Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Mem.

Laws of the Sanctuary

12 “These are the statutes and the judgments which you shall carefully observe in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess ^[a](A)as long as you live on the ^[b]earth. ² You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the ^(B)high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. ^3 (C)You shall tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and burn their ^[c]Asherim with fire, and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods and ^(D)obliterate their name from that place. ⁴ You shall not act like this toward the Lord your God. ^5 (E)But you shall seek the Lord at the place which the Lord your God will choose from all your tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and there you shall come. ⁶ There you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, ^(F)your tithes, the ^[d]contribution of your hand, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock. ⁷ There also you and your households shall eat before the Lord your God, and ^(G)rejoice in all ^[e]your undertakings in which the Lord your God has blessed you.

⁸ “You shall not do at all what we are doing here today, every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes; ⁹ for you have not as yet come to ^(H)the resting place and the ^(I)inheritance which the Lord your God is giving you. ¹⁰ When you cross the Jordan and live in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to inherit, and ^(J)He gives you rest from all your enemies around you so that you live in security, ^11 (K)then it shall come about that the place in which the Lord your God will choose for His name to dwell, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the ^[f]contribution of your hand, and all your choice votive offerings which you will vow to the Lord. ¹² And you shall ^(L)rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the ^(M)Levite who is within your gates, since ^(N)he has no portion or inheritance with you.

Words to the Jews

^41 (A)Therefore the Jews were grumbling about Him, because He said, “I am the bread that ^(B)came down out of heaven.” ⁴² They were saying, “^(C)Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother ^(D)we know? How does He now say, ‘^(E)I have come down out of heaven’?” ⁴³ Jesus answered and said to them, “Do not grumble among yourselves. ⁴⁴ No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me ^(F)draws him; and I will ^(G)raise him up on the last day. ⁴⁵ It is written ^(H)in the prophets, ‘^(I)And they shall all be ^(J)taught of God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, comes to Me. ^46 (K)Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One who is from God; He has seen the Father. ⁴⁷ Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes ^(L)has eternal life. ^48 (M)I am the bread of life. ^49 (N)Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. ⁵⁰ This is the bread which ^(O)comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and ^(P)not die. ^51 (Q)I am the living bread that ^(R)came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, ^(S)he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give ^(T)for the life of the world is ^(U)My flesh.”