Douay Rheims Original ↷
John 4 📜 📕 ↷
Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
1 WHEN JESUS therefore understood that the Pharisees heard that JESUS maketh more Disciples, and baptizeth, than John,📜💬📚
2 (howbeit JESUS did not baptize, but his Disciples)📜💬📚
3 he left Jewry, and went again into Galilee.📜💬📚
4 And he had of necessity to pass through Samaria.📜💬📚
5 He cometh therefore into a city of Samaria which is called Sichar; beside the manor that Jacob gave to Joseph his son.📜💬📚
6 And there was there the fountain of Jacob. JESUS therefore wearied of his journey, sat so upon the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.📜💬📚
7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water. JESUS said to her: Give me to drink.📜💬📚
8 For his Disciples were gone into the city, to buy meats.📜💬📚
9 Therefore that Samaritane woman saith to him: How doest thou being a Jew, ask of me to drink, which am a Samaritane 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 unto thee, Give me to drink; thou perhaps wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.📜💬📚
11 The woman saith to him: Sir, neither hast thou wherein to draw, and the well is deep; whence hast thou the living water?📜💬📚
12 art thou greater than our Father Jacob, who gave us the well, & himself drank of it, and his children, and his cattle?📜💬📚
13 JESUS answered, and said to her: Every one that 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 unto life everlasting.📜💬📚
15 The woman saith to him: Lord 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, that 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: Lord, I perceive that thou art a Prophet.📜💬📚
20 Our Fathers adored in 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 shall come, when you shall neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem adore the Father.📜💬📚
22 You adore that you know not: we adore that we know; for salvation is of the Jews.📜💬📚
23 But the hour cometh, and now it is, when the true adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and verity. For the Father also seeketh such to adore him.📜💬📚
24 God is a Spirit, and they that adore him, must adore in spirit and verity.📜💬📚
25 The woman saith to him: I know that MESSIAS cometh, (which is called CHRIST) therefore when he cometh, he will shew us all things.📜💬📚
26 JESUS saith to her: I am he, that speak with thee.📜💬📚
Disciples Return and Marvel
27 And incontinent his Disciples came: and they marveled that he talked with a woman. No man for all that said: What seekest thou, or why talkest thou with her?📜💬📚
28 The woman therefore left her water-pot: and she went into the city, and saith to those men:📜💬📚
29 Come, and see a man that hath told me all things whatsoever I have done. Is not he CHRIST?📜💬📚
30 They went forth therefore out of the city, and came to him.📜💬📚
31 In the mean time the Disciples desired 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 for to eat?📜💬📚
34 JESUS saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, to perfit his work.📜💬📚
35 Do not you say that yet there are four months, and harvest cometh? Behold I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the Countries, that they are white already to harvest.📜💬📚
36 And he that reapeth, receiveth hire, 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 which you laboured not: others have laboured, & you have entered into their labours.📜💬📚
Many Samaritans Believe
39 And of that city many believed in him of the Samaritans, for the word of the woman giving testimony, that he told me all things whatsoever I have done.📜💬📚
40 Therefore when the Samaritans were come to him, they desired him that he would tarry there. And he tarried there two days.📜💬📚
41 And many more believed for his own word.📜💬📚
42 And they said to the woman, That now not for thy saying do we believe; for our selves have heard, and do know that this is the Saviour of the world indeed.📜💬📚
Jesus Heals the Official's Son
43 And after two days he departed thence; and went into Galilee.📜💬📚
44 For JESUS himself gave testimony that a Prophet hath not honour in his own country:📜💬📚
45 Therefore when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, whereas they had seen all things that he had done at Jerusalem in the festival day: for themselves also came to the festival day.📜💬📚
46 He came again therefore into Cana of Galilee, where he made water wine. And there was a certain lord whose son was sick at Capharnaum.📜💬📚
47 He having heard that JESUS came from Jewry into Galilee, went to him, and desired him that he would come down and heal his son, For he began to die.📜💬📚
48 JESUS therefore said to him: Unless you see signs and wonders, you believe not.📜💬📚
49 The lord saith to him: Lord, come down before that my son die.📜💬📚
50 JESUS saith to him: Go, thy son liveth. The man believed the word that JESUS said to him, and went.📜💬📚
51 And as he was now 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 was amended. And they said to him, That yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.📜💬📚
53 The father therefore knew that it was in the same hour wherein JESUS said to him: Thy son liveth, and himself believed and his whole house.📜💬📚
54 This again the second sign did JESUS, when he was come from Jewry into Galilee.📜💬📚
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