Book of Common Prayer

¹⁷ When the time of the promise drew near (which God had sworn to Abraham), the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, ¹⁸ till another king arose who did not know of Joseph. ¹⁹ This king dealt treacherously with our kindred, and ill-treated our fathers, and compelled them to cast out their young children so that they would not remain alive. ²⁰ At this time Moses was born, and was loved by God. He was nursed in his father’s house for three months. ²¹ When he was cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up and reared him as her own son. ²² And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was strong in deeds and in words.

²³ And when he was fully forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel. ²⁴ And when he saw one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged the quarrel of him who had the harm done to him, and killed the Egyptian. ²⁵ For he supposed his brethren would understand that God by his hands would save them. But they did not understand.

²⁶ And the next day, he appeared to them as they were fighting, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, you are brethren; why do you hurt one another? ²⁷ But the man who was doing his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge among us? ²⁸ What, will you kill me like you did the Egyptian yesterday?

²⁹ Then at those words, Moses fled, and was a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons.

⁴³ After two days he departed from there and went away into Galilee. ⁴⁴ And Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honour in his own country. ⁴⁵ Then, as soon as he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast. For they had also gone to the feast day.

⁴⁶ And Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. ⁴⁷ As soon as he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him and besought him to come down and heal his son, for he was even ready to die. ⁴⁸ Then Jesus said to him, Unless you see signs and wonders, you cannot believe. ⁴⁹ The nobleman said to him, Sir, come away before my child dies! ⁵⁰ Jesus said to him, Go your way, your son lives.

And the man believed the words that Jesus had spoken to him, and went his way. ⁵¹ And as he was going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, Your child lives. ⁵² Then he enquired of them the hour when the child began to recover. And they said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. ⁵³ And the father knew that it was the same hour in which Jesus had said to him, Your son lives. And he believed, and all his household. ⁵⁴ This is again the second miracle that Jesus did after he had come out of Judea into Galilee.