From: ngninja@baptist.email   
      
   Bible Reading for November 5   
      
   John Chapter 3   
      
   1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:   
      
   2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know   
   that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles   
   that thou doest, except God be with him.   
      
   3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee,   
   Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.   
      
   4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he   
   enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?   
      
   5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born   
   of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.   
      
   6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of   
   the Spirit is spirit.   
      
   7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.   
      
   8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof,   
   but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every   
   one that is born of the Spirit.   
      
   9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?   
      
   10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and   
   knowest not these things?   
      
   11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and   
   testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.   
      
   12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye   
   believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?   
      
   13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from   
   heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.   
      
   14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must   
   the Son of man be lifted up:   
      
   15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.   
      
   16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that   
   whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.   
      
   17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but   
   that the world through him might be saved.   
      
   18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not   
   is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the   
   only begotten Son of God.   
      
   19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and   
   men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.   
      
   20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the   
   light, lest his deeds should be reproved.   
      
   21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be   
   made manifest, that they are wrought in God.   
      
   22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of   
   Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.   
      
   23 And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was   
   much water there: and they came, and were baptized.   
      
   24 For John was not yet cast into prison.   
      
   25 Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the   
   Jews about purifying.   
      
   26 And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with   
   thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same   
   baptizeth, and all men come to him.   
      
   27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given   
   him from heaven.   
      
   28 Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but   
   that I am sent before him.   
      
   29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the   
   bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of   
   the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.   
      
   30 He must increase, but I must decrease.   
      
   31 He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is   
   earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.   
      
   32 And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man   
   receiveth his testimony.   
      
   33 He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is   
   true.   
      
   34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth   
   not the Spirit by measure unto him.   
      
   35 The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.   
      
   36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that   
   believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth   
   on him.   
      
   John Chapter 4   
      
   1 When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus   
   made and baptized more disciples than John,   
      
   2 (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)   
      
   3 He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.   
      
   4 And he must needs go through Samaria.   
      
   5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to   
   the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.   
      
   6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his   
   journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.   
      
   7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her,   
   Give me to drink.   
      
   8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)   
      
   9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a   
   Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have   
   no dealings with the Samaritans.   
      
   10 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.   
      
   11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and   
   the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?   
      
   12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and   
   drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?   
      
   13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water   
   shall thirst again:   
      
   14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never   
   thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of   
   water springing up into everlasting life.   
      
   15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not,   
   neither come hither to draw.   
      
   16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.   
      
   17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her,   
   Thou hast well said, I have no husband:   
      
   18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy   
   husband: in that saidst thou truly.   
      
   19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.   
      
   20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in   
   Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.   
      
   21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye   
   shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.   
      
   22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation   
   is of the Jews.   
      
   23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall   
   worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such   
   to worship him.   
      
      
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