John 4 · « · »

9 The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From where then have you that living water?  12 Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his cattle?”

13 Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,  14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.”

16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”

17 The woman answered, “I have no husband.”  Jesus said to her, “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’  18 for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.”

19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.  20 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”

21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.  22 You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.  23 But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers.  24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah comes,” (he who is called Christ). “When he has come, he will declare to us all things.”

26 Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks to you.”  27 At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?”  28 So the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people,  29 “Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?”

30 They went out of the city, and were coming to him.  31 In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

33 The disciples therefore said one to another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”

34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.  35 Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.  36 He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.  37 For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’  38 I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

39 From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I did.”  40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.  41 Many more believed because of his word.  42 They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”

43 After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee.  44 For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.  45 So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast.  46 Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.  47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.  48 Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.”

49 The nobleman said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”  50 Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.  51 As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!”  52 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him.”  53 So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” He believed, as did his whole house.  54 This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.

John 12 · « · »

9 A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.  10 But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,  11 because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.

12 On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast. When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,  13 they took the branches of the palm trees, and went out to meet him, and cried out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!”

14 Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat on it. As it is written,  15 “Don’t be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey’s colt.”  16 His disciples didn’t understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.  17 The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, was testifying about it.  18 For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard that he had done this sign.  19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, “See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him.”

20 Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.  21 These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”  22 Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with Philip, and they told Jesus.  23 Jesus answered them, “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.  24 Most assuredly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.  25 He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.  26 If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

27 “Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But for this cause I came to this time.  28 Father, glorify your name!”  Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”

29 The multitude therefore, who stood by and heard it, said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”

30 Jesus answered, “This voice hasn’t come for my sake, but for your sakes.  31 Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.  32 And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”  33 But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die.  34 The multitude answered him, “We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up?’ Who is this Son of Man?”

35 Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.  36 While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.  37 But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him,  38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke,  “Lord, who has believed our report?  To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

39 For this cause they couldn’t believe, for Isaiah said again,

40 “He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart,  Lest they should see with their eyes,  And perceive with their heart,  And would turn,  And I would heal them.”

41 Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.  42 Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,  43 for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

44 Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.  45 He who sees me sees him who sent me.  46 I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.  47 If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.  48 He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.  49 For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.  50 I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak.”