6.
JOHN ANSWERS THE PRIESTS—
"BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD"—
JESUS HAILS ANDREW,
SIMON, PHILIP, AND NATHANAEL
A.D. 27 Age 30. Bethabara
John, 1, 19-20 . . . 22-29 . . . 37-51.
JOHN, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art
thou? confessed, I am not the Christ. I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness,
Make straight the way of the Lord.
They asked him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ?
John answered, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye
know not; he it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet
I am not worthy to unloose.
These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
¶The next day after, John stood, and two of his disciples; and looking upon Jesus as
he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the
world.
The two disciples heard John speak, and they followed Jesus. He saw them
following, and saith,
What seek ye?
They answered, Rabbi (which is to say, Master), where dwellest thou? Jesus saith,
Come and see.
They came and saw where he dwelt, and they abode with him that day. One of the
two was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. He first findeth Simon, and saith unto him,
We have found the Messias. *
Andrew brought Simon to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld Simon, he said,
Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas.
Cephas is, by interpretation, A stone.
¶The day following, Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth Philip: he was of
Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Simon Peter. And Jesus saith unto Philip, Follow
me.
Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him of whom Moses did
write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. And Nathanael said, Can there any
good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip said, Come and see.
Jesus saw Nathanael coming, and saith of him,
Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
Nathanael saith, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered,
Before that Philip called thee, when thou wart under the fig tree, I saw thee.
Nathanael answered, Master, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.
Jesus said,
Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt
see greater things than these. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see
heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.
7.
JESUS' MOTHER AND THE WATER CHANGED
TO WINE—HE DRIVES THE MONEYMAKERS
FROM THE TEMPLE—TEMPLE OF THE BODY
A.D. 27. Age 30. Cana. Jerusalem.
John 2, 1-9; 12-16; 18-21.
THE third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Both Jesus was called, and
his disciples, to the marriage; and the mother of Jesus was there.
When they wanted wine, his mother saith unto Jesus, They have no wine. Jesus
saith,
Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.
His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith, do it.
There were set there six waterpots of stone containing two or three firkins apiece.
Jesus saith,
Fill the waterpots with water.
They filled them to the brim. And he saith,
Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast.
And they bare it. The ruler of the feast tasted. The water was made wine.
¶After this he went to Capernaum, Jesus, and his mother, and his brethren,
and his disciples; and they continued there not many days.
¶The Jews’ passover was at hand: Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
¶ *He found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves; and the
changers of money sitting: and when he had made a scourge of small cords, he
drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the
changers' money, and overthrew the tables; and said unto them that sold doves,
Take these things hence, make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.
¶Then the Jews said unto Jesus, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou
doest these things? He answered,
Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. †
Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou
rear it up in three days?
But Jesus spake of the temple of his body.
Footnotes
11:* John 2, 14-16.
8.
NIGHTTIME VISIT OF NICODEMUS—CHRIST
ENLIGHTENS HIM
April, A.D. 27 Age 30. Jerusalem.
John 3, 1-21.
A MAN of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews, came to Jesus by
night, and said unto him, Master, we know that thou art a teacher come from God:
for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus
answered,
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the
kingdom of God.
Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? Jesus
answered,
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he
cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh: and
that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it
listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and
whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Nicodemus said, How can these things be? Jesus answered,
Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? Verily, verily, I say unto
thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not
our witness.
If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you
of heavenly things? And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came
down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
¶And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man
be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
¶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son
into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
¶He that believeth on him is not condemned; but he that believeth not is condemned
already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
And this is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men loved
darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth
evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. *
9.
JOHN EXTOLS JESUS—THE WOMAN AT THE
WELL—"ONE SOWETH, AND ANOTHER
REAPETH"
A.D. 27. Age 30. Samaria: Sychar.
John 3, 22 . . . 28; 1-40.
AFTER these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judea. John was
baptizing in Enon near to Salim. For John was not yet cast into prison.
¶There arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews. They
came unto John, saying, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou
barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.
John said, Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I
am sent before him.
