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8 Trust in Him at all times, you people; have not labored; others have labored, and you
Pour out your heart before Him; have entered into their labors.”
God is a refuge for us. Selah 39 And many of the Samaritans of that city
believed in Him because of the word of the
9 Surely men of low degree are a vapor,
Men of high degree are a lie; woman who testified, “He told me all that I ever
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did.” So when the Samaritans had come to
If they are weighed on the scales, Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and
They are altogether lighter than vapor. 41
10 Do not trust in oppression, He stayed there two days. And many more
Nor vainly hope in robbery; believed because of His own word.
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Then they said to the woman, “Now we be-
If riches increase, lieve, not because of what you said, for we our-
Do not set your heart on them.
selves have heard Him and we know that this
11 God has spoken once, is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”
Twice I have heard this: 43 Now after the two days He departed from
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That power belongs to God. there and went to Galilee. For Jesus Himself
12 Also to You, O Lord, belongs mercy; testified that a prophet has no honor in his
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For You render to each one according own country. So when He came to Galilee,
to his work. the Galileans received Him, having seen all
the things He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for
Proverbs 16:13–15
they also had gone to the feast.
13 Righteous lips are the delight of kings,
And they love him who speaks what is
right.
14 As messengers of death is the king’s 4:44 prophet has no honor in his own coun-
wrath, try. This proverb (also in Matt. 13:57; Mark 6:4)
But a wise man will appease it. contrasts the believing response of the
15 In the light of the king’s face is life, Samaritans (v. 39) with the characteristic
And his favor is like a cloud of the unbelief of Jesus’ own people in Galilee (and
latter rain. Judea) whose reticent faith depended so
much on Jesus’ performance of miracles (v.
48). While in Samaria, Jesus had enjoyed His
first unqualified and unopposed success. His
own people’s hearts were not open to Him,
16:15 cloud of the latter rain.The late spring but exhibited reluctance and hardness.
rain, which matured the crop, fell before the
harvest (2 Sam. 23:3,4; Ps. 72:6) and is here
compared to the king’s power to grace his 46 So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee
subjects with encouragement.
where He had made the water wine. And there
was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at
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Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had
John 4:31–54
come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him
31 In the meantime His disciples urged Him, and implored Him to come down and heal His
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saying, “Rabbi, eat.” son, for he was at the point of death. Then Je-
32 But He said to them, “I have food to eat of sus said to him, “Unless you people see signs
which you do not know.” and wonders, you will by no means believe.”
33 Therefore the disciples said to one another,
“Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?”
34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the
will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His 4:48 Unless you people see signs and won-
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work. Do you not say, ‘There are still four ders. The “you”is plural. Jesus addresses these
months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, words to the Galileans as a whole and not just
I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the to the nobleman (vv. 45,46). The response of
fields, for they are already white for harvest! the Galileans was fundamentally flawed
36 And he who reaps receives wages, and gath- because it disregarded the person of Christ
ers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and centered in the need for a constant dis-
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and he who reaps may rejoice together. For in play of miraculous signs.Such an attitude rep-
this the saying is true: ‘One sows and another resents the deepest state of unbelief.
reaps.’ I sent you to reap that for which you
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