Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
121 I will lift up my eyes to the mountain, from where my help shall come.
2 My help comes from the LORD, Who has made Heaven and Earth.
3 He will not allow your foot to slip. He Who keeps you will not slumber.
4 Behold, He Who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The LORD is your Keeper. The LORD is your shadow at your right hand.
6 The Sun shall not strike you by day, nor the Moon by night.
7 The LORD shall preserve you from all evil. He shall keep your soul.
8 The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in, from henceforth and forever. A song of degrees, or Psalm, of David
3 Then Jacob sent messengers ahead to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, into the country of Edom.
4 To whom he gave commandment, saying, “You shall speak to my lord, Esau, like this: ‘Your servant Jacob says this, “I have been a stranger with Laban and remained until this time.
5 “I have cattle also and asses, sheep, and men servants, and women servants; and I have sent to show my lord, so that I may find grace in your sight.”’”
6 So, the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother, Esau; and he also comes against you, and four hundred men with him.”
7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid, and was very troubled, and divided the people that were with him, and the sheep, and the cattle, and the camels into two companies.
8 For he said, “If Esau comes to the one company and strikes it, the other company shall escape.”
9 Moreover, Jacob said, “O God of my father, Abraham, and God of my father, Isaac, Lord, Who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your kindred, and I will do you good’,
10 “I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and all the Truth, which You have shown to Your servant. For with my staff, I came over this Jordan; and now I have become two camps.
11 “Please, deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau. For I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mother with children.
12 “For You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’”
13 And he stayed there that same night and took what he received as a present for Esau, his brother:
14 Two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
15 thirty milch camels (with their colts), forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals.
16 So he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every flock by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass before me and put a space between each flock.”
17 And he commanded the first, saying, “If my brother, Esau, meets you, and asks you, saying, ‘Whose servant are you? And where are you going? And whose are these before you?’
18 “Then you shall say, ‘They are your servant, Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. And behold, he himself also is behind us.’”
19 So, likewise, he commanded the second and the third, and all that followed the flocks, saying, “After this manner you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.
20 “And you shall say, moreover, ‘Behold, your servant Jacob comes after us.’ For he thought, “I will appease his wrath with the present that goes before me; and afterward, I will see his face. It may be that he will accept me.”
21 So they went, with the present, before him. But he remained that night with the company.
46 Then they came to Jericho. And as He went out of Jericho with His disciples (and a great multitude), Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, a blind man, sat by the wayside, begging.
47 And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry and say, “Jesus! The Son of David! Have mercy on me!”
48 And many rebuked him and told him to be quiet. But he cried much more, “O, Son of David! Have mercy on me!”
49 Then Jesus stood still and commanded him to be called. And they called the blind man, saying to him, “Be of good cheer! Arise, He calls you.”
50 So he threw off his cloak and rose and came to Jesus.
51 And Jesus answered, and said to him, “What would you have Me do for you?” And the blind said to Him, “Lord, that I may receive sight.”
52 Then Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your faith has saved you.” And immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus on the way.
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