Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Zayin

¹⁰ “Then it will be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, ^(A)great and good cities which you did not build, ¹¹ and houses full of all good things which you did not fill, and hewn cisterns which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and ^(B)you will eat and be satisfied, ¹² then beware, lest ^(C)you forget Yahweh who brought you from the land of Egypt, out of the house of ^[a]slavery. ^13 (D)Yahweh your God you shall ^[b]fear; and Him you shall serve; and by His name you shall ^(E)swear. ^14 (F)You shall not walk after other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who surround you, ¹⁵ for Yahweh your God in the midst of you is a ^(G)jealous God—lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and He destroy you from the face of the earth.

¹⁶ “^(H)You shall not put Yahweh your God to the test, ^(I)as you tested Him at Massah. ^17 (J)You should diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God and His testimonies and His statutes which He has commanded you. ¹⁸ And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of Yahweh, that ^(K)it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to give your fathers, ¹⁹ by driving out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.

²⁰ “^(L)When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What do the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments mean which Yahweh our God commanded you?’ ²¹ then you shall say to your son, ‘We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and Yahweh brought us from Egypt with a strong hand. ²² Moreover, Yahweh showed great and calamitous signs and wonders before our eyes against Egypt, Pharaoh, and all his household; ²³ but He brought us out from there in order to bring us in, to give us the land which He had sworn to our fathers.’ ²⁴ So Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, ^(M)to fear Yahweh our God for our good all our days and ^(N)for our survival, as it is today. ^25 (O)And it will be righteousness for us if we ^[c]are careful to do all this commandment before Yahweh our God, just as He commanded us.

^45 (A)Therefore many of the Jews ^(B)who came to Mary, and ^(C)saw what He had done, believed in Him. ⁴⁶ But some of them went to the ^(D)Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.

The Leaders Plot to Kill Jesus

⁴⁷ Therefore ^(E)the chief priests and the Pharisees ^(F)gathered the ^[a](G)Sanhedrin together, and were saying, “What are we doing? For this man is doing many ^[b](H)signs. ⁴⁸ If we let Him go on like this, all will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our ^(I)place and our nation.” ⁴⁹ But one of them, ^(J)Caiaphas, ^(K)who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all, ⁵⁰ nor do you take into account that ^(L)it is better for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.” ⁵¹ Now he did not say this from himself, but ^(M)being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation, ⁵² and not for the nation only, but in order that He might also ^(N)gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. ⁵³ So from that day on they ^(O)planned together to kill Him.

⁵⁴ Therefore Jesus ^(P)no longer continued to walk openly among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, into a city called ^(Q)Ephraim; and there He stayed with the disciples.

⁵⁵ Now ^(R)the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the region before the Passover ^(S)to purify themselves. ⁵⁶ So they ^(T)were seeking Jesus, and were saying to one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think? That He will not come to the feast at all?” ⁵⁷ Now ^(U)the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where He was, he was to report it, so that they might seize Him.