he left Judea and went away again to Galilee,

and it was behoving him to go through Samaria.

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

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

When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus more disciples doth make and baptize than John,

the Father doth love the Son, and all things hath given into his hand; he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.

 he who is receiving his testimony did seal that God is true; for he whom God sent, the sayings of God he speaketh; for not by measure doth God give the Spirit;

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

Him it behoveth to increase, and me to become less; he who from above is coming is above all; he who is from the earth, from the earth he is, and from the earth he speaketh; he who from the heaven is coming is above all.

he who is having the bride is bridegroom, and the friend of the bridegroom, who is standing and hearing him, with joy doth rejoice because of the voice of the bridegroom; this, then, my joy hath been fulfilled.

John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven; ye yourselves do testify to me that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am having been sent before him;

there arose then a question from the disciples of John with [some] Jews about purifying, and they came unto John, and said to him, `Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou didst testify, lo, this one is baptizing, and all are coming unto him.'

and John was also baptizing in Aenon, nigh to Salem, because there were many waters there, and they were coming and were being baptized,

for John was not yet cast into the prison.

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