Daily Readings - 08/03/2026

^17:3 But tormented by thirst, the people complained against Moses. ‘Why did you bring us out of Egypt?’ they said. ‘Was it so that I should die of thirst, my children too, and my cattle?’

^17:4 Moses appealed to Yahweh. ‘How am I to deal with this people? he said. ‘A little more and they will stone me!’

^17:5 Yahweh said to Moses, ‘Take with you some of the elders of Israel and move on to the forefront of the people; take in your hand the staff with which you struck the river, and go.

^17:6 I shall be standing before you there on the rock, at Horeb. You must strike the rock, and water will flow from it for the people to drink.’ This is what Moses did, in the sight of the elders of Israel.

^17:7 The place was named Massah and Meribah[*b] because of the grumbling of the sons of Israel and because they put Yahweh to the test by saying, ‘Is Yahweh with us, or not?’

^94:1 The justice of God Yahweh, God of revenge, God of revenge, appear!

^94:2 Rise, judge of the world, give the proud their deserts!

^94:3 Yahweh, how much longer are the wicked, how much longer are the wicked to triumph?

^94:4 Are these evil men to remain unsilenced, boasting and asserting themselves?

^94:5 Yahweh, they crush your people, they oppress your hereditary people,

^94:6 murdering and massacring widows, orphans and guests.

^94:7 ‘Yahweh sees nothing,’ they say ‘the God of Jacob takes no notice.’

^94:8 You most stupid of men, you fools, think this over and learn some sense.

^94:9 Is the inventor of the ear unable to hear? The creator of the eye unable to see?

^94:10 The punisher of the pagans unable to punish? Yahweh the teacher of mankind

^94:11 knows exactly how men think, how their thoughts are a puff of wind.

^94:12 Yahweh, happy the man whom you instruct, the man whom you teach through your law;

^94:13 his mind is at peace though times are bad, while a pit is being dug for the wicked.

^94:14 For Yahweh has not abandoned or deserted his hereditary people;

^94:15 for verdict will return to righteousness again, and, in its wake, all upright hearts.

^94:16 No one ever stood up for me against the wicked, not a soul took a stand to save me from evil men;

^94:17 without Yahweh’s help, I should, long ago, have gone to the Home of Silence.

^94:18 I need only say, ‘I am slipping’, and your love, Yahweh, immediately supports me;

^94:19 and in the middle of all my troubles you console me and make me happy.

^94:20 You never consent to that corrupt tribunal that imposes disorder as law,

^94:21 that takes the life of the virtuous and condemns the innocent to death.

^94:22 No! Yahweh is still my citadel, my God is a rock where I take shelter;

^94:23 he will pay them back for all their sins, he will silence their wickedness, Yahweh our God will silence them.

^5:1 So far then we have seen that, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by faith we are judged righteous and at peace with God,

^5:2 since it is by faith and through Jesus that we have entered this state of grace in which we can boast about looking forward to God’s glory.

^5:5 and this hope is not deceptive, because the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given us.

^5:6 We were still helpless when at his appointed moment Christ died for sinful men.

^5:7 It is not easy to die even for a good man – though of course for someone really worthy, a man might be prepared to die –

^5:8 but what proves that God loves us is that Christ died for us while we were still sinners.

^4:5 On the way he came to the Samaritan town called Sychar[*a], near the land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

^4:6 Jacob’s well is there and Jesus, tired by the journey, sat straight down by the well. It was about the sixth hour[*b].

^4:7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, ‘Give me a drink’.

^4:8 His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.

^4:9 The Samaritan woman said to him, ‘What? You are a Jew and you ask me, a Samaritan, for a drink?’ – Jews, in fact, do not associate with Samaritans.

^4:10 Jesus replied: ‘If you only knew what God is offering and who it is that is saying to you: Give me a drink, you would have been the one to ask, and he would have given you living water’.

^4:11 ‘You have no bucket, sir,’ she answered ‘and the well is deep: how could you get this living water?

^4:12 Are you a greater man than our father Jacob who gave us this well and drank from it himself with his sons and his cattle?’

^4:13 Jesus replied: ‘Whoever drinks this water will get thirsty again;

^4:14 but anyone who drinks the water that I shall give will never be thirsty again: the water that I shall give will turn into a spring inside him, welling up to eternal life’.

^4:15 ‘Sir,’ said the woman ‘give me some of that water, so that I may never get thirsty and never have to come here again to draw water.’

^4:16 ‘Go and call your husband’ said Jesus to her ‘and come back here.’

^4:17 The woman answered, ‘I have no husband’. He said to her, ‘You are right to say, “I have no husband”;

^4:18 for although you have had five, the one you have now is not your husband. You spoke the truth there.’

^4:19 ‘I see you are a prophet, sir’ said the woman.

^4:20 ‘Our fathers worshipped on this mountain[*c], while you say that Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.’

^4:21 Jesus said: ‘Believe me, woman, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

^4:22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know: for salvation comes from the Jews.

^4:23 But the hour will come – in fact it is here already – when true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth: that is the kind of worshipper the Father wants.

^4:24 God is spirit, and those who worship must worship in spirit and truth.’

^4:25 The woman said to him, ‘I know that Messiah – that is, Christ – is coming; and when he comes he will tell us everything’.

^4:26 ‘I who am speaking to you,’ said Jesus ‘I am he.’

^4:27 At this point his disciples returned, and were surprised to find him speaking to a woman, though none of them asked, ‘What do you want from her?’ or, ‘Why are you talking to her?’

^4:28 The woman put down her water jar and hurried back to the town to tell the people.

^4:29 ‘Come and see a man who has told me everything I ever did; I wonder if he is the Christ?’

^4:30 This brought people out of the town and they started walking towards him.

^4:31 Meanwhile, the disciples were urging him, ‘Rabbi, do have something to eat;

^4:32 but he said, ‘I have food to eat that you do not know about’.

^4:33 So the disciples asked one another, ‘Has someone been bringing him food?’

^4:34 But Jesus said: ‘My food is to do the will of the one who sent me, and to complete his work.

^4:35 Have you not got a saying: Four months and then the harvest? Well, I tell you: Look around you, look at the fields; already they are white, ready for harvest! Already

^4:36 the reaper is being paid his wages, already he is bringing in the grain for eternal life, and thus sower and reaper rejoice together.

^4:37 For here the proverb holds good: one sows, another reaps;

^4:38 I sent you to reap a harvest you had not worked for. Others worked for it; and you have come into the rewards of their trouble.’

^4:39 Many Samaritans of that town had believed in him on the strength of the woman’s testimony when she said, ‘He told me all I have ever done’,

^4:40 so, when the Samaritans came up to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed for two days, and

^4:41 when he spoke to them many more came to believe;

^4:42 and they said to the woman, ‘Now we no longer believe because of what you told us; we have heard him ourselves and we know that he really is the saviour of the world’.