Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Majestic and Unshakable

Psalm 93

Elisha Takes Up the Mantle

¹³ He then picked up the mantle of Elijah that fell from him. When he returned and stood by the bank of the Jordan, ¹⁴ he took the mantle of Elijah that had fallen off him, struck the waters and said, “Where is Adonai, the God of Elijah?” As he indeed struck the waters, they parted here then there. Then Elisha crossed over.

¹⁵ When the sons of the prophets at Jericho saw him some way off, they said, “The spirit of Elijah has rested on Elisha.” So they came to meet him and bowed down to the ground before him.

²¹ Then again Yeshua spoke to them, “I am going away. You will look for Me and die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”

²² “He won’t kill Himself, will He?” the Judeans asked. “Is that why He says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?”

²³ Yeshua said, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. ²⁴ Therefore I told you that you will die in your sins. If you don’t believe that I am, you will die in your sins.”

²⁵ So they asked Him, “Who are you?”

Yeshua replied, “What have I been telling you from the beginning? ²⁶ I have much to say and judge about you. But the One who sent Me is true, and I tell the world what I heard from Him.” ²⁷ They didn’t understand that He was talking to them about the Father.

²⁸ So Yeshua said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know who I am. I do nothing by Myself, but speak just what the Father has taught Me. ²⁹ The One who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to Him.”

³⁰ As He was speaking these things, many people put their trust in Him.