Good News Translation Anglicised 1994 (NT) Non Drama

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Good News Translation Anglicised 1994 (NT) Drama

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 <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1">Jesus and the Samaritan Woman</div><div class="p"> 1The Pharisees heard that Jesus was winning and baptizing more disciples than John. 2(Actually, Jesus himself did not baptize anyone; only his disciples did.) 3So when Jesus heard what was being said, he left Judea and went back to Galilee; 4on his way there he had to go through Samaria.</div><div class="p"> 5 # 
 Gen 33.19; Josh 24.32 In Samaria he came to a town named Sychar, which was not far from the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired out by the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.</div><div class="p"> 7A Samaritan woman came to draw some water, and Jesus said to her, &#8220;Give me a drink of water.&#8221; 8(His disciples had gone into town to buy food.)</div><div class="p"> 9 # 
 Ezra 4.1&#8211;5; Neh 4.1&#8211;2 The woman answered, &#8220;You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan &#8212; so how can you ask me for a drink?&#8221; (Jews will not use the same cups and bowls that Samaritans use.)#4.9 Jews will not use the same cups and bowls that Samaritans use; or Jews will have nothing to do with Samaritans.</div><div class="p"> 10Jesus answered, &#8220;If only you knew what God gives and who it is that is asking you for a drink, you would ask him, and he would give you life-giving water.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 11&#8220;Sir,&#8221; the woman said, &#8220;you haven't got a bucket, and the well is deep. Where would you get that life-giving water? 12It was our ancestor Jacob who gave us this well; he and his sons and his flocks all drank from it. You don't claim to be greater than Jacob, do you?&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 13Jesus answered, &#8220;All those who drink this water will be thirsty again, 14but whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring which will provide him with life-giving water and give him eternal life.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 15&#8220;Sir,&#8221; the woman said, &#8220;give me that water! Then I will never be thirsty again, nor will I have to come here to draw water.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 16 &#8220;Go and call your husband,&#8221; Jesus told her, &#8220;and come back.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 17&#8220;I haven't got a husband,&#8221; she answered.</div><div class="p">Jesus replied, &#8220;You are right when you say you haven't got a husband. 18You have been married to five men, and the man you live with now is not really your husband. You have told me the truth.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 19&#8220;I see you are a prophet, sir,&#8221; the woman said. 20&#8220;My Samaritan ancestors worshipped God on this mountain, but you Jews say that Jerusalem is the place where we should worship God.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 21Jesus said to her, &#8220;Believe me, woman, the time will come when people will not worship the Father either on this mountain or in Jerusalem. 22You Samaritans do not really know whom you worship; but we Jews know whom we worship, because it is from the Jews that salvation comes. 23But the time is coming and is already here, when by the power of God's Spirit people will worship the Father as he really is, offering him the true worship that he wants. 24God is Spirit, and only by the power of his Spirit can people worship him as he really is.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 25The woman said to him, &#8220;I know that the Messiah will come, and when he comes, he will tell us everything.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 26Jesus answered, &#8220;I am he, I who am talking with you.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 27At that moment Jesus' disciples returned, and they were greatly surprised to find him talking with a woman. But none of them said to her, &#8220;What do you want?&#8221; or asked him, &#8220;Why are you talking with her?&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 28Then the woman left her water jar, went back to the town, and said to the people there, 29&#8220;Come and see the man who told me everything I have ever done. Could he be the Messiah?&#8221; 30So they left the town and went to Jesus.</div><div class="p"> 31In the meantime the disciples were begging Jesus, &#8220;Teacher, have something to eat!&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 32But he answered, &#8220;I have food to eat that you know nothing about.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 33So the disciples started asking among themselves, &#8220;Could somebody have brought him food?&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 34 &#8220;My food,&#8221; Jesus said to them, &#8220;is to obey the will of the one who sent me and to finish the work he gave me to do. 35You have a saying, &#8216;Four more months and then the harvest.&#8217; But I tell you, take a good look at the fields; the crops are now ripe and ready to be harvested! 36The one who reaps the harvest is being paid and gathers the crops for eternal life; so another who sows and the one who reaps will be glad together. 37The saying is true, &#8216;One sows, another reaps.&#8217; 38I have sent you to reap a harvest in a field where you did not work; others worked there, and you profit from their work.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 39Many of the Samaritans in that town believed in Jesus because the woman had said, &#8220;He told me everything I have ever done.&#8221; 40So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them, and Jesus stayed there two days.</div><div class="p"> 41Many more believed because of his message, 42and they said to the woman, &#8220;We believe now, not because of what you said, but because we ourselves have heard him, and we know that he really is the Saviour of the world.&#8221;</div><div class="s1">Jesus Heals an Official's Son</div><div class="p"> 43After spending two days there, Jesus left and went to Galilee. 44#Mt 13.57; Mk 6.4; Lk 4.24For he himself had said, &#8220;A prophet is not respected in his own country.&#8221; 45#Jn 2.23When he arrived in Galilee, the people there welcomed him, because they had gone to the Passover Festival in Jerusalem and had seen everything that he had done during the festival.</div><div class="p"> 46 # 
 Jn 2.1&#8211;11
 Then Jesus went back to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. A government official was there whose son was ill in Capernaum. 47When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to go to Capernaum and heal his son, who was about to die. 48Jesus said to him, &#8220;None of you will ever believe unless you see miracles and wonders.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 49&#8220;Sir,&#8221; replied the official, &#8220;come with me before my child dies.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 50Jesus said to him, &#8220;Go, your son will live!&#8221;</div><div class="p">The man believed Jesus' words and went. 51On his way home his servants met him with the news, &#8220;Your boy is going to live!&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 52He asked them what time it was when his son got better, and they answered, &#8220;It was one o'clock yesterday afternoon when the fever left him.&#8221; 53Then the father remembered it was at that very hour that Jesus had told him, &#8220;Your son will live.&#8221; So he and all his family believed.</div><div class="p"> 54This was the second miracle that Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.</div>
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Good News Bible with Deuterocanonicals/Apocrypha. Scripture taken from the Good News Bible (r) (Today's English Version Second Edition, UK/British Edition). Copyright © 1992 British & Foreign Bible Society. Used by permission.

