Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Chapter 4^[a]

Vision of the Lampstand and Olives. ¹ Then the angel who had talked with me returned and roused me, as though awakening someone who was asleep. ² He asked me, “What do you see?” I replied, “I see a lampstand of solid gold, with a bowl at the top. There are seven lamps on it, with seven openings to hold the lamps. ³ Alongside it are two olive trees, one to the right and the other to the left.”

⁴ I then said to the angel who was speaking to me, “What are these things, my lord?” ⁵ The angel who was speaking to me replied, “Do you not know what they are?” “No, my lord,” I answered. ⁶ Then he said to me, “This is the Lord’s message to Zerubbabel: Not by force, nor by strength, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts. ⁷ What are you, O great mountain? Compared with Zerubbabel, you are nothing more than a plain. He will bring out the capstone amid shouts of acclamation.”

²¹ Joy of Jesus.^[a]At that very hour, Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned and have revealed them to children. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.

²² “All things have been entrusted to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.”

²³ The Privilege of Discipleship. Then he turned to his disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. ²⁴ I tell you, many prophets and kings desired to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.”