Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁹ And a vision was shown to Paul in the night: There stood a man of Macedonia, asking him, saying, Come over into Macedonia and help us.

¹⁰ And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel unto them.

¹¹ Therefore loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis,

¹² and from there to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a colony; and we were in that city abiding certain days.

¹³ And on one of the sabbaths we went out of the city by a river side, where it was customary to pray; and we sat down and spoke unto the women who gathered there.

¹⁴ Then a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, who feared God, heard us, whose heart the Lord opened that she attended unto the things which were spoken by Paul.

¹⁵ And when she was baptized, with her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and abide there. And she constrained us.

To the Overcomer on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song.

¹ ¶ God be merciful unto us and bless us and cause his face to shine upon us. Selah.

² That thy way may be known upon the earth, thy saving health among all the Gentiles.

³ Let the peoples praise thee, O God; let all the peoples praise thee.

⁴ O let the Gentiles be glad and sing for joy, for thou shalt judge the people righteously and shepherd the Gentiles upon the earth. Selah.

⁵ Let the peoples praise thee, O God; let all the peoples praise thee.

⁶ Then shall the earth bring forth her fruit, and God, even our own God, shall bless us.

⁷ God shall bless us, and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.

¹⁰ And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of the heaven from and with God,

²² And I saw no temple in her; for the Lord God Almighty is her temple, and the Lamb.

²³ And the city had no need of the sun neither of the moon to shine in her, for the clarity of God has illuminated it, and the Lamb is its lamp.

²⁴ And the Gentiles that have been saved shall walk in the light of her; and the kings of the earth shall bring their glory and honour into her.

²⁵ And her gates shall never be shut by day; for there shall be no night there.

²⁶ And they shall bring the glory and the honour of the Gentiles into it.

²⁷ And there shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean or that works abomination or makes a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

22 ¶ And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

² In the midst of her plaza and on either side of the river was the tree of life, which brings forth twelve manner of fruits, yielding her fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the Gentiles.

³ And there shall no longer be any cursed thing; but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in her; and his slaves shall serve him;

⁴ and they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.

⁵ And there shall be no night there; and they need no lamp neither light of the sun; for the Lord God shall give them light; and they shall reign for ever and ever.

²³ Jesus answered and said unto him, He who loves me will keep my words, and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him and dwell with him.

²⁴ He that does not love me does not keep my words, and the word which ye have heard is not mine, but of the Father who sent me.

²⁵ ¶ I have spoken these things unto you, being yet present with you.

²⁶ But the Comforter, which is the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all the things that I have said unto you.

²⁷ Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you; not as the world gives, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

²⁸ ¶ Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice because I said, I go unto the Father; for my Father is greater than I.

²⁹ And now I have told you before it comes to pass, that when it is come to pass, ye might believe.

5 ¶ After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

² Now in Jerusalem there is a pool by the sheep gate, which in Hebrew is called, Bethesda, having five porches.

³ In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

⁴ For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and troubled the water; whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatever disease he had.

⁵ And a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years.

⁶ When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he said unto him, Dost thou desire to be made whole?

⁷ The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man when the water is troubled to put me into the pool, but while I am coming, another steps down before me.

⁸ Jesus said unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.

⁹ And immediately the man was made whole and took up his bed and walked, and on that day was the sabbath.