Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

42 Behold my servant, I will uphold him: my elect, my soul delighteth in him: I have given my spirit upon him, he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

² He shall not cry, nor have respect to person, neither shall his voice be heard abroad.

³ The bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.

⁴ He shall not be sad, nor troublesome, till he set judgment in the earth: and the islands shall wait for his law.

⁵ Thus saith the Lord God that created the heavens, and stretched them out: that established the earth, and the things that spring out of it: that giveth breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that tread thereon.

⁶ I the Lord have called thee in justice, and taken thee by the hand, and preserved thee. And I have given thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles:

⁷ That thou mightest open the eyes of the blind, and bring forth the prisoner out of prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

⁸ I the Lord, this is my name: I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to graven things.

⁹ The things that were first, behold they are come: and new things do I declare: before they spring forth, I will make you head them.

⁵ Commit thy way to the Lord, and trust in him, and he will do it.

⁶ And he will bring forth thy justice as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

⁷ Be subject to the Lord and pray to him Envy not the man who prospereth in his way; the man who doth unjust things.

⁸ Cease from anger, and leave rage; have no emulation to do evil.

⁹ For the evildoers shall be cut off: but they that wait upon the Lord shall inherit the land.

¹⁰ For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: and thou shalt seek his place, and shalt not find it.

¹¹ But the meek shall inherit the land, and shall delight in abundance of peace.

¹¹ But Christ, being come an high priest of the good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand, that is, not of this creation:

¹² Neither by the blood of goats, or of calves, but by his own blood, entered once into the holies, having obtained eternal redemption.

¹³ For if the blood of goats and of oxen, and the ashes of an heifer being sprinkled, sanctify such as are defiled, to the cleansing of the flesh:

¹⁴ How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God?

¹⁵ And therefore he is the mediator of the new testament: that by means of his death, for the redemption of those transgressions, which were under the former testament, they that are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

12 Jesus therefore, six days before the pasch, came to Bethania, where Lazarus had been dead, whom Jesus raised to life.

² And they made him a supper there: and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that were at table with him.

³ Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of right spikenard, of great price, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

⁴ Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, he that was about to betray him, said:

⁵ Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?

⁶ Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the purse, carried the things that were put therein.

⁷ Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against the day of my burial.

⁸ For the poor you have always with you; but me you have not always.

⁹ A great multitude therefore of the Jews knew that he was there; and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

¹⁰ But the chief priests thought to kill Lazarus also:

¹¹ Because many of the Jews, by reason of him, went away, and believed in Jesus.