4:1When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus more disciples doth make and baptize than John,

4:2(though indeed Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples,)

4:3he left Judea and went away again to Galilee,

4:4and it was behoving him to go through Samaria.

4:5He cometh, therefore, to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the place that Jacob gave to Joseph his son;

4:6and there was there a well of Jacob. Jesus therefore having been weary from the journeying, was sitting thus on the well; it was as it were the sixth hour;

4:7there cometh a woman out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith to her, `Give me to drink;'

4:8for his disciples were gone away to the city, that they may buy victuals;

4:9the Samaritan woman therefore saith to him, `How dost thou, being a Jew, ask drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?' for Jews have no dealing with Samaritans.

4:10Jesus answered and said to her, `If thou hadst known the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked him, and he would have given thee living water.'

4:11The woman saith to him, `Sir, thou hast not even a vessel to draw with, and the well is deep; whence, then, hast thou the living water?

4:12Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who did give us the well, and himself out of it did drink, and his sons, and his cattle?'

4:13Jesus answered and said to her, `Every one who is drinking of this water shall thirst again;

4:14but whoever may drink of the water that I will give him, may not thirst -- to the age; and the water that I will give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up to life age-during.'

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

4:16Jesus saith to her, `Go, call thy husband, and come hither;'

4:17the woman answered and said, `I have not a husband.' Jesus saith to her, `Well didst thou say -- A husband I have not;

4:18for five husbands thou hast had, and, now, he whom thou hast is not thy husband; this hast thou said truly.'

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

4:20our fathers in this mountain did worship, and ye -- ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where it behoveth to worship.'

4:21Jesus saith to her, `Woman, believe me, that there doth come an hour, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father;

4:22ye worship what ye have not known; we worship what we have known, because the salvation is of the Jews;

4:23but, there cometh an hour, and it now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also doth seek such to worship him;

4:24God is a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'

4:25The woman saith to him, `I have known that Messiah doth come, who is called Christ, when that one may come, he will tell us all things;'

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

4:27And upon this came his disciples, and were wondering that with a woman he was speaking, no one, however, said, `What seekest thou?' or `Why speakest thou with her?'

4:28The woman then left her water-jug, and went away to the city, and saith to the men,

4:29`Come, see a man, who told me all things -- as many as I did; is this the Christ?'

4:30They went forth therefore out of the city, and were coming unto him.

4:31And in the meanwhile his disciples were asking him, saying, `Rabbi, eat;'

4:32and he said to them, `I have food to eat that ye have not known.'

4:33The disciples then said one to another, `Did any one bring him anything to eat?'

4:34Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

4:35do not say that it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh; lo, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and see the fields, that they are white unto harvest already.

4:36`And he who is reaping doth receive a reward, and doth gather fruit to life age-during, that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice together;

4:37for in this the saying is the true one, that one is the sower and another the reaper.

4:38I sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others laboured, and ye into their labour have entered.

4:39And from that city many believed in him, of the Samaritans, because of the word of the woman testifying, -- `He told me all things -- as many as I did.'

4:40When, then, the Samaritans came unto him, they were asking him to remain with them, and he remained there two days;

4:41and many more did believe because of his word,

4:42and said to the woman -- `No more because of thy speaking do we believe; for we ourselves have heard and known that this is truly the Saviour of the world -- the Christ.'

4:43And after the two days he went forth thence, and went away to Galilee,

4:44for Jesus himself testified that a prophet in his own country shall not have honour;

4:45when then, he came to Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all things that he did in Jerusalem in the feast -- for they also went to the feast.

4:46Jesus came, therefore, again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine, and there was a certain courtier, whose son was ailing in Capernaum,

4:47he, having heard that Jesus is come out of Judea to Galilee, went away unto him, and was asking him that he may come down and may heal his son, for he was about to die.

4:48Jesus then said unto him, `If signs and wonders ye may not see, ye will not believe.'

4:49The courtier saith unto him, `Sir, come down before my child die;'

4:50Jesus saith to him, `Be going on; thy son doth live.' And the man believed the word that Jesus said to him, and was going on,

4:51and he now going down, his servants met him, and told, saying -- `Thy child doth live;'

4:52he inquired then of them the hour in which he became better, and they said to him -- `Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him;'

4:53then the father knew that it was in that hour in which Jesus said to him -- `Thy son doth live,' and he himself believed, and his whole house;

4:54this again a second sign did Jesus, having come out of Judea to Galilee.

5:1After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

5:2and there is in Jerusalem by the sheep-gate a pool that is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches,

5:3in these were lying a great multitude of the ailing, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water,

5:4for a messenger at a set time was going down in the pool, and was troubling the water, the first then having gone in after the troubling of the water, became whole of whatever sickness he was held.

5:5and there was a certain man there being in ailment thirty and eight years,

5:6him Jesus having seen lying, and having known that he is already a long time, he saith to him, `Dost thou wish to become whole?'

