his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

SECTION XXVII.

John's Testimony concerning Christ, and the necessity of faith in him.

JOHN iii. 22, to the end.

After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judæa; and there he tarried with them, and baptized. And John also was baptizing in Ænon near to Salim, because there was much water there and they came, and were baptized. For John was not yet cast into prison. Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying. And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou didst bear witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.

John answered and said, A man can receive nothing from heaven except it be given him. Ye_yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him. He is the bridegroom who hath the bride: but the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. He must increase, but I must decrease. He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth. He that cometh from heaven is above all. And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and shall no man receive his testimony? He that hath received his testimony, hath witnessed that God is true. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

SECTION XXVIII.

Imprisonment of John the Baptist.

MATT. xiv. 5. MARK vi. 17-21. LUKE iii. 19.

But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by John for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done, added yet this above all, that he sent forth and laid hold upon John, and put him in prison and shut him up and bound him, for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her. For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful. for thee to have thy brother's wife. Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not: for Herod reverenced John, knowing that he was a just and holy man, and protected him; and when he heard him, he heard him gladly, and did many things. And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

PART III.

From the Commencement of the more Public Ministry of Christ to the Mission of the Twelve Apostles.

SECTION XXIX.

General Introduction to the History of Christ's more Public Ministry.

MATT. iv. 12-18. MARK i. 14, 15. LUKE iv. 14, 15. Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee. Yea, when Jesus heard that John was cast into prison, he departed, and Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, preaching the Gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, reform, and believe the Gospel. And there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all. And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Ca

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pernaum, which is upon the coast of the Lake of Gennesaret, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim. So that it was fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; even the people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death, light is sprung up. From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent, reform; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

SECTION XXX.

Christ's Conversation with the Woman of Samaria concerning the Baptism of the Spirit.

JOHN iv. 1-43.

When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (for not only Jesus himself baptized, but his disciples,) he left Judæa, and departed again into Galilee. And he must needs go through Samaria. Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour (twelve o'clock.) There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy food.) Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, who am a woman of Samaria? (for the Jews have no intimacies with the 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: from 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 children, and his cattle?

Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever 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 be in him a well of water springing up unto everlasting life. The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: though thou hast had five husbands; for he whom thou now hast is not thy husband; in that saidst thou truly. The woman said unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain only, nor yet at Jerusalem only, worship the Father. Ye worship in ignorance: we worship in knowledge:* for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, who is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he. And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her? The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man who told me all things that ever I did is not this the Christ? Then they went out of the city, and came unto him. In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat. But he said unto them, I have food to eat that ye know not.

Ye worship not according to knowledge: we worship according to knowledge.

Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat? Jesus saith unto them, My food is the performance of the will of him that sent me, and the accomplishment of his work.

Say ye not, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already for harvest. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: so that he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. And herein is that saying true, One soweth and another reapeth. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on hinn for the saying of the woman, who testified, He told me all that ever I did. So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days. And many more believed because of his own word; and said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying only for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.

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SECTION XXXI.

Second Miracle at Cana, in Galilee-Cure of the Nobleman's Son.

JOHN iv. 43, to the end.

Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee [but not yet into Nazareth]. For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his his own country. Then, when he was come into Galilee, the Galilæans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast. So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water yain, or grapedrink. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judæa into Galilee, he went unto him,