Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁴ The Lord GOD has given me a tongue of the learned, so that I should know how to minister a timely word to him who is weary. He will raise me up in the morning. In the morning He will awaken my ear to hear, as the learned.

⁵ The Lord GOD has opened my ear and I was not rebellious. Nor did I turn back.

⁶ I gave my back to the those who struck me and my cheeks to those who pluck out the beard. I did not hide my face from shame and spitting.

⁷ For the Lord GOD will help me. Therefore, I shall not be confounded. Therefore, I have set my face like a flint. And I know that I shall not be ashamed.

⁸ He Who justifies me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near me.

⁹ Behold, the Lord GOD will help me. Who is he who can condemn me? Lo, they shall grow old as a garment. The moth shall eat them up.

70 O, God, hasten to deliver me! Hasten to help me, O LORD!

² Let those who seek my soul be confounded and put to shame. Let those who desire my hurt be turned backward and put to rebuke.

³ Let those who say, “Aha! Aha!” be turned back for a reward of their shame.

⁴ Let all those who seek You be joyful and glad in You; and let all who love Your salvation, say always, “God be praised!”

⁵ Now I am poor and needy. O, God, hasten to me. You are my Helper and my Deliverer: O LORD, do not delay.

12 Therefore, seeing that we are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also cast away everything that presses down and the sin that so easily entangles. Let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

² looking to Jesus - the Author and Finisher of our faith - Who, for the joy that was set before Him, endured the cross and despised the shame and is set at the right hand of the throne of God.

³ Therefore, consider Him Who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not be wearied and faint in your minds.

²¹ When Jesus had said these things, He was troubled in Spirit, and testified, and said, “Truly, truly I say to you, that one of you shall betray Me.”

²² Then the disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom He spoke.

²³ Now, there was one of His disciples, who leaned on Jesus’ bosom, whom Jesus loved.

²⁴ Therefore, Simon Peter motioned to him to ask who it was of whom He spoke.

²⁵ Then, as he leaned on Jesus’ breast, he said to Him, “Lord, who is it?”

²⁶ Jesus answered, “It is him to whom I shall give a morsel, when I have dipped it.” And He wet a morsel of bread, and gave it to Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son.

²⁷ And after the morsel, Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, “That you do, do quickly.”

²⁸ But none of them who were at table knew why He said this to him.

²⁹ For some of them thought Jesus had said that to him because Judas had the bag to buy those things we need for the feast, or that he should give something to the poor.

³⁰ Then, as soon as he had received the morsel, he immediately went out. And it was night.

³¹ When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him.

³² “If God is glorified in Him, God shall also glorify Him in Himself, and shall immediately glorify Him.