Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

130 Out of the deep places have I called to You, O LORD.

² LORD, hear my voice. Let Your ears attend to the voice of my prayers.

³ If You, O LORD, straightly mark iniquities, O LORD, who shall stand?

⁴ But mercy is with You, so that You may be feared.

⁵ I have waited on the LORD. My soul has waited; and I have trusted in His word.

⁶ My soul waits on the LORD more than the morning watch watches for the morning.

⁷ Let Israel wait on the LORD, for with the LORD is mercy and with Him is great redemption.

⁸ And He shall redeem Israel from all its iniquities. A song of degrees, or Psalm, of Solomon

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

¹⁴ And they arose and took away the Altars that were in Jerusalem. And they took away all those for incense and cast them into the brook Kidron.

¹⁵ Afterward, they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought the Burnt Offerings into the House of the LORD.

¹⁶ And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the Law of Moses, the man of God. And the priests sprinkled the blood from the hands of the Levites.

¹⁷ Because there were many in the Congregation who were not sanctified, the Levites had the charge of the killing of the Passover for all who were not clean, to sanctify it to the LORD.

¹⁸ For a multitude of the people — a multitude of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun — had not cleansed themselves, yet ate the Passover, not as it was written. Therefore, Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “The good LORD be merciful toward

¹⁹ “whomever prepares his whole heart to seek the LORD God, the God of his fathers, though he is not according to the purification of the Sanctuary.”

²⁰ And the LORD heard Hezekiah and healed the people.

²¹ And the children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the Feast of the Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy. And the Levites and the priests praised the LORD, day by day, singing with loud instruments to the LORD.

²² And Hezekiah spoke encouragement to all the Levites who had good knowledge of the LORD. And they ate of that Feast for seven days, and offered Peace Offerings and praised the LORD God of their fathers.

²³ And the whole assembly took counsel to keep it for another seven days. So, they kept it for seven days with joy.

²⁴ For Hezekiah, king of Judah, had given a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep to the Congregation. And the princes had given a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep to the Congregation. And many priests were sanctified.

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

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

²⁷ Then, the priests and the Levites arose and blessed the people. And their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to Heaven, to His holy habitation.

2 After a few days, He entered into Capernaum again. And word spread that He was in the house.

² And many gathered together, so much so that the places outside the door could not receive any more. And He preached the Word to them.

³ And four men came to Him carrying a paralytic.

⁴ And since they could not come near to Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof of the house where He was. And when they had broken it open, they let down the bed in which the sick man lay.

⁵ Now when Jesus saw their faith, He said to the sick man, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”

⁶ And some of the scribes were sitting there, reasoning in their hearts,

⁷ “Why does this man speak such blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God only?”

⁸ And immediately, when Jesus perceived in His spirit that thus they reasoned with themselves, He said to them, “Why do you reason these things in your hearts?

⁹ “Is it easier to say to the paralyzed, ‘Your sins are forgiven’, or to say, ‘Arise, take up your bed, and walk?’

¹⁰ “But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on Earth to forgive sins…” He said to the sick man,

¹¹ “Arise. Take up your bed and go to your own house.”

¹² And he rose immediately, and took up his bed, and went forth before them all. And they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, “We never saw such a thing!”