Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
145 O my God and King, I will extol You, and will bless Your Name forever and ever.
2 I will bless You daily and praise Your Name forever and ever.
3 Great is the LORD, and most worthy to be praised. His greatness is incomprehensible.
4 Generation to generation shall praise Your works and declare Your power.
5 I will meditate on the beauty of Your glorious majesty and Your wonderful works.
17 The LORD is righteous in all His ways, and Holy in all His works.
18 The LORD is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth.
19 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him; He will also hear their cry and will save them.
20 The LORD preserves all those who love Him; but He will destroy the wicked.
21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD; and all flesh shall bless His Holy Name forever and ever. Praise the LORD.
1 In the second year of King Darius, in the sixth month, the first day of the month, came the Word of the LORD (by the ministry of the Prophet Haggai) to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, a prince of Judah, and to Jehoshua, the son of Jehozadak the High Priest, saying,
2 “Thus speaks the LORD of Hosts, saying: ‘This people says the time has not yet come that the LORD’s House should be built.’”
3 Then came the Word of the LORD by the ministry of the Prophet Haggai, saying:
4 “Is it time for yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this House lies waste?
5 “Now therefore, thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘Consider your own ways in your hearts.
6 ‘You have sown much and bring in little. You eat but you do not have enough. You drink but you are not filled. You clothe yourself but you are not warm. And he who earns wages puts the wages into a broken bag.’
7 “Thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘Consider your own ways in your hearts.
8 ‘Go up to the mountain and bring wood and build this House. And I will be favorable in it. And I will be glorified,’ says the LORD.
9 ‘You looked for much. And lo, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew upon it. And why—' says the LORD of Hosts, ‘because of My House that is desolate. And you turn every man to his own house.
10 ‘Therefore, the sky above you stopped itself from dew. And the earth stopped her fruit.
11 ‘And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the wine, and upon the oil, upon all that the ground brings forth, upon men and upon cattle and upon all the labor of the hands.’”
12 When Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak the high Priest, with all the remnant of the people, heard the voice of the LORD their God and the Words of the Prophet Haggai (as the LORD their God had sent him), then the people feared before the LORD.
13 Then Haggai, the LORD’s messenger, spoke the LORD’s message to the people, saying, “‘I am with you,’ says the LORD.”
14 And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, a prince of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak the high Priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and did the work in the House of the LORD of Hosts, their God,
15 on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius.
20 And it happened that on one of those days, as He taught the people in the Temple, and preached the Gospel, the chief priests and the scribes came upon Him, with the elders,
2 and spoke to Him, saying, “Tell us by what authority You do these things? Or, who is he who has given You this authority?”
3 And He answered, and said to them, “I also will ask you one thing. Therefore, tell me.
4 “The baptism of John, was it from Heaven, or of man?
5 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, “If we shall say, ‘From Heaven,’ He will say, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’
6 “But if we shall say, ‘Of man,’ all the people will stone us. For they are persuaded that John was a Prophet.”
7 Therefore they answered that they could not tell from where it was.
8 Then Jesus said to them, “Nor shall I tell you by what authority I do these things.”
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