Bible-Reading.comJohn 4
1Now when it was clear to the Lord that word had come to the ears of the Pharisees that Jesus was making more disciples than John and was giving them baptism
2(Though, in fact, it was his disciples who gave baptism, not Jesus himself),
3He went out of Judaea into Galilee again.
4And it was necessary for him to go through Samaria.
5So he came to a town of Samaria which was named Sychar, near to the bit of land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph:
6Now Jacob's fountain was there. Jesus, being tired after his journey, was resting by the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.
7A woman of Samaria came to get water, and Jesus said to her, Give me some water.
8For his disciples had gone to the town to get food.
9The woman of Samaria said to him, Why do you, a Jew, make a request for water to me, a woman of Samaria? She said this because Jews have nothing to do with the people of Samaria.
10In answer Jesus said, If you had knowledge of what God gives freely and who it is who says to you, Give me water, you would make your prayer to him, and he would give you living water.
11The woman said to him, Sir, you have no vessel and the fountain is deep; from where will you get the living water?
12Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the fountain and took the water of it himself, with his children and his cattle?
13Jesus said to her, Everyone who takes this water will be in need of it again:
14But whoever takes the water I give him will never be in need of drink again; for the water I give him will become in him a fountain of eternal life.
15The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water, so that I may not be in need again of drink and will not have to come all this way for it.
16Jesus said to her, Go, get your husband and come back here with him.
17In answer, the woman said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, You have said rightly, I have no husband:
18You have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband: that was truly said.
19The woman said to him, Sir, I see that you are a prophet.
20Our fathers gave worship on this mountain, but you Jews say that the right place for worship is in Jerusalem.
21Jesus said to her, Woman, take my word for this; the time is coming when you will not give worship to the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem.
22You give worship, but without knowledge of what you are worshipping: we give worship to what we have knowledge of: for salvation comes from the Jews.
23But the time is coming, and is even now here, when the true worshippers will give worship to the Father in the true way of the spirit, for these are the worshippers desired by the Father.
24God is Spirit: then let his worshippers give him worship in the true way of the spirit.
25The woman said to him, I am certain that the Messiah, who is named Christ, is coming; when he comes he will make all things clear to us.
26Jesus said to her, I, who am talking to you, am he.
27At that point the disciples came back, and they were surprised to see him talking to a woman; but not one of them said to him, What is your purpose? or, Why are you talking to her?
28Then the woman put down her water-pot and went into the town, and said to the people,
29Come and see a man who has been talking to me of everything I ever did! Is it possible that this is the Christ?
30So they went out of the town and came to him.
31While this was taking place, the disciples were saying to Jesus, Master, take some food.
32But he said to them, I have food of which you have no knowledge.
33So the disciples said one to another, Did anyone give him food?
34Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.
35You would say, Four months from now is the time of the grain-cutting. Take a look, I say to you, at the fields; they are even now white for cutting.
36He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.
37In this the saying is a true one, One does the planting, and another gets in the grain.
38I sent you to get in grain which you had no hand in planting: other men did that work, and you take the reward.
39Now a number of the people of that town had faith in him because of the woman's witness: He has been talking to me of everything I ever did.
40So when the people came to him they made request to him to be among them for a time, and he was there two days.
41And a great number more of them came to have faith in him because of what he himself said.
42And they said to the woman, Now we have faith, but not because of your story: we ourselves have given ear to his words, and we are certain that he is truly the Saviour of the world.
43And after the two days he went on from there into Galilee.
44For Jesus himself said that a prophet has no honour in the country of his birth.
45So when he came into Galilee, the Galilaeans took him to their hearts because of the things which they had seen him do in Jerusalem at the feast — they themselves having been there at the feast.
46So he came to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain man of high position whose son was ill at Capernaum.
47When it came to his ears that Jesus had come from Judaea into Galilee, he went to him and made a request that he would come down to his son, who was near to death, and make him well.
48Then Jesus said to him, You will not have faith if you do not see signs and wonders.
49The man said, Sir, come down before my boy is dead.
