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Jesus and the Woman at the Well in Samaria ( John 4:5-42 )

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Jesus came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to
his son Joseph. 6Jacobs well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the
well. It was about noon.
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A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, Give me a drink.
(His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.)

The Samaritan woman said to him, How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman
of Samaria? (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) 10Jesus answered her,
If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, Give me a drink, you
would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.
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The woman said to him, Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that
living water? 12Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons
and his flocks drank from it? 13Jesus said to her, Everyone who drinks of this water will be
thirsty again, 14but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty.
The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.
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The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to
keep coming here to draw water.
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Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband, and come back. 17The woman answered him, I have
no husband. Jesus said to her, You are right in saying, I have no husband; 18for you have had
five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true! 19The
woman said to him, Sir, I see that you are a prophet. 20Our ancestors worshiped on this
mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.
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Jesus said to her, Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father
neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22You worship what you do not know; we worship
what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23But the hour is coming, and is now here, when
the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as
these to worship him. 24God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and
truth.
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The woman said to him, I know that Messiah is coming (who is called Christ). When
he comes, he will proclaim all things to us. 26Jesus said to her, I am he, the one who is
speaking to you.
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Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, but no
one said, What do you want? or, Why are you speaking with her? 28Then the woman left her
water jar and went back to the city. She said to the people, 29Come and see a man who told me
everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah, can he? 30They left the city and were on
their way to him. 31Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, Rabbi, eat something. 32But he said
to them, I have food to eat that you do not know about. 33So the disciples said to one another,
Surely no one has brought him something to eat?
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Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work.
Do you not say, Four months more, then comes the harvest? But I tell you, look around you,
and see how the fields are ripe for harvesting. 36The reaper is already receiving wages and is
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gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37For here the saying
holds true, One sows and another reaps. 38I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor.
Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.
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Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the womans testimony, He told me
everything I have ever done.
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So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them; and he stayed there two
days. 41And many more believed because of his word. 42They said to the woman, It is no longer
because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this
is truly the Savior of the world.

The Woman Caught in Adultery ( John 7:53-8:11 )

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Then each of them went home,

8while Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All
the people came to him and he sat down and began to teach them. 3The scribes and the Pharisees
brought a woman who had been caught in adultery; and making her stand before all of them,
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they said to him, Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery.
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Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?
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They said this to test him, so that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent
down and wrote with his finger on the ground. 7When they kept on questioning him, he
straightened up and said to them, Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw
a stone at her.
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And once again he bent down and wrote on the ground. 9When they heard it, they went away,
one by one, beginning with the elders; and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before
him. 10Jesus straightened up and said to her, Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned
you? 11She said, No one, sir. And Jesus said, Neither do I condemn you.
Go your way, and from now on do not sin again.

Ephesians 2:4-10
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But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us 5even when we
were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christby grace you have
been saved.
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And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ
Jesus, 7so that in the ages to come God might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in
kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the
gift of God 9not the result of works, so that no one may boast. 10For we are what he has
made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our
way of life.

Ephesians 1:7

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according
to the riches of his grace.

1 John 4: 16 and 18
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So we have known and believe the love that God has for us.

God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.
18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment,
and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love. 19 We love* because he first loved us.

John 3:16-21
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in
him may not perish but may have eternal life.
17 Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order
that the world might be saved through him. 18Those who believe in him are not condemned;
but those who do not believe are condemned already, because they have not believed in the
name of the only Son of God. 19And this is the judgement, that the light has come into the
world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.
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For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not
be exposed. 21But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen
that their deeds have been done in God.

Ephesians 5
Brother and Sisters: 8 For once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light.
Live as children of light 9 for the fruit of the light is found in all that is good and
right and true.
10 Try to find out what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 Take no part in the unfruitful
works of darkness, but instead expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to mention
what such people do secretly; 13 but everything exposed by the light becomes visible,
14 for everything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, Sleeper, awake! Rise
from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.

1 John 1: 6 10

If we say that we have fellowship with him while we are walking in darkness, we lie and
do not do what is true; 7but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have
fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8If we say
that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9If we confess our sins, he
who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10If
we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

1 John 4: 7 11
God Is Love
7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of
God and knows God. 8Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9Gods
love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we
might live through him. 10In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent
his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11Beloved, since God loved us so much, we
also ought to love one another.

