to draw." 16Jesus said to her, "Go, call thy husband, and come hither." "I know that the Messiah (which signifieth the Christ cometh: when he is come, he will tell us all things." 26 Jesus said to her, " I, who talk with thee, am he.” 27 And, upon this, his disciples came, and wondered that he was talking with a woman; yet no one said, "What seekest thou?" or, "Why talkest thou with her ?" 28 The woman then left her bucket, and went into the city, and said to the men, 29 "Come, see a man who hath told me all things whatever I did: is not this the 17 The woman answered, and said, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "Thou hast rightly said, "I have no husband :' 18 for Christ?" 30 Then they wen thou hast had five husbands; out of the city, and came to and he whom thou now hast, is him. not thy husband: thou hast spoken this truly." 19 The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshipped on this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship." 21 Jesus said to her, 31 [Now] in the mean time his disciples besought him, say ing, "Master, eat." 32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat, which ye know not of." 39 Then the disciples, said one to another, "Hath any one brough him any thing to eat?" 34 Jesu said to them, "My food is, to do the will of him who sent me, him, having seen all the things and to finish his work. which he did at Jerusalem during the festival: for they, also, went up to the festival. 46 So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was 35"Say ye not, There are [yet] four months, and then - cometh the harvest?' Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; behold, I tell you, that they are already white for har- one of the king's housevest. 36 And he who reapeth, hold, whose son was sick, at receiveth wages, and gathereth Capernaum. 47 This man hava crop, to aionian life: that both ing heard that Jesus was come he who soweth, and he who out of Judea into Galilee, went reapeth, may rejoice together: to him, and besought him, 37 for herein is that saying true, that he would come down and 'One soweth, and another reap-cure his son: for he was at the eth.' 38 I have sent you to reap point of death. that on which ye have not laboured: others have laboured," and ye are entered into their labours." 39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in him, in consequence of the words of the woman, who testified, "He told me all things whatever I did." 48 Then Jesus said to him, Unless ye see signs and won. ders, ye will not believe." 49 He of the king's household said to him, "Sir, come down, before my child die." 50 Jesus said to him, "Go thy way, thy son liveth." [And] the man be. lieved the words which Jesus had spoken to him, and departed. 51 And now as he was going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, " Thy son liveth." 52 Then he inquired of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said to him, 40 When, therefore, the Samaritans came to him, they besought him that he would abide with them: and he abode there two days. 41 And many more believed because of his own words; 42 and said to the woman, "We no longer be-"Yesterday, at the seventh hour, lieve because of thy report for we ourselves have heard him, and know that this is indeed [the Christ,] the Saviour of the world." 43 NOW, after the two days, he departed thence, [and went] into Galilee. 44 For Jesus himself declared that a prophet hath no honour in his own country. 45 So when he had come into Galilee, the Galileans received the fever left him." 53 So the father knew that it was at the very hour, in which Jesus had said to him, "Thy son liveth." And he, and his whole family, believed. 54 This second miracle Jesus did, when he had come out of Judea into Galilee. CH. V. 1 AFTER these things there was a festival of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is at Jerusa lem, by the sheep-gate, a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. 3 In these lay a [great] number of infirm persons; of blind, lame, and withered, [look ing for the moving of the water.] 4 [[For at a certain season, an angel went down into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever, therefore, went in first, after the troubling of the water, was made well, whatever disease he had.]] 5 And a certain man was there, who had been in an infirmity thirty-eight years. 6 Jesus seeing him lying, and knowing that he had now been diseased a long time, said to him, " Dost thou desire to be healed?" 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 goeth down before me." 8 Jesus said to him, "Arise, take up thy couch, and walk." 9 And immediately, the man was healed, and took up his couch, and walked. Now on that day was the sabbath. 10 The Jews, therefore, said to him who was cured, "It is the sabbath it is not lawful for thee to take up thy couch." 11 He answered them, "He who healed me, the same said to me, Take up thy couch, and walk."" 12 [Then] they asked him, "What man is that who said to thee, Take up thy couch, and walk ?" 13 But he that was cured knew not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitudę being in that place. 14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "Behold, thou art cured: sin no more, lest some worse thing befal thee." 15 The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had cured him. 16 And for this, the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he had done these things on the sabbath. 17 But Jesus said to them; My Father continually worketh; and I also work." 18 Wherefore, for this, the Jews sought the more to kill him ; because he had not only broken the sabbath, but said also, that God was his father, making himself like God. 19 Jesus, therefore, spake and said to them, "Verily, verily, I say to you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do for what things the Father doth, these the Son also doth in like manner. 20" For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth him all things which he himself doth and he will show him greater works than these, so that ye will wonder. 21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and giveth them life; so the Son likewise giveth life to whom he will. 22 For neither doth the Father judge any one: but hath committed all judgment to the Son; 23 that all may honour the Son, as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son, honoureth not the Father who sent him. 24" Verily, verily, I say to you, He that hearkeneth to my words, and believeth in him |