Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

130 Out of the depths have I cried unto Thee, O Lord;

² Lord, hear my voice! Let Thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.

³ If Thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

⁴ But there is forgiveness with Thee, that Thou mayest be feared.

⁵ I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in His word do I hope.

⁶ My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning— I say, more than they that watch for the morning.

⁷ Let Israel hope in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy, and with Him is plenteous redemption.

⁸ And He shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

¹³ And there assembled at Jerusalem many people to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month, a very great congregation.

¹⁴ And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away and cast them into the Brook Kidron.

¹⁵ Then they killed the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month; and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the Lord.

¹⁶ And they stood in their place according to their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God. The priests sprinkled the blood which they received from the hand of the Levites.

¹⁷ For there were many in the congregation who were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the Passover lambs for every one who was not clean, to sanctify them unto the Lord.

¹⁸ For a multitude of the people, even many from Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “The good Lord pardon every one

¹⁹ who prepareth his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.”

²⁰ And the Lord hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.

²¹ And the children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised the Lord day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the Lord.

²² And Hezekiah spoke comfortingly unto all the Levites who taught the good knowledge of the Lord; and they ate throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings and making confession to the Lord God of their fathers.

²³ And the whole assembly took counsel to keep another seven days, and they kept another seven days with gladness.

²⁴ For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep, and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep; and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.

²⁵ And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers who came out of the land of Israel and who dwelt in Judah rejoiced.

²⁶ So there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, there was not the like in Jerusalem.

²⁷ Then the priests, the Levites, arose and blessed the people; and their voice was heard and their prayer came up to His holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.

2 And again He entered into Capernaum some days later, and it was reported that He was in the house.

² And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not even about the door; and He preached the Word unto them.

³ And they came unto Him, bringing one sick with the palsy, who was borne by four.

⁴ And when they could not come nigh unto Him because of the throng, they uncovered the roof where He was. And when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the one sick with the palsy lay.

⁵ When Jesus saw their faith, He said unto the one sick with the palsy, “Son, thy sins are forgiven thee.”

⁶ But there were certain of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,

⁷ “Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God only?”

⁸ And immediately, when Jesus perceived in His spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, He said unto them, “Why reason ye these things in your hearts:

⁹ whether it is easier to say to the sick with the palsy, ‘Thy sins are forgiven thee,’ or to say, ‘Arise, and take up thy bed and walk’?

¹⁰ But that ye may know that the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins—” He said to the one sick with the palsy,

¹¹ “I say unto thee, arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.”

¹² And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all, insomuch that they all were amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw it in this fashion!”