5:7The ailing man answered him, `Sir, I have no man, that, when the water may be troubled, he may put me into the pool, and while I am coming, another doth go down before me.'

5:8Jesus saith to him, `Rise, take up thy couch, and be walking;'

5:9and immediately the man became whole, and he took up his couch, and was walking, and it was a sabbath on that day,

5:10the Jews then said to him that hath been healed, `It is a sabbath; it is not lawful to thee to take up the couch.'

5:11He answered them, `He who made me whole -- that one said to me, Take up thy couch, and be walking;'

5:12they questioned him, then, `Who is the man who is saying to thee, Take up thy couch and be walking?'

5:13But he that was healed had not known who he is, for Jesus did move away, a multitude being in the place.

5:14After these things, Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said to him, `Lo, thou hast become whole; sin no more, lest something worse may happen to thee.'

5:15The man went away, and told the Jews that it is Jesus who made him whole,

5:16and because of this were the Jews persecuting Jesus, and seeking to kill him, because these things he was doing on a sabbath.

5:17And Jesus answered them, `My Father till now doth work, and I work;'

5:18because of this, then, were the Jews seeking the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the sabbath, but he also called God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

5:19Jesus therefore responded and said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything of himself, if he may not see the Father doing anything; for whatever things He may do, these also the Son in like manner doth;

5:20for the Father doth love the Son, and doth shew to him all things that He himself doth; and greater works than these He will shew him, that ye may wonder.

5:21`For, as the Father doth raise the dead, and doth make alive, so also the Son doth make alive whom he willeth;

5:22for neither doth the Father judge any one, but all the judgment He hath given to the Son,

5:23that all may honour the Son according as they honour the Father; he who is not honouring the Son, doth not honour the Father who sent him.

5:24`Verily, verily, I say to you -- He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life.

5:25`Verily, verily, I say to you -- There cometh an hour, and it now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those having heard shall live;

5:26for, as the Father hath life in himself, so He gave also to the Son to have life in himself,

5:27and authority He gave him also to do judgment, because he is Son of Man.

5:28`Wonder not at this, because there doth come an hour in which all those in the tombs shall hear his voice,

5:29and they shall come forth; those who did the good things to a rising again of life, and those who practised the evil things to a rising again of judgment.

5:30`I am not able of myself to do anything; according as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

5:31`If I testify concerning myself, my testimony is not true;

5:32another there is who is testifying concerning me, and I have known that the testimony that he doth testify concerning me is true;

5:33ye have sent unto John, and he hath testified to the truth.

5:34`But I do not receive testimony from man, but these things I say that ye may be saved;

5:35he was the burning and shining lamp, and ye did will to be glad, for an hour, in his light.

5:36`But I have the testimony greater than John's, for the works that the Father gave me, that I might finish them, the works themselves that I do, they testify concerning me, that the Father hath sent me.

5:37`And the Father who sent me Himself hath testified concerning me; ye have neither heard His voice at any time, nor His appearance have ye seen;

5:38and His word ye have not remaining in you, because whom He sent, him ye do not believe.

5:39`Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;

5:40and ye do not will to come unto me, that ye may have life;

5:41glory from man I do not receive,

5:42but I have known you, that the love of God ye have not in yourselves.

5:43`I have come in the name of my Father, and ye do not receive me; if another may come in his own name, him ye will receive;

5:44how are ye able -- ye -- to believe, glory from one another receiving, and the glory that is from God alone ye seek not?

5:45`Do not think that I will accuse you unto the Father; there is who is accusing you, Moses -- in whom ye have hoped;

5:46for if ye were believing Moses, ye would have been believing me, for he wrote concerning me;

5:47but if his writings ye believe not, how shall ye believe my sayings?'

6:1After these things Jesus went away beyond the sea of Galilee (of Tiberias),

6:2and there was following him a great multitude, because they were seeing his signs that he was doing on the ailing;

6:3and Jesus went up to the mount, and he was there sitting with his disciples,

6:4and the passover was nigh, the feast of the Jews.

6:5Jesus then having lifted up his eyes and having seen that a great multitude doth come to him, saith unto Philip, `Whence shall we buy loaves, that these may eat?' --

6:6and this he said, trying him, for he himself had known what he was about to do.

6:7Philip answered him, `Two hundred denaries' worth of loaves are not sufficient to them, that each of them may receive some little;'

6:8one of his disciples -- Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter -- saith to him,

6:9`There is one little lad here who hath five barley loaves, and two fishes, but these -- what are they to so many?'

6:10And Jesus said, `Make the men to sit down;' and there was much grass in the place, the men then sat down, in number, as it were, five thousand,

6:11and Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those reclining, in like manner, also of the little fishes as much as they wished.

6:12And when they were filled, he saith to his disciples, `Gather together the broken pieces that are over, that nothing may be lost;'

6:13they gathered together, therefore, and filled twelve hand-baskets with broken pieces, from the five barley loaves that were over to those having eaten.

