John answered and said, “A man can receive nothing, except it have been given him from heaven.  Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am sent before him.  He that hath the bride is the bridegroom:  but the friend of the bridegroom, that standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice:  this my joy therefore is made full.  He must increase, but I must decrease.”

He that cometh from above is above all:  he that is of the earth is of the earth, and of the earth he speaketh:  he that cometh from heaven is above all.  What he hath seen and heard, of that he beareth witness; and no man receiveth his witness.  He that hath received his witness hath set his seal to this, that God is true.  For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God:  for he giveth not the Spirit by measure.  The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.  He that believeth on the Son hath eternal life; but he that obeyeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.

AT JACOB’S WELL.

When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John, he left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.

And he must needs pass through Samaria.  So he cometh to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph:  and Jacob’s well was there.  Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus by the well.  It was about the sixth hour.

There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water:  Jesus saith unto her, “Give me to drink.”  For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food.

The Samaritan woman therefore saith unto him, “How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, who am a Samaritan woman?” (for Jews have no dealings with Samaritans).

Jesus answered and said unto her, “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 unto him, “Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; whence then hast thou that living water?  Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle?”

Jesus answered and said unto her, “Every one that 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 become in him a well of water, springing up unto eternal life.”

The woman saith unto him, “Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come all the way hither to draw.”

Jesus saith unto her, “Go, call thy husband, and come hither.”

The woman answered and said unto him, “I have no husband.”