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Today is October 2, 2009
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Currently we are reading through the book of John and today we are reading John chapter 4
When the Lord knew at the Pharisees had heard that greater crowds were coming to him than to John to be baptized and become his disciples — though Jesus himself been baptized them but his disciples did — he left Judeo and return to the province of Galilee.
He had to go through Samaria on the way, and around noon he approached the village of Sychar,, he came to Jacob’s well, and the plot of ground Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Jesus was tired from the long walk in the hot sun and sat wearily beside the well.
Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus asked for drank. He was alone at the time as his disciples had gone into the village to buy some food. The woman was surprised that a Jew would ask a “despised Samaritan” or anything — usually they wouldn’t even speak to them — and she remarked about this to Jesus.
He replied, “if you only knew what a wonderful gift God had for you, and who I am, you would ask me for some living water.”
“But you don’t have a rope or a bucket,” she said, “and this is a very deep well. From where would you get this living water? And besides, are you greater than our ancestor Jacob? How can you offer better water than this which he and his sons and cattle’s enjoyed?”
Jesus replied that people soon became thirsty again after drinking this water. “But the water I give them,” he said, “becomes a perpetual spring within them, watering them for ever with eternal life.”
“Please, sir,” the woman said, “give me some of that water! Then I will never be thirsty again and won’t have to make this long trip out here every day.”
“Go and get your husband,” Jesus told her
“But I am not married,” the woman replied.
“All too true?” Jesus said. “For you have had five husbands, and you aren’t even married to the man you are living with now, [you couldn't have spoken a truer word.]”
“Sir,” the woman said, “you must be a prophet. But tell me, why is it that you Jews insist that Jerusalem is the only place of worship, while we Samaritan’s claim it is here [at Mt.Gerazim], where our ancestors worshiped?”
Jesus replied, “the time is coming when we will no longer be concerned about whether to worship the father here or in Jerusalem. For it is not where we worship that counts but how we worship — is our worship spiritual in real? For God is Spirit, and we must have his help to worship as we should. The father wants this kind of worship from us. But you Samaritans know so little about him, worshiping blindly, while we Jews know all about him, for salvation comes to the world through the Jews.”
The woman said, “well, at least I know that the Messiah will come — the one they call the Christ — and when he does, he will explain everything to us.” Then Jesus told her, “I am the Messiah.” Just then his disciples arrived. They were surprised to find them talking to a woman, but none of them asked him why are what they had been discussing.
Then the woman left her water pots beside the well and went back to the village and told everyone, “come and meet a man who told me everything I ever did! Can this be the Messiah?” So the people came streaming from the village to see him.
Meanwhile the disciples were urging Jesus to eat. “No,” he said, “I have some food you don’t know about.”
“Who brought it to him?” Disciples asked each other.
Then Jesus explained: “my nursemaid comes from doing the will of God who sent me and from finishing his work. Do you think the work of harvesting will not begin until the summer ends four months from now? Look around you! Bass fields are ripening all around us, and are ready now for reaping. The reapers will be paid good wages and will be gathering men and women into the granaries of heaven. What joy awaits the sewer and the reaper, both together! For it is true that one sows and someone else reads.
I sang you to reap where you didn’t so; others do the work, and you receive a harvest.” Many from the Samaritan Village believed he was the Messiah because of the woman’s report: “he told me everything I ever did!”
(When they came out to see him at the well, they begged him to stay in the village; and he did for two days, long enough for many of them to believe in him after hearing him.
Then they said to the woman, “now we believe because we have heard him ourselves, not just because of what you have told us. He is indeed the Savior of the world.”)
At the end of the two day stay he went on into Galilee, for as Jesus put it, “a prophet is honored everywhere except in his own country!” But the Galileans welcomed him with open arms, for they had been in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration and had seen some of his miracles.
In the course of his journey throughout Galilee he arrived at the town of Cana, where he had turned the water into wine. While he was there, a man in the city of Capernaum, a government official, whose son was very ill, heard that Jesus had come from Judea and was traveling in Galilee. This man went over to Cana, found Jesus, and begged him to come to Capernaum with him and heal his son, who was now at death’s door.
Jesus asked, “what any of you believe in me unless I do more and more miracles?”
The official pleaded, “Sir, please come now before my child dies.”
Then Jesus told him, “go back home. Your son is healed.” In a man believe Jesus and started for home. While he was on his way, some of his servants met him with the news that all was well — his son had recovered. He asked them when the lad had begun to feel better, and they replied, “yesterday afternoon at about one o’clock his fever suddenly disappeared!” Then the father realized it was the same moment that Jesus had told him, “your son is healed.” And the officer and his entire household believe that Jesus was the Messiah.
This was Jesus a second miracle in Galilee after coming from Joubert.
This concludes John chapter 4 from the living Bible
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