¶When Jesus knew how the Pharisees had heard that he made and baptized more
disciples than John (though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples), he left
Judea, and departed again into Galilee. And he must needs go through Samaria.
Then cometh he to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that
Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus being wearied with his journey, sat on the well.
There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her,
Give me to drink.
The woman saith, How is it that thou, being a Jew, asketh drink of me, a woman of
Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samarians. Jesus answered,
If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou
wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
The woman saith, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from
whence then hast thou that living water? Art thou greater than our father Jacob,
which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
Jesus said,
Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again; but whosoever drinketh of the
water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall
be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
The woman answered, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to
draw. Jesus saith,
Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
The woman answered, I have no husband. Jesus said,
Thou hast well said, I have no husband: for thou hast had five husbands; and he
whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
The woman saith, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Our fathers worshipped in
this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to
worship. Jesus saith,
Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet
at Jerusalem, worship the Father. Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we
worship; for salvation is of the Jews.
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father
in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
The woman saith, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is
come, he will tell us all things. Jesus saith,
I that speak unto thee am he.
The woman went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man,
which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
¶In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat. But he said,
I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him aught to eat?
Jesus saith unto them,
My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish 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; for they are white already to harvest.
And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: 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 that whereon ye bestowed no labor: other men labored, and ye are
entered into their labor.
¶Many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman,
which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
So they besought Jesus that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
10.
CHRIST IN CANA CURES NOBLEMAN'S SON
AT CAPERNAUM
A.D. 27. Age 30. Galilee: Cana (again).
John 4, 43-53.
AFTER two days Jesus went into Galilee: for Jesus himself testified, that a prophet
hath no honor in his own country.
The Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at
the feast: for they also went unto the feast.
So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he [had] made the water wine.
And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum. He went
unto Jesus, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he
was at the point of death. Then said Jesus unto him,
Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.
The nobleman saith, Sir, come down ere my child die. Jesus answered, Go thy way:
thy son liveth.
The man believed, and went his way. And going down, his servants met him, and
told him, Thy son liveth.
Then inquired he of them the hour when the child began to amend. They said,
Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him,
Thy son liveth.
JOHN ANSWERS THE PRIESTS—
"BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD"—
JESUS HAILS ANDREW,
SIMON, PHILIP, AND NATHANAEL
A.D. 27 Age 30. Bethabara
John, 1, 19-20 . . . 22-29 . . . 37-51.
JOHN, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art
thou? confessed, I am not the Christ. I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness,
Make straight the way of the Lord.
They asked him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ?
John answered, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye
know not; he it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet
I am not worthy to unloose.
These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
¶The next day after, John stood, and two of his disciples; and looking upon Jesus as
he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the
world.
The two disciples heard John speak, and they followed Jesus. He saw them
following, and saith,
What seek ye?
They answered, Rabbi (which is to say, Master), where dwellest thou? Jesus saith,
Come and see.
They came and saw where he dwelt, and they abode with him that day. One of the
two was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. He first findeth Simon, and saith unto him,
We have found the Messias. *
Andrew brought Simon to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld Simon, he said,
Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas.
Cephas is, by interpretation, A stone.
¶The day following, Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth Philip: he was of
Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Simon Peter. And Jesus saith unto Philip, Follow
me.
Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him of whom Moses did
write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. And Nathanael said, Can there any
good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip said, Come and see.
Jesus saw Nathanael coming, and saith of him,
Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
Nathanael saith, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered,
Before that Philip called thee, when thou wart under the fig tree, I saw thee.
Nathanael answered, Master, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.
Jesus said,
Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt
see greater things than these. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see
heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.
7.
JESUS' MOTHER AND THE WATER CHANGED
TO WINE—HE DRIVES THE MONEYMAKERS
FROM THE TEMPLE—TEMPLE OF THE BODY
A.D. 27. Age 30. Cana. Jerusalem.
John 2, 1-9; 12-16; 18-21.
THE third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Both Jesus was called, and
his disciples, to the marriage; and the mother of Jesus was there.
When they wanted wine, his mother saith unto Jesus, They have no wine. Jesus
saith,
Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.
His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith, do it.
There were set there six waterpots of stone containing two or three firkins apiece.
