Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Psalm 86

Lament and Petition

A prayer of David.

Passover Instruction

⁴³ The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner may eat it. ⁴⁴ But any slave a man has purchased may eat it, after you have circumcised him. ⁴⁵ A temporary resident or hired worker may not eat the Passover.^{(A) 46} It is to be eaten in one house. You may not take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of its bones.^{(B) 47} The whole community of Israel must celebrate^[a] it. ⁴⁸ If an alien resides among you and wants to observe the Lord’s Passover, every male in his household must be circumcised, and then he may participate;^[b] he will become like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat it. ⁴⁹ The same law will apply to both the native and the alien who resides among you.”^(C)

Jesus and Humanity

⁵ For he has not subjected to angels the world to come that we are talking about. ⁶ But someone somewhere has testified:

For in subjecting everything to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. As it is, we do not yet see everything subjected to him.^{(A) 9} But we do see Jesus—made lower than the angels for a short time so that by God’s grace he might taste death^(B) for everyone—crowned with glory and honor^(C) because he suffered death.^(D)