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IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the
beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him:
and without him was made nothing that was made. 4 In
him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5
And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness
did not comprehend it.
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was
John. 7 This man came for a witness, to give
testimony of the light, that all men might believe
through him. 8 He was not the light, but was to give
testimony of the light. 9 That was the true light,
which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this
world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was
made by him, and the world knew him not. 11 He came
unto his own, and his own received him not. 12 But
as many as received him, he gave them power to be
made the sons of God, to them that believe in his
name.
3 Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the
flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 14 And
the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we
saw his glory, the glory as it were of the only
begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. 15
John beareth witness of him, and crieth out, saying:
This was he of whom I spoke: He that shall come
after me, is preferred before me: because he was
before me. 16 And of his fulness we all have
received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was
given by Moses; grace and truth came by Jesus
Christ.
8 No man hath seen God at any time: the only
begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, he
hath declared him. 19 And this is the testimony of
John, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and
Levites to him, to ask him: Who art thou? 20 And he
confessed, and did not deny: and he confessed: I am
not the Christ. 21 And they asked him: What then?
Art thou Elias? And he said: I am not. Art thou the
prophet? And he answered: No. 22 They said therefore
unto him: Who art thou, that we may give an answer
to them that sent us? What sayest thou of thyself?
23 He said: I am the voice of one crying out in the
wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord, as
said the prophet Isaias. 24 And they that were sent,
were of the Pharisees.
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5 And they asked him, and said to him: Why then dost
thou baptize, if thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor
the prophet? 26 John answered them, saying: I
baptize with water; but there hath stood one in the
midst of you, whom you know not. 27 The same is he
that shall come after me, who is preferred before
me: the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to
loose. 28 These things were done in Bethania, beyond
the Jordan, where John was baptizing. 29 The next
day, John saw Jesus coming to him, and he saith:
Behold the Lamb of God, behold him who taketh away
the sin of the world.
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This is he, of whom I said: After me there cometh
a man, who is preferred before me: because he was
before me. 31 And I knew him not, but that he may be
made manifest in Israel, therefore am I come
baptizing with water. 32 And John gave testimony,
saying: I saw the Spirit coming down, as a dove from
heaven, and he remained upon him. 33 And I knew him
not; but he who sent me to baptize with water, said
to me: He upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit
descending, and remaining upon him, he it is that
baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. 34 And I saw, and I
gave testimony, that this is the Son of God. 35 The
next day again John stood, and two of his disciples.
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6 And beholding Jesus walking, he saith: Behold the
Lamb of God.
37 And the two disciples heard him speak, and they
followed Jesus. 38 And Jesus turning, and seeing
them following him, saith to them: What seek you?
Who said to him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being
interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou? 39 He
saith to them: Come and see. They came, and saw
where he abode, and they stayed with him that day:
now it was about the tenth hour. 40 And Andrew, the
brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who had
heard of John, and followed him. 41 He findeth first
his brother Simon, and saith to him: We have found
the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the
Christ. 42 And he brought him to Jesus. And Jesus
looking upon him, said: Thou art Simon the son of
Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is
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3 On the following day, he would go forth into
Galilee, and he findeth Philip. And Jesus saith to
him: Follow me. 44 Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the
city of Andrew and Peter. 45 Philip findeth
Nathanael, and saith to him: We have found him of
whom Moses in the law, and the prophets did write,
Jesus the son of Joseph of Nazareth. 46 And
Nathanael said to him: Can any thing of good come
from Nazareth? Philip saith to him: Come and see. 47
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him: and he saith of
him: Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no
guile. 48 Nathanael saith to him: Whence knowest
thou me? Jesus answered, and said to him: Before
that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the
fig tree, I saw thee. 49 Nathanael answered him, and
said: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, thou art the
King of Israel.
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50 Jesus answered, and said to him: Because I said
unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, thou
believest: greater things than these shalt thou see.
51 And he saith to him: Amen, amen I say to you, you
shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God
ascending and descending upon the Son of man.
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AND the third day, there was a marriage in Cana of
Galilee: and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 And
Jesus also was invited, and his disciples, to the
marriage. 3 And the wine failing, the mother of
Jesus saith to him: They have no wine. 4 And Jesus
saith to her: Woman, what is that to me and to thee?
my hour is not yet come. 5 His mother saith to the
waiters: Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye. 6
Now there were set there six waterpots of stone,
according to the manner of the purifying of the
Jews, containing two or three measures apiece. 7
Jesus saith to them: Fill the waterpots with water.
