Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Brothers, Be of One Mind; Stop Dividing Over Your Leaders

¹⁰ Now I exhort you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all be speaking the same thing, and that there not be divisions among you, but that you be made-complete^[a] in the same mind^[b] and in the same purpose^[c]. ¹¹ For it was made-clear to me concerning you, my brothers, by the ones^[d] of Chloe, that there are quarrels among you. ¹² Now I mean this: that each of you is saying “I am of Paul”, and “I of Apollos”, and “I of Cephas”, and “I of Christ”.

Has Christ Been Divided? Were You Baptized Into Paul? Thankfully, I Did Not Baptize You!

¹³ Has Christ been divided? Paul was not crucified for you, was he? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? ¹⁴ I give-thanks to God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius, ¹⁵ so that no one may say that you were baptized in my name! ¹⁶ Now I baptized also the household of Stephanas. As to the rest, I do not know if I baptized any other.

For I Was Not Sent To Baptize, But To Announce The Gospel Without Wisdom of Speech

¹⁷ For Christ did not send me forth to be baptizing, but to be announcing-the-good-news— not in wisdom of speech, in order that the cross of Christ may not be made-empty^[e].

For God Intends The Gospel To Be Both Foolishness And Powerful

¹⁸ For the speech^[f] of the cross is foolishness to the ones perishing, but is the power of God to us being saved.

Jesus Begins His Ministry In Capernaum of Galilee, Fulfilling Isaiah

¹² And having heard that John was handed-over^[a] [to prison], He went-back^[b] into Galilee. ¹³ And having left-behind Nazareth, having come, He dwelled in Capernaum, the one by-the-sea in the districts of Zebulun and Naphtali, ¹⁴ in order that the thing might be fulfilled having been spoken through Isaiah the prophet saying ¹⁵ “Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles— ¹⁶ the people sitting in darkness saw a great Light. And for the ones sitting in the region and shadow of death, a Light rose for them” [Isa 9:1-2]. ¹⁷ From that time on Jesus began to proclaim and say, “Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn-near”.

Jesus Calls Peter And Andrew And Then James And John To Follow Him

¹⁸ And while walking beside the Sea of Galilee He saw two brothers— Simon (the one being called Peter) and Andrew, his brother— throwing a casting-net into the sea, for they were fishermen. ¹⁹ And He says to them, “Come after Me and I will make you fishermen of people”. ²⁰ And immediately the ones, having left the nets, followed Him. ²¹ And having gone on from there He saw two other brothers— James (the son of Zebedee) and John, his brother— preparing^[c] their nets in the boat with Zebedee their father. And He called them. ²² And immediately the ones, having left the boat and their father, followed Him.

Jesus Goes Around All Galilee Teaching And Healing Every Disease

²³ And He was going around in all Galilee— teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good-news of the kingdom and curing every disease and every infirmity among the people.