4[ When the Lord realized that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making more converts than John and baptizing them (in fact, Jesus himself was not baptizing but his disciples were), he left Judaea and went back to Galilee. He had to pass through Samaria. So he came to the city in Samaria which is called Sychar, near the piece of land which Jacob gave to Joseph his son. There was a well of Jacob there. Now Jesus was tired from his journey and thus sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her: Give me a drink. For his disciples had gone off to the city to buy provisions. So the Samaritan woman said to him: How is it that you, a Jew, are asking for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman? [For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.] Jesus answered and said to her: If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that says to you: Give me a drink; you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water. She said to him: Lord, you have no bucket to let down, and the well is deep. From where then do you have the living water? Surely you are not greater than Jacob our forefather, who gave us this well, who drank from it himself, as did his sons and his cattle. Jesus answered and said to her: Whoever drinks from this water will be thirsty again; but he who drinks from the water I shall give will not be thirsty forever- more, but the water I shall give him will turn within him into a spring of water jetting up into everlasting life. The woman said to him: Lord, give me this water so I shall not be thirsty or have to come here to draw it up. He said to her: Go and tell your husband and come back. The woman answered and said to him: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: You did well to say: I have no husband. You have had five husbands and the one you have now is not your husband. What you said was true. The woman said to him: Lord, I see that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshipped on this mountain; but you people say that Jerusalem is the place where one should worship. Jesus said to her: Believe me, madam, the time is coming when you will worship the father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, because salvation comes from the Jews. But the time is coming and it is now when the true worshippers will worship the Father in the spirit and in truth, for the Father looks for such worshippers. God is spirit and those who worship him must worship in the spirit and in truth. The woman said to him: I know that the Messiah, who is called the Christ, is coming. When he comes, he will tell us all. Jesus said to her: I am he, talking to you.
Thereupon his disciples came and were surprised that he had been talking to a woman, but no one said: What are you looking for? Or: Why are you talking with her? Then the woman left her water jar and went off to the city, and said to the people: Come and see a man who told me everything I have done. Might he not be the Christ? They went forth from the city and came to him. In the meanwhile his disciples questioned him and said to him: Master, eat. But he said to them: I have food to eat which you do not know of. So the disciples said to each other: Could someone have brought him something to eat? Jesus said to them: My food is to do the will of him who sent me and finish his work. Do you not say: There are four more months, and then comes the harvest? But see, I tell you, raise up your eyes and look at the fields, see that they are white for harvesting. And now he who reaps takes his wages and gathers the crop for everlasting life, so that sower and reaper alike can be happy. For in this matter it is true to say that the sower is one person and the reaper another. I sent you to harvest what you never labored on. Others labored, and you came in upon their labor.
And many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of what the woman said when she testified: He told me everything I have done. So when the Samaritans came to him they invited him to stay with them, and he stayed there for two days. And many more believed in him because of what he himself said, and they said to the woman: It is no longer because of your talk that we believe; we ourselves have heard, and we know that this is truly the savior of the world.
At the end of the two days he went from there to Galilee; for Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. But when he came to Galilee the Galilaeans welcomed him, for they had seen what he did in Jerusalem at the festival, since they had themselves gone to the festival. So then he returned to Cana in Galilee where he had made the water into wine. And there was a certain prince, whose son was sick, in Capernaum. This man, hearing that Jesus had come from Judaea to Galilee, went to him and asked him to come to his house and heal his son, for he was going to die. Then Jesus said to him: Unless you see miracles and wonders, you will not believe. But the prince said to him: Lord, come to my house before my little boy dies. Jesus said to him: Go on your way; your son lives. The man believed in the word Jesus had spoken to him and went on his way. And just as he was coming home his slaves met him saying that his son was alive. So he asked them at what hour he had got better; and they said: Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. So the father realized that it was at the time when Jesus had said: Your son lives; and he, with all his household, believed. This was the second miracle Jesus performed, when he came from Judaea to Galilee.
