Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Salvation for the Gentiles

56 Thus says the Lord:

An Invocation and a Doxology

To the Chief Musician. On ^[a]stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song.

Israel’s Rejection Not Total

11 I say then, ^(A)has God cast away His people? ^(B)Certainly not! For ^(C)I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. ² God has not cast away His people whom ^(D)He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,

²⁹ For the gifts and the calling of God are ^(A)irrevocable. ³⁰ For as you ^(B)were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, ³¹ even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy. ³² For God has ^[a]committed them ^(C)all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.

^10 (A)When He had called the multitude to Himself, He said to them, “Hear and understand: ^11 (B)Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.”

¹² Then His disciples came and said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”

¹³ But He answered and said, ^(C)“Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. ¹⁴ Let them alone. ^(D)They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.”

^15 (E)Then Peter answered and said to Him, “Explain this parable to us.”

¹⁶ So Jesus said, ^(F)“Are you also still without understanding? ¹⁷ Do you not yet understand that ^(G)whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? ¹⁸ But ^(H)those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. ^19 (I)For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. ²⁰ These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”

A Gentile Shows Her Faith^(A)

^21 (B)Then Jesus went out from there and departed to the region of Tyre and Sidon. ²² And behold, a woman of Canaan came from that region and cried out to Him, saying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, ^(C)Son of David! My daughter is severely demon-possessed.”

²³ But He answered her not a word.

And His disciples came and urged Him, saying, “Send her away, for she cries out after us.”

²⁴ But He answered and said, ^(D)“I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

²⁵ Then she came and worshiped Him, saying, “Lord, help me!”

²⁶ But He answered and said, “It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little ^(E)dogs.”

²⁷ And she said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”

²⁸ Then Jesus answered and said to her, “O woman, ^(F)great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that very hour.