Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
The New Covenant
31 “Look, the days are coming”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“when I will make a new covenant(A) with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. 32 This one will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke even though I had married them”(B)—the Lord’s declaration. 33 “Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days”—the Lord’s declaration. “I will put My teaching within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be My people. 34 No longer will one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’(C) for they will all know Me, from the least to the greatest of them”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “For I will forgive their wrongdoing(D) and never again remember their sin.”(E)
Psalm 51
A Prayer for Restoration
For the choir director. A Davidic psalm, when Nathan the prophet came to him after he had gone to Bathsheba.(A)
1 Be gracious to me, God,
according to Your faithful love;
according to Your abundant compassion,
blot out my rebellion.(B)
2 Wash away my guilt
and cleanse me from my sin.(C)
3 For I am conscious of my rebellion,
and my sin is always before me.(D)
4 Against You—You alone—I have sinned
and done this evil in Your sight.(E)
So You are right when You pass sentence;
You are blameless when You judge.(F)
5 Indeed, I was guilty when I was born;
I was sinful when my mother conceived me.(G)
6 Surely You desire integrity in the inner self,
and You teach me wisdom deep within.(H)
7 Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean;
wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.(I)
8 Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones You have crushed rejoice.(J)
9 Turn Your face away[a] from my sins
and blot out all my guilt.(K)
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9 How can a young man keep his way pure?
By keeping Your[a] word.(A)
10 I have sought You with all my heart;(B)
don’t let me wander from Your commands.(C)
11 I have treasured Your word in my heart(D)
so that I may not sin against You.
12 Lord, may You be praised;
teach me Your statutes.(E)
13 With my lips I proclaim
all the judgments from Your mouth.(F)
14 I rejoice in the way revealed by Your decrees(G)
as much as in all riches.
15 I will meditate on Your precepts(H)
and think about Your ways.(I)
16 I will delight in Your statutes;(J)
I will not forget Your word.
5 In the same way, the Messiah did not exalt Himself to become a high priest, but the One who said to Him, You are My Son; today I have become Your Father,(A)[a] 6 also said in another passage, You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.(B)[b]
7 During His earthly life,[c] He offered prayers and appeals(C) with loud cries and tears(D) to the One who was able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence. 8 Though He was God’s Son, He learned obedience through what He suffered.(E) 9 After He was perfected, He became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey Him, 10 and He was declared by God a high priest in the order of Melchizedek.
Jesus Predicts His Crucifixion
20 Now some Greeks were among those who went up to worship at the festival. 21 So they came to Philip,(A) who was from Bethsaida(B) in Galilee,(C) and requested of him, “Sir,(D) we want to see Jesus.”
22 Philip went and told Andrew;(E) then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. 23 Jesus replied to them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man(F) to be glorified.
24 “I assure you: Unless a grain of wheat(G) falls to the ground and dies, it remains by itself. But if it dies, it produces a large crop.[a](H) 25 The one who loves his life will lose it,(I) and the one who hates(J) his life(K) in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26 If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me. Where I am, there My servant(L) also will be.(M) If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor(N) him.
27 “Now My soul is troubled. What should I say—Father, save Me(O) from this hour? But that is why I came to this hour. 28 Father, glorify Your name!”[b](P)
Then a voice(Q) came from heaven:(R) “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again!”(S)
29 The crowd standing there heard it and said it was thunder. Others said that an angel had spoken to Him.
30 Jesus responded, “This voice came, not for Me, but for you.(T) 31 Now is the judgment of this world.(U) Now the ruler of this world(V) will be cast out.(W) 32 As for Me, if I am lifted up[c] from the earth I will draw all people to Myself.”(X) 33 He said this to signify what kind of death He was about to die.(Y)
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