Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

The elders who rule well are to be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.

Then he said to them, "Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?"

The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?

But he who stands firm in his heart, being under no constraint, but has control over his own will, and has decided this in his own heart, to keep her as his betrothed, he will do well.

However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, being accustomed to idols, eat food as really sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

And to keep me from being too elated because of the abundance of revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too elated.

make my joy complete by being of the same mind, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,