Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

ZAIN

⁴⁹ Remember the Promise made to Your servant, wherein You have caused me to trust.

⁵⁰ It is my comfort in my trouble. Your Promise has quickened me.

⁵¹ The proud deride me exceedingly, yet have I not turned away from Your Law.

⁵² I remembered Your Judgments of old, O LORD, and have been comforted.

⁵³ Burning indignation has come upon me because of the wicked, who forsake Your Law.

⁵⁴ Your Statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

⁵⁵ I have remembered Your Name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept Your Law.

⁵⁶ This is because I kept Your Precepts.

¹⁰ “And when the LORD your God has brought you into the land which He swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to you, with great and beautiful cities which you did not build,

¹¹ “and houses full of all manner of goods which you did not fill, wells dug which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant. And you have eaten and are full.

¹² “Beware, lest you forget the LORD, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

¹³ “You shall fear the LORD your God, and serve Him, and shall swear by His Name.

¹⁴ “You shall not walk after other gods, the gods of the people who are all around you

¹⁵ “(for the LORD your God is a jealous God among you), lest the wrath of the LORD your God be kindled against you and destroy you from the face of the Earth.

¹⁶ “You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted Him in Massah.

¹⁷ “You shall diligently keep the Commandments of the LORD your God, and His Testimonies and His Ordinances which He has commanded you.

¹⁸ “And you shall do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that you may prosper, and that you may go in and possess that good land which the LORD swore to your fathers,

¹⁹ “to cast out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said.

²⁰ “When your son shall ask you in the future, saying, ‘What do these Testimonies and Ordinances and Laws which the LORD our God has Commanded you mean?’

²¹ “Then you shall say to your son, ‘We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. But the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty Hand.

²² ‘And the LORD showed great and unpleasant signs and wonders before our eyes, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household,

²³ ‘and brought us out from there, to bring us in and to give us the land which He swore to our fathers.

²⁴ ‘Therefore, the LORD has Commanded us to do all these Ordinances, to fear the LORD our God, so that it may go well with us, and that He may preserve us alive at the present time.

²⁵ ‘Moreover, this shall be our righteousness before the LORD our God, if we take heed to keep all these Commandments, as He has Commanded us.’

⁴⁵ Then many of the Jews who came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed in Him.

⁴⁶ But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what things Jesus had done.

⁴⁷ Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What shall we do? For this Man does many miracles.

⁴⁸ “If we let Him alone like this, all will believe in Him. And the Romans will come and take away both our place and the nation.

⁴⁹ Then one of them, Caiaphas, who was the High Priest that same year, said to them, “You perceive nothing at all.

⁵⁰ “Nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that one Man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”

⁵¹ He spoke this, not of himself, but being High Priest that same year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation;

⁵² and not only for the nation, but that He would gather together the children of God who were scattered.

⁵³ Then, from that day forth, they plotted to put Him to death.

⁵⁴ Therefore Jesus walked openly no more among the Jews; but went from there to a country near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and stayed there with His disciples.

⁵⁵ And the Jews’ Passover was at hand. And many went out of the country before the Passover, up to Jerusalem, to purify themselves.

⁵⁶ Then they sought for Jesus, and spoke among themselves as they stood in the Temple, “What do you think - that He will not come to the Feast?”

⁵⁷ Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment that if anyone knew where He was, he should make it known, so that they might take Him.