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On the last day, the climax of the festival, Jesus stood and shouted to the crowds, “Anyone who is thirsty may come to Me! Anyone who believes in Me may come and drink! For the Scriptures declare, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from His heart.'” (When He said “living water”, he was speaking of the Spirit, who would be given to everyone believing in Him. But the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet entered into His glory.) (vv. 37-39, NLT)

After this, Jesus traveled around Galilee. He wanted to stay out of Judea, where the Jewish leaders were plotting His death. But soon if was time for the Jewish festival of Shelters, and Jesus’ brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, where your followers can see your miracles! You can’t become famous if you hid like this! If you can do such wonderful things, show Yourself to the world!” For even His brothers did not believe in Him.

Jesus replied, “Now is the the right time for Me to go, but you can go anytime. The wold can’t hate you, but it does hate Me because I accuse it of doing evil. You go on. I’m not going to this festival, because My time has not yet come.” After saying these things, Jesus remained in Galilee.” (vv. 1-9, NLT)

Many of His disciples said, “This is very hard to understand. How can anyone accept it?”

Jesus was aware that His disciples were complaining, so He said to them,”Does this offend you? Then what will you think if you see the son of Man ascend to heaven again? The Spirit alone gives eternal life. Human effort accomplishes nothing. And the very words I have. spoken to you are spirit and life. But some of you do not believe Me.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning which ones didn’t believe, and He knew who would betray Him.) Then He said, “That is why I said that people can’t come to Me unless the Father gives them to Me.”

At this point, many of His disciples turned away and deserted Him. Then Jesus turned to the Twelve and asked, “Are you also going to leave?”

Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words that give eternal life. We believe, and we know you are the Holy One of God.”

Jesus said, “I chose the twelve of you, but one is a devil.” He was speaking of Judas, son of Simon Iscariot, on of the Twelve, who would later betray Him. (vv. 60-71, NLT)

(Speaking to the Jewish leaders)

“If I were to testify on My own behalf, my testimony would not be valid. But someone else is also testifying about Me, and I assure you that everything he says about me is true. In fact, you sent investigators to listen to John the Baptist, and his testimony about Me is true. Of course, I have no need of human witnesses, but I say these things so you might be saved. John was like a burning and shining lamp, and you were excited for a while about his message. But I have a greater witness than John- My teachings and My miracles. Then Father gave me these works to accomplish, and they prove that He sent Me. And the Father who sent Me has testified about Me himself. You have never heard His voice or seen Him face-to-face, and you do not have His message in your hearts, because you do not believe Me-the One He sent to you.”

“You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to Me! Yet you refuse to come to Me to receive this life.”

“Your approval means nothing to Me, because I know you don’t have God’s love within you. For I have come to you in My Father’s name, and You have rejected Me. Yet if others com in their own name, you gladly welcome them. No wonder you can’t believe! For you gladly honor each other, but you don’t care about the honor that comes from the One who along is God.”

Yet is isn’t I who will accuse you before the Father. Moses will accuse you! Yes, Moses, in whom you put your hopes. If you really believed in Moses, you would believe in Me, because he wrote about Me. Put since you don’t believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?” (vv. 31-47, NLT)

So the Jewish leaders began harassing Jesus for breaking the Sabbath rules. But Jesus replied, “My Father is always working, and som am I.” So the Jewish leaders tried all the harder to find a way to kill Him. For He not only broke the Sabbath, He called God His Father, thereby making Himself equal with God.

So Jesus explained, “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by Himself. He does only what He sees His Father doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son also does. For the Father loves the Son and shows Him everything He is doing. In fact, The father will show Him how to de even greater works that healing this man. Then you will truly be astonished. For just as the Father gives life to those He raises from the dead, so the Son give life to anyone He wants.

In addition, the Father judges no one. Instead, He has given the Son absolute authority to judge, so that everyone will honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son is certainly not honoring the Father who sent Him.:

“I tell you the truth, those who listen to My message and believe in God who sent Me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life.”

“And I assure you, that the tine is coming, indeed, it is here now, when the dead will hear My voice-the voice of the Son of God. And those who listen will live. The Father has life in Himself, and He has granted that same life-giving power to his Son. And He has given Him authority to judge everyone because He is the Son of Man. Don’t be so surprised! Indeed, the time is coming when all the dead in their graves will hear the voice of God’s Son, and they will rise up again. Those who have done good will rise will rise to experience eternal life, and those who have continued in evil will rise to experience judgment. I can do nothing on My own, I judge as God tells Me. Therefore, my judgment is just, because I carry out the will of the One who sent Me, not my own will.” (vv. 16-30, NLT)

“Eventually, He (Jesus) came to the Samaritan village of Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. Jacob’s well was there; and Jesus, tired from the long walk, sat wearily beside the well about noontime. Soon a Samaritan woman cam to dray water. He was alone at the time because His disciples had gone into the village to buy some food.

The woman was surprised, for Jews refused to have anything to do with Samaritans. She said to Jesus, ” You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan woman. Wy are you asking me for a drink?”

