Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
89 I will sing the mercies of the LORD forever. With my mouth I will declare Your truth from generation to generation.
2 For I said, “Mercy shall be set up forever. Your truth shall You establish in the very heavens.
3 “I have made a covenant with My Chosen. I have sworn to David My servant,
4 “‘Your Seed will I establish forever and set up your Throne from generation to generation.’” Selah.
19 You spoke, then, in a vision to Your holy one, and said, “I have laid help upon one who is mighty. I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
20 “I have found David, My servant. With My holy oil have I anointed him.
21 “Therefore, My hand shall be established with him and My arm shall strengthen him.
22 “The enemy shall not oppress him, nor shall the wicked hurt him.
23 “But I will destroy his foes before his face and plague those who hate him.
24 “My truth also, and My mercy, shall be with him; and in My Name shall his horn be exalted.
25 “I will also set his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the floods.
26 “He shall cry to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.’
2 Then there was a man in Zorah, of the family of the Danites, named Manoah, whose wife was barren and did not bear.
3 And the Angel of the LORD appeared to the woman, and said to her, “Behold, now you are barren, and do not bear. But you shall conceive and bear a son.
4 “And now, therefore, be careful that you drink no wine or strong drink or eat any unclean thing.
5 “For lo, you shall conceive and bear a son; and no razor shall come upon his head. For the child shall be a Nazirite to God, from his birth. And he shall begin to save Israel out of the hands of the Philistines.”
6 Then the wife came and told her husband, saying, “A man of God came to me, and the appearance of him was like the appearance of the Angel of God exceedingly fearful. But I did not ask him where he came from, nor did he tell me his name.
7 “But he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. And now you shall drink no wine or strong drink or eat any unclean thing, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God, from his birth to the day of his death.’”
8 Then Manoah prayed to the LORD, and said, “Please, my Lord, let the man of God, whom You sent, now come back to us and teach us what we shall do for the child after he is born.”
9 And God heard the voice of Manoah. And the Angel of God came to the wife again, as she sat in the field. But Manoah, her husband, was not with her.
10 And the wife hurried and ran and told her husband and said to him, “Behold, the man who came to me today has appeared to me!”
11 And Manoah arose and went after his wife and came to the man and said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to the woman?” And he said, “Yes.”
12 Then Manoah said, “Now let your saying come to pass at this time. How shall the boy live and what shall be his work?”
13 And the Angel of the LORD said to Manoah, “The woman must be careful to do all that I said to her.
14 “She may eat of nothing that comes from the vine. She shall not drink wine or strong drink or eat any unclean thing. Let her observe all that I have commanded her.”
15 Manoah then said to the Angel of the LORD, “Please, let us detain you until we have made a kid ready for you.”
16 And the Angel of the LORD said to Manoah, “Though you make me stay, I will not eat of your bread. And if you would make a Burnt Offering, offer it to the LORD.” For Manoah did not know that it was an Angel of the LORD.
17 Again, Manoah said to the Angel of the LORD, “What is your name, so that when your saying comes to pass, we may honor you?”
18 And the Angel of the LORD said to him, “Why do you ask my name, which is secret?”
19 Then Manoah took a kid, with a Meat Offering, and offered it upon a stone, to the LORD. And He did wonders, while Manoah and his wife looked on.
20 For when the flame came up toward Heaven from the Altar, the Angel of the LORD ascended up in the flame of the Altar. And Manoah and his wife beheld it and fell on their faces to the ground.
21 And the Angel of the LORD no longer appeared to Manoah and his wife. Then Manoah knew that it was an Angel of the LORD.
22 And Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, because we have seen God.”
23 But his wife said to him, “If the LORD wished to kill us, He would not have received a Burnt Offering, and a Meat Offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things or told us such things at this time.”
24 And the wife bore a son and called his name, Samson. And the child grew; and the LORD blessed him.
40 So, many of the people, when they heard this saying, said, “Truly this is the Prophet!”
41 Others said, “This is the Christ!” And some said, “But shall the Christ come out of Galilee?
42 “Does not the Scripture say that the Christ shall come from the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?
43 So there was dissension among the people because of Him.
44 And some of them would have taken Him, but no one laid hands on Him.
45 Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why have you not brought Him?”
46 The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this Man speaks.”
47 Then the Pharisees answered them, “Are you also deceived?!
48 “Do any of the rulers, or any of the Pharisees, believe in Him?
49 “But this people, who do not know the Law, are cursed!”
50 Nicodemus said to them (he who came to Jesus by night, and was one of them),
51 “Does our Law judge a man before it hears him, and knows what he has done?”
52 They answered, and said to him, “Aren’t you also from Galilee? Search and see that no Prophet arises out of Galilee.
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