And they filled them up to the brim. 8 And Jesus
saith to them: Draw out now, and carry to the chief
steward of the feast. And they carried it. 9 And
when the chief steward had tasted the water made
wine, and knew not whence it was, but the waiters
knew who had drawn the water; the chief steward
calleth the bridegroom, 10 And saith to him: Every
man at first setteth forth good wine, and when men
have well drunk, then that which is worse. But thou
hast kept the good wine until now.
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11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of
Galilee; and manifested his glory, and his disciples
believed in him. 12 After this he went down to
Capharnaum, he and his mother, and his brethren, and
his disciples: and they remained there not many
days.
13 And the pasch of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus
went up to Jerusalem. 14 And he found in the temple
them that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the
changers of money sitting. 15 And when he had made,
as it were, a scourge of little cords, he drove them
all out of the temple, the sheep also and the oxen,
and the money of the changers he poured out, and the
tables he overthrew. 16 And to them that sold doves
he said: Take these things hence, and make not the
house of my Father a house of traffic. 17 And his
disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal
of thy house hath eaten me up. 18 The Jews,
therefore, answered, and said to him: What sign dost
thou shew unto us, seeing thou dost these things? 19
Jesus answered, and said to them: Destroy this
temple, and in three days I will raise it up. 20 The
Jews then said: Six and forty years was this temple
in building; and wilt thou raise it up in three
days? 21 But he spoke of the temple of his body. 22
When therefore he was risen again from the dead, his
disciples remembered, that he had said this, and
they believed the scripture, and the word that Jesus
had said. 23 Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the
pasch, upon the festival day, many believed in his
name, seeing his signs which he did. 24 But Jesus
did not trust himself unto them, for that he knew
all men, 25 And because he needed not that any
should give testimony of man: for he knew what was
in man.
AND there was a man of the Pharisees, named
Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2 This man came to
Jesus by night, and said to him: Rabbi, we know that
thou art come a teacher from God; for no man can do
these signs which thou dost, unless God be with him.
3 Jesus answered, and said to him: Amen, amen I say
to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see
the kingdom of God. 4 Nicodemus saith 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
again? 5 Jesus answered: Amen, amen I say to thee,
unless a man be born again of water and the Holy
Ghost, 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, you must be born again. 8
The Spirit breatheth where he will; and thou hearest
his voice, but thou knowest not whence he cometh,
and whither he goeth: so is every one that is born
of the Spirit. 9 Nicodemus answered, and said to
him: How can these things be done? 10 Jesus
answered, and said to him: Art thou a master in
Israel, and knowest not these things? 11 Amen, amen
I say to thee, that we speak what we know, and we
testify what we have seen, and you receive not our
testimony. 12 If I have spoken to you earthly
things, and you believe not; how will you believe,
if I shall speak to you heavenly things?
13 And no man hath ascended into heaven, but he that
descended from heaven, 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
whosoever believeth in him, may not perish; but may
have life everlasting. 16 For God so loved the
world, as to give his only begotten Son; that
whosoever believeth in him, may not perish, but may
have life everlasting. 17 For God sent not his Son
into the world, to judge the world, but that the
world may be saved by him. 18 He that believeth in
him is not judged. But he that doth not believe, is
already judged: because he believeth not in the name
of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the
judgment: because the light is come into the world,
and men loved darkness rather than the light: for
their works were evil. 20 For every one that doth
evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light,
that his works may not be reproved. 21 But he that
doth truth, cometh to the light, that his works may
be made manifest, because they are done in God. 22
After these things Jesus and his disciples came into
the land of Judea: and there he abode with them, and
baptized. 23 And John also was baptizing in Ennon
near Salim; because there was much water there; and
they came and were baptized. 24 For John was not yet
cast into prison.
25 And there arose a question between some of John's
disciples and the Jews concerning purification: 26
And they came to John, and said to him: Rabbi, he
that was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou
gavest testimony, behold he baptizeth, and all men
come to him. 27 John answered, and said: A man
cannot receive any thing, unless it be given him
from heaven. 28 You yourselves do bear me witness,
that I said, I am not Christ, but that I am sent
before him. 29 He that hath the bride, is the
bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, who
standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth with joy because
of the bridegroom's voice. This my joy therefore is
fulfilled. 30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
31 He that cometh from above, is above all. He that
is of the earth, of the earth he is, and of the
earth he speaketh. He that cometh from heaven, is
above all. 32 And what he hath seen and heard, that
he testifieth: and no man receiveth his testimony.
