I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.

Today, I am reading and commenting on John 4-5

After Jesus told the crippled man to take up his mat and walk, the Jewish religious leaders began to harass Him for not following their interpretation of properly keeping the Sabbath.  Jesus’ responded that He was only doing what He saw the Father doing.  The implication being that we should do as we see Jesus doing.  Jesus went on to say that He needed neither human testimony, nor His own words to show people who He was.  No, the Jesus’ works and how He taught people to live testified to the fact that He was the Messiah. 

Which brings me around to the story of the Samaritan woman.  At the end of that story, her fellow Samaritans testified that they initially believed in Jesus because of the testimony of the woman at the well.  However, they said that, in the end, they believed Jesus because they heard what He said (and saw what He did).  This should be a model for how we bring people to the Lord.  They should become believers because they see the testimony of what we say and do, but should come to know Jesus for themselves and believe because of that knowledge.