Mar. 1. 3. Isa. 40. 3. phet? He answered: No. They said: Tell then who thou 23 art, that we may return an answer to them who sent us. What Matt. 3. 3. sayest thou of thyself? He answered: I am he whose voice Lu. 3. 4. proclaimeth in the wilderness, "Make straight the way of the 24 Lord,"* as said the prophet Isaiah. Now they who were sent 25 were of the Pharisees and they questioned him further: Why 26 then dost thou baptize, if thou be not the Messiah, nor Elijah, Matt. 3. 11. nor the prophet? John answered: I baptize in water, but Lu. 3. 16. 27 there is one amongst you whom ye know not. It is he who Acts. 1. 5. cometh after me, and was before me, whose shoe-latchet I am & 19;4. 28 not worthy to loose. This happened at Bethany, upon the Jordan, where John was baptizing. 29 On the morrow John seeth Jesus coming to him, and saith: Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the 30 world. This is he concerning whom I said, "After me cometh 31 a man who is preferred to me; for he was before me." As for Mar. 1. 7. 11: 16. Mar. 1. 10. me, I knew him not; but to the end that he may be discovered 32 to Israel, I am come baptizing in water. John testified further, Matt. 3. 16. saying I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, Lu.3. 22. 33 and remaining upon him. For my part, I should not have known him, had not he who sent me to baptize in water told me, Upon whomsoever thou shalt see the Spirit descending and remaining, the same is he who baptizeth in the Holy Ghost.' 34 Having therefore seen this, I testify that he is the Son of God. The next day John being with two of his disciples, observed 37 Jesus passing, and said: Behold the Lamb of God. The two 38 disciples hearing this, followed Jesus. And Jesus turning about 39 saw them following, and said to them, What seek ye? They 35. answered: Rabbi, (which signifieth Doctor), Where dwellest 40 thou? He replied: Come and see. They went and saw where he dwelt; and it being about the tenth hour,† abode 41 with him that day. One of the two who, having heard John, 42 followed Jesus, was Andrew the brother of Simon Peter. The first he met was his own brother Simon, to whom he said: We 43 have found the Messiah,‡ (a name equivalent to Christ). And he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looking upon him, said: Thou art Simon, the son of Jona; thou shalt be called Cephas, which denoteth the same as Peter.§ 44 The next day Jesus resolved to go to Galilee, and meeting 45 Philip, said to him: Follow me. Now Philip was of Beth46 saida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip meeteth Nathan Deut. 18: 18. ael, and saith unto him: We have found the person described Gen. 49. 10. by Moses in the law and by the prophets, Jesus the son of Jer. 23. 5. : 47 Joseph, from Nazareth. Nathanael saith unto him: Out of Nazareth can any good thing come? Philip answered: Come, 48 and see. Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said concerning him Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. 49 Nathanael said unto him: Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered: I saw thee when thou wast under the fig-tree, be50 fore Philip called thee. Nathanael replying, said unto him: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel. 51 Jesus answered him, saying: Because I told thee that I saw thee under the fig-tree, thou believest thou shalt see greater 52 things than this. He added: Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the messengers of God ascending from the Son of man, and descending to him. SECTION 11.-THE ENTRANCE ON THE MINISTRY. THREE days after, there was a marriage in Cana of Gal2 ilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus also and his 3 disciples, were invited to the marriage. The wine falling short, 4 the mother of Jesus said to him: They have no wine. Jesus answered: Woman, what hast thou to do with me? My time 5 is not yet come. His mother said to the servants: Do whatev6 er he shall bid you. Now there were six water-pots of stone, containing two or three baths* apiece, placed there for the Jew7 ish rites of cleansing. Jesus said to them: Fill the pots with 8 water. And they filled them to the brim. Then he said: Draw 9 now, and carry to the director of the feast. And they did so. When the director of the feast had tasted the wine made of water, not knowing whence it was, (but the servants who drew the 10 water knew), he said, addressing the bridegroom: Every body presenteth the best wine first, and the worse wine afterwards, when the guests have drunk largely; but thou hast reserved the 11 best until now. The first miracle Jesus wrought in Cana of Galilee, displaying his glory and his disciples believed on him. Afterwards he went to Capernaum, he and his mother, and his brothers, and his disciples; but they stayed not there many days. 12 13 AND the Jewish passover being nigh, Jesus went to Jeru14 salem; and finding changers sitting in the temple, and people 15 who sold cattle, and sheep, and doves, he made a whip of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the cattle, scattering the coin of the changers, and oversetting their 16 tables; and said to them who sold doves: Take these things * A bath coutained about 71⁄2 gallons. 17 hence: Make not my Father's house a house of traffic. Then Ps. 69: 9. his disciples remembered these words of Scripture, "My zeal for thy house consumeth me." 18 Hereupon the Jews said to him: By what miracle dost thou & 27.40. 19 show us the title to do these things? Jesus answering, said Matt. 26. 61. unto them: Destroy this temple, and I will rear it again in Mar. 14. 58. 20 three days. The Jews replied: Forty and six years was this & 15. 29. temple in building; and thou wouldst rear it in three days? 21 But by the temple he meant his body. When therefore he was 22 risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this and they understood the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had spoken. 