A   Assone as the Lorde had knowledge / how the Pharises had hearde / that Iesus made and baptised moo disciples then Iohn (though that Iesus him selfe baptised 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 gave to his sonne Ioseph. ^noteAnd there was Iacobs well. Iesus then weryed in his iorney / sate thus on the well.

B    ^noteAnd it was about the sixte houre: ∧ there 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 beinge 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 wolde 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 whence then hast thou þt; 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: whosoever drinketh of this water / shall thurst agayne. But whosoever shall drinke of þe; water þt; 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 wom&abar; sayd vnto him:

Syr geve me of that water / that I thyrst not / nether come hedder to drawe. Iesus sayde vnto her. Go and call thy husband / ∧ come hydder. 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.

C   The woman sayde vnto him: Syr I perceave þt; thou arte a prophet. Oure fathers worshipped in this mountayne: ∧ ye saye that in Hierusalem is the place where men ought to worshippe. Iesus sayde vnto her: woman beleve me / the houre cometh / when ye shall nether in this mo&ubar;tayne nor yet at Ierusalem / worshippe the father. Ye worshippe / ye wot not what: we knowe what we worshippe. For salvacion c&obar;meth of the Iewes. But the houre commeth and nowe is / when the true worshippers shall worshippe the father in sprete and in trouthe. For verely suche the father requyreth to worshippe him. God is a sprete / and they that worshippe him / must worshippe him / in sprete and ^note trouthe.

D   The woman sayde vnto him: I wot well Messias shall come / which is called Christ. When he is come / he will tell vs all thing&es;. Iesus sayde vnto hir: I that speake vnto the am he. ^noteAnd ev&ebar; at that poynte / came his disciples / ∧ marvelled that he talked with the woman. Yet no man sayde vnto him: what meanest thou / or why talkest thou with her? The

wom&abar; then lefte her waterpot / and went her waye into the cite / ∧ sayde to the men. Come se a man which tolde me all thinges þt; ever I dyd. Is not he Christ? Then they went ont of the cite / ∧ came vnto him.

E   And in þe; meane while his disciples prayed him sayinge: Master / eate. He sayde vnto th&ebar;: I have meate to eate / that ye knowe not of. Then sayd þe; disciples bitwene them selves: hath eny m&abar; brought him meate? Iesus sayde vnto them: my meate is to doo the will of him that sent me. And to fynnysshe his worke. Saye not ye: there are yet foure monethes / and then c&obar;meth harvest? Beholde I saye vnto you / lyfte vp youre eyes / ∧ loke on þe; regi&obar;s: for they are whyte all redy vnto harvest. And he þe; repeth receaveth rewarde / ∧ gaddereth frute vnto life eternall: that bothe he that soweth / ∧ he þt; repeth myght reioyse to gether. And herin is the sayinge true / þt; one soweth / ∧ another repeth. I sent you to repe þt; wher&obar; ye bestowed no laboure. Other men laboured / and ye are entred into their labours.

F   Many of the Samarit&abar;s of that cyte beleved on him / for þe; sayinge of the wom&abar; / which testified: he tolde me all thinges þt; ever I dyd. Then when the Samarit&abar;s were come vnto him / they besought him / þt; he wolde tary &wt; th&ebar;. And he aboode there two dayes. And many 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

in dede Christ the savioure of the worlde. &cross3;

^noteAfter two dayes he departed thence / ∧ w&ebar;t awaye into Galile. And Iesus him selfe testified / that a Prophete hath none honoure in his awne countre. Then assone as he was come into Galile / the Galileans receaved him which had sene all the thinges þt; he dyd at Ierusalem at þe; feast. For they w&ebar;t also vnto þe; feast daye. G    ^noteAnd Iesus came agayne into Cana of Galile / wher he turned water into wyne.

^note&cross2; And ther was a certayne ruler / whose sonne was sicke at Capernaum. Assone as the same herde that Iesus was come out of Iewry into Galile / he w&ebar;t vnto him / and besought him / þt; he wolde descende / ∧ heale his sonne: For he was ev&ebar; readie to dye. Then sayde Iesus vnto him: excepte ye se signes ∧ w&obar;dres / ye c&abar;not beleve. The ruler sayd vnto him: Syr come awaye or ever þt; my chylde dye. Iesus sayde vnto him / goo thy waye / thy sonne liveth. And the m&abar; beleved þe; wordes þt; Iesus had spok&ebar; vnto him / ∧ w&ebar;t his waye. And anone as he went on his waye / his servant&es; met him / ∧ tolde him sayinge: thy chylde liveth. Then enquyred he of th&ebar; the houre when he beg&abar;ne to amende. And they sayde vnto him: Yester daye the sev&ebar;the houre / the fever lefte him. And the father knew that it was the same houre in which Iesus sayde vnto him: Thy sonne liveth. And he beleved / and all his housholde. &cross3; Thys is agayne the seconde myracle / þt; Iesus dyd / after he was come oute of Iewry into Galile.

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