Douay Bible - John Chapter 4

John 4:1
WHEN Jesus therefore understood that the pharisees had heard that Jesus maketh more disciples, and baptizeth more than John,

John 4:2
(Though Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples,)

John 4:3
He left Judea, and went again into Galilee.

John 4:4
And he was of necessity to pass through Samaria.

John 4:5
He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria, which is called Sichar, near the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

John 4:6
Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.

John 4:7
There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus saith to her: Give me to drink.

John 4:8
For his disciples were gone into the city to buy meats.

John 4:9
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.

John 4:10
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.

John 4:11
The woman saith to him: Sir, thou hast nothing wherein to draw, and the well is deep; from whence then hast thou living water?

John 4:12
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

John 4:13
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:

John 4:14
But the water that I will give him, shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting.

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

John 4:16
Jesus saith to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

John 4:17
The woman answered, and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: Thou hast said well, I have no husband:

John 4:18
For thou hast had five husbands: and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husband. This thou hast said truly.

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

John 4:20
Our fathers adored on this mountain, and you say, that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore.

John 4:21
Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe me, that the hour cometh, when you shall neither on this mountain, not in Jerusalem, adore the Father.

John 4:22
You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know; for salvation is of the Jews.

John 4:23
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.

John 4:24
God is a spirit; and they that adore him, must adore him in spirit and in truth.

John 4:25
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.

John 4:26
Jesus saith to her: I am he, who am speaking with thee.

John 4:27
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?

John 4:28
The woman therefore left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men there:

John 4:29
Come, and see a man who has told me all things whatsoever I have done. Is not he the Christ?

John 4:30
They went therefore out of the city, and came unto him.

John 4:31
In the mean time the disciples prayed him, saying: Rabbi, eat.

John 4:32
But he said to them: I have meat to eat, which you know not.

John 4:33
The disciples therefore said one to another: Hath any man brought him to eat?

John 4:34
Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work.

John 4:35
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.

John 4:36
And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting: that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth, may rejoice together.

John 4:37
For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth.

John 4:38
I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour: others have laboured, and you have entered into their labours.

John 4:39
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.

John 4:40
So when the Samaritans were come to him, they desired that he would tarry there. And he abode there two days.

John 4:41
And many more believed in him because of his own word.

John 4:42
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.

John 4:43
Now after two days, he departed thence, and went into Galilee.

John 4:44
For Jesus himself gave testimony that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.

John 4:45
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.

John 4:46
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.

John 4:47
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.

John 4:48
Jesus therefore said to him: Unless you see signs and wonders, you believe not.

John 4:49
The ruler saith to him: Lord, come down before that my son die.

John 4:50
Jesus saith to him: Go thy way; thy son liveth. The man believed the word which Jesus said to him, and went his way.

John 4:51
And as he was going down, his servants met him; and they brought word, saying, that his son lived.

John 4:52
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.

John 4:53
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.

John 4:54
This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judea into Galilee.