John 4
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1When Jesus therefore understood that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus maketh more disciples, and baptizeth more than John,
1Ut ergo cognovit Jesus quia audierunt pharisæi quod Jesus plures discipulos facit, et baptizat, quam Joannes
2(Though Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples,)
2(quamquam Jesus non baptizaret, sed discipuli ejus),
3He left Judea, and went again into Galilee.
3reliquit Judæam, et abiit iterum in Galilæam.
4And he was of necessity to pass through Samaria.
4Oportebat autem eum transire per Samariam.
5He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria, which is called Sichar, near the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
5Venit ergo in civitatem Samariæ, quæ dicitur Sichar, juxta prædium quod dedit Jacob Joseph filio suo.
6Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.
6Erat autem ibi fons Jacob. Jesus ergo fatigatus ex itinere, sedebat sic supra fontem. Hora erat quasi sexta.
7There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus saith to her: Give me to drink.
7Venit mulier de Samaria haurire aquam. Dicit ei Jesus: Da mihi bibere.
8For his disciples were gone into the city to buy meats.
8(Discipuli enim ejus abierant in civitatem ut cibos emerent.)
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.
9Dicit ergo ei mulier illa Samaritana: Quomodo tu, Judæus cum sis, bibere a me poscis, quæ sum mulier Samaritana? non enim coutuntur Judæi Samaritanis.
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.
10Respondit Jesus, et dixit ei: Si scires donum Dei, et quis est qui dicit tibi: Da mihi bibere, tu forsitan petisses ab eo, et dedisset tibi aquam vivam.
11The woman saith to him: Sir, thou hast nothing wherein to draw, and the well is deep; from whence then hast thou living water?
11Dicit ei mulier: Domine, neque in quo haurias habes, et puteus altus est: unde ergo habes aquam vivam?
12Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
12Numquid tu major es patre nostro Jacob, qui dedit nobis puteum, et ipse ex eo bibit, et filii ejus, et pecora ejus?
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:
13Respondit Jesus, et dixit ei: Omnis qui bibit ex aqua hac, sitiet iterum; qui autem biberit ex aqua quam ego dabo ei, non sitiet in æternum:
14But the water that I will give him, shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting.
14sed aqua quam ego dabo ei, fiet in eo fons aquæ salientis in vitam æternam.
15The woman saith to him: Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.
15Dicit ad eum mulier: Domine, da mihi hanc aquam, ut non sitiam, neque veniam huc haurire.
16Jesus saith to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
16Dicit ei Jesus: Vade, voca virum tuum, et veni huc.
17The woman answered, and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: Thou hast said well, I have no husband:
17Respondit mulier, et dixit: Non habeo virum. Dicit ei Jesus: Bene dixisti, quia non habeo virum;
18For thou hast had five husbands: and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husband. This thou hast said truly.
18quinque enim viros habuisti, et nunc, quem habes, non est tuus vir: hoc vere dixisti.
19The woman saith to him: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
19Dicit ei mulier: Domine, video quia propheta es tu.
20Our fathers adored on this mountain, and you say, that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore.
20Patres nostri in monte hoc adoraverunt, et vos dicitis, quia Jerosolymis est locus ubi adorare oportet.
21Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe me, that the hour cometh, when you shall neither on this mountain, not in Jerusalem, adore the Father.
21Dicit ei Jesus: Mulier, crede mihi, quia venit hora, quando neque in monte hoc, neque in Jerosolymis adorabitis Patrem.
22You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know; for salvation is of the Jews.
22Vos adoratis quod nescitis: nos adoramus quod scimus, quia salus ex Judæis est.
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.
23Sed venit hora, et nunc est, quando veri adoratores adorabunt Patrem in spiritu et veritate. Nam et Pater tales quærit, qui adorent eum.
24God is a spirit; and they that adore him, must adore him in spirit and in truth.
24Spiritus est Deus: et eos qui adorant eum, in spiritu et veritate oportet adorare.
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.
25Dicit ei mulier: Scio quia Messias venit (qui dicitur Christus): cum ergo venerit ille, nobis annuntiabit omnia.
26Jesus saith to her: I am he, who am speaking with thee.
26Dicit ei Jesus: Ego sum, qui loquor tecum.
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?
27Et continuo venerunt discipuli ejus, et mirabantur quia cum muliere loquebatur. Nemo tamen dixit: Quid quæris? aut, Quid loqueris cum ea?
