These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
John 4
Brit Hadashah 54 verses
- 1 Now as soon as the Master was aware that the Pharisees had heard it said, “ is gaining and baptizing more disciples than ”—
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though Himself did not baptize them, but His disciples did—
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He left Judaea and returned to .
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His road lay through ,
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and so He came to Sychar, a town in near the piece of land that gave to his son .
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Jacob’s Well was there: and accordingly , tired out with His journey, sat down by the well to rest. It was about six o’clock in the evening.
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Presently there came a woman of to draw water. asked her to give Him some water;
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for His disciples were gone to the town to buy provisions.
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“How is it,” replied the woman, “that a Jew like you asks me, who am a woman and a Samaritan, for water?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
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“If you had known Elohim’s free ,” replied , “and who it is that said to you, ‘Give me some water,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
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“Sir,” she said, “you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; so where can you get the living water from?
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Are you greater than our forefather , who gave us the well, and himself drank from it, as did also his sons and his cattle?”
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“Every one,” replied , “who drinks any of this water will be thirsty again;
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- 14 but whoever drinks any of the water that I shall give him will never, never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become a fountain within him of water springing up for the Life of the Ages.”
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“Sir,” said the woman, “give me that water, that I may never be thirsty, nor continually come all the way here to draw from the well.”
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“Go and call your husband,” said ; “and come back.”
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- 17 “I have no husband,” she replied. “You rightly say that you have no husband,” said ;
- 18 “for you have had five husbands, and the man you have at present is not your husband. You have spoken the in saying that.”
- 19 “Sir,” replied the woman, “I see that you are a Prophet.
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Our forefathers worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where people must is in .”
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- 21 “Believe me,” said , “the time is coming when you will the Father neither on this mountain nor in .
- 22 You One of whom you nothing. We One whom we ; for comes from the Jews.
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But a time is coming—nay, has already come—when the true worshippers will the Father with true spiritual ; for indeed the Father desires such worshippers.
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“I ,” replied the woman, “that is coming—’the ,’ as He is called. When He has come, He will tell us everything.”
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“I am He,” said —”I who am now talking to you.”
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Just then His disciples came, and were surprised to find Him talking with a woman. Yet not one of them asked Him, “What is your wish?” or “Why are you talking with her?”
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The woman however, leaving her pitcher, went away to the town, and called the people.
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“Come,” she said, “and see a man who has told me everything I have ever done. Can this be the , do you think?”
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- 30 They left the town and set out to go to Him.
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Meanwhile the disciples were urging . “Rabbi,” they said, “eat something.”
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- 32 “I have food to eat,” He replied, “of which you do not .”
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So the disciples began questioning one another. “Can it be,” they said, “that some one has brought Him something to eat?”
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- 34 “My food,” said , “is to be obedient to Him who sent me, and fully to accomplish His work.
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Do you not say, ‘It wants four months yet to the harvest’? But look round, I tell you, and observe these plains—they are already ripe for the sickle.
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- 36 The reaper gets pay and gathers in a crop in preparation for the Life of the Ages, that so the sower and the reapers may rejoice together.
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For it is in this that you see the real meaning of the saying, ‘The sower is one person, and the reaper is another.’
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- 38 I sent you to reap a harvest which is not the result of your own labours. Others have laboured, and you are getting benefit from their labours.”
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Of the Samaritan population of that town a good many believed in Him because of the woman’s statement when she declared, “He has told me all that I have ever done.”
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- 40 When however the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him on all sides to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.
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Then a far larger number of people believed because of His own words,
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- 42 and they said to the woman, “We no longer believe in Him simply because of your statements; for we have now heard for ourselves, and we that this man really is the Saviour of the world.”
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After the two days He departed, and went into ;
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though Himself declared that a Prophet has no in his own country.
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When however He reached , the Galilaeans welcomed Him eagerly, having been eye-witnesses of all that He had done in at the Festival; for they also had been to the Festival.
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So He came once more to Cana in , where He had made the water into wine. Now there was a certain officer of the King’s court whose son was ill at .
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Having heard that had come from Judaea to , he came to Him and begged Him to go down and cure his son; for he was at the point of death.
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“Unless you and others see miracles and marvels,” said , “nothing will induce you to believe.”
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“Sir,” pleaded the officer, “come down before my child dies.”
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“You may return home,” replied ; “your son has recovered.” He believed the words of , and started back home;
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and he was already on his way down when his servants met him and told him that his son was alive and well.
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- 52 So he inquired of them at what hour he had shown improvement. “Yesterday, about seven o’clock,” they replied, “the fever left him.”
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Then the father recollected that that was the time at which had said to him, “Your son has recovered,” and he and his whole household became believers.
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This is the second miracle that performed, after coming from Judaea into .
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