Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
25 I will give praise[a] in the great congregation
because of You;(A)
I will fulfill my vows
before those who fear You.[b](B)
26 The humble[c] will eat and be satisfied;(C)
those who seek the Lord will praise Him.
May your hearts live forever!(D)
27 All the ends of the earth will remember
and turn to the Lord.
All the families of the nations
will bow down before You,(E)
28 for kingship belongs to the Lord;
He rules over the nations.(F)
29 All who prosper on earth will eat and bow down;
all those who go down to the dust
will kneel before Him—
even the one who cannot preserve his life.(G)
30 Their descendants will serve Him;
the next generation will be told about the Lord.(H)
31 They will come and tell a people yet to be born
about His righteousness—
what He has done.(I)
11 Hear this! The days are coming—
this is the declaration of the Lord God—
when I will send a famine through the land:
not a famine of bread or a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of the Lord.(A)
12 People will stagger from sea to sea
and roam from north to east,
seeking the word of the Lord,(B)
but they will not find it.
13 In that day the beautiful young women,(C)
the young men also, will faint from thirst.(D)
The Response of Simon
9 A man named Simon had previously practiced sorcery in that city and astounded the Samaritan people, while claiming to be somebody great.(A) 10 They all paid attention to him, from the least of them to the greatest, and they said, “This man is called the Great Power of God!”[a](B) 11 They were attentive to him because he had astounded them with his sorceries for a long time. 12 But when they believed Philip, as he preached the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized.(C) 13 Then even Simon himself believed. And after he was baptized, he went around constantly with[b] Philip and was astounded as he observed the signs and great miracles(D) that were being performed.
Simon’s Sin
14 When the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had welcomed God’s message, they sent Peter and John to them.(E) 15 After they went down there, they prayed for them, so the Samaritans might receive the Holy Spirit. 16 For He had not yet come down on[c] any of them; they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.(F) 17 Then Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
18 When Simon saw that the Holy[d] Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money, 19 saying, “Give me this power too, so that anyone I lay hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”
20 But Peter told him, “May your silver be destroyed with you, because you thought the gift of God could be obtained with money!(G) 21 You have no part or share in this matter, because your heart is not right before God.(H) 22 Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that the intent of your heart may be forgiven you. 23 For I see you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity.”(I)
24 “Please pray[e] to the Lord for me,” Simon replied, “so that nothing you have said may happen to me.”(J)
25 Then, after they had testified and spoken the message of the Lord, they traveled back to Jerusalem, evangelizing many villages of the Samaritans.
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