Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

A Song of Praise for the Lord’s Faithfulness to His People

^(A)A Psalm of Thanksgiving.

¹⁸ Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:

Renewed Efforts to Stone Jesus

³¹ Then ^(A)the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. ³² Jesus answered them, “Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?”

³³ The Jews answered Him, saying, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for ^(B)blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, ^(C)make Yourself God.”

³⁴ Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ^(D)‘I said, “You are gods” ’? ³⁵ If He called them gods, ^(E)to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture ^(F)cannot be broken), ³⁶ do you say of Him ^(G)whom the Father sanctified and ^(H)sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ ^(I)because I said, ‘I am ^(J)the Son of God’? ^37 (K)If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; ³⁸ but if I do, though you do not believe Me, ^(L)believe the works, that you may know and ^[a]believe ^(M)that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.” ^39 (N)Therefore they sought again to seize Him, but He escaped out of their hand.

The Believers Beyond Jordan

⁴⁰ And He went away again beyond the Jordan to the place ^(O)where John was baptizing at first, and there He stayed. ⁴¹ Then many came to Him and said, “John performed no sign, ^(P)but all the things that John spoke about this Man were true.” ⁴² And many believed in Him there.