This is called "Living Water", but what it is is the Gospel of John and what it does is give you a reason to live. Whether you need that reason is up to you, but this is a hugely principled book that--as opposed to the Bible as a whole--has to have saved more lives than it's destroyed, it just has to. Again in terms of the Bible as a whole, it strikes me that when people talk about it as an essential read, they're really talking about books like John, as opposed to, you know, numbers. Anyway, all the best stuff about Jesus--the water into wine, the turning out the moneylenders, the Samaritan woman, the loaves and fishes, the Eucharist, Lazarus and "Jesus wept", "in my father's house are many mansions", "greater love hath no man" John 3:16, etc., etc.--is right here, and in a really good new modern-English version that manages to preserve the solemnity of the Greek as well as any KJV. This is a crown jewel of our global heritage, and has been living water on the souls of multitudes. Respect it. ( )