Daily Text and Bible Reading: Tuesday, November 11 [Press play below]

4.1 When the Lord became aware that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John—
4.2 although Jesus himself did no baptizing but his disciples did—
4.3 he left Judea and departed again for Galilee.
4.4 But it was necessary for him to go through Samaria.
4.5 So he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
4.6 In fact, Jacob’s well was there. Now Jesus, tired out as he was from the journey, was sitting at the well. It was about the sixth hour.
4.7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her: “Give me a drink.”
4.8 (For his disciples had gone off into the city to buy food.)
4.9 So the Samaritan woman said to him: “How is it that you, despite being a Jew, ask me for a drink even though I am a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
4.10 In answer Jesus said to her: “If you had known of the free gift of God and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
4.11 She said to him: “Sir, you do not even have a bucket for drawing water, and the well is deep. From what source, then, do you have this living water?
4.12 You are not greater than our forefather Jacob, who gave us the well and who together with his sons and his cattle drank out of it, are you?”
4.13 In answer Jesus said to her: “Everyone drinking from this water will get thirsty again.
4.14 Whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty at all, but the water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water bubbling up to impart everlasting life.”
4.15 The woman said to him: “Sir, give me this water, so that I may neither thirst nor keep coming over to this place to draw water.”
4.16 He said to her: “Go, call your husband and come to this place.”
4.17 The woman replied: “I do not have a husband.” Jesus said to her: “You are right in saying, ‘I do not have a husband.’
4.18 For you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. This you have said truthfully.”
4.19 The woman said to him: “Sir, I see that you are a prophet.
4.20 Our forefathers worshipped on this mountain, but you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where people must worship.”
4.21 Jesus said to her: “Believe me, woman, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
4.22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, because salvation begins with the Jews.
4.23 Nevertheless, the hour is coming, and it is now, when the true worshippers will worship the Father with spirit and truth, for indeed, the Father is looking for ones like these to worship him.
4.24 God is a Spirit, and those worshipping him must worship with spirit and truth.”
4.25 The woman said to him: “I know that Messiah is coming, who is called Christ. Whenever that one comes, he will declare all things to us openly.”
4.26 Jesus said to her: “I am he, the one speaking to you.”
4.27 Just then his disciples arrived, and they were surprised because he was speaking with a woman. Of course, no one said: “What are you looking for?” or “Why are you talking to her?”
4.28 So the woman left her water jar and went off into the city and told the people:
4.29 “Come and see a man who told me everything I did. Could this not perhaps be the Christ?”
4.30 They left the city and began coming to him.
4.31 Meanwhile, the disciples were urging him: “Rabbi, eat.”
4.32 But he said to them: “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”
4.33 So the disciples said to one another: “No one brought him anything to eat, did he?”
4.34 Jesus said to them: “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
4.35 Do you not say that there are yet four months before the harvest comes? Look! I say to you: Lift up your eyes and view the fields, that they are white for harvesting. Already
4.36 the reaper is receiving wages and gathering fruit for everlasting life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.
4.37 For in this respect the saying is true: One is the sower and another the reaper.
4.38 I sent you to reap what you did not labor on. Others have labored, and you have entered into the benefit of their labor.”
4.39 Many of the Samaritans from that city put faith in him because of the word of the woman who bore witness, saying: “He told me all the things I did.”
4.40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.
4.41 As a result, many more believed because of what he said,
4.42 and they said to the woman: “We no longer believe just because of what you said; for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the savior of the world.”
4.43 After the two days, he left there for Galilee.
4.44 Jesus himself, however, bore witness that a prophet has no honor in his own homeland.
4.45 So when he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, because they had seen all the things he did in Jerusalem at the festival, for they too had gone to the festival.
4.46 Then he came again to Cana of Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. Now there was a royal official whose son was sick in Capernaum.
4.47 When this man heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of dying.
4.48 But Jesus said to him: “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe.”
4.49 The royal official said to him: “Lord, come down before my young child dies.”
4.50 Jesus said to him: “Go your way; your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he left.
4.51 But while he was on his way down, his slaves met him to say that his boy was alive.
4.52 So he asked them at what hour he got better. They replied to him: “The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour.”
4.53 The father then knew that it was in the very hour that Jesus had said to him: “Your son lives.” So he and his whole household believed.
4.54 This was the second sign Jesus performed when he came from Judea into Galilee.
5.1 After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
5.2 Now in Jerusalem at the Sheep Gate is a pool called in Hebrew Bethzatha, with five colonnades.
5.3 Within these a multitude of the sick, blind, lame, and those with withered limbs were lying down.
5.4 ——
5.5 But one man was there who had been sick for 38 years.
5.6 Seeing this man lying there and being aware that he had already been sick for a long time, Jesus said to him: “Do you want to get well?”
5.7 The sick man answered him: “Sir, I do not have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am on my way, another steps down ahead of me.”
5.8 Jesus said to him: “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”
5.9 And the man immediately got well, and he picked up his mat and began to walk. That day was the Sabbath.
5.10 So the Jews began to say to the cured man: “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry the mat.”
5.11 But he answered them: “The same one who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”
5.12 They asked him: “Who is the man who told you, ‘Pick it up and walk’?”
5.13 But the healed man did not know who he was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.
5.14 After this Jesus found him in the temple and said to him: “See, you have become well. Do not sin anymore, so that something worse does not happen to you.”
5.15 The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
5.16 For this reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things during the Sabbath.
5.17 But he answered them: “My Father has kept working until now, and I keep working.”
5.18 This is why the Jews began seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath but he was also calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.
5.19 Therefore, in response Jesus said to them: “Most truly I say to you, the Son cannot do a single thing of his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things that One does, these things the Son does also in like manner.
5.20 For the Father has affection for the Son and shows him all the things he himself does, and he will show him works greater than these, so that you may marvel.
5.21 For just as the Father raises the dead up and makes them alive, so the Son also makes alive whomever he wants to.
5.22 For the Father judges no one at all, but he has entrusted all the judging to the Son,
5.23 so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
5.24 Most truly I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes the One who sent me has everlasting life, and he does not come into judgment but has passed over from death to life.
5.25 “Most truly I say to you, the hour is coming, and it is now, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who have paid attention will live.
5.26 For just as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted also to the Son to have life in himself.
5.27 And he has given him authority to do judging, because he is the Son of man.
5.28 Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice
5.29 and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, and those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment.
5.30 I cannot do a single thing of my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous because I seek, not my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
5.31 “If I alone bear witness about myself, my witness is not true.
5.32 There is another who bears witness about me, and I know that the witness he bears about me is true.
5.33 You have sent men to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.
5.34 However, I do not accept the witness from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved.
5.35 That man was a burning and shining lamp, and for a short time you were willing to rejoice greatly in his light.
5.36 But I have the witness greater than that of John, for the very works that my Father assigned me to accomplish, these works that I am doing, bear witness that the Father sent me.
5.37 And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his form,
5.38 and you do not have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the very one whom he sent.
5.39 “You are searching the Scriptures because you think that you will have everlasting life by means of them; and these are the very ones that bear witness about me.
5.40 And yet you do not want to come to me so that you may have life.
5.41 I do not accept glory from men,
5.42 but I well know that you do not have the love of God in you.
5.43 I have come in the name of my Father, but you do not receive me. If someone else came in his own name, you would receive that one.
5.44 How can you believe, when you are accepting glory from one another and you are not seeking the glory that is from the only God?
5.45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you, Moses, in whom you have put your hope.
5.46 In fact, if you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.
5.47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe what I say?”