Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

23 Woe to the pastors, that destroy and tear the sheep of my pasture, saith the Lord.

² Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to the pastors that feed my people: You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold I will visit upon you for the evil of your doings, saith the Lord.

³ And I will gather together the remnant of my flock, out of all the lands into which I have cast them out: and I will make them return to their own fields, and they shall increase and be multiplied.

⁴ And I will set up pastors over them, and they shall feed them: they shall fear no more, and they shall not be dismayed: and none shall be wanting of their number, saith the Lord.

⁵ Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will raise up to David a just branch: and a king shall reign, and shall be wise, and shall execute judgement and justice in the earth.

⁶ In those days shall Juda be saved, and Israel shall dwell confidently: and this is the name that they shall call him: the Lord our just one.

23 On the first day of the week, a psalm for David. The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof: the world, and all they that dwell therein.

² For he hath founded it upon the seas; and hath prepared it upon the rivers.

³ Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord: or who shall stand in his holy place?

⁴ The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.

⁵ He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and mercy from God his Saviour.

⁶ This is the generation of them that seek him, of them that seek the face of the God of Jacob.

⁷ Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of Glory shall enter in.

⁸ Who is this King of Glory? the Lord who is strong and mighty: the Lord mighty in battle.

⁹ Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of Glory shall enter in.

¹⁰ Who is this King of Glory? the Lord of hosts, he is the King of Glory.

¹¹ For which cause be mindful that you, being heretofore Gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision in the flesh, made by hands;

¹² That you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the conversation of Israel, and strangers to the testament, having no hope of the promise, and without God in this world.

¹³ But now in Christ Jesus, you, who some time were afar off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

¹⁴ For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and breaking down the middle wall of partition, the enmities in his flesh:

¹⁵ Making void the law of commandments contained in decrees; that he might make the two in himself into one new man, making peace;

¹⁶ And might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, killing the enmities in himself.

¹⁷ And coming, he preached peace to you that were afar off, and peace to them that were nigh.

¹⁸ For by him we have access both in one Spirit to the Father.

¹⁹ Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners; but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and the domestics of God,

²⁰ Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone:

²¹ In whom all the building, being framed together, groweth up into an holy temple in the Lord.

²² In whom you also are built together into an habitation of God in the Spirit.

³⁰ And the apostles coming together unto Jesus, related to him all things that they had done and taught.

³¹ And he said to them: Come apart into a desert place, and rest a little. For there were many coming and going: and they had not so much as time to eat.

³² And going up into a ship, they went into a desert place apart.

³³ And they saw them going away, and many knew: and they ran flocking thither on foot from all the cities, and were there before them.

³⁴ And Jesus going out saw a great multitude: and he had compassion on them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.

⁵³ And when they had passed over, they came into the land of Genezareth, and set to the shore.

⁵⁴ And when they were gone out of the ship, immediately they knew him:

⁵⁵ And running through that whole country, they began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where they heard he was.

⁵⁶ And whithersoever he entered, into towns or into villages or cities, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch but the hem of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.