New Believer's Bible Sample - Flipbook - Page 49
page 1001
33 “Did
someone bring him food while we
were gone?” the disciples asked each other.
34 Then Jesus explained: “My nourishment
comes from doing the will of God, who sent
me, and from finishing his work. 35 You know
the saying, ‘Four months between planting
and harvest.’ But I say, wake up and look
around. The fields are already ripe* for harvest. 36 The harvesters are paid good wages,
and the fruit they harvest is people brought to
eternal life. What joy awaits both the planter
and the harvester alike! 37 You know the saying, ‘One plants and another harvests.’ And
it’s true. 38 I sent you to harvest where you
didn’t plant; others had already done the
work, and now you will get to gather the
harvest.”
Many Samaritans Believe
39 Many Samaritans from the village believed
in Jesus because the woman had said, “He
told me everything I ever did!” 40 When they
came out to see him, they begged him to stay
in their village. So he stayed for two days,
41 long enough for many more to hear his
message and believe. 42 Then they said to the
woman, “Now we believe, not just because of
what you told us, but because we have heard
him ourselves. Now we know that he is indeed
the Savior of the world.”
Jesus Heals an Official’s Son
43At the end of the two days, Jesus went on to
Galilee. 44 He himself had said that a prophet
is not honored in his own hometown. 45 Yet
the Galileans welcomed him, for they had
been in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration
and had seen everything he did there.
46As he traveled through Galilee, he came
to Cana, where he had turned the water into
wine. There was a government official in
nearby Capernaum whose son was very sick.
47 When he heard that J
esus had come from
Judea to Galilee, he went and begged Jesus to
come to Capernaum to heal his son, who was
about to die.
48
Jesus asked, “Will you never believe
in me unless you see miraculous signs and
wonders?”
49 The official pleaded, “Lord, please come
now before my little boy dies.”
50 Then J
esus told him, “Go back home.
Your son will live!” And the man believed
what Jesus said and started home.
51 While the man was on his way, some of
J ohn 5
his servants met him with the news that his
son was alive and well. 52 He asked them when
the boy had begun to get better, and they replied, “Yesterday afternoon at one o’clock his
fever suddenly disappeared!” 53 Then the father realized that that was the very time J esus
had told him, “Your son will live.” And he and
his entire household believed in J esus. 54 This
was the second miraculous sign Jesus did in
Galilee after coming from Judea.
Jesus Heals a Lame Man
Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for
one of the Jewish holy days. 2 Inside the
city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Be
thesda,* with five covered porches. 3 Crowds
of sick people—blind, lame, or paralyzed—lay
on the porches.* 5 One of the men lying there
had been sick for thirty-eight years. 6 When
Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for
a long time, he asked him, “Would you like
to get well?”
7 “I can’t, sir,” the sick man said, “for I have
no one to put me into the pool when the water
bubbles up. Someone else always gets there
ahead of me.”
8 Jesus told him, “Stand up, pick up your
mat, and walk!”
9 Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled
up his sleeping mat and began walking! But
this miracle happened on the Sabbath, 10 so
the Jewish leaders objected. They said to the
man who was cured, “You can’t work on the
Sabbath! The law doesn’t allow you to carry
that sleeping mat!”
11 But he replied, “The man who healed me
told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”
12 “Who said such a thing as that?” they
demanded.
13 The man didn’t know, for Jesus had disappeared into the crowd. 14 But afterward
Jesus found him in the Temple and told him,
“Now you are well; so stop sinning, or something even worse may happen to you.” 15 Then
the man went and told the Jewish leaders that
it was Jesus who had healed him.
5
Jesus Claims to Be the Son of God
the Jewish leaders began harassing*
Jesus for breaking the Sabbath rules. 17 But
Jesus replied, “My Father is always working,
and so am I.” 18 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.
16 So
4:35 Greek white.
5:2 Other manuscripts read Beth-zatha; still others read Bethsaida.
5:3 Some manuscripts add an expanded
conclusion to verse 3 and all of verse 4: waiting for a certain movement of the water, 4for an angel of the Lord came from time to
time and stirred up the water. And the first person to step in after the water was stirred was healed of whatever disease he had.
5:16 Or persecuting.
