than our father Ja- d Jacob, from whom we Samaritans profess to recob, which gave us ceive our religion, (and therefore refuse to go up to the well, and drank thereof himself, and Jerusalem, which Moses, later than he, commanded,) his children, and his which gave us the well cattle? 13 Jesus answered e It is the nature of this ordinary water to quench and said unto her, thirst for a small time, but then constantly that thirst Whosoever drink- within a small time returns again, and so there is coneth of this water shall tinual need of supply: thirst again: 14 But whosoever 14. But that which I mean by water, and which drinketh of the water upon thy bare petition I am ready to give thee, (ver. that I shall give him 10,) will so refresh, that he shall never thirst again shall never thirst; that drinketh of it: it shall be within himself a perpetushall give him shall ally flowing fountain, that of its own accord shall yield be in him a well of him daily refreshment here, and never cease till it end water springing up in everlasting life and bliss. but the water that I into everlasting life. 15 The woman saith 15. As yet the woman understood not his meaning, unto him, Sir, give but applying it grossly to corporal thirst, she saith unto him me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. 16 Jesus saith unto 16. And therefore to work more sense in her, Jesus, her, Go, call thy meaning to give her knowledge in some degree that husband, and come he was the Messias, by discovering some acts and 17 The woman an- evidences of his omniscience, saith unto her— hither. swered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, f thou canst reveal the secrets of one's life, hast Thou hast well said, prophetic knowledge; if so, then I pray tell me or I have no husband: satisfy me in this difficulty: and he whom thou Iceive that thou art 18 For thou hast 20. Jacob and the patriarchs, before the law, (whose had five husbands; successors the Samaritans pretended to be, and so now hast is not thy pleaded a greater antiquity for their schism than the husband: in that Jews had for their true worship; but this falsely, saidst thou truly being indeed Assyrians, transplanted by Salmaneser 19 The woman saith into the cities of Samaria, when the tribe of Ephraim unto him, Sir, I per- and the rest of the kingdom of Israel, which inhabited there, were by him carried into Assyria, 2 Kings xvii. 20 Our fathers wor- 24,) worshipped in mount Ephraim at Shiloh, in the shipped in this moun- country of Samaria, where anciently the tabernacle and tain; and ye say, that the ark of God were, long before the building of the in Jerusalem is the place where men temple at Jerusalem; and yet ye Jews say that it is ought to worship. not lawful to perform the solemn worship of God in 21 Jesus saith unto any place but Jerusalem. a prophet. me, the hour cometh, when ye shall nei her, Woman, believe the worship of God shall be so far from being confined to this place, that it shall not be confined to ther in this moun- Jerusalem itself, nay, a desolation shall shortly overtain, nor yet at Jeru- whelm both. salem, worship the 22. Ye worship the God of the land, 2 Kings xvii. Father. 26, without any knowledge who that is, and your own 22 Ye worship 'ye know not what: we gods with him; we Jews worship the eternal God of know what we wor- heaven, who hath revealed himself to us; for the speship: for salvation cial revelations of God, beyond that which other is of the Jews. nations enjoy, belong to the Jews, and so all manner 23 But the hour of advantages toward our eternal good. cometh, and now is, him. h when the true wor- 23. But now the time of reformation approacheth, shippers shall wor- and God will be worshipped and obeyed neither in the ship the Father in Judaical rites (which are oft called carnal, and conspirit and in truth: sisted in external performances) nor according to the for the Father seek-Samaritan false worship, who worshipped their own eth 3such to worship idols together with God, 2 Kings xvii., but in a pure 24 God is a Spirit: spiritual manner, extending to the very heart, and and they that wor- such as was typified by those shadows; and the Son of ship him must wor- God now comes to draw all men to this ship him in spirit and of worship, to the Christian from the Judaical or Samaritan way. 25 The woman saith See note [d] Luke ix. unto him, I know his especially delighted with the Christian worship that Messias com- which is taught to join the soul with the external perChrist: when he is formances, and to worship the true God now revealed come, he will tell us by Christ after that manner wherein Christ reveals all things. him. in truth. eth, which is called way 26 Jesus saith unto i This reformation thou talkest of we know shall be her, I that speak wrought when the Messias or Christ comes, and him 27¶ And upon this we do expect. unto thee am he. came his disciples, k I am that Messias. and marvelled that woman yet no man 27. As he said this, the disciples came back from the he talked with the city, ver. 8, and thought it strange that he should said, What seekest thus discourse with this woman; yet no man was so thou? or, Why talk- curious as to ask him the reason, or require of him an est thou with her? account of this action. 28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, 29 Come, see a man, which told me 'all 1 many things of my life, which were so secret, that things that ever I it is not imaginable how he should know them were he not the Messias. did is not this the Christ? m 30 Then they went out of the city, and came unto him. 31 In the mean while his disciples [c] prayed him, saying, Master, eat. m the people of Sychar went out of the city— 2 that which ye do not know; we worship that which we know ; ὃ οὐκ οἴδατε· ἡμεῖς προσκυ νοῦμεν ὁ οἴδαμεν. 3 such worshippers of him, τοιούτους προσκυνοῦντας αὐτόν. 