The Greatest Story Ever Told As You Never Heard it Before Brought to you by Bible Society and dramatised by Riding Lights Theatre Company, this audio CD set brings to life the whole New Testament in a dynamic and vibrant way. Let the power of audio storytelling take you back to first century Palestine Listen to the extraordinary life and teaching of Jesus Hear the compelling dramas of the early Church Discover more than you thought possible – enter into this audio experience and encounter the New Testament afresh. The stunning recording is an unabridged reading of the Contemporary English Version (CEV) New Testament – featuring Russell Boulter, Israel Oyelumade and 31 other actors. Sections from this recording previously used as part of Bible Society’s You’ve Got the Time programme. Running time approximately 20 hours The multi-voice recording of the New Testament was created by Riding Lights Theatre Company in May 2010 at the Digital Audio Studios in Skipton. Engineered and edited by Dave Aston. The text was adapted for voices by Paul Burbridge, with assistance from Yvonne Morley. Director: Paul Burbridge Assistant Director: Yvonne Morley Performed by: Kolade Agboke, Nadia Albina, Nicholas Bensberg, Susan Beresford, Russell Boulter, Paul Burbridge, Tim Charrington, Ruben Crow, Fred Denno, Emma Flett, Nigel Forde, Bud Gemmell, Rob Gooch, Pethrow Gooden, Abby Guinness, Vicki Hackett, Andrew Harrison, Julie Higginson, Zannah Hodson, Chris Jack, Gail Kemp, Rebecca Kennedy, Israel Oyelumade, Chris Pearse, Patrick Pearson-Miles, Tom Peters, Jonathan Race, Frances Simon, Luke Waldock, Mal Whiteley, Rachel Wilcock.

