Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

9 As the former time made light The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, So the latter hath honoured the way of the sea, Beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

² The people who are walking in darkness Have seen a great light, Dwellers in a land of death-shade, Light hath shone upon them.

³ Thou hast multiplied the nation, Thou hast made great its joy, They have joyed before Thee as the joy in harvest, As [men] rejoice in their apportioning spoil.

⁴ Because the yoke of its burden, And the staff of its shoulder, the rod of its exactor, Thou hast broken as [in] the day of Midian.

27 By David. Jehovah [is] my light and my salvation, Whom do I fear? Jehovah [is] the strength of my life, Of whom am I afraid?

⁴ One [thing] I asked of Jehovah -- it I seek. My dwelling in the house of Jehovah, All the days of my life, To look on the pleasantness of Jehovah, And to inquire in His temple.

⁵ For He hideth me in a tabernacle in the day of evil, He hideth me in a secret place of His tent, On a rock he raiseth me up.

⁶ And now, lifted up is my head, Above my enemies -- my surrounders, And I sacrifice in His tent sacrifices of shouting, I sing, yea, I sing praise to Jehovah.

⁷ Hear, O Jehovah, my voice -- I call, And favour me, and answer me.

⁸ To Thee said my heart `They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'

⁹ Hide not Thy face from me, Turn not aside in anger Thy servant, My help Thou hast been. Leave me not, nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.

¹⁰ And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment,

¹¹ for it was signified to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe, that contentions are among you;

¹² and I say this, that each one of you saith, `I, indeed, am of Paul' -- `and I of Apollos,' -- `and I of Cephas,' -- `and I of Christ.'

¹³ Hath the Christ been divided? was Paul crucified for you? or to the name of Paul were ye baptized;

¹⁴ I give thanks to God that no one of you did I baptize, except Crispus and Gaius --

¹⁵ that no one may say that to my own name I did baptize;

¹⁶ and I did baptize also Stephanas' household -- further, I have not known if I did baptize any other.

¹⁷ For Christ did not send me to baptize, but -- to proclaim good news; not in wisdom of discourse, that the cross of the Christ may not be made of none effect;

¹⁸ for the word of the cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us -- those being saved -- it is the power of God,

¹² And Jesus having heard that John was delivered up, did withdraw to Galilee,

¹³ and having left Nazareth, having come, he dwelt at Capernaum that is by the sea, in the borders of Zebulun and Naphtalim,

¹⁴ that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

¹⁵ `Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations! --

¹⁶ the people that is sitting in darkness saw a great light, and to those sitting in a region and shadow of death -- light arose to them.'

¹⁷ From that time began Jesus to proclaim and to say, `Reform ye, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens.'

¹⁸ And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon named Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a drag into the sea -- for they were fishers --

¹⁹ and he saith to them, `Come ye after me, and I will make you fishers of men,'

²⁰ and they, immediately, having left the nets, did follow him.

²¹ And having advanced thence, he saw other two brothers, James of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, refitting their nets, and he called them,

²² and they, immediately, having left the boat and their father, did follow him.

²³ And Jesus was going about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the reign, and healing every disease, and every malady among the people,