²⁵“And I assure you that the time is coming, indeed it’s here now, when the dead will hear my voice—the voice of the Son of God. And those who listen will live.²⁶The Father has life in himself, and he has granted that same life-giving power to his Son.²⁷And he has given him authority to judge everyone because he is the Son of Man.²⁸Don’t …

Jesus Claims to Be the Son of God

¹⁶So the Jewish leaders began harassing Jesus for breaking the Sabbath rules.¹⁷But Jesus replied, “My Father is always working, and so am I.”¹⁸So the Jewish leaders tried all the harder to find a way to kill him. For he not only broke the Sabbath, he called God his Father, thereby making himself equal with God.

¹⁹So …

Jesus Heals a Man on the Sabbath

¹Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days.²Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda, with five covered porches.³Crowds of sick people—blind, lame, or paralyzed—lay on the porches.⁵One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years.⁶When Jesus saw him and knew he had …

Jesus Heals a Government Official’s Son

⁴³At the end of the two days, Jesus went on to Galilee.⁴⁴He himself had said that a prophet is not honored in his own hometown.⁴⁵Yet the Galileans welcomed him, for they had been in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration and had seen everything he did there.

⁴⁶As he traveled through Galilee, he came to Cana, where he had …

Many Samaritans Believe

³⁹Many Samaritans from the village believed in Jesus because the woman had said, “He told me everything I ever did!”⁴⁰When they came out to see him, they begged him to stay in their village. So he stayed for two days,⁴¹long enough for many more to hear his message and believe.⁴²Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not just …

³¹Meanwhile, the disciples were urging Jesus, “Rabbi, eat something.”

³²But Jesus replied, “I have a kind of food you know nothing about.”

³³“Did someone bring him food while we were gone?” the disciples asked each other.

³⁴Then Jesus explained: “My nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work.³⁵You know the saying, ‘Four months between planting and …

¹⁹“Sir,” the woman said, “you must be a prophet.²⁰So tell me, why is it that you Jews insist that Jerusalem is the only place of worship, while we Samaritans claim it is here at Mount Gerizim, where our ancestors worshiped?”

²¹Jesus replied, “Believe me, dear woman, the time is coming when it will no longer matter whether you worship the Father on this mountain or in …

¹⁶“Go and get your husband,” Jesus told her.

¹⁷“I don’t have a husband,” the woman replied.

Jesus said, “You’re right! You don’t have a husband—¹⁸for you have had five husbands, and you aren’t even married to the man you’re living with now. You certainly spoke the truth!”  …

⁹The woman was surprised, for Jews refuse to have anything to do with Samaritans. She said to Jesus, “You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan woman. Why are you asking me for a drink?”

¹⁰Jesus replied, “If you only knew the gift God has for you and who you are speaking to, you would ask me, and I would give you living water.”

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The Samaritan Woman at the Well

¹Jesus knew the Pharisees had heard that he was baptizing and making more disciples than John²(though Jesus himself didn’t baptize them—his disciples did).³So he left Judea and returned to Galilee.

⁴He had to go through Samaria on the way.⁵Eventually he came to the Samaritan village of Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son …