Book of Common Prayer
When Problems Arise In Serving The Needy In The Church, Deacons Are Chosen To Oversee It
6 Now during these days, while the disciples were multiplying, grumbling arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews[a] because their widows were being overlooked[b] in the daily ministry [of food]. 2 And the twelve, having summoned the multitude of the disciples, said, “It is not pleasing[c] that we, having left-behind the word of God, should be serving tables[d]. 3 But brothers, look-for[e] seven men from-among you being attested, full of the Spirit and wisdom, whom we will put-in-charge[f] over this need[g]. 4 And we will devote-ourselves to prayer and the ministry of the word”. 5 And the statement was pleasing in the sight of the whole multitude. And they chose Stephen (a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit), and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas (a proselyte from Antioch), 6 whom they stood before the apostles. And having prayed, they laid their hands on them. 7 And the word of God was growing. And the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was being multiplied greatly. And a large crowd of the priests were obeying the faith.
Stephen Is Seized While Doing Miracles And Proclaiming Christ With Irresistible Wisdom
8 Now Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people. 9 But some of the ones from the synagogue being called “of Freedmen[h]”— both[i] Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and the ones from Cilicia and Asia— rose-up, debating[j] with Stephen. 10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking. 11 Then they secretly-induced[k] men [to begin] saying that “We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God”. 12 And they stirred-up the people and the elders and the scribes. And having suddenly-come-upon him, they seized him and brought him to the Sanhedrin. 13 And they put-forward false witnesses, saying, “This man does not cease speaking words against this holy place and the Law. 14 For we have heard him saying that this Jesus the Nazarene will tear-down this place, and change the customs which Moses handed-down to us”. 15 And having looked-intently at him, all the ones sitting in the council [chamber] saw his face was like a face of an angel.
Jesus Goes To Galilee
4 So when Jesus knew[a] that the Pharisees heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples), 3 He left Judea and went again[b] toward Galilee. 4 And He had-to go through Samaria.
On The Way, Jesus Stops At a Well In Samaria
5 So He comes into a city of Samaria being called Sychar, near the place which Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Now a spring of Jacob was there. So Jesus, having become weary from the journey, was sitting thus[c] at the spring. The hour was about the sixth[d].
He Talks With a Woman At The Well, And Tells Her He Is The Awaited Messiah
7 A woman of Samaria comes to draw water. Jesus says to her, “Give Me water to drink”. 8 For His disciples had gone into the city in order that they might buy food. 9 So the Samaritan woman says to Him, “How is it You, being a Jew, are asking something to drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?” For Jews do not use-things-together-with[e] Samaritans. 10 Jesus responded and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and Who the One saying to you ‘Give Me water to drink’ is— you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water”. 11 The woman says to Him, “Sir, You have no bucket and the well is deep. From where then do You have the living water? 12 You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well, and himself drank from it, and his sons, and his animals?” 13 Jesus responded and said to her, “Everyone drinking from this water will thirst again. 14 But whoever should drink from the water which I will give him— he will never thirst, ever. On the contrary, the water which I will give him will become a spring of water in him, bubbling-up to eternal life”. 15 The woman says to Him, “Sir, give me this water in order that I may not be thirsting, nor coming here to draw it”. 16 He says to her, “Go, call your husband and come here”. 17 The woman responded and said to Him, “I do not have a husband”. Jesus says to her, “You said rightly that ‘I do not have a husband’. 18 For you had five husbands. And now he whom you have is not your husband. You have spoken this as a true thing”. 19 The woman says to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this[f] mountain, and you[g] Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem”. 21 Jesus says to her, “Believe Me, woman, that an hour is coming when you[h] Samaritans will give-worship to the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know. We Jews worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews. 23 But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will give-worship to the Father in spirit and truth. For indeed the Father is seeking such ones to be the ones worshiping Him. 24 God is spirit, and the ones worshiping Him must worship in spirit and truth”. 25 The woman says to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming— the One being called Christ. When that One comes, He will declare all things to us”. 26 Jesus says to her, “I, the One speaking to you, am He”.
Disciples' Literal New Testament: Serving Modern Disciples by More Fully Reflecting the Writing Style of the Ancient Disciples, Copyright © 2011 Michael J. Magill. All Rights Reserved. Published by Reyma Publishing