32 But he said un to them, "I have " I have somewhat to do more valuable to me than meat to eat that ye eating. know not of. 33 Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat? 34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is • My doing the office for which I was sent is as to do the will of him pleasant and more necessary to me than meat or that sent me, and to finish his work. 4 drink. 35 Say not ye, 35. It is not with my harvest as it is with that in There are yet four the fields, four months yet to that time; consider, and months, and then cometh harvest? be- ye shall see the great inclinations and forwardness of hold, I say unto you, men to receive the gospel, if it may be preached unto Lift up your eyes, them. and look on the fields; for they are white already to har vest. 36 And he that 36. And they that will but go out and preach to reapeth receiveth them shall receive reward for their pains, and by conwages, and gather- verting others advantage themselves eternally, and eternal: that both he come to reap the fruits of all that seed that the prothat soweth and he phets &c. from all time have sowed. eth fruit unto life that reapeth may re joice together. 375 And herein is 37. So that to this may the proverb be applied, that saying true, One One soweth &c.: that is, the prophets sowed this seed soweth, and another of the gospel, in foretelling Christ's coming, and the reapeth. 38 I sent you to apostles they reap the harvest of converts to him. reap that whereon ye 38. The prophets have so prepared men's hearts to bestowed no labour: receive the gospel, that there needs very little pains of other men laboured, yours; you may at first preaching of the gospel reap and ye are entered a whole harvest of proselytes. into their labours. P He told me the secrets of my life, which he, being a stranger, could not know, if he were a mere man. and though, Matt. x. 5, he forbad his disciples 40 So when the Sa- at that time to go into any city of the Samaritans, maritans were come (that they might make the Jews see they were his unto him, they be- peculiar care at that time,) yet to shew that the gossought him that he pel was not their enclosure, he now himself stays with would tarry with them: and he abode the Samaritans two days, and preacheth the gospel to there two days. them. 4 Do ye not say that it is yet four months and harvest comes ? Οὐχ ὑμεῖς λέγετε ὅτι ἔτι τετράμηνόν ἐστι, καὶ ὁ θερισμὸς ἔρχεται ; 5 For in this the saying is true that, ἐν γὰρ τούτῳ ὁ λόγος ἐστὶν ὁ ἀληθινὸς, ὅτι. 41 And many more • believed I because of his own word; 42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed S the Christ, the Saviour of the world. 43 ¶ Now after two days he departed thence, and 'went into Galilee. 44 For Jesus him was come into Gali s Messias that was to come to redeem the world. t went to Galilee, avoiding or passing another way, not by Nazareth, the place of his education, because, self testified, that a according to the proverb, he expected no reception prophet hath no hon- there, he went another way, not by the lake of Genour in his own coun- nesaret, but by Thabor and Carmel toward Cana, try. where he had wrought his first miracle. 45 Then when he 45. And upon this second coming of his among the lee, the Galilæans Galilæans, they having, since he was there last, seen received him, having what miracles he had done at Jerusalem, at the feast seen all the things of the passover, ch. ii. 14, they thereupon gave him that he did at Jeru- a very kind reception (and after the cure of the for they also went courtier's son, which follows here, teaching publicly unto the feast. in the synagogues of Galilee he was glorified of all, 46 So Jesus came Luke iv. 15.) salem at the feast: again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain 7 [d] nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum. 47 When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judæa into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death. 48 Then said Jesus unto him, "Except " I perceive there is need of doing miracles among ye see signs and you to work faith in you: this weakness therefore of yours I will indulge to. wonders, ye will not believe. 49 The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die. 50 Jesus saith unto 6 believed on him: so the Syriac and many copies, avtą. 1 courtier. him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way. 51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth. 52 Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. 53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth and himself believed, and whole house. : his 54 This is again I is recovered, see vv. y is recovered. 52, 53. And the man did in Cana, as he had done one before, John ii. 8, the second miracle (having done many betwixt these in other places at Jerusalem and in Judæa, ch. iii. 2.) when he was that Jesus 'did, when he was come out of AFTER this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is at Jerusalem 1a [a] by a CHAP. V. on, or by the pool where the sacrifices are wont to washed, an house, or building, or place, surnamed an house of mercy, because the sick lay tongue Bethesda, there to be cured, having five porches. having five porches. 3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for 2 b the b a time of advantage to go into the water, which had this healing force in it but at certain times, and moving of the water. when it had been newly troubled: see note [a]. 4 went down at a cer- 4. For an angel, or, as it may be probably sup 4 For 8 an angel at the sheep-pool 2 sick of the palsy: for so the 8 second miracle did Jesus again, πάλιν δεύτερον σημεῖον ἐποίησεν. a house, &c.; or, the sheep-pool surnamed in Hebrew. ancient Greek and Latin MS. adds after npwv, πаρаλνтIкŵν, paralyticorum. messenger at a season, ἄγγελος κατὰ καιρόν. 4 descended in, κατέβαινεν ἐν. 3. Or, a |