Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
10 All your works will give thanks to you, Lord.
Your loyal followers will praise you.
11 They will proclaim the splendor of your kingdom;
they will tell about your power,
12 so that mankind[a] might acknowledge your mighty acts,
and the majestic splendor of your kingdom.
13 Your kingdom is an eternal kingdom,[b]
and your dominion endures through all generations.
14 [c] The Lord supports all who fall,
and lifts up all who are bent over.[d]
15 Everything looks to you in anticipation,[e]
and you provide them with food on a regular basis.[f]
16 You open your hand,
and fill every living thing with the food it desires.[g]
17 The Lord is just in all his actions,[h]
and exhibits love in all he does.[i]
18 The Lord is near all who cry out to him,
all who cry out to him sincerely.[j]
Elisha Makes a Meal Edible
38 Now Elisha went back to Gilgal, while there was a famine in the land. Some of the prophets were visiting him[a] and he told his servant, “Put the big pot on the fire[b] and boil some stew for the prophets.”[c] 39 Someone went out to the field to gather some herbs and found a wild vine.[d] He picked some of its fruit,[e] enough to fill up the fold of his robe. He came back, cut it up, and threw the slices[f] into the stew pot, not knowing they were harmful.[g] 40 The stew was poured out[h] for the men to eat. When they ate some of the stew, they cried out, “Death is in the pot, O prophet!” They could not eat it. 41 He said, “Get some flour.” Then he threw it into the pot and said, “Now pour some out for the men so they may eat.”[i] There was no longer anything harmful in the pot.
Workers for the Harvest
31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him,[a] “Rabbi, eat something.”[b] 32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.” 33 So the disciples began to say[c] to one another, “No one brought him anything[d] to eat, did they?”[e] 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me[f] and to complete[g] his work.[h] 35 Don’t you say,[i] ‘There are four more months and then comes the harvest?’ I tell you, look up[j] and see that the fields are already white[k] for harvest! 36 The one who reaps receives pay[l] and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together. 37 For in this instance the saying is true,[m] ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”
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