The Ignatius Catholic Study Bible New Testament (104 page)

12
 After this he went down to
Caper'na-um
, with his mother and his brethren
 
*
and his disciples; and there they stayed for a few days.

The Cleansing of the Temple

13
 The
Passover
of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
¹⁴
In the temple
he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and
the money-changers
at their business.
¹⁵
And making a whip of cords, he drove them all, with the sheep and oxen, out of the temple; and he
poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned
their tables.
¹⁶
And he told those who sold the pigeons, "Take these things away; you shall not make my Father's house a house of trade."
¹⁷
His disciples remembered that it was written, "
Zeal for your house
will consume me."
¹⁸
The Jews then said to him, "What sign have you to show us for doing this?"
¹⁹
Jesus answered them, "
Destroy this temple
, and in three days I will raise it up."
²⁰
The Jews then said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?"
²¹
But he spoke of the temple of his body.
²²
When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.

23
 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs which he did;
²⁴
but Jesus did not trust himself to them,
²⁵
because
he knew all men
and needed no one to bear witness of man; for he himself knew what was in man.

Nicodemus Visits Jesus

3
  Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named
Nicode'mus
, a ruler of the Jews.
²
This man came to Jesus
^d
by night
and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him."
³
Jesus answered him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born
anew
,
^e
he cannot see the kingdom of God."
⁴
Nicode'mus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?"
⁵
Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is
born of water and the Spirit
, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
⁶
That which is born of the
flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit
.
^f
7
Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born anew.'
^e
8
The wind
^f
blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes; so it is with every one who is born of the Spirit."
⁹
Nicode'mus said to him, "How can this be?"
¹⁰
Jesus answered him, "Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand this?
¹¹
Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen; but you do not receive
our testimony
.
¹²
If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
¹³
No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven, the Son of man.
^g
14
And as Moses lifted up
the serpent
in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up,
¹⁵
that whoever believes in him may have eternal life."
^h

16
 For God so loved the world that he
gave his only-begotten Son
, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
¹⁷
For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.
¹⁸
He who believes in him is not condemned; he who does not believe is
condemned already
, because he has not believed in the name of the only-begotten Son of God.
¹⁹
And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
²⁰
For every one who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
²¹
But he who does what is true comes to the light, that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been wrought in God.

Jesus and John the Baptist

22
 After this Jesus and his disciples went into the land of Judea; there he remained with them and
baptized
.
 
*
²³
John also was baptizing at
Ae'non
near Sa'lim, because there was much water there; and people came and were baptized.
²⁴
For John had not yet been
put in prison
.
 
*

25
 Now a discussion arose between
John's disciples
and a Jew over purifying.
²⁶
And they came to John, and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you bore witness, here he is, baptizing, and all are going to him."
²⁷
John answered, "No one can receive anything except what is given him from heaven.
²⁸
You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.
²⁹
He who has the bride is the bridegroom; the friend of
the bridegroom
, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice; therefore this joy of mine is now full.
³⁰
He must increase, but I must decrease."
ⁱ

He Who Comes from Heaven [
Map
]

31
 He who comes from above is above all; he who is of the earth belongs to the earth, and of the
earth he speaks; he who comes from heaven
is above all.
³²
He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony;
³³
he who receives his testimony sets his seal to this, that God is true.
³⁴
For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for it is
not by measure
that he gives the Spirit;
³⁵
the Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.
³⁶
He who believes in the Son has eternal life;
he who does not obey
the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God rests upon him.

Jesus and the Woman of Samaria

4
  Now when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
²
(although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples),
³
he left Judea and departed again to Galilee.
⁴
He
had to pass through
Samar'ia.
⁵
So he came to a city of Samar'ia, called
Sy'char
, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
⁶
Jacob's well
was there, and so Jesus, wearied as he was with his journey, sat down beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.

7
 There came a woman of
Samar'ia
to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."
⁸
For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
⁹
The Samaritan woman said to him, "
How is it
that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samar'ia?" For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.
¹⁰
Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him and he would have given you
living water
."
¹¹
The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; where do you get that living water?
¹²
Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?"
¹³
Jesus said to her, "Every one who drinks of this water will thirst again,
¹⁴
but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst; the water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
¹⁵
The woman said to him, "
Sir
, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw."

16
 Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."
¹⁷
The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband';
¹⁸
for you have had
five husbands
, and he whom you now have is not your husband; this you said truly."
¹⁹
The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
²⁰
Our fathers worshiped
on this mountain
;
 
*
and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship."
²¹
Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
²²
You worship
what you do not know
; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
²³
But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father
in spirit and truth
, for such the Father seeks to worship him.
²⁴
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."
²⁵
The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ); when he comes, he will show us all things."
²⁶
Jesus said to her, "
I who speak to you am he
."

27
 Just then his disciples came. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but none said, "What do you wish?" or, "Why are you talking with her?"
²⁸
So the woman
left her water jar
, and went away into the city, and said to the people,
²⁹
"Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?"
³⁰
They went out of the city and were coming to him.

31
 Meanwhile the disciples begged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."
³²
But he said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know."
³³
So the disciples said to one another, "Has any one brought him food?"
³⁴
Jesus said to them, "
My food
is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
³⁵
Do you not say, 'There are yet four months, then comes the harvest'? I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see how the fields are already
white for harvest
.
³⁶
He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.
³⁷
For here the saying holds true, 'One sows and another reaps.'
³⁸
I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."

39
 Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me all that I ever did."
⁴⁰
So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days.
⁴¹
And many more believed because of his word.
⁴²
They said to the woman, "It is no longer because of your words that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed
the Savior
of the world."