Language of Enchantment

John 4:4-42
 

⁴ Now he had to go through Samaria. ⁵ So he came to a town
in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given
to his son Joseph.⁶ Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he
was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

⁷ When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, 
“Will you give me a drink?” ⁸ (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

⁹ The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a
Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do
not associate with Samaritans.)

¹⁰ Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is
that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have
given you living water.”

¹¹ “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well
is deep. Where can you get this living water? ¹² Are you greater than our
father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also
his sons and his livestock?”

¹³ Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,
¹⁴ but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water
I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

¹⁵ The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get
thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

¹⁶ He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”

¹⁷ “I have no husband,” she replied.

Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband.¹⁸ The fact is,
you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband.
What you have just said is quite true.”

¹⁹ “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. ²⁰ Our ancestors
worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place
where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”

²¹ “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will
worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. ²² You Samaritans
worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation
is from the Jews. ²³ Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true
worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind
of worshipers the Father seeks. ²⁴ God is spirit, and his worshipers must
worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

²⁵ The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he
comes, he will explain everything to us.”

²⁶ Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”

²⁷ Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking
with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”

²⁸ Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to
the people, ²⁹ “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this
be the Messiah?” ³⁰ They came out of the town and made their way toward him.

³¹ Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat something.”

³² But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”

³³ Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?”

³⁴ “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
 ³⁵ Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you,
open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. ³⁶ Even now the one who reaps
draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper
may be glad together. ³⁷ Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true.
 ³⁸ I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work
, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”

³⁹ Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the
woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.” ⁴⁰ So when the
Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed
two days. ⁴¹ And because of his words many more became believers.

⁴² They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said;
now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really
is the Savior of the world. 

John 8:1-11
8 Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, ² but early
the next morning he was back again at the Temple.
A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught
them. ³ As he was speaking, the teachers of religious
law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been
caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the
crowd.
⁴ “Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in
the act of adultery. ⁵ The law of Moses says to stone her.
What do you say?”
⁶ They were trying to trap him into saying something they
 could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in
the dust with his finger. ⁷ They kept demanding an answer,
 so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one
 who has never sinned throw the first stone!
” ⁸ Then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust.
⁹ When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by
 one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was
 left in the middle of the crowd with the woman
. ¹⁰ Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman,
 “Where are your accusers?
Didn’t even one of them condemn you?”
¹¹ “No, Lord,” she said.
And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.”
 
 
 
Matthew 7:2-4
For with the same judgment you pronounce
you will be judged; and with the measure
you use, it will be measured to you. 3Why do
you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but
fail to notice the beam in your own eye? 4How can
you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of
your eye,’ while there is still a beam in your own eye?