porches, and a crowd of people who were sick,
blind, lame or helpless were lying there, waiting for the water to move,
for an angel of the Lord went down into the pool at certain times and
stirred the water; and the first person who stepped into the water after
it was stirred was made well, no matter what disease he had.

One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. Jesus saw him
lying there, and knew that he had been ill for a long time; and he said
to him, "Do you want to be made well?" The sick man answered, "Sir, I
have no one to put me in the pool when the water is stirred, and while I
am getting in, some one else steps in before me." Jesus said to him,
"Arise, take up your bed, and walk." Immediately the man was made well,
and he took up his bed and walked.

JESUS TALKS WITH A SAMARITAN WOMAN

When Jesus left Judea and went back into Galilee, he had to pass through
Samaria; and he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the piece
of ground that Jacob gave his son Joseph. Now Jacob's well was there.
Jesus, therefore, being wearied by the journey, sat down by the well. It
was about noon and a woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to
her, "Give me a drink." (For his disciples had gone away into the city
to buy food.)

The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink
of me who am a Samaritan?" for the Jews have nothing to do with
Samaritans. Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it
is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him and he
would have given you living water." The woman said to him, "Sir, you
have nothing with which to draw and the well is deep; where then do you
get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us
the well and himself drank from it, together with his children and his
cattle?" Jesus answered her, "Whoever drinks of this water will thirst
again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give shall never
thirst. The water that I give him will become in him a well of water
springing up into eternal life." The woman said to him, "Sir, give me
this water, that I may not thirst again nor have to come here to draw."

Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, then come back here." The
woman answered, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right
in saying, 'I have no husband,' for you have had five husbands, and he
whom you now have is not your husband; in saying that, you