The Pharisees heard that Jesus was winning and baptizing more disciples than John. (Actually, Jesus himself did not baptize anyone; only his disciples did.) So when Jesus heard what was being said, he left Judea and went back to Galilee; on his way there he had to go through Samaria.
In Samaria he came to a town named Sychar, which was not far from the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired out by the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
A Samaritan woman came to draw some water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink of water.” (His disciples had gone into town to buy food.)
The woman answered, “You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan — so how can you ask me for a drink?” (Jews will not use the same cups and bowls that Samaritans use.)
Jesus answered, “If only you knew what God gives and who it is that is asking you for a drink, you would ask him, and he would give you life-giving water.”
“Sir,” the woman said, “you haven't got a bucket, and the well is deep. Where would you get that life-giving water? It was our ancestor Jacob who gave us this well; he and his sons and his flocks all drank from it. You don't claim to be greater than Jacob, do you?”
Jesus answered, “All those who drink this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring which will provide him with life-giving water and give him eternal life.”
“Sir,” the woman said, “give me that water! Then I will never be thirsty again, nor will I have to come here to draw water.”
“Go and call your husband,” Jesus told her, “and come back.”
“I haven't got a husband,” she answered.
Jesus replied, “You are right when you say you haven't got a husband. You have been married to five men, and the man you live with now is not really your husband. You have told me the truth.”
“I see you are a prophet, sir,” the woman said. “My Samaritan ancestors worshipped God on this mountain, but you Jews say that Jerusalem is the place where we should worship God.”
Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, the time will come when people will not worship the Father either on this mountain or in Jerusalem. You Samaritans do not really know whom you worship; but we Jews know whom we worship, because it is from the Jews that salvation comes. But the time is coming and is already here, when by the power of God's Spirit people will worship the Father as he really is, offering him the true worship that he wants. God is Spirit, and only by the power of his Spirit can people worship him as he really is.”
The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah will come, and when he comes, he will tell us everything.”
Jesus answered, “I am he, I who am talking with you.”
At that moment Jesus' disciples returned, and they were greatly surprised to find him talking with a woman. But none of them said to her, “What do you want?” or asked him, “Why are you talking with her?”
Then the woman left her water jar, went back to the town, and said to the people there, “Come and see the man who told me everything I have ever done. Could he be the Messiah?” So they left the town and went to Jesus.
In the meantime the disciples were begging Jesus, “Teacher, have something to eat!”
But he answered, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
So the disciples started asking among themselves, “Could somebody have brought him food?”
“My food,” Jesus said to them, “is to obey the will of the one who sent me and to finish the work he gave me to do. You have a saying, ‘Four more months and then the harvest.’ But I tell you, take a good look at the fields; the crops are now ripe and ready to be harvested! The one who reaps the harvest is being paid and gathers the crops for eternal life; so another who sows and the one who reaps will be glad together. The saying is true, ‘One sows, another reaps.’ I have sent you to reap a harvest in a field where you did not work; others worked there, and you profit from their work.”
Many of the Samaritans in that town believed in Jesus because the woman had said, “He told me everything I have ever done.” So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them, and Jesus stayed there two days.
Many more believed because of his message, and they said to the woman, “We believe now, not because of what you said, but because we ourselves have heard him, and we know that he really is the Saviour of the world.”

After spending two days there, Jesus left and went to Galilee. For he himself had said, “A prophet is not respected in his own country.” When he arrived in Galilee, the people there welcomed him, because they had gone to the Passover Festival in Jerusalem and had seen everything that he had done during the festival.
Then Jesus went back to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. A government official was there whose son was ill in Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to go to Capernaum and heal his son, who was about to die. Jesus said to him, “None of you will ever believe unless you see miracles and wonders.”
“Sir,” replied the official, “come with me before my child dies.”
Jesus said to him, “Go, your son will live!”
The man believed Jesus' words and went. On his way home his servants met him with the news, “Your boy is going to live!”
He asked them what time it was when his son got better, and they answered, “It was one o'clock yesterday afternoon when the fever left him.” Then the father remembered it was at that very hour that Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” So he and all his family believed.
This was the second miracle that Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.

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