Jesus saith,
Fill the waterpots with water.
They filled them to the brim. And he saith,
Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast.
And they bare it. The ruler of the feast tasted. The water was made wine.
¶After this he went to Capernaum, Jesus, and his mother, and his brethren,
and his disciples; and they continued there not many days.
¶The Jews’ passover was at hand: Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
¶ *He found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves; and the
changers of money sitting: and when he had made a scourge of small cords, he
drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the
changers' money, and overthrew the tables; and said unto them that sold doves,
Take these things hence, make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.
¶Then the Jews said unto Jesus, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou
doest these things? He answered,
Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. †
Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou
rear it up in three days?
But Jesus spake of the temple of his body.
Footnotes
11:* John 2, 14-16.
8.
NIGHTTIME VISIT OF NICODEMUS—CHRIST
ENLIGHTENS HIM
April, A.D. 27 Age 30. Jerusalem.
John 3, 1-21.
A MAN of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews, came to Jesus by
night, and said unto him, Master, we know that thou art a teacher come from God:
for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus
answered,
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the
kingdom of God.
Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? Jesus
answered,
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he
cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh: and
that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it
listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and
whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Nicodemus said, How can these things be? Jesus answered,
Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? Verily, verily, I say unto
thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not
our witness.
If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you
of heavenly things? And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came
down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
¶And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man
be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
¶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son
into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
¶He that believeth on him is not condemned; but he that believeth not is condemned
already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
And this is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men loved
darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth
evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. *
9.
JOHN EXTOLS JESUS—THE WOMAN AT THE
WELL—"ONE SOWETH, AND ANOTHER
REAPETH"
A.D. 27. Age 30. Samaria: Sychar.
John 3, 22 . . . 28; 1-40.
AFTER these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judea. John was
baptizing in Enon near to Salim. For John was not yet cast into prison.
¶There arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews. They
came unto John, saying, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou
barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.
John said, Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I
am sent before him.
¶When Jesus knew how the Pharisees had heard that he made and baptized more
disciples than John (though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples), he left
Judea, and departed again into Galilee. And he must needs go through Samaria.
Then cometh he to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that
Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus being wearied with his journey, sat on the well.
There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her,
Give me to drink.
The woman saith, How is it that thou, being a Jew, asketh drink of me, a woman of
Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samarians. Jesus answered,
If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou
wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
The woman saith, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from
whence then hast thou that living water? Art thou greater than our father Jacob,
which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
Jesus said,
Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again; but whosoever drinketh of the
water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall
be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
The woman answered, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to
draw. Jesus saith,
Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
The woman answered, I have no husband. Jesus said,
Thou hast well said, I have no husband: for thou hast had five husbands; and he
whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
The woman saith, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Our fathers worshipped in
this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to
worship. Jesus saith,
Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet
at Jerusalem, worship the Father. Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we
worship; for salvation is of the Jews.
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father
in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
The woman saith, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is
come, he will tell us all things. Jesus saith,
I that speak unto thee am he.
The woman went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man,
which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
¶In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat. But he said,
I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him aught to eat?
Jesus saith unto them,
My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish 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; for they are white already to harvest.
And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: 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 that whereon ye bestowed no labor: other men labored, and ye are
entered into their labor.
¶Many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman,
which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
So they besought Jesus that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
10.
CHRIST IN CANA CURES NOBLEMAN'S SON
AT CAPERNAUM
A.D. 27. Age 30. Galilee: Cana (again).
John 4, 43-53.
AFTER two days Jesus went into Galilee: for Jesus himself testified, that a prophet
hath no honor in his own country.
The Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at
the feast: for they also went unto the feast.
So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he [had] made the water wine.
And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum. He went
unto Jesus, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he
was at the point of death. Then said Jesus unto him,
Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.
The nobleman saith, Sir, come down ere my child die. Jesus answered, Go thy way:
thy son liveth.
The man believed, and went his way. And going down, his servants met him, and
told him, Thy son liveth.
Then inquired he of them the hour when the child began to amend. They said,
Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him,
Thy son liveth.
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