Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

42 Behold my servant whom I uphold, mine elect [in whom] my soul delighteth! I will put my Spirit upon him; he shall bring forth judgment to the nations.

² He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.

³ A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment according to truth.

⁴ He shall not faint nor be in haste, till he have set justice in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.

⁵ Thus saith God, Jehovah, he that created the heavens and stretched them out, he that spread forth the earth and its productions, he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

⁶ I, Jehovah, have called thee in righteousness, and will take hold of thy hand; and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the nations,

⁷ to open the blind eyes, to bring forth the prisoner from the prison, them that sit in darkness out of the house of restraint.

⁸ I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

⁹ Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth will I cause you to hear them.

⁵ Jehovah, thy loving-kindness is in the heavens, and thy faithfulness [reacheth] unto the clouds.

⁶ Thy righteousness is like the high mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: thou, Jehovah, preservest man and beast.

⁷ How precious is thy loving-kindness, O God! So the sons of men take refuge under the shadow of thy wings.

⁸ They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou wilt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

⁹ For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

¹⁰ Continue thy loving-kindness unto them that know thee, and thy righteousness to the upright in heart;

¹¹ Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked drive me away.

¹¹ But Christ being come high priest of the good things to come, by the better and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand, (that is, not of this creation,)

¹² nor by blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, has entered in once for all into the [holy of] holies, having found an eternal redemption.

¹³ For if the blood of goats and bulls, and a heifer's ashes sprinkling the defiled, sanctifies for the purity of the flesh,

¹⁴ how much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works to worship [the] living God?

¹⁵ And for this reason he is mediator of a new covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

12 Jesus therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was the dead [man] Lazarus, whom Jesus raised from among [the] dead.

² There therefore they made him a supper, and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those at table with him.

³ Mary therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of pure nard of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair, and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

⁴ One of his disciples therefore, Judas [son] of Simon, Iscariote, who was about to deliver him up, says,

⁵ Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?

⁶ But he said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the bag, and carried what was put into [it].

⁷ Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to have kept this for the day of my preparation for burial;

⁸ for ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always.

⁹ A great crowd therefore of the Jews knew that he was there; and they came, not because of Jesus only, but also that they might see Lazarus whom he raised from among [the] dead.

¹⁰ But the chief priests took counsel that they might kill Lazarus also,

¹¹ because many of the Jews went away on his account and believed on Jesus.