Passages: John 3:1-21; John 3:22-36; Matthew 4:12 & Luke 3:19-20 & John 4:1-4; John 4:5-42

By night, a Pharisee and member of the Jewish ruling council named Nicodemus comes to Jesus, unwilling to be seen doing so in daylight, and is told that no one can see the kingdom of God without being born again — born not of flesh, but of the Spirit. Jesus and his disciples spend time baptizing in the Judean countryside, working alongside John the Baptist for a season before John points his own remaining disciples toward the one who must increase while he himself decreases. Learning that the Pharisees have heard of his growing following, and with John now imprisoned by Herod, Jesus leaves Judea for Galilee, passing necessarily through Samaria on the way. At Jacob's well near the town of Sychar, tired from the journey, Jesus asks a Samaritan woman for water in the heat of the day — and by the end of the conversation, she has left her water pot behind to tell the whole town about a man who told her everything she ever did.

We are in a complete Four-Gospel Harmony. Today's episode covers: John 3:1-21; John 3:22-36; Matthew 4:12 & Luke 3:19-20 & John 4:1-4; John 4:5-42 (Jesus Talks with Nicodemus; First Ministry in Judaea; Reasons for Retiring to Galilee; At Jacob's Well and Sychar).