Jesus replied, “If you only knew the gift God has for you and who you are speaking to, you would ask me, and I would give you living water. ”

“But sir, you don’t have a rope or a bucket, she said, “and this well is very deep. Where would you get this living water? And besides, do you think that you are greater than our ancestor, Jacob, who gave us this well? How can you offer better water than he and his sons and his animals enjoyed?”

Jesus replied, “Anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again. But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. If becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.”

“Please, sir,” the woman said, “give me this water! Then I will never be thirsty again, and I won’t have to come here to get water.”

“Go and get your husband, ” Jesus told her.

“I don’t have a husband,” the woman said.

Jesus said, “You’re right! You don’t have a husband – for you have had five husbands, and you aren’t even married to the man you’re living with now. You certainly spoke the truth!”

“Sir”, the woman said, “you must be a prophet. So tell me, why is it that you Jews insist that Jerusalem is the only place of worship, while we Samaritans claim it is her at Mount Gerizim, where our ancestors worshiped?”

Jesus replied, “Believe Me, dear woman, the time is coming when It will no longer matter whether you worship the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem. You Samaritans know very little about the One you worship, while we Jews know all about Him, so salvation comes through the Jews. But the tie is coming-indeed, it is here now- when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for those who will worship Him in that way. For God is Spirit, so those who worship Him must worship and in truth.”

The woman said, “I know the Messiah is coming -the one called Christ. When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”

The Jesus told her, “I Am the Messiah!” (vv. 4-26, NLT)

There was a man named Nicodemus, a Jewis religious leader who was a Pharisee. After dark one evening, he cam to speak with Jesus. “Rabbi,” he said, “we all know that God has sent You to teach us. Your miraculous signs are evidence that God is with You.”

Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God.”

“What do You mean?” exclaimed Nicodemus. “How can an old man go back to his mother’s womb and be born again?”

Jesus replied, “I assure you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit. Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit give birth to spiritual life. So don’ be surprised when I say, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows wherever it wants. Just as you can hear the wind but can’t tell where it comes from or where it its going, so you can’t explain how people are born of the Spirit.”

“How are these things possible?” Nicodemus asked.

Jesus replied, “Yo are a respected Jewish teacher, and yet you don’t understand these things? I assure you, we tell you what we know and have seen, and yet you won’t believe our testimony. But if you don’t believe Me when I tell you about earthly things, how can you possible believe Me when I tell you about heavenly things?. No one has ever gone to heaven and returned. But the Son of Man has dome down from heaven. And as Moses lifted up the bronze snake pole in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in Him will have eternal life.”

“For God loved the world so much that He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent His Son into the wold not to judge the wold, but to save the world through Him.”

“There is no judgment against anyone who believes in Him. But anyone who does not believe in Him has already been judged for not believing in God’s one and only Son. And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions are evil. All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed. But those who do what is right and come to the light so others can see that they are doing what God wants.” (vv. 1-21, NLT)

In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. He existed in the beginning with God. God created everything through Him, and nothing was created except through Him. The Word gave life to everything that was created, and His lift brought light to everyone. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it.

God send a man, John the Baptist, to tell about the light so that everyone might believe because of his testimony. John himself was not the light; he was simply a witness to tell about the light. There one who was the one who is the true light, who give light to everyone, was coming into the world.

He came into the very world He created, but the wold didn’t recognize Him. He came to His own people, and even they rejected Him. But to all who believed in Him and accepted Him, He gave the right to become children of God. They are reborn – not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God.

So the Word became human and made His home among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness. And we have seen His glory, the glory of the Father’s one and only Son.

John testified about Him when he shouted to the crowds, “This is the one I was talking about when I said, ‘Someone is coming after me who is far greater than I am, for He existed long before me.'”

From this abundance we have all received one gracious blessing after another. For the law was given to Moses, but God’s unfailing love came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God. But the unique One, who is Himself God, is near the the Father’s heart. He has revealed God to us. (vv. 1-18, NLT)

then the two from Emmaus told their story of how Jesus had appeared to them as they were walking along the road, and how they had recognized Him as He was breaking the bread. Just as they were telling about it, Jesus Himself was suddenly standing there among them. “Peace be with You,” He said. But the whole group was startled and frightened, thinking they were seeing a ghost!

“Why are you frightened?” he asked. “Why are hour hearts filled with doubt? Look at my hands. Look at my feet. You can see that it’s really Me. Touch me and make sure that I am not a ghost, because ghosts don’t have bodies, as you can see that I do.” As He spoke, He showed them His hands and feet.

Still they stood there in disbelief, filled with joy and wonder. They He asked them, “Do you have anything to eat?” They gave Him a piece of broiled fish, and he ate it as they watched.

Then He said, “When I was with you before, I told you that everything written about Me in the law of Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms must be fulfilled.” Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures. And He said, “Yes, it was written long ago that the Messiah would suffer and die and rise form the dead on the third day. It was also written that this message would be proclaimed in the authority of His name to all the nations, beginning with Jerusalem: ‘There is forgiveness of sins for all who repent.’ You are witnesses of all these things.”

“And now, I will send the Holy Spirit, just as My Father promised. But stay here in the city until the Holy Spirit comes and fills you with power from heaven.” (vv. 35-49, NLT)