Jesus’s Ministry

  • My Daily Thoughts—John 5:1-4

    John 5:1-4 (WEL) After this, there was a Jewish festival, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 In Jerusalem, by the Sheep Gate, there is a pool with five covered porches. In Hebrew, it is called Bethesda. 3 On these, was a large crowd of sick people lying down—the blind, crippled, and wasted, waiting…

  • My Daily Thoughts—John 4:46-54

    John 4:46-54 (WEL) Then Jesus again went back to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. A certain nobleman was there whose son was sick at Capernaum. 47 When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and was imploring him so that he would come…

  • My Daily Thoughts—John 4:43-46

    John 4:43-46 (WEL) Now, after two days, he left there and went into Galilee. 44 For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. 45 Then when he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen everything that he did at Jerusalem at the festival, for they had…

  • My Daily Thoughts—John 4:39-42

    John 4:39-42 (WEL) Many of the Samaritans of that city believed in him through the report of the woman who testified, “He told me everything I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 41 Many more believed through…

  • My Daily Thoughts—John 4:31-38

    John 4:31-38 (WEL) Meanwhile, his disciples kept urgently asking him, “Rabbi, eat.” 32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.” 33 Then the disciples said to one another, “Has someone brought him something to eat?” 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the…

  • My Daily Thoughts—John 4:27-30

    John 4:27-30 (WEL) At this moment his disciples came and were amazed that he was talking with the woman, yet no one said, “What are you seeking?” or “Why are you talking with her?” 28 Then the woman left her water jar, went to the city, and said to the men, 29 “Come, see…

  • My Daily Thoughts—John 4:25-26

    John 4:25-26 (WEL) The woman says to him, “I know that Messiah is coming, who is called Christ. When he comes, he will make all things known to us.” 26 Jesus says to her, “I AM he, the one speaking to you.” V25 The woman says to him, “I know that Messiah is coming,…

  • My Daily Thoughts—John 4:9-13

    John 4:9-13 (WEL) The Samaritan woman says to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman because the Jews have nothing to do with the Samaritans?” 10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew God’s gift and who it is who asks you,…

  • My Daily Thoughts—John 4:3-8

    John 4:3-8 (WEL) He left Judea and went back to Galilee. 4 But it was necessary for him to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a Samaritan city, called Sychar, near the piece of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there. Therefore, Jesus, exhausted from the…

  • My Daily Thoughts—John 4:1-2

    John 4:1-2 (WEL) Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, 2 (Although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples did.) Chapter summary: Joseph Benson: Here, (1) Christ, going from Judea to Galilee, meets with a woman of Samaria, and enters into a conference…