The New Testament - Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2010

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 <div class="label">4</div><div class="p"> 1Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was winning and baptizing more followers than John was. 2But Jesus' disciples were really the ones doing the baptizing, and not Jesus himself.</div><div class="s1">Jesus and the Samaritan woman</div><div class="p"> 3Jesus left Judea and started for Galilee again. 4This time he had to go through Samaria, 5and on his way he came to the town of Sychar. It was near the field that Jacob had long ago given to his son Joseph.#Gn 33.19; Js 24.32. 6-8The well that Jacob had dug was still there, and Jesus sat down beside it because he was tired from travelling. It was midday, and after Jesus' disciples had gone into town to buy some food, a Samaritan woman came to draw water from the well.</div><div class="p">Jesus asked her, &#8220;Would you please give me a drink of water?&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 9&#8220;You are a Jew,&#8221; she replied, &#8220;and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink of water when Jews and Samaritans won't have anything to do with each other?&#8221;#4.9 won't have anything to do with each other: Or &#8220;won't use the same cups&#8221;. The Samaritans lived in the land between Judea and Galilee. They worshipped God differently from the Jews and did not get along with them.#Ezra 4.1-5; Ne 4.1,2.</div><div class="p"> 10Jesus answered, &#8220;You don't know what God wants to give you, and you don't know who is asking you for a drink. If you did, you would ask me for the water that gives life.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 11&#8220;Sir,&#8221; the woman said, &#8220;you don't even have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this life-giving water? 12Our ancestor Jacob dug this well for us, and his family and animals got water from it. Are you greater than Jacob?&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 13Jesus answered, &#8220;Everyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again. 14But no one who drinks the water I give will ever be thirsty again. The water I give is like a flowing fountain that gives eternal life.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 15The woman replied, &#8220;Sir, please give me a drink of that water! Then I won't get thirsty and have to come to this well again.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 16Jesus told her, &#8220;Go and bring your husband.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 17-18The woman answered, &#8220;I don't have a husband.&#8221;</div><div class="p">&#8220;That's right,&#8221; Jesus replied, &#8220;you're telling the truth. You don't have a husband. You have already been married five times, and the man you are now living with isn't your husband.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 19The woman said, &#8220;Sir, I can see that you are a prophet. 20My ancestors worshipped on this mountain,#4.20 this mountain: Mount Gerizim, near the city of Shechem. but you Jews say Jerusalem is the only place to worship.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 21Jesus said to her:</div><div class="pi">Believe me, the time is coming when you won't worship the Father either on this mountain or in Jerusalem. 22You Samaritans don't really know the one you worship. But we Jews do know the God we worship, and by using us, God will save the world. 23But a time is coming, and it is already here! Even now the true worshippers are being led by the Spirit to worship the Father according to the truth. These are the ones the Father is seeking to worship him. 24God is Spirit, and those who worship God must be led by the Spirit to worship him according to the truth.</div><div class="p"> 25The woman said, &#8220;I know that the Messiah will come. He is the one we call Christ. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 26&#8220;I am that one,&#8221; Jesus told her, &#8220;and I am speaking to you now.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 27The disciples returned about this time and were surprised to find Jesus talking with a woman. But none of them asked him what he wanted or why he was talking with her.</div><div class="p"> 28The woman left her water jar and ran back into town. She said to the people, 29&#8220;Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! Could he be the Messiah?&#8221; 30Everyone in town went out to see Jesus.</div><div class="p"> 31While this was happening, Jesus' disciples were saying to him, &#8220;Teacher, please eat something.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 32But Jesus told them, &#8220;I have food that you don't know anything about.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 33His disciples started asking each other, &#8220;Has someone brought him something to eat?&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 34Jesus said:</div><div class="pi">My food is to do what God wants! He is the one who sent me, and I must finish the work that he gave me to do. 35You may say that there are still four months until harvest time. But I tell you to look, and you will see that the fields are ripe and ready to harvest.</div><div class="pi"> 36Even now the harvest workers are receiving their reward by gathering a harvest that brings eternal life. Then everyone who planted the seed and everyone who harvests the crop will celebrate together. 37So the saying proves true, &#8220;Some plant the seed, and others harvest the crop.&#8221; 38I am sending you to harvest crops in fields where others have done all the hard work.</div><div class="p"> 39A lot of Samaritans in that town put their faith in Jesus because the woman had said, &#8220;This man told me everything I have ever done.&#8221; 40They came and asked him to stay in their town, and he stayed on for two days.</div><div class="p"> 41Many more Samaritans put their faith in Jesus because of what they heard him say. 42They told the woman, &#8220;We no longer have faith in Jesus just because of what you told us. We have heard him ourselves, and we are certain that he is the Saviour of the world!&#8221;</div><div class="s1">Jesus heals an official's son</div><div class="r">(Matthew 8.5-13; Luke 7.1-10)</div><div class="p"> 43-44Jesus had said, &#8220;Prophets are honoured everywhere, except in their own country.&#8221; Then two days later he left#Mt 13.57; Mk 6.4; Lk 4.24. 45and went to Galilee. The people there welcomed him, because they had gone to the festival in Jerusalem and had seen everything he had done.#Jn 2.23.</div><div class="p"> 46While Jesus was in Galilee, he returned to the village of Cana, where he had turned the water into wine. There was an official in Capernaum whose son was sick.#Jn 2.1-11. 47And when the man heard that Jesus had come from Judea, he went and begged him to keep his son from dying.</div><div class="p"> 48Jesus told the official, &#8220;You won't have faith unless you see miracles and wonders!&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 49The man replied, &#8220;Lord, please come before my son dies!&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 50Jesus then said, &#8220;Your son will live. Go on home to him.&#8221; The man believed Jesus and set off to return home.</div><div class="p"> 51Some of the official's servants met him along the road and told him, &#8220;Your son is better!&#8221; 52He asked them when the boy got better, and they answered, &#8220;The fever left him yesterday at one o'clock.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 53The boy's father realized that at one o'clock the day before, Jesus had told him, &#8220;Your son will live!&#8221; So the man and everyone in his family put their faith in Jesus.</div><div class="p"> 54This was the second miracle#4.54 miracle: See the note at 2.11. that Jesus performed after he left Judea and went to Galilee.</div>
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Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was winning and baptizing more followers than John was. But Jesus' disciples were really the ones doing the baptizing, and not Jesus himself.

