The Newe Testament dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke by Willyam Tindale, and fynesshed in the yere of our Lorde God A.M.D. & xxxiiij. in the moneth of Nouember.

¶ The .iiii. Chapter.

ASsone as the Lorde had knowledge / [ A] how the Pharises had hearde / that Ie∣sus made and baptised moo disciples then Iohn (though that Iesus him selfe bap¦tised not: but his disciples) he lefte Iewry / &

departed agayne into Galile. And it was so that he must nedes goo thorowe Samaria. Then came he to a cyte of Samaria called Sichar / besydes the possession that Iacob ga∣ve to his sonne Ioseph. And there was Ia∣cobs well. Iesus then weryed in his iorney / sate thus on the well.

And it was about the sixte houre: & there [ B] came a woman of Samaria to drawe water. And Iesus sayde vnto her: geve me drynke. For his disciples were gone awaye vnto the toune to bye meate. Then sayde the woman of Samaria vnto him: how is it / that thou be∣inge a Iewe / axest drinke of me / which am a Samaritane? for the Iewes medle not with the Samaritans. Iesus answered and sayde vnto hir: yf thou knewest the gyfte of God / & who it is that sayeth to the geve me drynke / thou woldest have axed of him / and he wol∣de have geven the water of lyfe. The woman sayde vnto him. Syr thou hast no thinge to drawe with / and the well is depe: from when∣ce then hast thou y^• water of lyfe? Arte thou greater then oure father Iacob which gave vs the well / and he him silfe dranke therof / & his chyldren / and his catell:

Iesus answered & sayde vnto hir: whosoe∣ver drinketh of this water / shall thurst agay∣ne. But whosoever shall drinke of y^e water y^t I shall geve him / shall never be more a thyrst: but the water that I shall geve him / shalbe in him a well of water / springinge vp in to everlastinge lyfe. The womā sayd vnto him:

Syr geve me of that water / that I thyrst not / nether come hedder to drawe. Iesus sayde vn¦to her. Go and call thy husband / & come hyd¦der. The woman answered & sayde to him: I have no husband. Iesus sayde to her. Thou hast well sayd / I have no husbande. For thou haste had five husbandes / and he whom thou now hast / is not thy husband. That saydest thou truely.

The woman sayde vnto him: Syr I percea¦ve [ C] y^• thou arte a prophet. Oure fathers wor∣shipped in this mountayne: & ye saye that in Hierusalem is the place where men ought to worshippe. Iesus sayde vnto her: woman be∣leve me / the houre cometh / when ye shall ne∣ther in this moūtayne nor yet at Ierusalem / worshippe the father. Ye worshippe / ye wot not what: we knowe what we worshippe. For salvacion cōmeth of the Iewes. But the hou¦re commeth and nowe is / when the true wor∣shippers shall worshippe the father in sprete and in trouthe. For verely suche the father re¦quyreth to worshippe him. God is a sprete / and they that worshippe him / must worship∣pe him / in sprete and trouthe.

The woman sayde vnto him: I wot well [ D] Messias shall come / which is called Christ. When he is come / he will tell vs all thing{is}. Iesus sayde vnto hir: I that speake vnto the am he. And evē at that poynte / came his disci¦ples / & marvelled that he talked with the wo¦man. Yet no man sayde vnto him: what mea∣nest thou / or why talkest thou with her? The

womā then lefte her waterpot / and went her waye into the cite / & sayde to the men. Come se a man which tolde me all thinges y^t ever I dyd. Is not he Christ? Then they went out of the cite / & came vnto him.

And in y^e meane while his disciples prayed [ E] him sayinge: Master / eate. He sayde vnto thē: I have meate to eate / that ye knowe not of. Then sayd y^e disciples bitwene them selves: hath eny mā brought him meate? Iesus say¦de vnto them: my meate is to doo the will of him that sent me. And to fynnysshe his wor∣ke. Saye not ye: there are yet foure monethes / and then cōmeth harvest? Beholde I saye vn¦to you / lyfte vp youre eyes / & loke on y^e regiōs: for they are whyte all redy vnto harvest. And he y^e repeth receaveth rewarde / & gaddereth frute vnto life eternall: that bothe he that so∣weth / & he y^• repeth myght reioyse to gether. And herin is the sayinge true / y^t one soweth / & another repeth. I sent you to repe y^t wherō ye bestowed no laboure. Other men laboured / and ye are entred into their labours.

Many of the Samaritās of that cyte bele∣ved [ F] on him / for y^e sayinge of the womā / which testified: he tolde me all thinges y^t ever I dyd. Then when the Samaritās were come vnto him / they be sought him / y^e he wolde tary w^t thē. And he aboode there two dayes. And ma¦ny moo beleved because of his awne wordes / & sayd vnto the woman: Now we beleve not because of thy sayinge. For we have herde him oure selves / and knowe that this is even

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in dede Christ the savioure of the worlde. ⊢

After two dayes he departed thence / & wēt awaye into Galile. And Iesus him selfe te∣stified / that a Prophete hath none honoure in his awne countre. Then assone as he was co∣me into Galile / the Galileans receaved him which had sene all the thinges y^t he dyd at Ie¦rusalem at y^e feast. For they wēt also vnto y^e feast daye. And Iesus came agayne into Cana [ G] of Galile / wher he turned water into wyne.

✚ And ther was a certayne ruler / whose son¦ne was sicke at Capernaum. Assone as the sa¦me herde that Iesus was come out of Iewry into Galile / he wēt vnto him / and besought him / y^t he wolde descende / & heale his sonne: For he was evē readie to dye. Then sayde Ie¦sus vnto him: excepte ye se signes & wōdres / ye cānot beleve. The ruler sayd vnto him: Syr come awaye or ever y^• my chylde dye. Iesus sayde vnto him / goo thy waye / thy sonne li∣veth. And the mā beleved y^e wordes y^t Iesus had spokē vnto him / & wēt his waye. And ano¦ne as he went on his waye / his servants met him / & tolde him sayinge: thy chylde liveth. Then enquyred he of thē the houre when he begāne to amende. And they sayde vnto him: Yester daye the sevēthe houre / the fever lefte him. And the father knew that it was the sa∣me houre in which Iesus sayde vnto him: Thy sonne liveth. And he beleved / and all his housholde. ✚ Thys is agayne the secon∣de myracle / y^• Iesus dyd / after he was come oute of Iewry into Galile.

Notes

• ge. xlviij
• The wo∣man of Samari e
• How & where god will be worsh¦ypped.
• ij. co. iij. d
• mathew .xiij. a. mar. vj. a ln••. iiij. c. mat. iiij. b
• mar. i. d. luc. iiij. c.
• Ruler.