DISCOURSE 31 on John 3:35:-36. 1. Faith without a good life is useless for salvation. - 2. Why Jesus Christ withdraws. - The origin of the Samaritan woman. - 4. Continuation of the same. - Abolition of Jewish rites. - 5. A good example given to the Samaritan woman regarding the love and jealousy with which the word of Jesus Christ should be treated. - She calls others to Jesus Christ, while the Jews turned him away. To do what is not pleasing to God means to live uselessly and to one's own destruction. - The soul is immortal. - The body will also be immortal so that we can enjoy heavenly blessings. - God offers us heaven, and we become attached to the earth, offending the Lord.

DISCOURSE 32 on John 4:13-14. 1. The Holy Scriptures call the Holy Spirit now water, now fire, denoting not essence, but activity. - Continuation of the story of the Samaritan woman. - 2. The obedience of the Samaritan woman. - 3. The wisdom of Jesus Christ in converting people to salvation. - Exhortation to the reading of the Holy Scriptures. - The devil does not dare to enter a house where there is the Gospel. - Reading spiritual books sanctifies a person.

DISCOURSE 33 on John 4:21-22. 1. A person always needs faith. - Faith, like a ship, transports us across the sea of life. - 2. On True Worship. - Disciples' reverence for their Teacher. - There is nothing higher than the love of Christ. - Humility and tenderness attracted the special love of Jesus Christ for John. - The Apostle Peter. - Humility as the basis of virtue. - Vanity of wealth. - Exhortation to almsgiving.

DISCOURSE 34 on John 4:22-29. 1. Continuation of the story of the Samaritan woman: the humility of this woman. - 2. Why Jesus Christ, like the prophets, often expressed his thought through comparisons, parables, and allegories. - The prophets sowed, the apostles reaped. - 3. One should follow the example of the Samaritan woman in confessing her sins. - People are usually afraid of people, and they are not afraid of God. - Hiding their sins before people, so as not to be disgraced, they do not fear shame before God. - To return to sin is like a dog returning to his vomit. The best remedy for correcting one's vices is to examine each of them separately, without omitting a single one. The need to be constantly ready for the coming of the Lord.

DISCOURSE 35 on John 4:40-42. 1. The Samaritans, being more receptive to grace than the Jews, when they have seen and heard Jesus Christ, acknowledge that he is the Saviour of the world. - 2. The healing of the son of the courtier Herod. - 3. We should not demand miracles from God, or proofs of His omnipotence. - We must glorify and love God in all circumstances: in joy and sorrow, in health and sickness, and endure everything out of love for Him.

DISCOURSE 36 on John 4:54-5:1. 1. The sheep's font as a prototype of baptism. - 2. Paralytic, suffering for 38 years, a perfect example of patience. Perseverance in prayer. - The quality of prayer. - Why is human life difficult and hard? - Necessity of work. - What chastity consists of. - No work, no moderation. - The pleasure afforded by vice is short-lived; the joy given by virtue is eternal. - There is no true joy in this world; True joy in heaven.

DISCOURSE 37 on John 5:6-7. 1. The great benefit derived from the Holy Scriptures. - The difference between the self-denial of the paralytic and the self-denial of St. Matthew. - 2. Faith of the paralytic. - 3. The greatness of the evil produced by vice. - Image of envy: the envious have no apology; their sin is not forgiven.

DISCOURSE 38 on John 5:14. 1. God punishes the body for the sins of the soul. - Most diseases come from sin. - 2 and 3. Recognition of the paralyzed. - Jesus Christ compares Himself to God the Father and declares Himself equal to Him. - 4. The perfect equality and perfect unity of the Father and the Son. - Against ambition and passion to exalt oneself over others. - One must avoid vanity and the evils it produces, and seek the glory that comes from God. - The difference between the glory of man and the lava of God.

DISCOURSE 39 on John 5:22-23. 1. One must fear the Last Judgment. - 2. Why Jesus Christ uses simple words. - 3. Jesus Christ often speaks of judgment and resurrection. - 4. Two wills in Jesus Christ. - 5. In the study of the Holy Scriptures, one must carefully examine all the details. - We must forgive others, as Jesus Christ forgave us. - What you need to do to receive eternal life. - Exhortation to almsgiving.

DISCOURSE 40 on John 5:31-32. 1. A simple and satisfactory explanation of the text, which at first seemed difficult. - 2. John's testimony for Jesus Christ and the testimony of the work of Jesus Christ. - 3. The testimony of God the Father. - It is necessary to fight heretics with the help of the Holy Scriptures. Covetousness is the root of all evil. - You cannot serve two masters - God and mammon. - How to do almsgiving. - The severity of the future judgment of those who were inhuman and cruel to the poor.

DISCOURSE 41 on John 5:39-40. 1. One should not read the Holy Scriptures in fits and starts. - 2. The Jews will have Moses himself as their accuser. - 3. Refutation of the pretexts and empty apologies of the Jews. - Their malice and cruelty. - Virtue is the mother of prudence. - Sin is born of stupidity. - The wisdom of the one who fears God, and the foolishness of the one who does not fear Him.

DISCOURSE 42 on John 6:1-4. 1. It is useful sometimes to distance oneself from persecution. - 2. The miracle of the multiplication of loaves. - The Marcionite fallacy. - 3. With what care Jesus Christ edifies His disciples by performing miracles. - 4. We must despise the glory of men and the riches of the earth. - The honors and riches of this world are incomparable with the honors and blessings promised to us by God. "It is not this transient glory that is to be loved, but the immortal glory. - The difference between serving the iru and serving Jesus Christ. - Against spectacles. - It is a crime to spend money on women of bad life, instead of giving it to the poor.

DISCOURSE 43 on John 6:16-18. 1. Jesus Christ calms the storm. - He performs some miracles only in the presence of His disciples. - 2. The inconstancy and frivolity of the people. - The miracle of crossing the Red Sea and its difference from the miracle of Jesus Christ's walking on the sea. - From God you should ask only for spiritual blessings. - Why are evildoers and sinners often rich? - One must love true wealth.

DISCOURSE 44 on John 6:26-27. 1. One should take care not of the food of the body, but of the food of the soul. - 2. You need to ask God for what is proper to ask of Him. - Pleasures and sorrows, blessings and disasters of this world have nothing real in them. "Therefore, one should not desire some and fear others. - In another world, everything is eternal - punishments and rewards. - The depiction of the blessings of the present life and the life to come.