50And Jesus said, Go in peace; your son is living. The man had faith in the word which Jesus said to him and went away.
51And while he was going down, his servants came to him and said, Your boy is living.
52So he put a question to them as to the hour when he became better; and they said to him, The disease went from him yesterday at the seventh hour.
53It was clear then to the father that this was the very time at which Jesus said to him, Your son is living. And he had faith in Jesus, he and all his family.
54Now this is the second sign which Jesus did after he had come out of Judaea into Galilee.
John 5
1After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2Now in Jerusalem near the sheep-market there is a public bath which in Hebrew is named Beth-zatha. It has five doorways.
3In these doorways there were a great number of people with different diseases: some unable to see, some without the power of walking, some with wasted bodies.
5One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
6When Jesus saw him there on the floor it was clear to him that he had been now a long time in that condition, and so he said to the man, Is it your desire to get well?
7The ill man said in answer, Sir, I have nobody to put me into the bath when the water is moving; and while I am on the way down some other person gets in before me.
8Jesus said to him, Get up, take your bed and go.
9And the man became well straight away, and took up his bed and went. Now that day was the Sabbath.
10So the Jews said to the man who had been made well, It is the Sabbath; and it is against the law for you to take up your bed.
11He said to them, But he who made me well, said to me, Take up your bed and go.
12Then they put to him the question: Who is the man who said to you, Take it up and go?
13Now he who had been made well had no knowledge who it was, Jesus having gone away because of the number of people who were in that place.
14After a time Jesus came across him in the Temple and said to him, See, you are well and strong; do no more sin for fear a worse thing comes to you.
15The man went away and said to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
16And for this reason the Jews were turned against Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.
17But his answer was: My Father is still working even now, and so I am working.
18For this cause the Jews had an even greater desire to put Jesus to death, because not only did he not keep the Sabbath but he said God was his Father, so making himself equal with God.
19So Jesus made answer and said, Truly I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything himself; he is able to do only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does the Son does it in the same way.
20For the Father has love for the Son and lets him see everything which he does: and he will let him see greater works than these so that you may be full of wonder.
21In the same way, as the Father gives life to the dead, even so the Son gives life to those to whom he is pleased to give it.
22The Father is not the judge of men, but he has given all decisions into the hands of the Son;
23So that all men may give honour to the Son even as they give honour to the Father. He who gives no honour to the Son gives no honour to the Father who sent him.
24Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.
25Truly I say to you, The time is coming, it has even now come, when the voice of the Son of God will come to the ears of the dead, and those hearing it will have life.
26For even as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son to have life in himself.
27And he has given him authority to be judge because he is the Son of man.
28Do not be surprised at this: for the time is coming when his voice will come to all who are in the place of the dead,
29And they will come out; those who have done good, into the new life; and those who have done evil, to be judged.
30Of myself I am unable to do anything: as the voice comes to me so I give a decision: and my decision is right because I have no desire to do what is pleasing to myself, but only what is pleasing to him who sent me.
31If I gave witness about myself, my witness would not be true.
32There is another who gives witness about me and I am certain that the witness he gives about me is true.
33You sent to John and he gave true witness.
34But I have no need of a man's witness: I only say these things so that you may have salvation.
35He was a burning and shining light, and for a time you were ready to be happy in his light.
36But the witness which I have is greater than that of John: the work which the Father has given me to do, the very work which I am now doing, is a witness that the Father has sent me.
37And the Father himself who sent me has given witness about me. Not one of you has ever given ear to his voice; his form you have not seen.
38And you have not kept his word in your hearts, because you have not faith in him whom he has sent.
39You make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me.
40And still you have no desire to come to me so that you may have life.
41I do not take honour from men;
42But I have knowledge of you that you have no love for God in your hearts.
43I have come in my Father's name, and your hearts are not open to me. If another comes with no other authority but himself, you will give him your approval.
44How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God?
45Put out of your minds the thought that I will say things against you to the Father: the one who says things against you is Moses, on whom you put your hopes.
46If you had belief in Moses you would have belief in me; for his writings are about me.
47If you have no belief in his writings, how will you have belief in my words?