Jesus left Judea and started for Galilee again. This time he had to go through Samaria, and on his way he came to the town of Sychar. It was near the field that Jacob had long ago given to his son Joseph. The well that Jacob had dug was still there, and Jesus sat down beside it because he was tired from travelling. It was midday, and after Jesus' disciples had gone into town to buy some food, a Samaritan woman came to draw water from the well.
Jesus asked her, “Would you please give me a drink of water?”
“You are a Jew,” she replied, “and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink of water when Jews and Samaritans won't have anything to do with each other?”
Jesus answered, “You don't know what God wants to give you, and you don't know who is asking you for a drink. If you did, you would ask me for the water that gives life.”
“Sir,” the woman said, “you don't even have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this life-giving water? Our ancestor Jacob dug this well for us, and his family and animals got water from it. Are you greater than Jacob?”
Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again. But no one who drinks the water I give will ever be thirsty again. The water I give is like a flowing fountain that gives eternal life.”
The woman replied, “Sir, please give me a drink of that water! Then I won't get thirsty and have to come to this well again.”
Jesus told her, “Go and bring your husband.”
The woman answered, “I don't have a husband.”
“That's right,” Jesus replied, “you're telling the truth. You don't have a husband. You have already been married five times, and the man you are now living with isn't your husband.”
The woman said, “Sir, I can see that you are a prophet. My ancestors worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews say Jerusalem is the only place to worship.”
Jesus said to her:
Believe me, the time is coming when you won't worship the Father either on this mountain or in Jerusalem. You Samaritans don't really know the one you worship. But we Jews do know the God we worship, and by using us, God will save the world. But a time is coming, and it is already here! Even now the true worshippers are being led by the Spirit to worship the Father according to the truth. These are the ones the Father is seeking to worship him. God is Spirit, and those who worship God must be led by the Spirit to worship him according to the truth.
The woman said, “I know that the Messiah will come. He is the one we call Christ. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
“I am that one,” Jesus told her, “and I am speaking to you now.”
The disciples returned about this time and were surprised to find Jesus talking with a woman. But none of them asked him what he wanted or why he was talking with her.
The woman left her water jar and ran back into town. She said to the people, “Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! Could he be the Messiah?” Everyone in town went out to see Jesus.
While this was happening, Jesus' disciples were saying to him, “Teacher, please eat something.”
But Jesus told them, “I have food that you don't know anything about.”
His disciples started asking each other, “Has someone brought him something to eat?”
Jesus said:
My food is to do what God wants! He is the one who sent me, and I must finish the work that he gave me to do. You may say that there are still four months until harvest time. But I tell you to look, and you will see that the fields are ripe and ready to harvest.
Even now the harvest workers are receiving their reward by gathering a harvest that brings eternal life. Then everyone who planted the seed and everyone who harvests the crop will celebrate together. So the saying proves true, “Some plant the seed, and others harvest the crop.” I am sending you to harvest crops in fields where others have done all the hard work.
A lot of Samaritans in that town put their faith in Jesus because the woman had said, “This man told me everything I have ever done.” They came and asked him to stay in their town, and he stayed on for two days.
Many more Samaritans put their faith in Jesus because of what they heard him say. They told the woman, “We no longer have faith in Jesus just because of what you told us. We have heard him ourselves, and we are certain that he is the Saviour of the world!”


Jesus had said, “Prophets are honoured everywhere, except in their own country.” Then two days later he left and went to Galilee. The people there welcomed him, because they had gone to the festival in Jerusalem and had seen everything he had done.
While Jesus was in Galilee, he returned to the village of Cana, where he had turned the water into wine. There was an official in Capernaum whose son was sick. And when the man heard that Jesus had come from Judea, he went and begged him to keep his son from dying.
Jesus told the official, “You won't have faith unless you see miracles and wonders!”
The man replied, “Lord, please come before my son dies!”
Jesus then said, “Your son will live. Go on home to him.” The man believed Jesus and set off to return home.
Some of the official's servants met him along the road and told him, “Your son is better!” He asked them when the boy got better, and they answered, “The fever left him yesterday at one o'clock.”
The boy's father realized that at one o'clock the day before, Jesus had told him, “Your son will live!” So the man and everyone in his family put their faith in Jesus.
This was the second miracle that Jesus performed after he left Judea and went to Galilee.

နားေထာင္ပါ။ John 4