John 3-4 (Darby Translation)

John 3

 ¹But there was a man from among the Pharisees, his name Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews;

 ²he came to him by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that thou art come a teacher from God, for none can do these signs that thou doest unless God be with him.

 ³Jesus answered and said to him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except any one be born anew he cannot see the kingdom of God.

 ⁴Nicodemus says to him, How can a man be born being old? can he enter a second time into the womb of his mother and be born?

 ⁵Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except any one be born of water and of Spirit, 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.

 ⁷Do not wonder that I said to thee, It is needful that *ye* should be born anew.

 ⁸The wind blows where it will, and thou hearest its voice, but knowest not whence it comes and where it goes: thus is every one that is born of the Spirit.

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

 ¹⁰Jesus answered and said to him, Thou art the teacher of Israel and knowest not these things!

 ¹¹Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that which we know, and we bear witness of that which we have seen, and ye receive not our witness.

 ¹²If I have said the earthly things to you, and ye believe not, how, if I say the heavenly things to you, will ye believe?

 ¹³And no one has gone up into heaven, save he who came down out of heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven.

 ¹⁴And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, thus must the Son of man be lifted up,

 ¹⁵that every one who believes on him may [not perish, but] have life eternal.

 ¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him may not perish, but have life eternal.

 ¹⁷For God has not sent his Son into the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him.

 ¹⁸He that believes on him is not judged: but he that believes not has been already judged, because he has not believed on the name of the only-begotten Son of God.

 ¹⁹And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light; for their works were evil.

 ²⁰For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light that his works may not be shewn as they are;

 ²¹but he that practises the truth comes to the light, that his works may be manifested that they have been wrought in God.

 ²²After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he abode with them and baptised.

 ²³And John also was baptising in Aenon, near Salim, because there was a great deal of water there; and they came to [him] and were baptised:

 ²⁴for John was not yet cast into prison.

 ²⁵There was therefore a reasoning of the disciples of John with a Jew about purification.

 ²⁶And they came to John and said to him, Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, he baptises, and all come to him.

 ²⁷John answered and said, A man can receive nothing unless it be given him out of heaven.

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

 ²⁹He that has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices in heart because of the voice of the bridegroom: this my joy then is fulfilled.

 ³⁰He must increase, but I must decrease.

 ³¹He who comes from above is above all. He who has his origin in the earth is of the earth, and speaks [as] of the earth. He who comes out of heaven is above all,

 ³²[and] what he has seen and has heard, this he testifies; and no one receives his testimony.

 ³³He that has received his testimony has set to his seal that God is true;

 ³⁴for he whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives not the Spirit by measure.

 ³⁵The Father loves the Son, and has given all things [to be] in his hand.

 ³⁶He that believes on the Son has life eternal, and he that is not subject to the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him.

John 4

 ¹When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus makes and baptises more disciples than John

 ²(however, Jesus himself did not baptise, but his disciples),

 ³he left Judaea and went away again unto Galilee.

 ⁴And he must needs pass through Samaria.

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

 ⁶Now a fountain of Jacob's was there; Jesus therefore, being wearied with the way he had come, sat just as he was at the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.

 ⁷A woman comes out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus says to her, Give me to drink

 ⁸(for his disciples had gone away into the city that they might buy provisions).

 ⁹The Samaritan woman therefore says to him, How dost thou, being a Jew, ask to drink of me who am a Samaritan woman? for Jews have no intercourse with Samaritans.

 ¹⁰Jesus answered and said to her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that says to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

 ¹¹The woman says to him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then hast thou the living water?

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

 ¹³Jesus answered and said to her, Every one who drinks of this water shall thirst again;

 ¹⁴but whosoever drinks of the water which I shall give him shall never thirst for ever, but the water which I shall give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into eternal life.

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

 ¹⁶Jesus says to her, Go, call thy husband, and come here.

 ¹⁷The woman answered and said, I have not a husband. Jesus says to her, Thou hast well said, I have not a husband;

 ¹⁸for thou hast had five husbands, and he whom now thou hast is not thy husband: this thou hast spoken truly.

 ¹⁹The woman says to him, Sir, I see that thou art a prophet.

 ²⁰Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship.

 ²¹Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, [the] hour is coming when ye shall neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem worship the Father.

 ²²Ye worship ye know not what; we worship what we know, for salvation is of the Jews.

 ²³But [the] hour is coming and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for also the Father seeks such as his worshippers.

 ²⁴God [is] a spirit; and they who worship him must worship [him] in spirit and truth.

 ²⁵The woman says to him, I know that Messiah is coming, who is called Christ; when *he* comes he will tell us all things.

 ²⁶Jesus says to her, I who speak to thee am [he].

 ²⁷And upon this came his disciples, and wondered that he spoke with a woman; yet no one said, What seekest thou? or, Why speakest thou with her?

 ²⁸The woman then left her waterpot and went away into the city, and says to the men,

 ²⁹Come, see a man who told me all things I had ever done: is not he the Christ?

 ³⁰They went out of the city and came to him.

 ³¹But meanwhile the disciples asked him saying, Rabbi, eat.

 ³²But he said to them, I have food to eat which ye do not know.

 ³³The disciples therefore said to one another, Has any one brought him [anything] to eat?

 ³⁴Jesus says to them, My food is that I should do the will of him that has sent me, and that I should finish his work.

 ³⁵Do not ye say, that there are yet four months and the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, for they are already white to harvest.

 ³⁶He that reaps receives wages and gathers fruit unto life eternal, that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together.

 ³⁷For in this is [verified] the true saying, It is one who sows and another who reaps.

 ³⁸I have sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others have laboured, and ye have entered into their labours.

 ³⁹But many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman who bore witness, He told me all things that I had ever done.

 ⁴⁰When therefore the Samaritans came to him they asked him to abide with them, and he abode there two days.

 ⁴¹And more a great deal believed on account of his word;

 ⁴²and they said to the woman, [It is] no longer on account of thy saying that we believe, for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.

 ⁴³But after the two days he went forth thence and went away into Galilee,

 ⁴⁴for Jesus himself bore witness that a prophet has no honour in his own country.

 ⁴⁵When therefore he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem during the feast, for they also went to the feast.

 ⁴⁶He came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain courtier in Capernaum whose son was sick.

 ⁴⁷He, having heard that Jesus had come out of Judaea into Galilee, went to him and asked [him] that he would come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

 ⁴⁸Jesus therefore said to him, Unless ye see signs and wonders ye will not believe.

 ⁴⁹The courtier says to him, Sir, come down ere my child die.

 ⁵⁰Jesus says to him, Go, thy son lives. And the man believed the word which Jesus said to him, and went his way.

 ⁵¹But already, as he was going down, his servants met him and brought [him] word saying, Thy child lives.

 ⁵²He inquired therefore from them the hour at which he got better. And they said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.

 ⁵³The father therefore knew that [it was] in that hour in which Jesus said to him, Thy son lives; and he believed, himself and his whole house.

 ⁵⁴This second sign again did Jesus, being come out of Judaea into Galilee.