Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Prayer for Sleep in Shalom

Psalm 4

A Lame Beggar Walks

3 Now Peter and John were going up to the Temple at the ninth hour,^[a] the time of prayer. ² A man lame from birth was being carried—every day they used to put him at the Temple gate called Beautiful, so he could beg for tzedakah from those entering the Temple. ³ When he saw Peter and John about to go into the Temple, he began asking to receive tzedakah.

⁴ But Peter, along with John, looked straight at him and said, “Look at us!” ⁵ So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them. ⁶ But Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give to you—in the name of Yeshua ha-Mashiach ha-Natzrati, get up and walk!” ⁷ Then grabbing him by the right hand, he raised him up; and immediately the man’s feet and ankles were made strong. ⁸ Jumping up, he stood and began walking; and he went with them into the Temple, walking and leaping and praising God!

⁹ Now all the people saw him walking and praising God. ¹⁰ They began to realize he was the one who used to sit begging for tzedakah at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, and they were filled with wonder and astonishment over what had happened to him.

²⁴ But there was also a quarrel among them about which of them is considered the greatest. ²⁵ And Yeshua said to them, “The kings of the nations have mastery over them, and those exercising authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’ ²⁶ But with you, it is not so. Rather, let the one who is greatest among you become like the youngest, and the one who leads like the one who serves. ²⁷ For who is greater, the one who reclines or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines? But I am among you as one who serves.

²⁸ “You are the ones who have remained with Me in My times of testing. ²⁹ And just as My Father has granted Me a kingdom, so I grant to you ³⁰ that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and you shall sit upon thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.