and Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being wearied with His journey, was sitting thus at the well. It was about the sixth hour.

Jesus, seeing this man lying, and knowing that already for a long time he had been thus, saith to him, "Do you wish to be made well?"

The officers answered, "Never did man speak thus!"

Having thus spoken, He spit on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed his eyes with the clay,

If we let Him thus alone, all will believe on Him; and the Romans will come, and take away both our place and our nation.

And, when He had said this, one of the officers standing by gave Jesus a blow with a rod, saying, "Dost Thou answer the high priest thus!"