tl After that, there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool for which the name in Hebrew is Bethzatha. It has five porches. There would lie a crowd of afflicted people, blind, lame, paralyzed, [waiting for the water to be disturbed. For an angel of the Lord would come down to the pool from time to time, and the water would be disturbed. And whoever was first to enter the pool after the disturbing of the water would be healed of the infirmity that afflicted him]. There was one man there who had had his sickness for thirty-eight years. And seeing him lying there, and knowing that he had had it for a long time, Jesus said to him: Do you wish to be healthy? The sick man answered: Lord, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is disturbed; and while I am on my way someone else gets there ahead of me. Jesus said to him: Arise, take up your bed, and walk. And immediately the man was healthy, and he took up his bed and walked. It was the sabbath on that day; so the Jews said to the man who had been healed: It is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your bed. But he answered them: The man who made me healthy was the one who told me: Take up your bed and walk. They asked him: Which is the man who said to you: Take it up and walk? But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, since Jesus had disappeared into the crowd that was there. Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him: See, you have become healthy. Sin no more, lest it be the worse for you. The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him healthy. And that was why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did this on the sabbath. But he answered them: Until now my father has been doing his work, and I too am doing my work. For this the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only was breaking the sabbath but even called God his own father, making himself the equal of God. But Jesus answered and told them: Truly truly I tell you, the son cannot do anything by himself unless he sees the father doing it; for what he does the son does likewise. For the father loves the son and shows him everything he himself does, and he will show him greater deeds than these for you to wonder at. For as the father wakes the dead and gives them life, so the son also gives life to whom he will. Nor does the father judge anyone, but he has given all judgment to his son, so that all may honor the son as they honor the father. He who does not honor the son does not honor the father who sent him. Truly truly I tell you that he who listens to my words and believes in him who sent me has life everlasting, and does not come to judgment, but has gone over from death to life. Truly truly I tell you, the time is coming, and it is now, when the dead shall hear the voice of the son of God, and those who have heard shall live. For as the father has life in himself, so he has given the son life to have in himself. And he gave him authority to pass judgment, because he is the son of m
an. Do not wonder at this, because the hour is coming when those who are in the graves will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment. I cannot do anything by myself. I judge as I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of him who sent me. If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true; he who testifies about me is someone else, and I know that the testimony he gives about me is true. You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth; but I do not take my testimony from man, but I say this so that you may be saved. He was the lamp that burns and shines, and you wished to exult for a time in his light; but I have testimony greater than John's, for the works that my father gave me, for me to fulfill them, these same works that I do, testify concerning me that the father sent me, and the father who sent me has testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice or seen his shape, and you do not have his word remaining among you, because you do not believe the one he sent to you. You search the scriptures, because you think they have life everlasting in them; and it is they who testify to me; and you are not willing to come to me to have life. I do not receive glory from men; but I know you and that you do not have the love of God in you. I came in the name of my father and you do not accept me; if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. How can you believe, when you receive your glory from each other, and do not look for the glory that comes from God alone? Do not suppose that I shall accuse you to my father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you put your hopes. If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. But if you do not believe his writings, how shall you believe my sayings?
41 After this Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee, that is, Tiberias. And a great crowd was following him, for they saw the miracles he worked for the sick. Jesus went up onto the mountain, and sat there with his disciples. And the Passover, the festival of the Jews, was near. So Jesus lifted up his eyes and saw that a great crowd had come to him, and he said to Philip: Where shall we buy bread so that these can eat? He said this, making trial of him, for he knew what he was going to do. Philip answered: Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not enough for everyone to have a little bit. Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter and one of the disciples, said to him: There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two little fishes; but what is that for all these people? Jesus said: Have the people take their places on the ground. There was plenty of grass in the place. So the men took their places, to the number of five thousand. Then Jesus took the loaves and gave thanks and passed them out to the people who were lying there, and so too with the fishes, as much as they wanted. And when they were ffiled, he said to his disciples: Gather up the broken pieces that are left over so that nothing will be lost. So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets from what was left of the five barley loaves after the people had eaten. When the people saw what miracles he had done, they said: Truly this is the prophet who is coming into the world. Jesus, realizing that they were going to come and carry him off to make him king, withdrew back up the mountain, all by himself. When night came his disciples went down to the sea, and embarking on a ship, they began to cross over the sea to Capernaum. And now it was dark and Jesus had not yet come to them; and the sea was rough from a great wind blowing. When they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty furlongs they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming close to the ship, and they were frightened. But he said to them: It is I, do not be afraid. They wanted to take him aboard the ship, and immediately it was at the shore for which they were making.
