Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

42 Lo, My servant, I take hold on him, My chosen one -- My soul hath accepted, I have put My Spirit upon him, Judgment to nations he bringeth forth.

² He doth not cry, nor lift up, Nor cause his voice to be heard, in the street.

³ A bruised reed he breaketh not, And dim flax he quencheth not, To truth he bringeth forth judgment.

⁴ He doth not become weak nor bruised, Till he setteth judgment in the earth, And for his law isles wait with hope.

⁵ Thus said God, Jehovah, preparing The heavens, and stretching them out, Spreading out the earth and its productions, Giving breath to the people on it, And spirit to those walking in it.

⁶ I, Jehovah, did call thee in righteousness, And I lay hold on thy hand, and keep thee, And I give thee for a covenant of a people, And a light of nations.

⁷ To open the eyes of the blind, To bring forth from prison the bound one, From the house of restraint those sitting in darkness.

⁸ I [am] Jehovah, this [is] My name, And Mine honour to another I give not, Nor My praise to graven images.

⁹ The former things, lo, have come, And new things I am declaring, Before they spring up I cause you to hear.

⁵ O Jehovah, in the heavens [is] Thy kindness, Thy faithfulness [is] unto the clouds.

⁶ Thy righteousness [is] as mountains of God, Thy judgments [are] a great deep. Man and beast Thou savest, O Jehovah.

⁷ How precious [is] Thy kindness, O God, And the sons of men In the shadow of Thy wings do trust.

⁸ They are filled from the fatness of Thy house, And the stream of Thy delights Thou dost cause them to drink.

⁹ For with Thee [is] a fountain of life, In Thy light we see light.

¹⁰ Draw out Thy kindness to those knowing Thee, And Thy righteousness to the upright of heart.

¹¹ Let not a foot of pride meet me, And a hand of the wicked let not move me.

¹¹ And Christ being come, chief priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands -- that is, not of this creation --

¹² neither through blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, did enter in once into the holy places, age-during redemption having obtained;

¹³ for if the blood of bulls, and goats, and ashes of an heifer, sprinkling those defiled, doth sanctify to the purifying of the flesh,

¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

¹⁵ And because of this, of a new covenant he is mediator, that, death having come, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those called may receive the promise of the age-during inheritance,

12 Jesus, therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was Lazarus, who had died, whom he raised out of the dead;

² they made, therefore, to him a supper there, and Martha was ministering, and Lazarus was one of those reclining together (at meat) with him;

³ Mary, therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of spikenard, of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus and did wipe with her hair his feet, and the house was filled from the fragrance of the ointment.

⁴ Therefore saith one of his disciples -- Judas Iscariot, of Simon, who is about to deliver him up --

⁵ `Wherefore was not this ointment sold for three hundred denaries, and given to the poor?'

⁶ and he said this, not because he was caring for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and what things were put in he was carrying.

⁷ Jesus, therefore, said, `Suffer her; for the day of my embalming she hath kept it,

⁸ for the poor ye have always with yourselves, and me ye have not always.'

⁹ A great multitude, therefore, of the Jews knew that he is there, and they came, not because of Jesus only, but that Lazarus also they may see, whom he raised out of the dead;

¹⁰ and the chief priests took counsel, that also Lazarus they may kill,

¹¹ because on account of him many of the Jews were going away, and were believing in Jesus.