WEBVTT 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:03.700 Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're 00:00:03.700 --> 00:00:05.740 taking this journey together to read the Bible 00:00:05.740 --> 00:00:08.740 in a year. Today's reading is from the Gospel 00:00:08.740 --> 00:00:12.759 of John, Chapter 4. Therefore, when the Lord 00:00:12.759 --> 00:00:15.519 knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:18.739 made and baptized more disciples than John, though 00:00:18.739 --> 00:00:21.440 Jesus himself did not baptize but his disciples, 00:00:21.699 --> 00:00:24.600 he left Judea and departed again to Galilee. 00:00:24.660 --> 00:00:28.120 But he needed to go through Samaria. So he came 00:00:28.120 --> 00:00:30.379 to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, 00:00:30.559 --> 00:00:33.320 near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his 00:00:33.320 --> 00:00:36.520 son Joseph. Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus, 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:39.679 therefore, being wearied from his journey, sat 00:00:39.679 --> 00:00:42.259 thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour. 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:45.619 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus 00:00:45.619 --> 00:00:48.320 said to her, Give me a drink. For his disciples 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:51.179 had gone away into the city to buy food. Then 00:00:51.179 --> 00:00:54.229 the woman of Samaria said to him, How is it that 00:00:54.229 --> 00:00:57.670 you, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan 00:00:57.670 --> 00:01:00.950 woman? For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. 00:01:01.189 --> 00:01:04.129 Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the 00:01:04.129 --> 00:01:06.950 gift of God, and who it is who says to you, Give 00:01:06.950 --> 00:01:09.930 me a drink, you would have asked him, and he 00:01:09.930 --> 00:01:12.549 would have given you living water. The woman 00:01:12.549 --> 00:01:15.430 said to him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, 00:01:15.569 --> 00:01:18.730 and the well is deep. Where then do you get that 00:01:18.730 --> 00:01:21.230 living water? Are you greater than our father 00:01:21.230 --> 00:01:24.109 Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it 00:01:24.109 --> 00:01:26.689 himself, as well as his sons and his livestock? 00:01:27.189 --> 00:01:29.890 Jesus answered and said to her, Whoever drinks 00:01:29.890 --> 00:01:32.790 of this water will thirst again. But whoever 00:01:32.790 --> 00:01:35.569 drinks of the water that I shall give him will 00:01:35.569 --> 00:01:38.170 never thirst. But the water that I shall give 00:01:38.170 --> 00:01:41.530 him will become in him a fountain of water, springing 00:01:41.530 --> 00:01:44.549 up into everlasting life. The woman said to him, 00:01:44.890 --> 00:01:47.810 Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst 00:01:47.810 --> 00:01:51.269 nor come here to draw. Jesus said to her, Go, 00:01:51.510 --> 00:01:54.609 call your husband, and come here. The woman answered 00:01:54.609 --> 00:01:57.489 and said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, 00:01:57.590 --> 00:02:00.109 You have well said, I have no husband. For you 00:02:00.109 --> 00:02:02.849 have had five husbands, and the one whom you 00:02:02.849 --> 00:02:06.769 now have is not your husband. In that you spoke 00:02:06.769 --> 00:02:09.810 truly. The woman said to him, Sir, I perceive 00:02:09.810 --> 00:02:12.449 that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshipped 00:02:12.449 --> 00:02:15.370 on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem 00:02:15.370 --> 00:02:18.490 is the place where one ought to worship. Jesus 00:02:18.490 --> 00:02:21.759 said to her, Woman, believe me, the hour is coming 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:24.500 when you will neither on this mountain nor in 00:02:24.500 --> 00:02:27.599 Jerusalem worship the Father. You worship what 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:30.680 you do not know. We know what we worship, for 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:33.960 salvation is of the Jews. But the hour is coming, 00:02:34.020 --> 00:02:36.639 and now is, when the true worshippers will worship 00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:39.060 the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father 00:02:39.060 --> 00:02:41.979 is seeking such to worship Him. God is spirit, 00:02:42.199 --> 00:02:44.620 and those who worship Him must worship in spirit 00:02:44.620 --> 00:02:48.400 and truth. The woman said to him, I know that 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:51.599 Messiah is coming, who is called Christ. When 00:02:51.599 --> 00:02:54.620 he comes, he will tell us all things. Jesus said 00:02:54.620 --> 00:02:58.340 to her, I who speak to you am he. And at this 00:02:58.340 --> 00:03:01.620 point his disciples came, and they marveled that 00:03:01.620 --> 00:03:04.439 he talked with a woman. Yet no one said, What 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:07.000 do you seek? Or why are you talking with her? 