Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

The Vision of the Gold Lampstand

4 And the angel who was speaking with me returned and woke me up like a man who is roused from his sleep. ² And he said to me, “What do you see?”

And I responded, “I see a completely gold lampstand and a bowl at its top, with seven lights on it, and seven pipes on it for each lamp in order to light them. ³ And there are two olive trees next to it, one on the right of the bowl and one on the left.”

⁴ So I answered and I asked the angel speaking with me, “What are these, my lord?”

⁵ Then the angel speaking with me responded, “Do you really not know what these are?”

And I said, “No, my lord.”

⁶ And he said to me: “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying: Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of Hosts.

⁷ “Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will be made level ground, and he will bring out the top stone amidst shouting of ‘Grace! Grace to the stone!’ ”

The Rejoicing of Jesus^(A)

²¹ At that time Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank You, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, for it was Your good pleasure.

²² “All things have been handed over to Me by My Father. And no one knows who the Son is but the Father, and who the Father is but the Son and he to whom the Son desires to reveal Him.”

²³ Then He turned to His disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see what you see. ²⁴ For I tell you, many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, and have not seen it, and to hear what you hear, and have not heard it.”