23 While he was at Jerusalem, during the feast of the passover, III. unless a man be born again, he cannot discern the reign of God. 4 Nicodemus replied: How can a grown man be born? Can he 5 enter his mother's womb anew, and be born? Jesus answered: Verily, verily, I say unto thee, unless a man be born of water 6 and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; that which is born of the spirit is 7 spirit. Wonder not then, that I said to thee, Ye must be born 8 again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but knowest not whence it cometh or whither it 9 goeth; so it is with every one who is born of the Spirit. Nicodemus answered: How can these things be? Jesus replied: Art thou the teacher of Israel, and knowest not these things? 11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, we speak what we know, and testify what we have seen; yet ye receive not our testimony. 12 If ye understood not when I told you earthly things, how will 13 ye understand when I tell you heavenly things? For none as cendeth into heaven, but he who descended from heaven; the 14 Son of Man, whose abode is heaven. As Moses placed on Numb. 21. 9. 15 high the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be placed on high, that whosoever believeth on him may not per16 ish, but obtain eternal life: for God hath so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him 1 Jo. 4. 9. 17 may not perish but obtain eternal life. For God hath sent his ch. 12. 47 Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the ch. 1. 4. ch. 4. 2. ch. 1. 27, 30. ch. 1. 20. 18 world may be saved by him. He who believeth on him shall not be condemned; he who believeth not is already condemned, because he hath not believed on the name of the only begotten 19 Son of God. Now this is the ground of condemnation, that the light is come into the world, and men have preferred the 20 darkness to the light, because their deeds were evil. For whosoever doth evil, hateth the light, and shunneth it, lest his deeds 21 should be detected. But he who obeyeth the truth, cometh to the light, that it may be manifest that his actions are agreeable to God. 22 After this Jesus went with his disciples into the territory 23 of Judea, where he remained with them, and baptized. John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much 24 water there; and the people came thither and were baptized. For John was not yet cast into prison. 25 Now John's disciples had a dispute with a Jew about puri26 fication. Whereupon they went to John, and said to him: Rabbi, he who was with thee near the Jordan, of whom thou gavest so great a character, he too baptizeth, and the people 27 flock to him. John answered: A man can have no power but 28 what he deriveth from heaven. Ye yourselves are witnesses for me, that I said, 'I am not the Messiah, but am sent before 29 him.' The bridegroom is he who hath the bride; but the friend of the bridegroom, who assisteth him, rejoiceth to hear the 30 bridegroom's voice; this my joy therefore is complete. He must 31 increase, while I decrease. He who cometh from above, is above all. He who is from the earth is earthly, and speaketh as being from the earth. He who cometh from heaven is 32 above all. What he testifieth is what he hath seen and heard ; 33 yet his testimony is not received. He who receiveth his testi34 mony, voucheth the veracity of God. For he whom God hath commissioned, relateth God's own words; for to him God 35 giveth not the Spirit by measure. The Father loveth the Son, 36 and hath subjected all things to him. He who believeth on the Son hath life eternal; he who rejecteth the Son shall not see life, but the vengeance of God awaiteth him. IV. SECTION III.-THE JOURNEY TO GALILEE. JESUS, knowing that the Pharisees were informed that he 2 inade and baptized more disciples than John, (though it was not 3 Jesus himself, but his disciples, who baptized), left Judea, and returned to Galilee. 4. Being obliged to pass through Samaria, he canie to a Samari tan city called Sychar,* near the heritage which Jacob gave his 6 son Joseph. Now Jacob's well was there. And Jesus, wea- Gen. 33. 19. ried with the journey, sat down by the well, it being about the sixth hour.t 7 A woman of Samaria having come to draw water, Jesus said 8 to her: Give me to drink, (for his disciples were gone into the 9 city to buy food). The Samaritan woman answered: How is it that thou, who art a Jew, askest drink of me who am a Samaritan? (for the Jews have no friendly intercourse with the 10 Samaritans). Jesus replied: If thou knewest the bounty of God, and who it is that saith to thee Give me to drink,' thou wouldst have asked him, and he would have given thee living 11 water. She answered: Sir, thou hast no bucket, and the well 12 is deep whence then hast thou the living water? Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank 13 thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle? Jesus replied: 14 Whoso drinketh of this water, will thirst again; but whoever shall drink of the water which I shall give him, shall never thirst more; but the water which I shall give shall be in him a 15 fountain springing up to everlasting life. The woman answer ed: Sir, give me this water, that I may never be thirsty, nor 16 come hither to draw. Jesus said to her: Go, call thy hus18 band, and come back. She answered: I have no husband. Je & 48. 22. Jos. 24. 32. sus replied: Thou sayest well, 'I have no husband;' for thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast, is not 19 thy husband: in this thou hast spoken truth. The woman 20 said: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Our fathers Deut. 12 5, worshipped on this mountain; and ye say that in Jerusalem is 21 the place where men ought to worship. Jesus answered: Wo man, believe me, the time approacheth, when ye shall neither come to this mountain, nor go to Jerusalem, to worship the Fa22 ther. Ye worship what ye know not; we worship what we 23 know for salvation is from the Jews. But the time cometh, or rather is come, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such are the worshippers whom 24 the Father requireth. God is a spirit, and they that worship 2 Cor. 3. 17. 25 him must worship him in spirit and truth. The woman replied: I know that the Messiah‡ cometh, (that is, the Christ): when 26 he is come, he will teach us all things. Jesus said unto her: I who speak unto thee am he. 27 Upon this his disciples came, and wondered that he talked with a woman; yet none of them said, 'What seekest thou? 28 or why talkest thou with her?' Then the woman left her * In the Old Testament called Shechem. The anointed. Twelve o'clock, noon. |