The Life of Jesus

And from that city many believed in him, of the Samaritans, because of the word of the woman testifying, --`He told me all things--as many as I did.'

When, then, the Samaritans came unto him, they were asking him to remain with them, and he remained there two days;

and many more did believe because of his word,

and said to the woman--`No more because of thy speaking do we believe; for we ourselves have heard and known that this is truly the Saviour of the world--the Christ.'

And after the two days he went forth thence, and went away to Galilee,

for Jesus himself testified that a prophet in his own country shall not have honour;

when then, he came to Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all things that he did in Jerusalem in the feast--for they also went to the feast.

Jesus came, therefore, again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine, and there was a certain courtier, whose son was ailing in Capernaum,

he, having heard that Jesus is come out of Judea to Galilee, went away unto him, and was asking him that he may come down and may heal his son, for he was about to die.

Jesus then said unto him, `If signs and wonders ye may not see, ye will not believe.'

The courtier saith unto him, `Sir, come down before my child die;'

Jesus saith to him, `Be going on; thy son doth live.' And the man believed the word that Jesus said to him, and was going on,

and he now going down, his servants met him, and told, saying--`Thy child doth live;'

he inquired then of them the hour in which he became better, and they said to him--`Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him;'

then the father knew that it was in that hour in which Jesus said to him--`Thy son doth live,' and he himself believed, and his whole house;

this again a second sign did Jesus, having come out of Judea to Galilee.

After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

and there is in Jerusalem by the sheep- gate a pool that is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches,

in these were lying a great multitude of the ailing, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water,

for a messenger at a set time was going down in the pool, and was troubling the water, the first then having gone in after the troubling of the water, became whole of whatever sickness he was held.

and there was a certain man there being in ailment thirty and eight years,

him Jesus having seen lying, and having known that he is already a long time, he saith to him, `Dost thou wish to become whole?'

The ailing man answered him, `Sir, I have no man, that, when the water may be troubled, he may put me into the pool, and while I am coming, another doth go down before me.'

Jesus saith to him, `Rise, take up thy couch, and be walking;'

and immediately the man became whole, and he took up his couch, and was walking, and it was a sabbath on that day,