Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Passover Song

Psalm 114

Signs of the Fleece

³⁶ Then Gideon said to God, “If You are going to deliver Israel by my hand, as You have spoken, ³⁷ see, I am putting a fleece of wool on the threshing-floor. If there is dew only on the fleece, and all the ground is dry, then I will know that You will deliver Israel by my hand, as You have spoken.” ³⁸ And it was so. When he rose up early next day, he squeezed the fleece and wrung dew out of the fleece, a bowlful of water.

³⁹ Then Gideon said to God, “Let not Your anger burn against me if I speak once more. Let me please test once more with the fleece—let it now be dry only on the fleece, but let there be dew over all the ground.” ⁴⁰ God did so that night, since it was dry only on the fleece, and there was dew over all the ground.

¹² Now if Messiah is proclaimed—that He has been raised from the dead—how can some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? ¹³ But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Messiah has been raised! ¹⁴ And if Messiah has not been raised, then our proclaiming is meaningless and your faith also is meaningless. ¹⁵ Moreover, we are found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that He raised up Messiah—whom He did not raise up, if in fact the dead are not raised. ¹⁶ For if the dead are not raised, not even Messiah has been raised. ¹⁷ And if Messiah has not been raised, your faith is futile—you are still in your sins. ¹⁸ Then those also who have fallen asleep in Messiah have perished. ¹⁹ If we have hoped in Messiah in this life alone, we are to be pitied more than all people.

²⁰ But now Messiah has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.