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:10.240 The woman left her waterpot, went her way into 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:13.419 the city, and said to the men, Come. See a man 00:03:13.419 --> 00:03:16.699 who told me all things that I ever did. Could 00:03:16.699 --> 00:03:19.439 this be the Christ? Then they went out of the 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:22.180 city and came to him. In the meantime, his disciples 00:03:22.180 --> 00:03:25.759 urged him, saying, Rabbi, eat. But he said to 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:28.199 them, I have food to eat of which you do not 00:03:28.199 --> 00:03:30.960 know. Therefore the disciples said to one another, 00:03:31.180 --> 00:03:33.900 Has anyone brought him anything to eat? Jesus 00:03:33.900 --> 00:03:36.379 said to them, My food is to do the will of him 00:03:36.379 --> 00:03:39.449 who sent me, and to finish his work. Do you not 00:03:39.449 --> 00:03:42.490 say, There are still four months, and then comes 00:03:42.490 --> 00:03:45.490 the harvest? Behold, I say to you, lift up your 00:03:45.490 --> 00:03:48.090 eyes and look at the fields, for they are already 00:03:48.090 --> 00:03:50.949 white for harvest. And he who reaps receives 00:03:50.949 --> 00:03:54.430 wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that 00:03:54.430 --> 00:03:57.669 both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice 00:03:57.669 --> 00:04:01.310 together. For in this the saying is true, One 00:04:01.310 --> 00:04:04.919 sows and another reaps. I sent you to reap, that 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:07.919 for which you have not labored. Others have labored, 00:04:07.919 --> 00:04:11.180 and you have entered into their labors. And many 00:04:11.180 --> 00:04:13.400 of the Samaritans of that city believed in him, 00:04:13.460 --> 00:04:15.460 because of the word of the woman who testified, 00:04:15.819 --> 00:04:19.379 He told me all that I ever did. So when the Samaritans 00:04:19.379 --> 00:04:21.699 had come to him, they urged him to stay with 00:04:21.699 --> 00:04:24.199 them. And he stayed there two days, and many 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:26.839 more believed because of his own word. Then they 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:29.720 said to the woman, Now we believe not because 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:32.860 of what you said, for we ourselves have heard 00:04:32.860 --> 00:04:36.060 him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:39.319 the Savior of the world. Now after the two days 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:42.980 he departed from there and went to Galilee. For 00:04:42.980 --> 00:04:45.660 Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no 00:04:45.660 --> 00:04:48.420 honor in his own country. So when he came to 00:04:48.420 --> 00:04:51.519 Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:54.279 all the things he did in Jerusalem at the feast, 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:57.759 for they also had gone to the feast. So Jesus 00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:00.720 came again to Cana of Galilee, where he had made 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:03.939 the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman 00:05:03.939 --> 00:05:07.040 whose son was sick at Capernaum. When he heard 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:09.500 that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:12.199 he went to him and implored him to come down 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:15.279 and heal his son, for he was at the point of 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:18.600 death. Then Jesus said to him, Unless you people 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:21.800 see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe. 00:05:22.160 --> 00:05:25.240 The nobleman said to him, Sir, come down before 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:28.519 my child dies. Jesus said to him, Go your way, 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:31.560 your son lives. So the man believed the word 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:33.899 that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. 00:05:34.100 --> 00:05:37.040 And as he was now going down, his servants met 00:05:37.040 --> 00:05:40.319 him and told him, saying, Your son lives. Then 00:05:40.319 --> 00:05:43.120 he inquired of them the hour when he got better. 00:05:43.300 --> 00:05:46.009 And they said to him, Yesterday at the seventh 00:05:46.009 --> 00:05:49.310 hour the fever left him. So the father knew that 00:05:49.310 --> 00:05:52.470 it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to 00:05:52.470 --> 00:05:55.449 him, Your son lives. And he himself believed 00:05:55.449 --> 00:05:59.189 and his whole household. This again is the second 00:05:59.189 --> 00:06:02.509 sign Jesus did when he had come out of Judea 00:06:02.509 --> 00:06:10.129 into Galilee. I hope you enjoyed today's reading 00:06:10.129 --> 00:06:12.430 as much as I did. And I look forward to seeing 00:06:12.430 --> 00:06:14.449 you again tomorrow to continue on our journey. 00:06:14.810 --> 00:06:16.290 God bless you and have a great day.