Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁴⁹ [Zain.] Remember the word to Thy servant, On which Thou hast caused me to hope.

⁵⁰ This [is] my comfort in mine affliction, That Thy saying hath quickened me.

⁵¹ The proud have utterly scorned me, From Thy law I have not turned aside.

⁵² I remembered Thy judgments of old, O Jehovah, And I comfort myself.

⁵³ Horror hath seized me, Because of the wicked forsaking Thy law.

⁵⁴ Songs have been to me Thy statutes, In the house of my sojournings.

⁵⁵ I have remembered in the night Thy name, O Jehovah, And I do keep Thy law.

⁵⁶ This hath been to me, That Thy precepts I have kept!

¹⁰ `And it hath been, when Jehovah thy God doth bring thee in unto the land which He hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to thee -- cities great and good, which thou hast not built,

¹¹ and houses full of all good things which thou hast not filled, and wells digged which thou hast not digged, vineyards and olive-yards which thou hast not planted, and thou hast eaten, and been satisfied;

¹² `Take heed to thyself lest thou forget Jehovah who hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants;

¹³ Jehovah thy God thou dost fear, and Him thou dost serve, and by His name thou dost swear;

¹⁴ ye do not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who [are] round about you;

¹⁵ for a zealous God [is] Jehovah thy God in thy midst -- lest the anger of Jehovah thy God burn against thee, and He hath destroyed thee from off the face of the ground.

¹⁶ `Ye do not try Jehovah your God as ye tried in Massah;

¹⁷ ye do diligently keep the commands of Jehovah your God, and His testimonies, and His statutes which He hath commanded thee,

¹⁸ and thou hast done that which is right and good in the eyes of Jehovah, so that it is well with thee, and thou hast gone in and possessed the good land which Jehovah hath sworn to thy fathers,

¹⁹ to drive away all thine enemies from thy presence, as Jehovah hath spoken.

²⁰ `When thy son asketh thee hereafter, saying, What [are] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Jehovah our God hath commanded you?

²¹ then thou hast said to thy son, Servants we have been to Pharaoh in Egypt, and Jehovah bringeth us out of Egypt by a high hand;

²² and Jehovah giveth signs and wonders, great and sad, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;

²³ and us He hath brought out thence, in order to bring us in, to give to us the land which He had sworn to our fathers.

²⁴ And Jehovah commandeth us to do all these statutes, to fear Jehovah our God, for good to ourselves all the days, to keep us alive, as [at] this day;

²⁵ and righteousness it is for us, when we observe to do all this command before Jehovah our God, as He hath commanded us.

⁴⁵ Many, therefore, of the Jews who came unto Mary, and beheld what Jesus did, believed in him;

⁴⁶ but certain of them went away unto the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus did;

⁴⁷ the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, `What may we do? because this man doth many signs?

⁴⁸ if we may let him alone thus, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.'

⁴⁹ and a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest of that year, said to them, `Ye have not known anything,

⁵⁰ nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.'

⁵¹ And this he said not of himself, but being chief priest of that year, he did prophesy that Jesus was about to die for the nation,

⁵² and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one.

⁵³ From that day, therefore, they took counsel together that they may kill him;

⁵⁴ Jesus, therefore, was no more freely walking among the Jews, but went away thence to the region nigh the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he tarried with his disciples.

⁵⁵ And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves;

⁵⁶ they were seeking, therefore, Jesus, and said one with another, standing in the temple, `What doth appear to you -- that he may not come to the feast?'

⁵⁷ and both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if any one may know where he is, he may shew [it], so that they may seize him.