The next day the crowd that was standing on the other side of the sea had seen that there had been no other ship there except the one, and that Jesus had not gone aboard the ship with his disciples, but the disciples had gone away without him. But ships from Tiberias arrived near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves boarded the ships and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus. And when they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him: Master, when did you reach here? Jesus answered them and said: Truly truly I tell you, you look for me not because you saw signs but because you ate the loaves and were fed. Try to earn, not the food that perishes, but the food that remains into life everlasting, which the son of man will give you, for God the Father set his seal upon him. Then they said to him: What shall we do, to do the work of God? Jesus answered and said to them: This is the work of God, to believe in the one he sent. Then they said to him: What sign are you accomplishing, for us to see and believe you? What work are you doing? Our fathers ate the manna in the desert, as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat. Then Jesus said to them: Truly truly I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you bread from heaven, but my father gives you the true bread from heaven; for the bread of God is what comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. Then they said to him: Lord, give us always this bread. Jesus said to them: I ^ the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will not be thirsty, ever. But I have said to you that you have seen but do not believe. All that my father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will not drive out, because I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me; and this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all he gave me but raise it up again on the last day. For this is the will of my father, that everyone who sees the son and believes in him shall have life everlasting, and I shall raise him up on the last day.
Now the Jews murmured about him because he had said: I ^ the bread which came down from heaven; and they said: Is not this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it that he now says: I have come down from heaven? Jesus answered and said to them: Do not murmur among yourselves. No one can come to me unless the father who sent me pulls him; and I will raise him up on the last day. It is written in the prophets: And they shall all be taught from God. Everyone who has listened and learned from the father comes to me. Not because anyone has seen the father, except for the one who is beside God; he has seen the father. Truly truly I tell you, he who believes has life everlasting. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the desert and died. This is the bread which comes down from heaven so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the bread which lives, which came down from heaven. If one eats of this bread he will live forever, and the bread I will give, for the sake of the life of the world, is my flesh.
The Jews quarreled with each other, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat? Jesus said to them: Truly truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has life everlasting, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is the true food, and my blood is the true drink. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood stays in me, and I in him. As the living father sent me and I live through the father, so he who eats me will also live through me. This is the bread which came down from heaven; not as our fathers ate and died, he who eats this bread will live forever.
All this he said as he taught in the synagogue in Capernaum. Then many of his disciples hearing him said: This is a hard saying. Who can listen to it? And Jesus knew in his heart that his disciples were murmuring about this, and said to them: Is this too difficult for you? What if you were to see the son of man going up to where he was before? It is the spirit that makes life, the flesh is no help. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life. But there are some of you who do not believe. For Jesus knew from the beginning who were the ones who did not believe and who was the one who would betray him. And he said: This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is given him from the father. Because of this, many of his disciples left him thencefo
rth and no longer went about with him. So Jesus said to the twelve: You do not wish to go away? Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of everlasting life, and we have believed, and we know that you are the holy one of God. Jesus answered them: Did I not choose you twelve? And one of you is an enemy. He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot; for he, one of the twelve, was going to betray him.
fl And after that Jesus went about in Galilee; for he did not wish to go about in Judaea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him. Now the festival of the Jews which is the Feast of the Tabernacles was at hand. And his brothers said to him: Remove from here and go to Judaea, so that your disciples also can see the works that you perform; for no one acts in secret and then hopes to be well known. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world. For even his brothers did not believe in him. And Jesus said to them: My time is not yet come, but your time is always ready at hand. The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify concerning it that what it does is wicked. You go up to the festival. I will not yet go up to this festival, because my time is not yet completed. He told them this and remained in Galilee. But when his brothers went up to the festival, then he went too, not openly but in secret. So then the Jews looked for him at the festival and said: Where is he? And there was much murmuring about him in the crowds. Some said: He is good; and others said: No. He leads the people astray. But none spoke openly about him, through fear of the Jews.
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