Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Zayin.

¹⁰ “Then it shall come about when the Lord your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you, ^(A)great and splendid cities which you did not build, ¹¹ and houses full of all good things which you did not fill, and hewn cisterns which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and ^(B)you eat and are satisfied, ¹² then watch yourself, that ^(C)you do not forget the Lord who brought you from the land of Egypt, out of the house of ^[a]slavery. ^13 (D)You shall ^[b]fear only the Lord your God; and you shall ^[c]worship Him and ^(E)swear by His name. ^14 (F)You shall not follow other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who surround you, ¹⁵ for the Lord your God in the midst of you is a ^(G)jealous God; otherwise the anger of the Lord your God will be kindled against you, and He will ^[d]wipe you off the face of the earth.

¹⁶ “^(H)You shall not put the Lord your God to the test, ^(I)as you tested Him at Massah. ^17 (J)You should diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and His testimonies and His statutes which He has commanded you. ¹⁸ You shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord, that ^(K)it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which the Lord swore to give your fathers, ¹⁹ by driving out all your enemies from before you, as the Lord has spoken.

²⁰ “^(L)When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What do the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments mean which the Lord our God commanded you?’ ²¹ then you shall say to your son, ‘We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and the Lord brought us from Egypt with a mighty hand. ²² Moreover, the Lord showed great and distressing signs and wonders before our eyes against Egypt, Pharaoh and all his household; ²³ He brought us out from there in order to bring us in, to give us the land which He had sworn to our fathers.’ ²⁴ So the Lord commanded us to observe all these statutes, ^(M)to fear the Lord our God for our good always and ^(N)for our survival, as it is today. ^25 (O)It will be righteousness for us if we ^[e]are careful to observe all this commandment before the Lord our God, just as He commanded us.

^45 (A)Therefore many of the Jews ^(B)who came to Mary, and ^(C)saw what He had done, believed in Him. ⁴⁶ But some of them went to the ^(D)Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.

Conspiracy to Kill Jesus

⁴⁷ Therefore ^(E)the chief priests and the Pharisees ^(F)convened a ^(G)council, and were saying, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many ^[a](H)signs. ⁴⁸ If we let Him go on like this, all men will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our ^(I)place and our nation.” ⁴⁹ But one of them, ^(J)Caiaphas, ^(K)who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all, ⁵⁰ nor do you take into account that ^(L)it is expedient for you that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.” ⁵¹ Now he did not say this ^[b]on his own initiative, but ^(M)being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation, ⁵² and not for the nation only, but in order that He might also ^(N)gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. ⁵³ So from that day on they ^(O)planned together to kill Him.

⁵⁴ Therefore Jesus ^(P)no longer continued to walk publicly among the Jews, but went away from there to the country near the wilderness, into a city called ^(Q)Ephraim; and there He stayed with the disciples.

⁵⁵ Now ^(R)the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover ^(S)to purify themselves. ⁵⁶ So they ^(T)were seeking for Jesus, and were saying to one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think; that He will not come to the feast at all?” ⁵⁷ Now ^(U)the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where He was, he was to report it, so that they might seize Him.