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 Jesus and the Women of Samaria
So he came to a city of Samar'ia, called Sy'char, near the field that Jacob
gave to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there, and so Jesus, wearied as he
was with his journey, sat down beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.
There came a woman of Samar'ia to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a
drink." For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. The
Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me,
a woman of Samar'ia?" For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. Jesus
answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to
you, `Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given
you living water." The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw
with, and the well is deep; where do you get that living water? Are you
greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it
himself, and his sons, and his cattle?" Jesus said to her, "Every one who
drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that
I shall give him will never thirst; the water that I shall give him will
become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." The woman said
to him, "Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to
draw."
Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here." The woman
answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in
saying, `I have no husband'; for you have had five husbands, and he whom you
now have is not your husband; this you said truly." The woman said to him,
"Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this
mountain; and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to
worship." Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when
neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You
worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from
the Jews. But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will
worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship
him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and
truth." The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming (he who is
called Christ); when he comes, he will show us all things." Jesus said to
her, "I who speak to you am he."
Just then his disciples came. They marveled that he was talking with a
woman, but none said, "What do you wish?" or, "Why are you talking with
her?" So the woman left her water jar, and went away into the city, and said
to the people, "Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be
the Christ?" They went out of the city and were coming to him.
Meanwhile the disciples besought him, saying, "Rabbi, eat." But he said to
them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know." So the disciples said
to one another, "Has any one brought him food?" Jesus said to them, "My food
is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work. Do you not
say, `There are yet four months, then comes the harvest'? I tell you, lift
up your eyes, and see how the fields are already white for harvest. He who
reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that sower and
reaper may rejoice together. For here the saying holds true, `One sows and
another reaps.' I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor; others
have labored, and you have entered into their labor."
Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman's
testimony, "He told me all that I ever did." So when the Samaritans came to
him, they asked him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days. And
many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman, "It is no
longer because of your words that we believe, for we have heard for
ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world."
John 4:5-26(27-38)39-42
Jesus Cleanses the
Temple
The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem. In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and
pigeons, and the money-changers at their business. And making a whip of
cords, he drove them all, with the sheep and oxen, out of the temple; and he
poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. And
he told those who sold the pigeons, "Take these things away; you shall not
make my Father's house a house of trade." His disciples remembered that it
was written, "Zeal for thy house will consume me." The Jews then said to
him, "What sign have you to show us for doing this?" Jesus answered them,
"Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." The Jews then
said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise
it up in three days?" But he spoke of the temple of his body. When therefore
he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this;
and they believed the scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.
John 2:13-22
Repent or Perish
There were some present at that very time who told him of the Galileans
whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And he answered them, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse
sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered thus? I tell you, No; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish. Or those eighteen upon whom the tower in Silo'am fell and killed them, do
you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who dwelt in
Jerusalem? I tell you, No; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish." And he told this parable: "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard;
and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. And he said to the vinedresser, `Lo, these three years I have come
seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down; why should it
use up the ground?' And he answered him, `Let it alone, sir, this year also, till I dig about
it and put on manure. And if it bears fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut
it down.'"
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