Book of Common Prayer

¹³ Now look here, you people who say, “Today, or tomorrow, we will go to such-and-such a town and spend a year there, and trade, and make some money.” ¹⁴ You have no idea what the next day will bring. What is your life? You are a mist which appears for a little while and then disappears again. ¹⁵ Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live, and we shall do this, or that.” ¹⁶ But, as it is, you boast in your pride. All such boasting is evil. ¹⁷ So then, if anyone knows the right thing to do, but doesn’t do it, it becomes sin for them.

Warnings to the rich

5 Now look here, you rich! Weep and wail for the horrible things that are going to happen to you! ² Your riches have rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten, ³ your gold and your silver have rusted, and their rust will bear witness against you and will eat up your flesh like fire. You have stored up riches in the last days! ⁴ Look: you cheated the workers who mowed your fields by keeping back their wages, and those wages are crying out! The cries of the farm workers have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. ⁵ You have lived off the fat of the land, in the lap of luxury. You have fattened your own hearts on a day of slaughter. ⁶ You have condemned the Righteous One and killed him, and he doesn’t resist you.

²² They took Jesus to the place called Golgotha, which in translation means “Skull’s Place.” ²³ They gave him a mixture of wine and myrrh, but he didn’t drink it.

²⁴ So they crucified him; they “parted his clothing between them, casting lots” to see who would get what. ²⁵ It was about nine o’clock in the morning when they crucified him. ²⁶ The inscription, giving the charge, read: “The King of the Jews.” ²⁷ They also crucified two bandits alongside him, one on his right and one on his left.

²⁹ People who were passing by abused him. They shook their heads at him.

“Hah!” they said. “You were going to destroy the Temple, were you? And build it again in three days? ³⁰ Why don’t you rescue yourself, and come down from the cross?”

³¹ The chief priests and the lawyers were mocking him in the same way among themselves.

“He rescued others,” they said, “but he can’t rescue himself. ³² Messiah, is he? King of Israel, did he say? Well, let’s see him come down from the cross! We’ll believe him when we see that!”

The two who were crucified alongside him taunted him as well.