Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

For God Intends The Gospel To Be Both Foolishness And Powerful

¹⁸ For the speech^[a] of the cross is foolishness to the ones perishing, but is the power of God to us being saved. ¹⁹ For it has been written [in Isa 29:14]: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise ones, and I will set-aside the intelligence^[b] of the intelligent ones”. ²⁰ Where is the wise one? Where is the scribe^[c]? Where is the debater of this age? Did not God make-foolish the wisdom of the world?

For God Saves Those Who Believe The “Foolishness” of Christ Crucified

²¹ For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not know^[d] God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of ^[e] the proclamation to save the ones believing. ²² Because indeed Jews are asking-for signs and Greeks are seeking wisdom, ²³ but we are proclaiming Christ crucified^[f]— to Jews, an offense; and to Gentiles, foolishness; ²⁴ but to the called ones themselves, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. ²⁵ Because the foolish thing^[g] of God is wiser than humans, and the weak thing of God is stronger than humans.

At The Passover, Consumed By Zeal For God’s House, Jesus Cleanses The Temple

¹³ And the Passover [Feast] of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴ And in the temple, He found the ones selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers-of-money sitting [at their tables]. ¹⁵ And having made a lash^[a] from ropes, He drove them all out of the temple, and^[b] the sheep and the oxen. And He poured-out the coin of the money-changers. And He overturned the tables. ¹⁶ And He said to the ones selling the doves, “Take these things from here. Do not be making the house of My Father a house of a market”. ¹⁷ His disciples remembered that it has been written [in Ps 69:9], “Zeal for Your house will consume Me”. ¹⁸ Then the Jews responded and said to Him, “What sign do You show us, that you are doing these things?” ¹⁹ Jesus responded and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it”. ²⁰ Then the Jews said, “This temple was built for forty and six years, and You will raise it in three days?” ²¹ But that One was speaking about the temple of His body. ²² So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He was saying this, and believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus spoke.