Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech: John | Page 5

004:025 "I know," replied the woman, "that Messiah is coming--`the
Christ,' as He is called. When He has come, He will tell us everything."
004:026 "I am He," said Jesus--"I who am now talking to you."
004:027 Just then His disciples came, and were surprised to find Him
talking with a woman. Yet not one of them asked Him, "What is your
wish?" or "Why are you talking with her?" 004:028 The woman
however, leaving her pitcher, went away to the town, and called the
people. 004:029 "Come," she said, "and see a man who has told me
everything I have ever done. Can this be the Christ, do you think?"
004:030 They left the town and set out to go to Him. 004:031

Meanwhile the disciples were urging Jesus. "Rabbi," they said, "eat
something." 004:032 "I have food to eat," He replied, "of which you do
not know." 004:033 So the disciples began questioning one another.
"Can it be," they said, "that some one has brought Him something to
eat?" 004:034 "My food," said Jesus, "is to be obedient to Him who
sent me, and fully to accomplish His work. 004:035 Do you not say, `It
wants four months yet to the harvest'? But look round, I tell you, and
observe these plains-- they are already ripe for the sickle. 004:036 The
reaper gets pay and gathers in a crop in preparation for the Life of the
Ages, that so the sower and the reapers may rejoice together. 004:037
For it is in this that you see the real meaning of the saying, `The sower
is one person, and the reaper is another.' 004:038 I sent you to reap a
harvest which is not the result of your own labours. Others have
laboured, and you are getting benefit from their labours." 004:039 Of
the Samaritan population of that town a good many believed in Him
because of the woman's statement when she declared, "He has told me
all that I have ever done." 004:040 When however the Samaritans came
to Him, they asked Him on all sides to stay with them; and He stayed
there two days. 004:041 Then a far larger number of people believed
because of His own words, 004:042 and they said to the woman, "We
no longer believe in Him simply because of your statements; for we
have now heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the
Saviour of the world." 004:043 After the two days He departed, and
went into Galilee; 004:044 though Jesus Himself declared that a
Prophet has no honour in his own country. 004:045 When however He
reached Galilee, the Galilaeans welcomed Him eagerly, having been
eye-witnesses of all that He had done in Jerusalem at the Festival; for
they also had been to the Festival. 004:046 So He came once more to
Cana in Galilee, where He had made the water into wine. Now there
was a certain officer of the King's court whose son was ill at
Capernaum. 004:047 Having heard that Jesus had come from Judaea to
Galilee, he came to Him and begged Him to go down and cure his son;
for he was at the point of death. 004:048 "Unless you and others see
miracles and marvels," said Jesus, "nothing will induce you to believe."
004:049 "Sir," pleaded the officer, "come down before my child dies."
004:050 "You may return home," replied Jesus; "your son has
recovered." He believed the words of Jesus, and started back home;

004:051 and he was already on his way down when his servants met
him and told him that his son was alive and well. 004:052 So he
inquired of them at what hour he had shown improvement. "Yesterday,
about seven o'clock," they replied, "the fever left him." 004:053 Then
the father recollected that that was the time at which Jesus had said to
him, "Your son has recovered," and he and his whole household
became believers. 004:054 This is the second miracle that Jesus
performed, after coming from Judaea into Galilee. 005:001 After this
there was a Festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
005:002 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, called
in Hebrew `Bethesda.' It has five arcades. 005:003 In these there used
to lie a great number of sick persons, and of people who were blind or
lame or paralyzed. 005:004 [] 005:005 And there was one man there
who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 005:006 Jesus saw him
lying there, and knowing that he had been a long time in that condition,
He asked him, "Do you wish to have health and strength?" 005:007
"Sir," replied the sufferer, "I have no one to put me into the pool when
the water is moved; but