6:14The men, then, having seen the sign that Jesus did, said -- `This is truly the Prophet, who is coming to the world;'

6:15Jesus, therefore, having known that they are about to come, and to take him by force that they may make him king, retired again to the mountain himself alone.

6:16And when evening came, his disciples went down to the sea,

6:17and having entered into the boat, they were going over the sea to Capernaum, and darkness had already come, and Jesus had not come unto them,

6:18the sea also -- a great wind blowing -- was being raised,

6:19having pushed onwards, therefore, about twenty-five or thirty furlongs, they behold Jesus walking on the sea, and coming nigh to the boat, and they were afraid;

6:20and he saith to them, `I am he, be not afraid;'

6:21they were willing then to receive him into the boat, and immediately the boat came unto the land to which they were going.

6:22On the morrow, the multitude that was standing on the other side of the sea, having seen that there was no other little boat there except one -- that into which his disciples entered -- and that Jesus went not in with his disciples into the little boat, but his disciples went away alone,

6:23(and other little boats came from Tiberias, nigh the place where they did eat the bread, the Lord having given thanks),

6:24when therefore the multitude saw that Jesus is not there, nor his disciples, they also themselves did enter into the boats, and came to Capernaum seeking Jesus;

6:25and having found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, `Rabbi, when hast thou come hither?'

6:26Jesus answered them and said, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw signs, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were satisfied;

6:27work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal -- even God.'

6:28They said therefore unto him, `What may we do that we may work the works of God?'

6:29Jesus answered and said to them, `This is the work of God, that ye may believe in him whom He did send.'

6:30They said therefore to him, `What sign, then, dost thou, that we may see and may believe thee? what dost thou work?

6:31our fathers the manna did eat in the wilderness, according as it is having been written, Bread out of the heaven He gave them to eat.'

6:32Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread out of the heaven; but my Father doth give you the true bread out of the heaven;

6:33for the bread of God is that which is coming down out of the heaven, and giving life to the world.'

6:34They said, therefore, unto him, `Sir, always give us this bread.'

6:35And Jesus said to them, `I am the bread of the life; he who is coming unto me may not hunger, and he who is believing in me may not thirst -- at any time;

6:36but I said to you, that ye also have seen me, and ye believe not;

6:37all that the Father doth give to me will come unto me; and him who is coming unto me, I may in no wise cast without,

6:38because I have come down out of the heaven, not that I may do my will, but the will of Him who sent me.

6:39`And this is the will of the Father who sent me, that all that He hath given to me I may not lose of it, but may raise it up in the last day;

6:40and this is the will of Him who sent me, that every one who is beholding the Son, and is believing in him, may have life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day.'

6:41The Jews, therefore, were murmuring at him, because he said, `I am the bread that came down out of the heaven;'

6:42and they said, `Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have known? how then saith this one -- Out of the heaven I have come down?'

6:43Jesus answered, therefore, and said to them, `Murmur not one with another;

6:44no one is able to come unto me, if the Father who sent me may not draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day;

6:45it is having been written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God; every one therefore who heard from the Father, and learned, cometh to me;

6:46not that any one hath seen the Father, except he who is from God, he hath seen the Father.

6:47`Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is believing in me, hath life age-during;

6:48I am the bread of the life;

6:49your fathers did eat the manna in the wilderness, and they died;

6:50this is the bread that out of the heaven is coming down, that any one may eat of it, and not die.

6:51`I am the living bread that came down out of the heaven; if any one may eat of this bread he shall live -- to the age; and the bread also that I will give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the world.'

6:52The Jews, therefore, were striving with one another, saying, `How is this one able to give us his flesh to eat?'

6:53Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves;

6:54he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, hath life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day;

6:55for my flesh truly is food, and my blood truly is drink;

6:56he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, doth remain in me, and I in him.

6:57`According as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating me, even that one shall live because of me;

6:58this is the bread that came down out of the heaven; not as your fathers did eat the manna, and died; he who is eating this bread shall live -- to the age.'

6:59These things he said in a synagogue, teaching in Capernaum;

6:60many, therefore, of his disciples having heard, said, `This word is hard; who is able to hear it?'

6:61And Jesus having known in himself that his disciples are murmuring about this, said to them, `Doth this stumble you?

6:62if then ye may behold the Son of Man going up where he was before?

6:63the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;

6:64but there are certain of you who do not believe;' for Jesus had known from the beginning who they are who are not believing, and who is he who will deliver him up,

6:65and he said, `Because of this I have said to you -- No one is able to come unto me, if it may not have been given him from my Father.'

6:66From this time many of his disciples went away backward, and were no more walking with him,

6:67Jesus, therefore, said to the twelve, `Do ye also wish to go away?'

6:68Simon Peter, therefore, answered him, `Sir, unto whom shall we go? thou hast sayings of life age-during;

6:69and we have believed, and we have known, that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.'

6:70Jesus answered them, `Did not I choose you -- the twelve? and of you -- one is a devil.

6:71And he spake of Judas, Simon's son, Iscariot, for he was about to deliver him up, being one of the twelve.