Perhaps a word should be said here about the law of Moses and the teaching of Jesus. Apart from respect for parents, the key social commandments of Moses that is, the 5th commandment re murder, the 6th one about adultery and the 7th one about stealing, are taken to a new level by James (c/f analysis of Reality Search in Acts). James apparently warns against blood sports, fornication, and unjust business practices. On the other hand it may appear the gospel structures are about the construction of societies rather than 'pushing up the bar' as to what constitutes sin. The key 'sins' that Jesus chides people about, appear to revolve around the barriers they put up to prevent the building of a balanced society. Forgiveness is stressed and there are warnings about hardness of heart. So where is the connection between these two factors and the basic moral law of Moses? A balanced society allows the moral law to prevail. A balanced society requires forgiveness and a compassionate heart. These latter qualities may not appear to be crucial but in the general picture they are. Forgiveness fosters internalised law which in turn reflects the spirit of Living Law.

2. Invites					Come and see/ Give me a drink
	1:35-51	Into Galilee		4:1-42		Into Galilee
1:35-51 The next day John (the Baptist) again stood (by the Jordan river) with two of his disciples. He was looking at Jesus walking along and said "Look, there is the Lamb of God." The two disciples heard him speaking (on these lines) and they followed Jesus. Then Jesus turned and seeing them following him said to them. "What are you looking for?" They replied to him "Rabbi - (which means teacher), where are you staying?" He says to them "Come and see." They therefore went and saw where he was staying and stayed with him that day. At that time it was about the tenth hour (4 p.m.). One of these two was Andrew the brother of Simon Peter who had been listening to John and so followed (Jesus). The first thing he did was to go and find his brother Simon and say to him "We have found the Messiah - (which means the Christ). (Then) he led him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and Continued			4:1-42 When the Lord (Jesus) knew that the Pharisees had heard how he was making and batpizing more disciples than John, though it was his disciples baptizing and not himself, he left Judea and went back into Galilee. It suited him to pass through Samaria. He came therefore to a city of Samaria being called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. There was there a well of Jacob. Therefore Jesus who had become weary from the journey sat by the well. It was about midday. A woman of Samaria came along to draw water. Jesus says to her "Give me a drink." His disciples had gone away meanwhile into the city to buy food. The Samaritan woman said. "How is it that you, who are a Jew ask me, a woman who is a Samaritan for a drink? Jews do not associate with Samaritans." Jesus answered and said to her. "If you knew the gift of God and who the one is who is asking you "Give me a drink", it would be yourself doing the asking and he would have given you living water." She said to him "Sir you do not have a bucket. And the well is deep. How then could you have living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the well and drank of it himself as well as his sons and his cattle." Jesus answered and said to her "Everyone who drinks this water will thirst again. But whoever drinks of the water that I give to them will by no means thirst again until the end of the age. The water that I will give will become a fountain within that person and it will well up into eternal life." The woman says to him "Give me this water so that I will not be thirsty again nor need to come here to draw up water." He says to her "Go and tell your husband to come here." The woman answered and said "I do not have a husband." Jesus says to her "Well said by saying "I do not have a husband." Indeed you have had five husbands and the man who is with you now is not your husband. You have spoken truly." The woman says to him "Sir I perceive that you Cont.