28The woman therefore left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men there:
28Reliquit ergo hydriam suam mulier, et abiit in civitatem, et dicit illis hominibus:
29Come, and see a man who has told me all things whatsoever I have done. Is not he the Christ?
29Venite, et videte hominem qui dixit mihi omnia quæcumque feci: numquid ipse est Christus?
30They went therefore out of the city, and came unto him.
30Exierunt ergo de civitate et veniebant ad eum.
31In the mean time the disciples prayed him, saying: Rabbi, eat.
31Interea rogabant eum discipuli, dicentes: Rabbi, manduca.
32But he said to them: I have meat to eat, which you know not.
32Ille autem dicit eis: Ego cibum habeo manducare, quem vos nescitis.
33The disciples therefore said one to another: Hath any man brought him to eat?
33Dicebant ergo discipuli ad invicem: Numquid aliquis attulit ei manducare?
34Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work.
34Dicit eis Jesus: Meus cibus est ut faciam voluntatem ejus qui misit me, ut perficiam opus ejus.
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.
35Nonne vos dicitis quod adhuc quatuor menses sunt, et messis venit? Ecce dico vobis: levate oculos vestros, et videte regiones, quia albæ sunt jam ad messem.
36And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting: that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth, may rejoice together.
36Et qui metit, mercedem accipit, et congregat fructum in vitam æternam: ut et qui seminat, simul gaudeat, et qui metit.
37For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth.
37In hoc enim est verbum verum: quia alius est qui seminat, et alius est qui metit.
38I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour: others have laboured, and you have entered into their labours.
38Ego misi vos metere quod vos non laborastis: alii laboraverunt, et vos in labores eorum introistis.
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.
39Ex civitate autem illa multi crediderunt in eum Samaritanorum, propter verbum mulieris testimonium perhibentis: Quia dixit mihi omnia quæcumque feci.
40So when the Samaritans were come to him, they desired that he would tarry there. And he abode there two days.
40Cum venissent ergo ad illum Samaritani, rogaverunt eum ut ibi maneret. Et mansit ibi duos dies.
41And many more believed in him because of his own word.
41Et multo plures crediderunt in eum propter sermonem ejus.
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.
42Et mulieri dicebant: Quia jam non propter tuam loquelam credimus: ipsi enim audivimus, et scimus quia hic est vere Salvator mundi.
43Now after two days, he departed thence, and went into Galilee.
43Post duos autem dies exiit inde, et abiit in Galilæam.
44For Jesus himself gave testimony that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.
44Ipse enim Jesus testimonium perhibuit, quia propheta in sua patria honorem non habet.
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.
45Cum ergo venisset in Galilæam, exceperunt eum Galilæi, cum omnia vidissent quæ fecerat Jerosolymis in die festo: et ipsi enim venerant ad diem festum.
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.
46Venit ergo iterum in Cana Galilææ, ubi fecit aquam vinum. Et erat quidam regulus, cujus filius infirmabatur 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.
47Hic cum audisset quia Jesus adveniret a Judæa in Galilæam, abiit ad eum, et rogabat eum ut descenderet, et sanaret filium ejus: incipiebat enim mori.
48Jesus therefore said to him: Unless you see signs and wonders, you believe not.
48Dixit ergo Jesus ad eum: Nisi signa et prodigia videritis, non creditis.
49The ruler saith to him: Lord, come down before that my son die.
49Dicit ad eum regulus: Domine, descende priusquam moriatur filius meus.
50Jesus saith to him: Go thy way; thy son liveth. The man believed the word which Jesus said to him, and went his way.
50Dicit ei Jesus: Vade, filius tuus vivit. Credidit homo sermoni quem dixit ei Jesus, et ibat.
51And as he was going down, his servants met him; and they brought word, saying, that his son lived.
51Jam autem eo descendente, servi occurrerunt ei, et nuntiaverunt dicentes, quia filius ejus viveret.
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.
52Interrogabat ergo horam ab eis in qua melius habuerit. Et dixerunt ei: Quia heri hora septima reliquit eum febris.
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.
53Cognovit ergo pater, quia illa hora erat in qua dixit ei Jesus: Filius tuus vivit; et credidit ipse et domus ejus tota.
54This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judea into Galilee.
54Hoc iterum secundum signum fecit Jesus, cum venisset a Judæa in Galilæam.
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