Book of Common Prayer

For Abraham Waited Patiently And Obtained The Promise

¹³ For God, having promised to Abraham, swore by Himself— since He had by no one greater to swear— ¹⁴ saying [in Gen 22:17]: “Surely while blessing I will bless you, and while multiplying I will multiply^[a] you”. ¹⁵ And so, having waited-patiently, he obtained the promise.

God Even Guaranteed His Promise To Encourage Those Waiting For It

¹⁶ For people swear by the greater one. And for them the oath for confirmation is the end^[b] of every dispute, ¹⁷ by which custom God, intending even more to show the unchangeableness of His intention^[c] to the heirs of the promise, guaranteed with an oath, ¹⁸ in order that by two^[d] unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we^[e]— the ones having fled to take-hold-of the hope being set-before us— may have strong encouragement^[f], ¹⁹ which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both secure and firm and entering into the inner side of the curtain, ²⁰ where a forerunner for us went in— Jesus— having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

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”.