Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
9 During the night Paul had a vision in which a Macedonian man was standing and pleading with him, “Cross over to Macedonia and help us!” (A) 10 After(B) he had seen the vision, we immediately made efforts to set out for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.
Lydia’s Conversion
11 From Troas we put out to sea and sailed straight for Samothrace, the next day to Neapolis, 12 and from there to Philippi,(C) a Roman colony and a leading city of the district of Macedonia. We stayed in that city for several days. 13 On the Sabbath day we went outside the city gate by the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and spoke to the women gathered there. 14 A God-fearing woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, was listening. The Lord opened her heart to respond to what Paul was saying.(D) 15 After she and her household were baptized, she urged us, “If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house.”(E) And she persuaded us.
Psalm 67
All Will Praise God
For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A psalm. A song.
1 May God be gracious to us and bless us;
may he make his face shine upon us(A)Selah
2 so that your way may be known on earth,
your salvation among all nations.(B)
22 I did not see a temple in it, because the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates it, and its lamp is the Lamb.(A) 24 The nations will walk by its light,(B) and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.[a](C) 25 Its gates will never close by day because it will never be night there.(D) 26 They will bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.[b](E) 27 Nothing unclean will ever enter it,(F) nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those written in the Lamb’s book of life.(G)
The Source of Life
22 Then he showed me the river[c] of the water of life,(H) clear as crystal,(I) flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb(J) 2 down the middle of the city’s main street. The tree of life was on each side of the river, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit every month.(K) The leaves of the tree are for healing the nations,(L) 3 and there will no longer be any curse.(M) The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will worship him. 4 They will see his face,(N) and his name will be on their foreheads.(O) 5 Night will be no more;(P) people will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, because the Lord God will give them light,(Q) and they will reign forever and ever.
23 Jesus answered, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.(A) 24 The one who doesn’t love me will not keep my words. The word that you hear is not mine but is from the Father who sent me.(B)
25 “I have spoken these things to you while I remain with you. 26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit,(C) whom the Father will send(D) in my name, will teach you all things(E) and remind you of everything I have told you.(F)
Jesus’s Gift of Peace
27 “Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Don’t let your heart be troubled or fearful.(G) 28 You have heard me tell you, ‘I am going away(H) and I am coming to you.’ If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father,(I) because the Father is greater than I.(J) 29 I have told you now before it happens(K) so that when it does happen you may believe.
The Third Sign: Healing the Sick
5 After this, a Jewish festival took place, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.(A) 2 By the Sheep Gate(B) in Jerusalem there is a pool, called Bethesda[a] in Aramaic, which has five colonnades. 3 Within these lay a large number of the disabled—blind, lame, and paralyzed.[b]
5 One man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and realized he had already been there a long time,(C) he said to him, “Do you want to get well?”
7 “Sir,”(D) the disabled man answered, “I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, someone goes down ahead of me.”
8 “Get up,” Jesus told him, “pick up your mat and walk.” 9 Instantly the man got well, picked up his mat, and started to walk.
Now that day was the Sabbath,(E)
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