John 4:1-34 ▼

1 Assoone as the Lord knew, how the pharisees had heard that Iesus made and baptized mo disciples then Iohn,

2 (Though that Iesus hym selfe baptized not, but his disciples:)

3 He left Iurie, and departed agayne into Galilee.

4 For it was so that he must needes go through Samaria.

5 Then came he to a citie of Samaria, which is called Sichar, besydes the possession that Iacob gaue to his sonne Ioseph.

6 And there was Iacobs well. Iesus then beyng wery of his iourney, sate thus on the well. And it was about the sixt houre:

7 And there came a woman of Samaria to drawe water: Iesus sayth vnto her, geue me drynke.

8 For his disciples were gone away, vnto the towne to bye meate.

9 Then sayth the woman of Samaria vnto hym: Howe is it, that thou beyng a Iewe, askest drynke of me, which am a Samaritane? For the Iewes meddle not with the Samaritanes.

10 Iesus aunswered, and sayde vnto her: yf thou knewest the gyft of God, & who it is that sayeth to thee geue me drynke, thou wouldest haue asked of hym, and he woulde haue geuen thee water of lyfe.

11 The woman sayth vnto hym: Syr, thou hast nothyng to drawe with, and the well is deepe: from whence then hast thou that water of lyfe?

12 Art thou greater then our father Iacob, which gaue vs the well, and he hym selfe dranke therof, and his chyldren, and his cattell?

13 Iesus aunswered, and sayde vnto her: Whosoeuer drynketh of this water, shal thyrst agayne:

14 But whosoeuer drynketh of the water that I shall geue hym, shall neuer be more a thyrst: but the water that I shall geue him, shalbe in him a well of water, spryngyng vp into euerlastyng lyfe.

15 The woman sayth vnto hym: Syr, geue me of that water, that I thyrst not, neither come hyther to drawe.

16 Iesus sayth vnto her: Go, call thy husbande, and come hyther.

17 The woman aunswered, and sayde vnto hym : I haue no husbande. Iesus sayde vnto her: Thou hast well sayde, I haue no husbande.

18 For thou hast had fyue husbandes, and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husbande. In that saydest thou truely.

19 The woman sayth vnto hym: Syr, I perceaue that thou art a prophete.

20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountayne, and ye say that in Hierusalem is the place, where men ought to worshippe.

21 Iesus sayth vnto her: woman beleue me, the houre commeth, when ye shall neither in this mountayne, nor yet at Hierusalem, worshippe the father.

22 Ye worshippe ye wote not what. We knowe what we worshippe: For saluation commeth of the Iewes.

23 But the houre commeth, and nowe is, when the true worshippers, shall worshippe the father in spirite, and in the trueth: For such the father also requireth to worshippe hym.

24 God is a spirite, and they that worshippe hym, must worshippe hym in spirite, and in the trueth.

25 The woman sayth vnto hym, I wote that Messias shal come, which is called Christe: when he is come, he wyll tell vs all thynges.

26 Iesus sayth vnto her: I that speake vnto thee, am he.

27 And immediatly came his disciples, and marueyled that he talked with the woman: Yet no man saide, what seekest thou, or why talkest thou with her?

28 The woman then left her water pot, and went her way into the citie, & sayth to the men:

29 Come, see a man which tolde me all thynges that euer I dyd: Is not he Christe?

30 Then they went out of the citie, and came vnto hym.

31 In the meane whyle his disciples prayed hym, saying: Maister, eate.

32 He sayde vnto them: I haue meate to eate that ye wote not of.

33 Therfore sayde the disciples among them selues: Hath any man brought hym ought to eate?

34 Iesus sayth vnto them: my meate is to do the wyll of hym that sent me, and to finishe his worke.