Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
The Coming of Zion’s King
9 Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion!
Shout in triumph, Daughter Jerusalem!
Look, your King is coming to you;
he is righteous and victorious,[a]
humble and riding on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a donkey.(A)
10 I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim
and the horse from Jerusalem.
The bow of war will be removed,
and he will proclaim peace to the nations.
His dominion will extend from sea to sea,
from the Euphrates River
to the ends of the earth.(B)
11 As for you,
because of the blood of your covenant,(C)
I will release your prisoners
from the waterless cistern.(D)
12 Return to a stronghold,
you prisoners who have hope;
today I declare that I will restore double to you.(E)
8 The Lord is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and great in faithful love.(A)
9 The Lord is good to everyone;(B)
his compassion rests on all he has made.(C)
10 All you have made will thank you, Lord;
the[a] faithful will bless you.(D)
11 They will speak of the glory of your kingdom
and will declare your might,(E)
12 informing all people of your mighty acts
and of the glorious splendor of your[b] kingdom.(F)
13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom;
your rule is for all generations.(G)
The Lord is faithful in all his words
and gracious in all his actions.[c](H)
15 For I do not understand what I am doing,(A) because I do not practice what I want to do,(B) but I do what I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good. 17 So now I am no longer the one doing it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh.(C) For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it. 19 For I do not do the good that I want to do, but I practice the evil that I do not want to do. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one that does it, but it is the sin that lives in me. 21 So I discover this law:[a](D) When I want to do what is good,[b] evil is present with me. 22 For in my inner self[c] I delight in God’s law,(E) 23 but I see a different law in the parts of my body,[d](F) waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?(G) 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!(H) So then, with my mind I myself am serving the law of God, but with my flesh, the law of sin.
An Unresponsive Generation
16 “To what should I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to other children:
17 We played the flute for you,
but you didn’t dance;
we sang a lament,
but you didn’t mourn![a]
18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’(A) 19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard,(B) a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’(C) Yet wisdom is vindicated[b] by her deeds.”[c]
The Son Gives Knowledge and Rest
25 At that time Jesus said,(A) “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to infants.(B) 26 Yes, Father, because this was your good pleasure.[a] 27 All things have been entrusted to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son desires[b] to reveal him.(C)
28 “Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.(D) 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,(E) because I am lowly and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.(F) 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
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