Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁸⁹ Forever, O Lord, Your Word will never change in heaven. ⁹⁰ You are faithful to all people for all time. You have made the earth, and it stands. ⁹¹ They stand today by Your Law, for all things serve You. ⁹² I would have been lost in my troubles if Your Law had not been my joy. ⁹³ I will never forget Your Word for by it You have given me new life. ⁹⁴ I am Yours. Save me, for I have looked to Your Law. ⁹⁵ The sinful wait to destroy me, but I will think about Your Word. ⁹⁶ I have seen that all things have an end, even if they are perfect, but Your Word is without end.

Jeremiah Writes Another Book

²⁷ Now the Word of the Lord came to Jeremiah after the king had burned the book with the words Jeremiah had told Baruch to write down. The Lord said, ²⁸ “Take another book and write in it all the words that were in the first book which Jehoiakim the king of Judah burned. ²⁹ And about Jehoiakim the king of Judah you will say, ‘This is what the Lord says: “You have burned this book, saying, ‘Why have you written in it that the king of Babylon will be sure to come and destroy this land and put an end to every man and animal in it?’” ³⁰ So this is what the Lord says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: “He will have no one to sit on the throne of David. And his dead body will be thrown out to the heat of the day and the cold of the night. ³¹ I will punish him and his children and his servants for their sin. And I will bring on them and the people of Jerusalem and the men of Judah all the trouble that I have said would come to them, because they would not listen.”’” ³² Then Jeremiah took another book and gave it to Baruch the son of Neraiah, the writer. And as Jeremiah told them to him, he wrote down all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many words of the same kind were added to them.

Peter’s Mother-in-Law Healed ^(A)

³⁸ Jesus went away from the Jewish place of worship and went into Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed, very sick. They asked Jesus to help her. ³⁹ He stood by her and told the disease to leave. It went from her. At once she got up and cared for them.

Jesus Heals in Galilee ^(B)

⁴⁰ As the sun went down, the people took all that were sick with many kinds of diseases to Jesus. He put His hands on all of them and they were healed. ⁴¹ Also demons came out of many people. The demons cried out and said, “You are Christ, the Son of God.” Jesus spoke strong words to them and would not let them speak. They knew He was the Christ.

Jesus Keeps On Preaching in Galilee ^(C)

⁴² In the morning He went out to a desert. The people looked for Him. When they found Him, they were trying to keep Him from going away from them. ⁴³ He said to them, “I must preach about the holy nation of God in other cities also. This is why I was sent.” ⁴⁴ And He kept on preaching in the Jewish places of worship in Galilee.