The Gospel of John for Readers | Page 5

any man brought Him ought to eat?
Jesus saith unto them, my meat is to do the will of Him that sent me
and to complete His work. Say not ye, There are yet four months and
then cometh harvest? Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes and
look on the fields. They are all ready to harvest. He that reapeth now
receiveth wages and gathereth fruit unto life eternal so that both he that
soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. And herein is that
saying true, One soweth and another reapeth. I sent you to reap where
ye bestowed no labour. Other men laboured and ye are entered into
their labours.
And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on Him for the saying
of the woman who testified, He told me all that ever I did. So when the
Samaritans were come unto Him, they besought Him to tarry with them.
And He abode there two days. Many more believed because of His own
word. They said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy
saying but because we have heard Him ourselves and know that this is
indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
Now after two days He departed from there and went into Galilee.
Jesus Himself testified that a prophet hath no honour in his own
country. When He come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received Him after
having seen all the things that He did at Jerusalem at the feast because
they also were at the feast. So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee
where He turned the water into wine.
Now there was a certain nobleman at Capernaum, whose son was sick.
When he heard that Jesus left Judea and was in Galilee, he went to Him
and besought Him to come down and heal his son who was near death.
Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders ye will not
believe. The nobleman saith unto Him, Sir, come before my child dies.
Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way. Thy son liveth. The man believed the
word that Jesus had spoken unto him and he went his way. As he was
going along his servants met him saying, Thy son liveth. Then inquired
he of them the hour when the son began to mend. They said, Yesterday
at the seventh hour the fever left him. So the father knew that it was at
the same hour in which Jesus said to him, Thy son liveth. And he

believed, and his whole house believed. This is the second miracle that
Jesus did when He was come out of Judaea into Galilee.
5. After this there was a feast of the Jews. Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
At Jerusalem, by the sheep market, there is a pool with five porches and,
in Hebrew, is called Bethesda. On these porches lay a great multitude
of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, who wait for the moving of
the water. For, at a certain season, an angel went down into the pool
and stirred the water. Whoever first stepped in was made whole of
whatsoever disease he had.
A certain man was there which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
When Jesus saw him and knew that he had been such a long time in
that condition, He saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? The
impotent man answered, Sir, I have no man, when the water is stirred,
to put me into the pool. Before I come another steppeth down before
me. Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed and walk. Immediately
the man was made whole, took up his bed, and walked. This was on the
sabbath day.
The Jews therefore said to him that was cured, It is the sabbath day. It
is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed. He answered them, He that made
me whole said unto me, Take up thy bed and walk. Then asked they
him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed and walk?
And he that was healed knew not who it was because Jesus had
conveyed Himself away from the multitude gathered in that place.
Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple and said unto him, Behold,
thou art made whole. Sin no more lest a worse thing come unto thee.
The man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made
him whole. Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus. They sought to slay
Him because He had done these things on the sabbath day. But Jesus
answered them, my Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill Him because He not only
had broken