Book of Common Prayer

All the Jews are not cast away. Therefore Paul warns the Gentiles who are called not to be high-minded or despise the Jews. For the judgments of God are deep and secret.

11 I say then, has God cast away his people? God forbid. For even I, of course, am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham and of the tribe of Benjamin. ² God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Or do you not know what the scripture says by the mouth of Elijah, how he makes intercession to God against Israel, saying, ³ Lord, they have killed your prophets and dug down your altars, and only I am left, and they seek my life? ⁴ But what is the answer of God to him in response? – I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal. ⁵ Likewise also, there is at this time a remnant left through the election of grace. ⁶ If it is by grace, then it is not by works, for then grace would not be grace any more. And if it is by works, then it is not grace any more, for then deserving would no longer be deserving.  

⁷ What then? Israel has not obtained what it sought. No, but yet the chosen ones have obtained it. The rest are blinded, ⁸ as it is written: God has given them the spirit of unquietness: eyes so that they cannot see, and ears so that they cannot hear, until this day. ⁹ And David says, Let their table be made a snare to take them with, and an occasion to fall, and a reward to them. ¹⁰ Let their eyes be blinded so that they do not see, and ever bow down their backs.

¹¹ I say then, have they therefore stumbled, only but to fall? God forbid. But through their fall, salvation has come to the Gentiles, to rally them at the same time. ¹² And so if their fall is the riches of the world, and their diminishment the riches of the Gentiles, how much greater the riches if they all believed?

¹⁹ And there was dissension again among the Jews because of these sayings, ²⁰ and many of them said, He has a devil, and is mad. Why do you listen to him? ²¹ Others said, These are not the words of a man that has a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?

²² And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the Dedication, ²³ and it was winter. And Jesus walked in Solomon’s porch. ²⁴ Then the Jews came round about him and said to him, How long are you going to keep us in doubt? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.

²⁵ Jesus answered them, I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me. ²⁶ But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep. ²⁷ As I said to you, my sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me, ²⁸ and I give to them eternal life. And they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father who gave them to me is greater than all, and no one is able to take them out of my Father’s hand. ³⁰ And I and my Father are one.

³¹ Then the Jews again took up stones, to stone him. ³² Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shown you from my Father. For which of them would you stone me? ³³ The Jews answered him, saying, We do not stone you for your good works, but for your blasphemy, and because you, being a man, make yourself God.

³⁴ Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law: I say, you are gods? ³⁵ If he called them gods to whom the word of God was spoken (and the scripture cannot be broken), ³⁶ do you then say to him whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, You blaspheme, because I said I am the Son of God? ³⁷ If I do not do the works of my Father, believe me not. ³⁸ But if I do, then though you do not believe me, yet believe the works, so that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in him.

³⁹ Again they went about to seize him, but he escaped out of their hands. ⁴⁰ And he went away again beyond the Jordan, into the place where John before had baptized, and stayed there. ⁴¹ And many people resorted to him and said, John did no miracle, but all the things that John spoke about this man are true.

⁴² And many believed on him there.