John 3-4 (Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition)

John 3

 ¹And there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

    ²This man came to Jesus by night, and said to him: Rabbi, we know that thou art come a teacher from God; for no man can do these signs which thou dost, unless God be with him.

    ³Jesus answered, and said to him: Amen, amen I say to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

    ⁴Nicodemus saith to him: How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born again?

    ⁵Jesus answered: Amen, amen I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, 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.

    ⁷Wonder not, that I said to thee, you must be born again.

    ⁸The Spirit breatheth where he will; and thou hearest his voice, but thou knowest not whence he cometh, and whither he goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

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

    ¹⁰Jesus answered, and said to him: Art thou a master in Israel, and knowest not these things?

    ¹¹Amen, amen I say to thee, that we speak what we know, and we testify what we have seen, and you receive not our testimony.

    ¹²If I have spoken to you earthly things, and you believe not; how will you believe, if I shall speak to you heavenly things?

    ¹³And no man hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven.

    ¹⁴And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of man be lifted up:

    ¹⁵That whosoever believeth in him, may not perish; but may have life everlasting.

    ¹⁶For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in him, may not perish, but may have life everlasting.

    ¹⁷For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world, but that the world may be saved by him.

    ¹⁸He that believeth in him is not judged. But he that doth not believe, is already judged: because he believeth not in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

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

    ²⁰For every one that doth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved.

    ²¹But he that doth truth, cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest, because they are done in God.

    ²²After these things Jesus and his disciples came into the land of Judea: and there he abode with them, and baptized.

    ²³And John also was baptizing in Ennon near Salim; because there was much water there; and they came and were baptized.

    ²⁴For John was not yet cast into prison.

    ²⁵And there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews concerning purification:

    ²⁶And they came to John, and said to him: Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou gavest testimony, behold he baptizeth, and all men come to him.

    ²⁷John answered, and said: A man cannot receive any thing, unless it be given him from heaven.

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

    ²⁹He that hath the bride, is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth with joy because of the bridegroom's voice. This my joy therefore is fulfilled.

    ³⁰He must increase, but I must decrease.

    ³¹He that cometh from above, is above all. He that is of the earth, of the earth he is, and of the earth he speaketh. He that cometh from heaven, is above all.

    ³²And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth: and no man receiveth his testimony.

    ³³He that hath received his testimony, hath set to his seal that God is true.

    ³⁴For he whom God hath sent, speaketh the words of God: for God doth not give the Spirit by measure.

    ³⁵The Father loveth the Son: and he hath given all things into his hand.

    ³⁶He that believeth in the Son, hath life everlasting; but he that believeth not the Son, shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

   

John 4

 ¹When Jesus therefore understood that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus maketh more disciples, and baptizeth more than John,

    ²(Though Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples,)

    ³He left Judea, and went again into Galilee.

    ⁴And he was of necessity to pass through Samaria.

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

    ⁶Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.

    ⁷There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus saith to her: Give me to drink.

    ⁸For his disciples were gone into the city to buy meats.

    ⁹Then that Samaritan woman saith to him: How dost thou, being a Jew, ask of me to drink, who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews do not communicate with the Samaritans.

    ¹⁰Jesus answered, and said to her: If thou didst know the gift of God, and who he is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou perhaps wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

    ¹¹The woman saith to him: Sir, thou hast nothing wherein to draw, and the well is deep; from whence then hast thou living water?

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

    ¹³Jesus answered, and said to her: Whosoever 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:

    ¹⁴But the water that I will give him, shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting.

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

    ¹⁶Jesus 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, I have no husband:

    ¹⁸For thou hast had five husbands: and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husband. This thou hast said truly.

    ¹⁹The woman saith to him: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

    ²⁰Our fathers adored on this mountain, and you say, that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore.

    ²¹Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe me, that the hour cometh, when you shall neither on this mountain, not in Jerusalem, adore the Father.

    ²²You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know; for salvation is of the Jews.

    ²³But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeketh such to adore him.

    ²⁴God is a spirit; and they that adore him, must adore him in spirit and in truth.

    ²⁵The woman saith to him: I know that the Messias cometh (who is called Christ); therefore, when he is come, he will tell us all things.

    ²⁶Jesus saith to her: I am he, who am speaking with thee.

    ²⁷And immediately his disciples came; and they wondered that he talked with the woman. Yet no man said: What seekest thou? or, why talkest thou with her?

    ²⁸The woman therefore left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men there:

    ²⁹Come, and see a man who has told me all things whatsoever I have done. Is not he the Christ?

    ³⁰They went therefore out of the city, and came unto him.

    ³¹In the mean time the disciples prayed him, saying: Rabbi, eat.

    ³²But he said to them: I have meat to eat, which you know not.

    ³³The disciples therefore said one to another: Hath any man brought him to eat?

    ³⁴Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work.

    ³⁵Do you not say, There are yet four months, and then the harvest cometh? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the countries; for they are white already to harvest.

    ³⁶And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting: that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth, may rejoice together.

    ³⁷For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth.

    ³⁸I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour: others have laboured, and you have entered into their labours.

    ³⁹Now of that city many of the Samaritans believed in him, for the word of the woman giving testimony: He told me all things whatsoever I have done.

    ⁴⁰So when the Samaritans were come to him, they desired that he would tarry there. And he abode there two days.

    ⁴¹And many more believed in him because of his own word.

    ⁴²And they said to the woman: We now believe, not for thy saying: for we ourselves have heard him, and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.

    ⁴³Now after two days, he departed thence, and went into Galilee.

    ⁴⁴For Jesus himself gave testimony that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.

    ⁴⁵And when he was come into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things he had done at Jerusalem on the festival day; for they also went to the festival day.

    ⁴⁶He came again therefore into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain ruler, whose son was sick at Capharnaum.

    ⁴⁷He having heard that Jesus was come from Judea into Galilee, went to him, and prayed him to come down, and heal his son; for he was at the point of death.

    ⁴⁸Jesus therefore said to him: Unless you see signs and wonders, you believe not.

    ⁴⁹The ruler saith to him: Lord, come down before that my son die.

    ⁵⁰Jesus saith to him: Go thy way; thy son liveth. The man believed the word which Jesus said to him, and went his way.

    ⁵¹And as he was going down, his servants met him; and they brought word, saying, that his son lived.

    ⁵²He asked therefore of them the hour wherein he grew better. And they said to him: Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left him.

    ⁵³The father therefore knew, that it was at the same hour that Jesus said to him, Thy son liveth; and himself believed, and his whole house.

    ⁵⁴This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judea into Galilee.