¹² He said, 'O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today, and show lovingkindness to my master Abraham. ¹³ 'Behold, I am standing by the spring, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water; ¹⁴ now may it be that the girl to whom I say, 'Please let down your jar so that I may drink,' and who answers, 'Drink, and I will water your camels also '-- [may] she [be the one] whom You have appointed for Your servant Isaac; and by this I will know that You have shown lovingkindness to my master.' ¹⁵ Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor, came out with her jar on her shoulder. ¹⁶ The girl was very beautiful, a virgin, and no man had had relations with her; and she went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up. ¹⁷ Then the servant ran to meet her, and said, 'Please let me drink a little water from your jar.' ¹⁸ She said, 'Drink, my lord'; and she quickly lowered her jar to her hand, and gave him a drink. ¹⁹ Now when she had finished giving him a drink, she said, 'I will draw also for your camels until they have finished drinking.' ²⁰ So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, and ran back to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels. ²¹ Meanwhile, the man was gazing at her in silence, to know whether the LORD had made his journey successful or not. ²² When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half-shekel and two bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels in gold, ²³ and said, 'Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room for us to lodge in your father's house?' ²⁴ She said to him, 'I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.' ²⁵ Again she said to him, 'We have plenty of both straw and feed, and room to lodge in.' ²⁶ Then the man bowed low and worshiped the LORD. ²⁷ He said, 'Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken His lovingkindness and His truth toward my master; as for me, the LORD has guided me in the way to the house of my master's brothers.' ²⁸ Then the girl ran and told her mother's household about these things.
²⁹ Now Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran outside to the man at the spring. ³⁰ When he saw the ring and the bracelets on his sister's wrists, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, 'This is what the man said to me,' he went to the man; and behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring. ³¹ And he said, 'Come in, blessed of the LORD! Why do you stand outside since I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels?'
³² So the man entered the house. Then Laban unloaded the camels, and he gave straw and feed to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.

⁵⁰ Then Laban and Bethuel replied, 'The matter comes from the LORD; [so] we cannot speak to you bad or good. ⁵¹ 'Here is Rebekah before you, take [her] and go, and let her be the wife of your master's son, as the LORD has spoken.' ⁵² When Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself to the ground before the LORD. ⁵³ The servant brought out articles of silver and articles of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave precious things to her brother and to her mother. ⁵⁴ Then he and the men who were with him ate and drank and spent the night. When they arose in the morning, he said, 'Send me away to my master.'

⁵⁷ And they said, 'We will call the girl and consult her wishes.' ⁵⁸ Then they called Rebekah and said to her, 'Will you go with this man?' And she said, 'I will go.' ⁵⁹ Thus they sent away their sister Rebekah and her nurse with Abraham's servant and his men. ⁶⁰ They blessed Rebekah and said to her, 'May you, our sister, Become thousands of ten thousands, And may your descendants possess The gate of those who hate them.' ⁶¹ Then Rebekah arose with her maids, and they mounted the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed.

¹ Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the sons of the east. ² He looked, and saw a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it, for from that well they watered the flocks. Now the stone on the mouth of the well was large. ³ When all the flocks were gathered there, they would then roll the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep, and put the stone back in its place on the mouth of the well. ⁴ Jacob said to them, 'My brothers, where are you from?' And they said, 'We are from Haran.' ⁵ He said to them, 'Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?' And they said, 'We know [him].' ⁶ And he said to them, 'Is it well with him?' And they said, 'It is well, and here is Rachel his daughter coming with the sheep.' ⁷ He said, 'Behold, it is still high day; it is not time for the livestock to be gathered. Water the sheep, and go, pasture them.' ⁸ But they said, 'We cannot, until all the flocks are gathered, and they roll the stone from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep.' ⁹ While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess. ¹⁰ When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, Jacob went up and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother. ¹¹ Then Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted his voice and wept. ¹² Jacob told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and that he was Rebekah's son, and she ran and told her father. ¹³ So when Laban heard the news of Jacob his sister's son, he ran to meet him, and embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Then he related to Laban all these things.

¹⁵ When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the presence of Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well. ¹⁶ Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. ¹⁷ Then the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and helped them and watered their flock. ¹⁸ When they came to Reuel their father, he said, 'Why have you come [back] so soon today?' ¹⁹ So they said, 'An Egyptian delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and what is more, he even drew the water for us and watered the flock.' ²⁰ He said to his daughters, 'Where is he then? Why is it that you have left the man behind? Invite him to have something to eat.' ²¹ Moses was willing to dwell with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.

