Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

11 ¶ And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab and his slaves with him and all Israel, and they destroyed the sons of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.

² And it came to pass one evening, that David arose from off his bed and walked upon the roof of the king’s house, and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself, and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

³ And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah, the Hittite?

⁴ And David sent messengers and took her, and she came in unto him, and he lay with her. Then she purified herself from her uncleanness, and she returned unto her house.

⁵ And the woman conceived and sent and told David and said, I am with child.

⁶ ¶ Then David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.

⁷ And when Uriah had come unto him, David asked him how Joab was and how the people were and how the war prospered.

⁸ And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and royal food was sent unto him.

⁹ But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the slaves of his lord and did not go down to his house.

¹⁰ And when they had told David, saying, Uriah did not go down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Didst thou not come from thy journey? Why then didst thou not go down to thy house?

¹¹ And Uriah said unto David, The ark and Israel and Judah abide in tents, and my lord Joab and the slaves of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into my house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? By thy life and by the life of thy soul, I will not do this thing.

¹² And David said to Uriah, Tarry here today also, and tomorrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day and the next day.

¹³ And when David had called him, he ate and drank before him, and he made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his bed with the slaves of his lord but did not go down to his house.

¹⁴ ¶ And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

¹⁵ And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle and retire from him, that he may be smitten and die.

To the Overcomer, A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is no one that does good.

² The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any that did understand and seek God.

³ They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is no one that does good, no, not one.

⁴ ¶ The workers of iniquity certainly know this; those who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the LORD.

⁵ There they were in great fear: for God is with the nation of the righteous.

⁶ Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor because the LORD is his hope.

⁷ Oh that the saving health of Israel were come out of Zion! When the LORD turns back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

¹⁴ ¶ For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ

¹⁵ (of whom the whole family in the heavens and on earth is named),

¹⁶ that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man,

¹⁷ that the Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, that ye, being rooted and grounded in charity,

¹⁸ may be able to well comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height

¹⁹ and to know the charity of the Christ, which passes all knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.

²⁰ Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

²¹ unto him be glory in the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} by Christ Jesus throughout all generations of the ages of the ages. Amen.

6 ¶ After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias.

² And a great multitude followed him because they saw his signs which he did on the sick.

³ And Jesus went up into a mountain, and he sat there with his disciples.

⁴ And the passover, the feast of the Jews, was near.

⁵ Then Jesus lifted up his eyes and saw a great company come unto him; he said unto Philip, From where shall we buy bread that these may eat?

⁶ But he said this to prove him, for he knew what he would do.

⁷ Philip answered him, Two hundred denarius of bread is not sufficient for them, that each one of them may take a little.

⁸ One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said unto him,

⁹ There is a lad here, who has five barley loaves and two small fishes, but what are they among so many?

¹⁰ Then Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.

¹¹ And Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples and the disciples to those that were sitting down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they desired.

¹² When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain that nothing be lost.

¹³ Therefore they gathered them together and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves which were left over from those that had eaten.

¹⁴ Then those men, as they had seen the sign that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth the prophet that was to come into the world.

¹⁵ ¶ Jesus therefore knowing that they would come and take him by force to make him king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.

¹⁶ And when evening was come, his disciples went down unto the sea

¹⁷ and entered into a ship and were crossing the sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them.

¹⁸ And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.

¹⁹ So when they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty furlongs, they saw Jesus walking upon the sea and drawing nigh unto the ship, and they were afraid.

²⁰ But he said unto them, I AM; be not afraid.

²¹ Then they willingly received him into the ship, and immediately the ship was at the land where they went.