3So the people were thirsty there for want of water, and murmured against Moses, saying: Why did you make us go forth out of Egypt, to kill us and our children, and our beasts with thirst?

4And Moses cried to the Lord, saying: What shall I do to this people? Yet a little more and they will stone me.

5And the Lord said to Moses: God before the people, and take with you of the leaders of Israel: and take in your hand the rod with what you did strike the river, and go.

6Look I will stand there before you, upon the rock Horeb: and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it that the people may drink. Moses did so before the leaders of Israel:

7And he called the name of that place Temptation, because the chiding of the children of Israel, and for that they tempted the Lord, saying: Is the Lord amongst us or not?

1Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God our saviour.

2Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.

6Come let us adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that made us.

7For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.

8To day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts:

9As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my works.

1Being justified therefore by faith, let us have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ:

2By whom also we have access through faith into this grace, in which we stand, and glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God.

5And hope confoundeth not: because the charity of God is poured forth in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost, who is given to us.

6For why did Christ, when as yet we were weak, according to the time, die for the ungodly?

7For scarce for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man some one would dare to die.

8But God commendeth his charity towards us; because when as yet we were sinners, according to the time,

5He comes therefore to a city of Samaria, which is called Sichar, near the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

6Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.

7There comes a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus says to her: Give me to drink.

8For his disciples were gone into the city to buy meats.

9Then that Samaritan woman says to him: How do you, being a Jew, ask of me to drink, who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews do not communicate with the Samaritans.

10Jesus answered, and said to her: If you did know the gift of God, and who he is that says to you, Give me to drink; you perhaps would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water.

11The woman says to him: Sir, you have nothing in which to draw, and the well is deep; from whence then have you living water?

12Art you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

13Jesus answered, and said to her: Whoever drinketh of this water, shall thirst again; but the one who will drink of the water that I will give him, shall not thirst forever:

14But the water that I will give him, shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life eternal.

15The woman says to him: Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.

16Jesus says to her: Go, call your husband, and come here. 17 The woman answered, and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: You have said well, I have no husband:

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18For you have had five husbands: and he whom you now have, is not your husband. This you have said truly.

19The woman says to him: Sir, I perceive that you art a prophet.

20Our fathers adored on this mountain, and you say, that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore.

21Jesus says to her: Woman, believe me, that the hour comes, when you shall neither on this mountain, not in Jerusalem, adore the Father.

22You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know; for salvation is of the Jews.

23But the hour comes, 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.

24God is a spirit; and those who adore him, must adore him in spirit and in truth.

25The woman says to him: I know that the Messias comes (who is called Christ); therefore, when he is come, he will tell us all things.

26Jesus says to her: I am he, who am speaking with you.

27And immediately his disciples came; and they wondered that he talked with the woman. Yet no man said: What seek you? or, why talkest you with her?

28The woman therefore left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and says to the men there:

29Come, and see a man who has told me all things whatever I have done. Is not he the Christ?

30They went therefore out of the city, and came to him.

31In the mean time the disciples prayed him, saying: Teacher, eat.

32But he said to them: I have food to eat, which you know not.

33The disciples therefore said one to another: Has any man brought him to eat?

34Jesus says to them: My food is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work.

35Do you not say, There are yet four months, and then the harvest comes? Look, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the countries; for they are white already to harvest.

36And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit to life eternal: that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth, may rejoice together.

37For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth.

38I have sent you to reap that in which you did not work: others have laboured, and you have entered into their labours.

39Now of that city many of the Samaritans believed in him, for the word of the woman giving teaching: He told me all things whatever I have done.

40So when the Samaritans were come to him, they desired that he would tarry there. And he abode there two days.

41And many more believed in him because of his own word.

42And they said to the woman: We now believe, not for your saying: for we ourselves have heard him, and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.