Lord, you heard what poor people want.\par Listen to their prayers\par and do what they ask!\par
John 4:10 - Easy To Read Version Jesus answered, “You don’t know about the thing God gives. And you don’t know who I am that asked you for a drink. If you knew these things, you would have asked me and I would have given you living water.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Jesus answered her, If you had only known and had recognized God's gift and Who this is that is saying to you, Give Me a drink, you would have asked Him [instead] and He would have given you living water. American Standard Version (1901) Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. Common English Bible Jesus responded, “If you recognized God’s gift and who is saying to you, ‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would be asking him and he would give you living water.” Catholic Public Domain Version Jesus responded and said to her: "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, 'Give me to drink,' perhaps you would have made a request of him, and he would have given you living water." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Jesus answered, and said to her: If thou didst know the gift of God, and who he is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou perhaps wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. |
Lord, you heard what poor people want.\par Listen to their prayers\par and do what they ask!\par
There is a river whose streams\par bring happiness to God’s city,\par to the holy city of God Most High.\par
I will stand before you on a rock at Horeb (Mount Sinai). Hit that rock with the walking stick and water will come out of it. Then the people can drink.”
Get your water from the spring of salvation.\par Then you will be happy.\par
Crippled people will dance like deer. And the people that can’t talk now will use their voices to sing happy songs. This will happen when springs of water begin flowing in the desert. Springs will flow in the dry land.
“I, the Lord, called you to do right.\par I will hold your hand.\par And I will protect you.\par You will be the sign that shows\par \{I have\} an Agreement with the people.\par You will be a light to shine for all people.\par
Even the wild animals will be thankful to me. The large animals and birds will honor me. They will honor me when I put water in the desert. They will honor me when I make rivers in the dry land. I will do this to give water to my people—the people I chose.
“I will pour water for thirsty people. I will make streams flow on dry land. I will pour my Spirit on your children—it will be like a stream of water flowing over your family.
The people will not be hungry.\par They will not be thirsty.\par The hot sun and wind will not hurt them.\par Why? Because God comforts them\par and God will lead them.\par He will lead them near springs of water.\par
This will happen when the special child is born. God will give a son to us. This son will be responsible for leading the people. His name will be “Wonderful Counselor, Powerful God, Father Who Lives Forever, Prince of Peace.”
“My people have done two evil things.\par They turned away from me\par (I am the spring of living water),\par and they dug their own water cisterns.\par (They turned to other gods.)\par But their cisterns are broken.\par Those cisterns can’t hold water.\par
But at that time, a new spring of water will be opened for David’s family and for the other people living in Jerusalem. That fountain will be to wash away their sins and to make the people pure.
At that time, water will flow continually from Jerusalem. {\cf2\super [32]} That stream will split and part of it will flow east, and part of it will flow west to the Mediterranean Sea. And it will flow all year long, in the summer as well as in the winter.
\{You are like all other people\}—you are evil. But you know how to give good things to your children. So surely your heavenly Father knows how to give the Holy Spirit {\cf2\super [200]} to those people that ask him.”
People will do these things because they have not known the Father, and they have not known me.
And this is eternal life: that people can know you, the only true God, and that people can know Jesus Christ, the One you sent.
Yes, God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son. God gave his Son so that every person that believes in him would not be lost, but have life forever.
But the person that drinks the water I give will never be thirsty again. That water I give will become like a spring of water flowing inside that person. That water will bring that person life forever.”
Then Jesus said, “I am the bread that gives life. The person that comes to me will never be hungry. The person that believes in me will never be thirsty.
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If a person eats this bread, then that person will live forever. This bread is my body. I will give my body so that the people in the world can have life.”
The Lord said to Ananias, “Get up and go to the street called Straight Street. Find the house of Judas. {\cf2\super [187]} Ask for a man named Saul from the city of Tarsus. He is there now, praying.
He even let his own Son suffer for us. God gave his Son for us all. So with Jesus now, God will surely give us all things.
It is God that has made you part of Christ Jesus. Christ has become wisdom for us from God. Christ is the reason we are right with God and have freedom from sin; Christ is the reason we are holy. {\cf2\super [10]}
And they all drank the same spiritual drink. They drank from that spiritual rock that was with them. That rock was Christ.
I mean that you are saved by grace. And you got that grace by believing. You did not save yourselves. It was a gift from God.
But, dear friends, use your most holy faith to build yourselves up strong. Pray with the Holy Spirit. {\cf2\super [10]}
The One on the throne said to me: “It is finished! I am the Alpha and the Omega, {\cf2\super [158]} the Beginning and the End. I will give free water from the spring of the water of life to any person that is thirsty.
The Spirit {\cf2\super [178]} and the bride say, “Come!” Every person that hears this should also say, “Come!” If a person is thirsty, let him come; that person can have the water of life as a free gift if he wants it.
The Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd. He will lead them to springs of water that give life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”