Read The Jewish Annotated New Testament Online
Authors: Amy-Jill Levine
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A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”
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(His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.)
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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.)
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Jesus 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?
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Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?”
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Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again,
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but 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.”
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The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’;
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for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!”
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The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet.
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Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you
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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.
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You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
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But 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.
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God 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.”
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Jesus said to her, “I am he,
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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?”
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Then the woman left her water jar and went back to the city. She said to the people,
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“Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah,
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can he?”
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They left the city and were on their way to him.
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Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, eat something.”
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But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”
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So 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.
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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.
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The reaper is already receiving
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wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.
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For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’
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I 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 woman’s 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.
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And many more believed because of his word.
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They 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.”
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When the two days were over, he went from that place to Galilee
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(for Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in the prophet’s own country).
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When he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the festival; for they too had gone to the festival.
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Then he came again to Cana in Galilee where he had changed the water into wine. Now there was a royal official whose son lay ill in Capernaum.
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When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
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Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you
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see signs and wonders you will not believe.”
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The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my little boy dies.”
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Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started on his way.
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As he was going down, his slaves met him and told him that his child was alive.
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So he asked them the hour when he began to recover, and they said to him, “Yesterday at one in the afternoon the fever left him.”
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The father realized that this was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he himself believed, along with his whole household.
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Now this was the second sign that Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee.
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After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew
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Beth-zatha,
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which has five porticoes.
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In these lay many invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.
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One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
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When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be made well?”
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The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me.”
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Jesus said to him, “Stand up, take your mat and walk.”
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At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk.
Now that day was a sabbath.
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So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, “It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.”
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But he answered them, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.’”
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They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take it up and walk’?”
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Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had disappeared in
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the crowd that was there.
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Later Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you have been made well! Do not sin any more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”
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The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
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Therefore the Jews started persecuting Jesus, because he was doing such things on the sabbath.
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But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, and I also am working.”
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For this reason the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because he was not only breaking the sabbath, but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.
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Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father
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does, the Son does likewise.
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The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing; and he will show him greater works than these, so that you will be astonished.
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Indeed, just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.
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The Father judges no one but has given all judgment to the Son,
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so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
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Very truly, I tell you, anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and does not come under judgment, but has passed from death to life.
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“Very truly, I tell you, the hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
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For just as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself;
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and he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.
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Do not be astonished at this; for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice
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and will come out—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.
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“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just, because I seek to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
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“If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.
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There is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that his testimony to me is true.
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You sent messengers to John, and he testified to the truth.
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Not that I accept such human testimony, but I say these things so that you may be saved.
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He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
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But I have a testimony greater than John’s. The works that the Father has given me to complete, the very works that I am doing, testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me.
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And the Father who sent me has himself testified on my behalf. You have never heard his voice or seen his form,
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and you do not have his word abiding in you, because you do not believe him whom he has sent.