1 John 2: 9 11
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Whoever says, I am in the light, while hating a brother or sister,* is still in the darkness.
Whoever loves a brother or sister* lives in the light, and in such a person* there is no
cause for stumbling. 11 But whoever hates another believer* is in the darkness, walks in the
darkness, and does not know the way to go, because the darkness has brought on blindness.
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John 2:13-25
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The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14In the temple he found
people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. 15Making a
whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also
poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16He told those who were
selling the doves, Take these things out of here! Stop making my Fathers house a
marketplace! 17His disciples remembered that it was written, Zeal for your house will
consume me. 18The Jews then said to him, What sign can you show us for doing this?
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Jesus answered them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. 20The
Jews then said, This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and will you
raise it up in three days? 21But he was speaking of the temple of his body. 22After he was
raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the
scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.
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When he was in Jerusalem during the Passover festival, many believed in his name because
they saw the signs that he was doing. 24But Jesus on his part would not entrust himself to
them, because he knew all people 25and needed no one to testify about anyone; for he
himself knew what was in everyone.

John 12:20-50

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Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. 21They came to
Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, Sir, we wish to see Jesus.
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Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. 23Jesus answered
them, The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24Very truly, I tell you, unless a
grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears
much fruit. 25Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will
keep it for eternal life.
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Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever
serves me, the Father will honor.
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Now my soul is troubled. And what should I sayFather, save me from this hour?
No, it is for this reason that I have come to this hour. 28 Father, glorify your name.
Then a voice came from heaven, I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.
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The crowd standing there heard it and said that it was thunder. Others said, An angel
has spoken to him. 30 Jesus answered, This voice has come for your sake, not for mine.
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Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out. 32 And I,
when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself. 33 He said this to
indicate the kind of death he was to die.
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The crowd answered him, We have heard from the law that the Messiah remains forever.
How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man? 35Jesus
said to them, The light is with you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, so that
the darkness may not overtake you. If you walk in the darkness, you do not know where
you are going. 36While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become
children of light. After Jesus had said this, he departed and hid from them.
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Although he had performed so many signs in their presence, they did not believe in him.
This was to fulfill the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah: Lord, who has believed our
message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 39And so they could not believe,
because Isaiah also said, 40He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they
might not look with their eyes, and understand with their heart and turn and I would
heal them. 41Isaiah said this because he saw his glory and spoke about him.
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Nevertheless many, even of the authorities, believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they
did not confess it, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue; 43for they loved human
glory more than the glory that comes from God.
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Then Jesus cried aloud: Whoever believes in me believes not in me but in him who sent
me. 45And whoever sees me sees him who sent me. 46I have come as light into the world, so
that everyone who believes in me should not remain in the darkness. 47I do not judge
anyone who hears my words and does not keep them, for I came not to judge the world, but
to save the world. 48The one who rejects me and does not receive my word has a judge; on
the last day the word that I have spoken will serve as judge, 49for I have not spoken on my
own, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment about what to say
and what to speak. 50And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I speak,
therefore, I speak just as the Father has told me.

Psalm 34
Praise for Deliverance from Trouble

I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

My soul makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad.

O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.

I sought the Lord, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Look to him, and be radiant; so your faces shall never be ashamed.

This poor soul cried, and was heard by the Lord, and was saved from every trouble.

The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

O taste and see that the Lord is good; happy are those who take refuge in him.

O fear the Lord, you his holy ones, for those who fear him have no want.

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The young lions suffer want and hunger, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

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Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

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Which of you desires life, and covets many days to enjoy good?

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Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

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Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

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The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their cry.

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The face of the Lord is against evildoers, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

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When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears, and rescues them from all their troubles.

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The Lord is near to the brokenhearted, and saves the crushed in spirit.

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Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord rescues them from them all.

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He keeps all their bones; not one of them will be broken.

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Evil brings death to the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.

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The Lord redeems the life of his servants; none of those who take refuge in him will be
condemned.