33 He that hath received his testimony, hath set to
his seal that God is true. 34 For he whom God hath
sent, speaketh the words of God: for God doth not
give the Spirit by measure. 35 The Father loveth the
Son: and he hath given all things into his hand. 36
He that believeth in the Son, hath life everlasting;
but he that believeth not the Son, shall not see
life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
WHEN Jesus therefore understood that the Pharisees
had heard that Jesus maketh more disciples, and
baptizeth more than John, 2 (Though Jesus himself
did not baptize, but his disciples,) 3 He left
Judea, and went again into Galilee. 4 And he was of
necessity to pass through Samaria. 5 He cometh
therefore to a city of Samaria, which is called
Sichar, near the land which Jacob gave to his son
Joseph. 6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus
therefore being wearied with his journey, sat thus
on the well. It was about the sixth hour. 7 There
cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus
saith to her: Give me to drink. 8 For his disciples
were gone into the city to buy meats. 9 Then that
Samaritan woman saith to him: How dost thou, being a
Jew, ask of me to drink, who am a Samaritan woman?
For the Jews do not communicate with the Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered, and said to her: If thou didst
know the gift of God, and who he is that saith to
thee, Give me to drink; thou perhaps wouldst have
asked of him, and he would have given thee living
water. 11 The woman saith to him: Sir, thou hast
nothing wherein to draw, and the well is deep; from
whence then hast thou 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: Whosoever
drinketh of this water, shall thirst again; 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 become in him a fountain of
water, springing up into life everlasting. 15 The
woman saith to him: Sir, give me this water, that I
may not thirst, nor come hither to draw. 16 Jesus
saith to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
17 The woman answered, and said: I have no husband.
Jesus said to her: Thou hast said well, I have no
husband: 18 For thou hast had five husbands: and he
whom thou now hast, is not thy husband. This thou
hast said truly. 19 The woman saith to him: Sir, I
perceive that thou art a prophet. 20 Our fathers
adored on this mountain, and you say, that at
Jerusalem is the place where men must adore. 21
Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe me, that the hour
cometh, when you shall neither on this mountain, nor
in Jerusalem, adore the Father. 22 You adore that
which you know not: we adore that which we know; for
salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour cometh,
and now is, when the true adorers shall adore the
Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also
seeketh such to adore him. 24 God is a spirit; and
they that adore him, must adore him in spirit and in
truth.
25 The woman saith to him: I know that the Messias
cometh (who is called Christ); therefore, when he is
come, he will tell us all things. 26 Jesus saith to
her: I am he, who am speaking with thee. 27 And
immediately his disciples came; and they wondered
that he talked with the woman. Yet no man said: What
seekest thou? or, why talkest thou with her? 28 The
woman therefore left her waterpot, and went her way
into the city, and saith to the men there: 29 Come,
and see a man who has told me all things whatsoever
I have done. Is not he the Christ? 30 They went
therefore out of the city, and came unto him. 31 In
the mean time the disciples prayed him, saying:
Rabbi, eat. 32 But he said to them: I have meat to
eat, which you know not. 33 The disciples therefore
said one to another: Hath any man brought him to
eat? 34 Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the
will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his
work. 35 Do you not say, There are yet four months,
and then the harvest cometh? Behold, I say to you,
lift up your eyes, and see the countries; for they
are white already to harvest. 36 And he that reapeth
receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life
everlasting: that both he that soweth, and he that
reapeth, may rejoice together.
37 For in this is the saying true: That it is one
man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth. 38
I have sent you to reap that in which you did not
labour: others have laboured, and you have entered
into their labours. 39 Now of that city many of the
Samaritans believed in him, for the word of the
woman giving testimony: He told me all things
whatsoever I have done. 40 So when the Samaritans
were come to him, they desired that he would tarry
there. And he abode there two days. 41 And many more
believed in him because of his own word. 42 And they
said to the woman: We now believe, not for thy
saying: for we ourselves have heard him, and know
that this is indeed the Saviour of the world. 43 Now
after two days, he departed thence, and went into
Galilee. 44 For Jesus himself gave testimony that a
prophet hath no honour in his own country. 45 And
when he was come into Galilee, the Galileans
received him, having seen all the things he had done
at Jerusalem on the festival day; for they also went
to the festival day. 46 He came again therefore into
Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And
there was a certain ruler, whose son was sick at
Capharnaum. 47 He having heard that Jesus was come
from Judea into Galilee, went to him, and prayed him
to come down, and heal his son; for he was at the
point of death. 48 Jesus therefore said to him:
Unless you see signs and wonders, you believe not.
49 The ruler saith to him: Lord, come down before
that my son die. 50 Jesus saith to him: Go thy way;
thy son liveth. The man believed the word which
Jesus said to him, and went his way. 51 And as he
was going down, his servants met him; and they
brought word, saying, that his son lived. 52 He
asked therefore of them the hour wherein he grew
better. And they said to him: Yesterday, at the
seventh hour, the fever left him. 53 The father
therefore knew, that it was at the same hour that
Jesus said to him, Thy son liveth; and himself
believed, and his whole house. 54 This is again the
second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out
of Judea into Galilee.
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