that which ye know not: we adore that which we know; for salvation is of the Jews. But 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. God is a spirit, and they that adore him must adore him in spirit and in truth.

The woman saith to him, I know that the Messias cometh (who is called Christ); when therefore he is come, he will tell us all things. Jesus saith to her, I, that speak with thee, am he.

And 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? The woman therefore left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men there, Come, and see a man who has told me all things whatsoever I have done. Is not he the Christ? They went therefore out of the city, and came unto him.

In the mean time the disciples prayed him, saying, Rabbi, eat. But he said to them, I have meat to eat, which ye know not. The disciples therefore said one to another, Hath any man brought him to eat? Jesus saith to them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may finish his work. Do not ye say, There are yet four months, and then the harvest cometh? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the fields; for they are white already to harvest. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting; that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth, may rejoice together. For in this is the saying true, That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth. I have sent you to reap that in which ye did not labour: others have laboured, and ye have entered into their labours.

Now many of the Samaritans out of that city

believed in him, for the word of the woman that testified, He told me all things whatsoever I have done. So when the Samaritans were come to him, they desired that he would tarry there; and he abode there two days. And many more believed in him because of his own word. And 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.

SECT. XXI. ON HIS RETURN TO CANA IN GALILEE JESUS HEALS THE RULER'S SON.

And when Jesus had heard that John was delivered up, after two days he departed thence, and returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee. For Jesus himself gave testimony that a prophet hath no honour in his own country. And when he was come into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things he had done at Jerusalem on the festivaldays; for they also went to the festival-day.

Cana.

He 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. He, 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. Then Jesus said to him, Unless ye see signs and wonders ye believe not. The ruler saith to him, Sir, come down, before my son die. Jesus saith to him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. The man believed the word which Jesus said to him, and went his way. And as he was going down, his servants met him; and they brought word, saying that his son lived. He asked therefore of them the hour wherein he grew better. And they said to him, Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left him.

The 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.

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

SECT. XXII. THE FAME OF THIS MIRACLE HAVING SPREAD, JESUS GOES TO NAZARETH, AND THERE PREACHES IN THE SYNAGOGUE. A.D. 27.

Nazareth.

And the fame of him went out through the whole country. And he taught in their synagogues,† and was magnified by all. And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up; and he went into the synagogue, according to his custom, on the sabbath-day; and he rose up to read. And the book of Isaias the prophet was delivered unto him; and having unfolded the book, he found the place where it was written, The spirit of the Lord is upon me; wherefore he hath anointed me; he hath sent me to preach the gospel to the poor; to heal the contrite of heart; to preach deliverance to the captives, and sight to the blind; to set at liberty them that are bruised; to preach the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of reward (Isa. Ixi. 1). And when he had folded the book, he restored it to the minister and sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him.

And he began to say to them, This day this scripture is fulfilled in your ears. And all gave testimony to him; and they wondered at the words of

* That is, the second he wrought in Galilee, for he had done many in Jerusalem.

The synagogues were the recognised places of religious instruction amongst the Jews. Almost every town and village had one, with its own ministers and arrangements. They were not places of sacrifice, but for hearing the law read, and perhaps for prayer and devotion.

grace that proceeded from his mouth; and they said, Is not this the son of Joseph ?

And he said to them, Doubtless ye will say to me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: as great things as we have heard done in Capharnaum, do also here in thy own country. And he said, Amen I say to you, that no prophet is accepted in his own country. In truth I say to you, There were many widows in the days of Elias in Israel,* when heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there was a great famine throughout all the earth, and to none of them was Elias sent, but to Sarepta of Sidon, to a widow woman. And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet,† and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian.

And all they in the synagogue, hearing these things, were filled with anger. And they rose up and thrust him out of the city; and they brought him to the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong. But he, passing through the midst of them, went his way.

JESUS

SECT. XXIII. JESUS GOES DOWN TO CAPHARNAUM AND DWELLS
THERE. THE MIRACULOUS DRAUGHT OF FISHES.
CALLS PETER, ANDREW, JAMES, AND JOHN.

Capharnaum.

And leaving the city Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capharnaum on the sea-coast, in the borders of Zabulon and of Nephthalim; that it might be fulfilled which was said by Isaias the prophet, Land of Zabulon and land of Nephthalim, the way of the sea beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles: the people that sat in darkness hath seen great light; and to them that sat in the region of the shadow of death light is sprung up (Isaias ix. 1, and xlii. 7). From * 3 Kings xvii.

+ 4 Kings v.

that time Jesus began to preach the gospel of the kingdom of God; and to say, The time is accomplished, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent, and believe the gospel.

And it came to pass that when the multitudes pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Genesareth, and saw two ships standing by the lake; but the fishermen were gone out of them and were washing their nets. And going up into one of the ships that was Simon's, he desired him to draw back a little from the land. And he sat, and taught

the multitudes out of the ship.

Now when he had ceased to speak, he said to Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. And Simon answering, said to him, Master, we have laboured all the night, and have taken nothing; but at thy word I will let down the net. And when they had done this, they enclosed a very great multitude of fishes, and their net broke. And they beckoned to their partners that were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came, and filled both the ships, so that they were almost sinking. And when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord. For he was wholly astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of fishes which they had taken. And so were also James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were Simon's partners. And Jesus saith to Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men. And having brought their nets to land, they left all things and followed him.