Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
37 The Hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the Spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the field, which was full of bones.
2 And He led me all around them. And behold, there were very many in the open field. And lo, they were very dry.
3 And He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord GOD, You know.”
4 Again, He said to me, “Prophesy upon these bones and say to them, ‘O you dry bones! Hear the Word of the LORD!
5 ‘Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: “Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you; and you shall live.
6 “And I will lay sinews upon you, and make flesh grow upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, so that you may live. And you shall know that I am the LORD.”’”
7 So I prophesied as I was Commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, a shaking. And the bones came together, bone to bone.
8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh grew upon them, and covered them above the skin. But there was no breath in them.
9 Then He said to me: “Prophesy to the wind. Prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these killed, so that they may live!”’”
10 So I prophesied as He had Commanded me. And the breath came into them, and they lived and stood up upon their feet, an exceedingly great army.
11 Then He said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the whole House of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried, and our hope is gone. We are completely cut off.’
12 “Therefore, prophesy and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, My people. I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your sepulchers and bring you into the land of Israel.
13 “And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up out of your sepulchers,
14 “and shall put My Spirit in you; and you shall live; and I shall place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken it and performed it,” says the LORD.’”
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
6 For the wisdom of the flesh is death. But the wisdom of the Spirit is life and peace.
7 Because the wisdom of the flesh is hostility toward God. For it is not subject to the Law of God, nor indeed can it be.
8 So, then, those who are in the flesh, cannot please God.
9 Now, you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. Because the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, the same is not His.
10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin. But the Spirit is life, for righteousness’ sake.
11 But if the Spirit of Him Who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He Who raised up Christ from the dead shall also give life to your mortal bodies by His Spirit, Who dwells in you.
11 And a certain man was sick - Lazarus of Bethany (the town of Mary and her sister Martha).
2 And this was that same Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
3 Therefore, the sisters sent to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.”
4 When Jesus heard it, He said, “This sickness does not end in death, but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God might be glorified by it.”
5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6 And after He had heard that he was sick, He still stayed two days in the same place where He was.
7 Then after that, He said to His disciples, “Let us go into Judea again.”
8 The disciples said to Him, “Master, the Jews sought to stone You recently, and yet You go there again?”
9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If someone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
10 “But if someone walks in the night, he stumbles, because there is no light in him.”
11 He spoke these things. And afterward, He said to them, “Our friend Lazarus sleeps. But I go to wake him up.”
12 Then His disciples said, “Lord, if he sleeps, he shall heal.”
13 However, Jesus spoke of his death. But they thought that He had spoken of the natural sleep.
14 Then Jesus said to them plainly, “Lazarus is dead.
15 “And I am glad, for your sakes, that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”
16 Then said Thomas (who is called Didymus) to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with Him.”
17 Then Jesus came and found that he had already been in the grave four days.
18 (Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away.)
19 And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them for their brother.
20 Then Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet Him. But Mary still sat in the house.
21 Then Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.
22 “But now, I also know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.”
23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother shall rise again.”
24 “Martha said to Him, “I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection, at the last day.”
25 Jesus said to her, “I am the Resurrection and the Life. Whoever believes in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.
26 “And whoever lives, and believes in Me, shall never die. Do you believe this?”
27 She said to Him, “Yes, Lord. I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, the One coming into the world.”
28 And when she had said this, she went her way, and secretly called Mary, her sister, saying, “The Master has come, and calls for you.”
29 And when she heard it, she arose quickly, and came to Him.
30 For Jesus had not yet come into the town but was in the place where Martha met Him.
31 Then the Jews who were with her in the house and comforted her, when they saw Mary (that she rose up hastily and went out) followed her, saying, “She goes to the grave, to weep there.”
32 Then, when Mary had come to where Jesus was, and saw Him, she fell down at His feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”
33 Therefore, when Jesus saw her weep (and also the Jews who came with her weep), He groaned in the spirit and was troubled in Himself,
34 and said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to Him, “Lord, come and see.”
35 Jesus wept.
36 Then the Jews said, “Behold, how He loved him.”
37 And some of them said, “Could not He, who opened the eyes of the blind, have also made it so that this man should not have died?”
38 Therefore Jesus groaned in Himself again and came to the grave. And it was a cave. And a stone was laid upon it.
39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to Him, “Lord, he stinks already. For it has been four days.”
40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
41 Then they took away the stone where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up His eyes, and said, “Father, I thank You, because You have heard Me.
42 “I know that You always hear Me. But I said it because of the people who stand by, so that they may believe that You have sent Me.”
43 And having spoken these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus! Come forth!”
44 Then, the one who was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with bandages. And his face was bound with a handkerchief. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him! And let him go!”
45 Then many of the Jews who came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed in Him.
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