Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

55 All you that thirst, come to the waters: and you that have no money make haste, buy, and eat: come ye, buy wine and milk without money, and without any price.

² Why do you spend money for that which is not breed, and your labour for that which doth not satisfy you? Hearken diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and your soul shall be delighted in fatness.

³ Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful mercies of David.

⁴ Behold I have given him for a witness to the people, for a leader and a master to the Gentiles.

⁵ Behold thou shalt call a nation, which thou knewest not: and the nations that knew not thee shall run to thee, because of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel, for he hath glorified thee.

⁸ The Lord enlighteneth the blind. The Lord lifteth up them that are cast down: the Lord loveth the just.

⁹ The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.

9 I speak the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost:

² That I have great sadness, and continual sorrow in my heart.

³ For I wished myself to be an anathema from Christ, for my brethren, who are my kinsmen according to the flesh,

⁴ Who are Israelites, to whom belongeth the adoption as of children, and the glory, and the testament, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises:

⁵ Whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all things, God blessed for ever. Amen.

¹³ Which when Jesus had heard, he retired from thence by boat, into a desert place apart, and the multitudes having heard of it, followed him on foot out of the cities.

¹⁴ And he coming forth saw a great multitude, and had compassion on them, and healed their sick.

¹⁵ And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying: This is a desert place, and the hour is now past: send away the multitudes, that going into the towns, they may buy themselves victuals.

¹⁶ But Jesus said to them, They have no need to go: give you them to eat.

¹⁷ They answered him: We have not here, but five loaves, and two fishes.

¹⁸ He said to them: Bring them hither to me.

¹⁹ And when he had commanded the multitudes to sit down upon the grass, he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.

²⁰ And they did all eat, and were filled. And they took up what remained, twelve full baskets of fragments.

²¹ And the number of them that did eat, was five thousand men, besides women and children.