Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Psalm 143

A Cry for Help

A Davidic psalm.

The Widow’s Son Raised

¹⁷ After this, the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. His illness became very severe until no breath remained in him.^{(A) 18} She said to Elijah, “Man of God,^(B) what do we have in common?^(C) Have you come to remind me of my guilt^(D) and to kill my son?”

¹⁹ But Elijah said to her, “Give me your son.” So he took him from her arms, brought him up to the upper room^(E) where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed. ²⁰ Then he cried out to the Lord^(F) and said, “My Lord God, have You also brought tragedy on the widow I am staying with by killing her son?” ²¹ Then he stretched himself out over the boy three times.^(G) He cried out to the Lord and said, “My Lord God, please let this boy’s life return to him!”

²² So the Lord listened to Elijah’s voice, and the boy’s life returned to him, and he lived.^{(H) 23} Then Elijah took the boy, brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother.^(I) Elijah said, “Look, your son is alive.”

²⁴ Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know you are a man of God^(J) and the Lord’s word from your mouth is true.”^(K)

Eutychus Revived at Troas

⁷ On the first day of the week, we^[a] assembled to break bread.^(A) Paul spoke to them, and since he was about to depart the next day, he extended his message until midnight. ⁸ There were many lamps in the room upstairs where we were assembled, ⁹ and a young man named Eutychus was sitting on a window sill and sank into a deep sleep as Paul kept on speaking. When he was overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead. ¹⁰ But Paul went down, fell on him, embraced him, and said, “Don’t be alarmed, for his life is in him!”^{(B) 11} After going upstairs, breaking the bread, and eating, Paul conversed a considerable time until dawn. Then he left. ¹² They brought the boy home alive and were greatly comforted.