Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
25 From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly;(A)
before those who fear you[a] I will fulfill my vows.(B)
26 The poor will eat(C) and be satisfied;
those who seek the Lord will praise him—(D)
may your hearts live forever!
27 All the ends of the earth(E)
will remember and turn to the Lord,
and all the families of the nations
will bow down before him,(F)
28 for dominion belongs to the Lord(G)
and he rules over the nations.
29 All the rich(H) of the earth will feast and worship;(I)
all who go down to the dust(J) will kneel before him—
those who cannot keep themselves alive.(K)
30 Posterity(L) will serve him;
future generations(M) will be told about the Lord.
31 They will proclaim his righteousness,(N)
declaring to a people yet unborn:(O)
He has done it!(P)
11 “The days are coming,”(A) declares the Sovereign Lord,
“when I will send a famine through the land—
not a famine of food or a thirst for water,
but a famine(B) of hearing the words of the Lord.(C)
12 People will stagger from sea to sea
and wander from north to east,
searching for the word of the Lord,
but they will not find it.(D)
13 “In that day
Simon the Sorcerer
9 Now for some time a man named Simon had practiced sorcery(A) in the city and amazed all the people of Samaria. He boasted that he was someone great,(B) 10 and all the people, both high and low, gave him their attention and exclaimed, “This man is rightly called the Great Power of God.”(C) 11 They followed him because he had amazed them for a long time with his sorcery. 12 But when they believed Philip as he proclaimed the good news of the kingdom of God(D) and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized,(E) both men and women. 13 Simon himself believed and was baptized. And he followed Philip everywhere, astonished by the great signs and miracles(F) he saw.
14 When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria(G) had accepted the word of God,(H) they sent Peter and John(I) to Samaria. 15 When they arrived, they prayed for the new believers there that they might receive the Holy Spirit,(J) 16 because the Holy Spirit had not yet come on any of them;(K) they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.(L) 17 Then Peter and John placed their hands on them,(M) and they received the Holy Spirit.(N)
18 When Simon saw that the Spirit was given at the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money 19 and said, “Give me also this ability so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”
20 Peter answered: “May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!(O) 21 You have no part or share(P) in this ministry, because your heart is not right(Q) before God. 22 Repent(R) of this wickedness and pray to the Lord in the hope that he may forgive you for having such a thought in your heart. 23 For I see that you are full of bitterness and captive to sin.”
24 Then Simon answered, “Pray to the Lord for me(S) so that nothing you have said may happen to me.”
25 After they had further proclaimed the word of the Lord(T) and testified about Jesus, Peter and John returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many Samaritan villages.(U)
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