Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
A Song of degrees.
1 ¶ When the LORD shall turn again the captivity of Zion, we shall be like those that dream.
2 Then our mouth shall be filled with laughter and our tongue with singing; then they shall say among the Gentiles, The LORD has done great things with them.
3 The LORD has done great things with us, of which we shall be glad.
4 ¶ Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.
5 Those that sow with tears shall reap with joy.
6 He that goes forth and weeps, bearing the precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
21 ¶ Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said unto them, Draw out and take lambs according to your families and sacrifice the passover.
22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin and touch the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
23 For the LORD will pass through smiting the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood upon the lintel and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over that door and will not allow the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons forever.
25 And it shall come to pass, when ye have entered into the land which the LORD will give you, according as he has promised, that ye shall keep this service.
26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What do you mean by this service?
27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD’s passover, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians and delivered our houses. Then the people bowed and worshipped.
45 ¶ Then many of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen what Jesus did believed on him.
46 But some of them went unto the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47 Then the high priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, What shall we do? for this man does many signs.
48 If we let him thus alone, everyone will believe on him, and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and the nation.
49 And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all
50 nor consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation be lost.
51 And this he spoke not of himself; but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation;
52 and not for that nation only, but that he should also gather together in one the sons of God that were scattered abroad.
53 So that from that day forth they took counsel together to kill him.
54 Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there unto a country near to the wilderness into a city called Ephraim and there continued with his disciples.
55 And the passover of the Jews was now at hand, and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover to purify themselves;
56 and they sought for Jesus and spoke among themselves as they stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will not come to the feast?
57 Now both the high priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that if anyone knew where he was he should show it, that they might take him.
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