Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁵ And on the next day it so happened that their rulers, and elders, and scribes, were gathered together at Jerusalem;

⁶ and Annas, the High Priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were in the family of the High Priest.

⁷ And when they had set them before them, they asked, “By what power, or in what Name, have you done this?”

⁸ Then Peter, full of the Holy Ghost, said to them, “Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel!

⁹ “If we are being examined today regarding the good deed done to the impotent man (or, by what means he is made whole),

¹⁰ “be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth - Whom you have crucified, Whom God raised again from the dead - by Him does this man stand here before you, whole.

¹¹ “This is the Stone cast aside by you builders, which has become the Cornerstone.

¹² “Nor is there salvation in any other. For among men there is given no other Name under heaven whereby we must be saved.”

23 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

² He makes me to rest in green pasture and leads me by the still waters.

³ He restores my soul and leads me in the paths of righteousness, for His Name’s sake.

⁴ Indeed, though I should walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. For You are with me. Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

⁵ You prepare a table before me in the sight of my adversaries. You anoint my head with oil; and my cup runs over.

⁶ Doubtless, kindness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. And I shall remain in the House of the LORD forever. A Psalm of David.

¹⁶ By this we have perceived love: that He laid down His life for us. Therefore, we also ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

¹⁷ And whoever has this world’s goods and sees his brother has need and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God dwell in him?

¹⁸ My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue only, but in deed and in truth.

¹⁹ For by this we know that we are of the truth and shall assure our hearts before Him.

²⁰ For if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things.

²¹ Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, then we have boldness toward God.

²² And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His Commandments and do those things which are pleasing in His sight.

²³ This, then, is His Commandment: that we believe in the Name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another as He commanded.

²⁴ For the one who keeps His Commandments dwells in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us: by that Spirit which He has given us.

¹¹ “I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd gives His life for His sheep.

¹² “But the hired servant (who is not the shepherd, nor are the sheep his own) sees the wolf coming and he leaves the sheep and flees. And the wolf catches them and scatters the sheep.

¹³ “So the hired servant flees because he is a hired servant and does not care for the sheep.

¹⁴ “I am the Good Shepherd, and know My own, and am known by My own.

¹⁵ “As the Father knows Me, so I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.

¹⁶ “I have other sheep also, which are not of this fold. I must also bring them. And they shall hear My voice. And there shall be one sheepfold, with one Shepherd.

¹⁷ “Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life, that I might take it again.

¹⁸ “No one takes it from Me. But I lay it down on My own. I have authority to lay it down and have authority to take it again. I have received this Commandment from My Father.”