Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

65 “I have been sought by those who did not ask. I was found by those who did not seek Me. I said, ‘Behold Me! Behold Me!’ to a nation that did not call upon My Name.

² “I have spread out My Hands all day to a rebellious people, who walked in a way that was not good, after their own imaginations,

³ “a people that always provoked Me to My Face, who sacrifices in gardens and burns incense upon bricks,

⁴ “who remain among the graves and lodge in the deserts, who eat swine’s flesh with the broth of things polluted in their vessels,

⁵ “who say, ‘Stay away. Do not come near to me. For I am holier than you.’ These are a smoke in My wrath, a fire that burns all the day.

⁶ “Behold, it is written before Me. I will not keep silence, but will render it and repay it into their bosom.

⁷ “Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers, shall be together,” says the LORD, “who have burnt incense upon the mountains and blasphemed Me upon the hills. Therefore, I will measure their old work into their bosom.”

⁸ Thus says the LORD: “As the wine is found in the cluster, and one says, ‘Do not destroy it, for a blessing is in it,’ so will I do for My servants’ sakes, so that I might not destroy them altogether.

⁹ “But I will bring a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah, that shall inherit My mountain. And My Elect shall inherit it. And My servants shall dwell there.

¹⁹ But be not afar off, O LORD, My strength. Hasten to help Me.

²⁰ Deliver My soul from the sword, my desolate soul from the power of the dog.

²¹ Save Me from the lion’s mouth; and answer Me in saving Me from the horns of the unicorns.

²² I will declare Your Name to My brothers. In the midst of the Congregation will I praise You.

²³ Praise the LORD, you who fear Him! Magnify Him, all the seed of Jacob; and fear Him, all the seed of Israel!

²⁴ For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the poor. Nor has He hidden His face from Him, but when He called to Him, He heard.

²⁵ My praise shall be of You in the great Congregation. I will perform My vows before those who fear Him.

²⁶ The poor shall eat and be satisfied. Those who seek after the LORD shall praise Him. Your heart shall live forever.

²⁷ All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD; and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before You.

²⁸ For the Kingdom is the LORD’s; and He rules among the nations.

²³ But before faith came, we were kept under the Law, as under guard, and locked up, until that faith which should be revealed.

²⁴ So that the Law was our tutor, bringing us to Christ, that we might be made righteous by faith.

²⁵ But after that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

²⁶ For you are all the sons of God by faith, in Christ Jesus.

²⁷ For all you who were baptized into Christ, have put on Christ.

²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Grecian. There is neither bond nor free. There is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

²⁹ And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs by promise.

²⁶ So they sailed to the region of the Gadarenes (which is near Galilee).

²⁷ And as He went out to land, a certain man from the city met Him. He had had demons for a long time, and he wore no clothes. Nor did he live in a house, but in the graves.

²⁸ And when he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before Him. And with a loud voice, he said, “What have I to do with You, Jesus the Son of God, the Most High? I beg You, do not torment me!”

²⁹ For He commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. It had often seized him. Therefore, he was bound with chains and kept in shackles. But he broke the bonds and was carried into wilderness by the demon.

³⁰ Then Jesus asked him, saying, “What is your name?” And he said, “Legion!” (because many demons had entered into him).

³¹ And they begged him not to command them to go out into the deep.

³² And there was a large herd of swine feeding on a nearby hill. And the demons begged Him to let them enter them. So, He allowed them.

³³ Then the demons went out of the man and entered into the swine. And the herd was carried violently down a steep bank into the lake and was choked.

³⁴ When the herdsmen saw what was done, they fled. And when they had left, they reported it in the city and in the country.

³⁵ Then they came out to see what had happened. And they came to Jesus and found the man out of whom the demons had come, sitting at the feet of Jesus (clothed, and in his right mind). And they were afraid.

³⁶ Those who saw it also told them by what means he who had been possessed with the demon was healed.

³⁷ Then the whole multitude of the country surrounding the Gadarenes begged Him to leave, for they were taken with great fear. And He went into the ship and returned.

³⁸ Then the man out of whom the demons had come begged Him to let him stay with Him. But Jesus sent him away, saying,

³⁹ “Return to your own house. And show what great things God has done to you.” So, he went his way, and preached throughout all the city what great things Jesus had done to him.