⁶ But Abram said to Sarai, 'Behold, your maid is in your power; do to her what is good in your sight.' So Sarai treated her harshly, and she fled from her presence. ⁷ Now the angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur. ⁸ He said, 'Hagar, Sarai's maid, where have you come from and where are you going?' And she said, 'I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai.' ⁹ Then the angel of the LORD said to her, 'Return to your mistress, and submit yourself to her authority.' ¹⁰ Moreover, the angel of the LORD said to her, 'I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be too many to count.' ¹¹ The angel of the LORD said to her further, 'Behold, you are with child, And you will bear a son; And you shall call his name Ishmael, Because the LORD has given heed to your affliction. ¹² 'He will be a wild donkey of a man, His hand [will be] against everyone, And everyone's hand [will be] against him; And he will live to the east of all his brothers.' ¹³ Then she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, 'You are a God who sees'; for she said, 'Have I even remained alive here after seeing Him?'

²⁹ 'He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. So this joy of mine has been made full.

⁵ So He came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph; ⁶ and Jacob's well was there. So Jesus, being wearied from His journey, was sitting thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour. ⁷ There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, 'Give Me a drink.' ⁸ For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. ⁹ Therefore the Samaritan woman said to Him, 'How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?' (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) ¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to her, 'If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.' ¹¹ She said to Him, 'Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; where then do You get that living water? ¹² 'You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle?' ¹³ Jesus answered and said to her, 'Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; ¹⁴ but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.' ¹⁵ The woman said to Him, 'Sir, give me this water, so I will not be thirsty nor come all the way here to draw.' ¹⁶ He said to her, 'Go, call your husband and come here.' ¹⁷ The woman answered and said, 'I have no husband.' Jesus said to her, 'You have correctly said, 'I have no husband'; ¹⁸ for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly.' ¹⁹ The woman said to Him, 'Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. ²⁰ 'Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you [people] say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.' ²¹ Jesus said to her, 'Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. ²² 'You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. ²³ 'But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. ²⁴ 'God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.' ²⁵ The woman said to Him, 'I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us.' ²⁶ Jesus said to her, 'I who speak to you am [He].' ²⁷ At this point His disciples came, and they were amazed that He had been speaking with a woman, yet no one said, 'What do You seek?' or, 'Why do You speak with her?' ²⁸ So the woman left her waterpot, and went into the city and said to the men, ²⁹ 'Come, see a man who told me all the things that I [have] done; this is not the Christ, is it?' ³⁰ They went out of the city, and were coming to Him. ³¹ Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him, saying, 'Rabbi, eat.' ³² But He said to them, 'I have food to eat that you do not know about.' ³³ So the disciples were saying to one another, 'No one brought Him [anything] to eat, did he?' ³⁴ Jesus said to them, 'My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work. ³⁵ 'Do you not say, 'There are yet four months, and [then] comes the harvest '? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest. ³⁶ 'Already he who reaps is receiving wages and is gathering fruit for life eternal; so that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. ³⁷ 'For in this [case] the saying is true, 'One sows and another reaps.' ³⁸ 'I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.' ³⁹ From that city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, 'He told me all the things that I [have] done.'

¹ On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there; ² and both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding. ³ When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to Him, 'They have no wine.' ⁴ And Jesus said to her, 'Woman, what does that have to do with us? My hour has not yet come.' ⁵ His mother said to the servants, 'Whatever He says to you, do it.' ⁶ Now there were six stone waterpots set there for the Jewish custom of purification, containing twenty or thirty gallons each. ⁷ Jesus said to them, 'Fill the waterpots with water.' So they filled them up to the brim. ⁸ And He said to them, 'Draw [some] out now and take it to the headwaiter.' So they took it [to him]. ⁹ When the headwaiter tasted the water which had become wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the headwaiter called the bridegroom, ¹⁰ and said to him, 'Every man serves the good wine first, and when [the people] have drunk freely, [then he serves] the poorer [wine]; [but] you have kept the good wine until now.' ¹¹ This beginning of [His] signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, ²⁶ so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, ²⁷ that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.

¹ Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer [any] sea. ² And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. ³ And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, 'Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them,

⁹ Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke with me, saying, 'Come here, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.' ¹⁰ And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, ¹¹ having the glory of God. Her brilliance was like a very costly stone, as a stone of crystal-clear jasper. ¹² It had a great and high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names [were] written on them, which are [the names] of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel. ¹³ [There were] three gates on the east and three gates on the north and three gates on the south and three gates on the west. ¹⁴ And the wall of the city had twelve foundation stones, and on them [were] the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

⁷ 'Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride has made herself ready.' ⁸ It was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright [and] clean; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.