John 2–4

Chapter 2

And the third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee: and the mother of Jesus was there.

²And Jesus also was invited, and his disciples, to the marriage.

³And the wine failing, the mother of Jesus saith to him: They have no wine.

⁴And Jesus saith to her: Woman, what is that to me and to thee? My hour is not yet come.

⁵His mother saith to the waiters: Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye.

⁶Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three measures apiece.

⁷Jesus saith to them: Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.

⁸And Jesus saith to them: Draw out now and carry to the chief steward of the feast. And they carried it.

⁹And 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,

¹⁰And 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.

¹¹This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.

¹²After this, he went down to Capharnaum, he and his mother and his brethren and his disciples: and they remained there not many days.

¹³And the pasch of the Jews was at hand: and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

¹⁴And he found in the temple them that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting.

¹⁵And 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.

¹⁶And to them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic.

¹⁷And his disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up.

¹⁸The Jews, therefore, answered, and said to him: What sign dost thou shew unto us, seeing thou dost these things?

¹⁹Jesus answered and said to them: Destroy this temple; and in three days I will raise it up.

²⁰The Jews then said: Six and forty years was this temple in building; and wilt thou raise it up in three days?

²¹But he spoke of the temple of his body.

²²When 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.

²³Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the pasch, upon the festival day, many believed in his name, seeing his signs which he did.

²⁴But Jesus did not trust himself unto them: for that he knew all men,

²⁵And because he needed not that any should give testimony of man: for he knew what was in man.

Chapter 3

And there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

²This 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.

³Jesus answered and said to him: Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

⁴Nicodemus 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?

⁵Jesus 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.

⁶That which is born of the flesh is flesh: and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

⁷Wonder not that I said to thee: You must be born again.

⁸The 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.

⁹Nicodemus answered and said to him: How can these things be done?

¹⁰Jesus answered and said to him: Art thou a master in Israel, and knowest not these things?

¹¹Amen, amen, I say to thee that we speak what we know and we testify what we have seen: and you receive not our testimony.

¹²If I have spoken to you earthly things, and you believe not: how will you believe, if I shall speak to you heavenly things?

¹³And no man hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven.

¹⁴And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of man be lifted up:

¹⁵That whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but may have life everlasting.

¹⁶For 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.

¹⁷For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world: but that the world may be saved by him.

¹⁸He 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.

¹⁹And 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.

²⁰For every one that doth evil hateth the light and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved.

²¹But he that doth truth cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest: because they are done in God.

²²After these things, Jesus and his disciples came into the land of Judea: and there he abode with them and baptized.

²³And John also was baptizing in Ennon near Salim: because there was much water there. And they came and were baptized.

²⁴For John was not yet cast into prison.

²⁵And there arose a question between some of John’s disciples and the Jews, concerning purification.

²⁶And 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.

²⁷John answered and said: A man cannot receive any thing, unless it be given him from heaven.

²⁸You yourselves do bear me witness that I said that I am not Christ, but that I am sent before him.

²⁹He 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.

³⁰He must increase: but I must decrease.

³¹He 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.

³²And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth: and no man receiveth his testimony.

³³He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.

³⁴For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God doth not give the Spirit by measure.

³⁵The Father loveth the Son: and he hath given all things into his hand.

³⁶He 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.

Chapter 4

When Jesus therefore understood the Pharisees had heard that Jesus maketh more disciples and baptizeth more than John

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

³He left Judea and went again into Galilee.

⁴And he was of necessity to pass through Samaria.

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

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

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

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

⁹Then 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.

¹⁰Jesus 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.

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

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

¹³Jesus 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

²¹Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe me that the hour cometh, when you shall neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, adore the Father.

²²You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know. For salvation is of the Jews.

²³But 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.

²⁴God is a spirit: and they that adore him must adore him in spirit and in truth.

²⁵The 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.

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

²⁷And 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?

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

²⁹Come, and see a man who has told me all things…