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but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.'

After these things came Jesus and his disciples to the land of Judea, and there he did tarry with them, and was baptizing;

`And what he hath seen and heard this he doth testify, and his testimony none receiveth;

he who is receiving his testimony did seal that God is true;

the Father doth love the Son, and all things hath given into his hand;

(though indeed Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples,)

He cometh, therefore, to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the place that Jacob gave to Joseph his son;

for his disciples were gone away to the city, that they may buy victuals;

Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who did give us the well, and himself out of it did drink, and his sons, and his cattle?'

And upon this came his disciples, and were wondering that with a woman he was speaking, no one, however, said, `What seekest thou?' or `Why speakest thou with her?'

And in the meanwhile his disciples were asking him, saying, `Rabbi, eat;'

Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

and many more did believe because of his word,

for Jesus himself testified that a prophet in his own country shall not have honour;

he, having heard that Jesus is come out of Judea to Galilee, went away unto him, and was asking him that he may come down and may heal his son, for he was about to die.

and he now going down, his servants met him, and told, saying -- `Thy child doth live;'

then the father knew that [it was] in that hour in which Jesus said to him -- `Thy son doth live,' and he himself believed, and his whole house;

and immediately the man became whole, and he took up his couch, and was walking, and it was a sabbath on that day,

because of this, then, were the Jews seeking the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the sabbath, but he also called God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

`Wonder not at this, because there doth come an hour in which all those in the tombs shall hear his voice,