Fourth Sunday in Lent
Sunday
Morning
Prayer
1st
Lesson
Exodus 16:4-15
4 Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will
rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a
certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in
my law, or no. 5 And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they
shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as
they gather daily. 6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of
Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the Lord hath brought you out
from the land of Egypt: 7 And in the morning, then ye shall see the
glory of the Lord; for that he heareth your murmurings against the Lord:
and what are we, that ye murmur against us? 8 And Moses said, This shall
be, when the Lord shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the
morning bread to the full; for that the Lord heareth your murmurings
which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not
against us, but against the Lord. 9 And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto
all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the
Lord: for he hath heard your murmurings. 10 And it came to pass, as
Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that
they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the Lord
appeared in the cloud. 11 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 12 I
have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them,
saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be
filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God. 13 And
it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp:
and in the morning the dew lay round about the host. 14 And when the dew
that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay
a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. 15 And
when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is
manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is
the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.
 Return to Table of
Readings
2nd
Lesson
John 6:27-40
27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but
for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man
shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed. 28 Then said
they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? 29
Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye
believe on him whom he hath sent. 30 They said therefore unto him, What
sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost
thou work? 31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written,
He gave them bread from heaven to eat. 32 Then Jesus said unto them,
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from
heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the
bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto
the world. 34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this
bread. 35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that
cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never
thirst. 36 But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe
not. 37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that
cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. 38 For I came down from heaven,
not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. 39 And this
is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given
me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth
the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will
raise him up at the last day.
Return to Table of
Readings
1st
Lesson
Ezekiel 39:21
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen,
and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my
hand that I have laid upon them. 22 So the house of Israel shall know
that I am the Lord their God from that day and forward. 23 And the
heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for
their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my
face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell
they all by the sword. 24 According to their uncleanness and according
to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from
them. 25 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Now will I bring again the
captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and
will be jealous for my holy name; 26 After that they have borne their
shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me,
when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid. 27 When
I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of
their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many
nations; 28 Then shall they know that I am the Lord their God, which
caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have
gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more
there. 29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have
poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God.
Return to Table of
Readings
2nd
Lesson
2 Corinthians 3:12
12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use
great plainness of speech: 13 And not as Moses, which put a vail over
his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the
end of that which is abolished: 14 But their minds were blinded: for
until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of
the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ. 15 But even unto
this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. 16
Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken
away. 17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord
is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a
glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory
to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Return to Table of
Readings
Fourth Sunday in Lent
Sunday
Evening
Prayer
1st
Lesson
Isaiah 55
1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the
waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy
wine and milk without money and without price. 2 Wherefore do ye spend
money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which
satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is
good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. 3 Incline your ear,
and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an
everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. 4 Behold,
I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to
the people. 5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not,
and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the Lord
thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee. 6
Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is
near: 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his
thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon
him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 8 For my thoughts
are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. 9
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than
your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. 10 For as the rain cometh
down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth
the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to
the sower, and bread to the eater: 11 So shall my word be that goeth
forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall
accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing
whereto I sent it. 12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth
with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you
into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. 13
Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the
brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the Lord for a
name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Return to Table of
Readings
2nd
Lesson
John 6:41-51
41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he
said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. 42 And they said, Is
not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how
is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven? 43 Jesus therefore
answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves. 44 No man can
come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will
raise him up at the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets, And they
shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and
hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me. 46 Not that any man hath
seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father. 47
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting
life. 48 I am that bread of life. 49 Your fathers did eat manna in the
wilderness, and are dead. 50 This is the bread which cometh down from
heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. 51 I am the living
bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he
shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I
will give for the life of the world.
Return to Table of
Readings
1st
Lesson 2
Esdras 2:15-32
15 Mother, embrace thy children, and bring them
up with gladness, make their feet as fast as a pillar: for I have chosen
thee, saith the Lord. 16 And those that be dead will I raise up again
from their places, and bring them out of the graves: for I have known my
name in Israel. 17 Fear not, thou mother of the children: for I have
chosen thee, saith the Lord. 18 For thy help will I send my servants
Esau and Jeremy, after whose counsel I have sanctified and prepared for
thee twelve trees laden with divers fruits, 19 And as many fountains
flowing with milk and honey, and seven mighty mountains, whereupon there
grow roses and lilies, whereby I will fill thy children with joy. 20 Do
right to the widow, judge for the fatherless, give to the poor, defend
the orphan, clothe the naked, 21 Heal the broken and the weak, laugh not
a lame man to scorn, defend the maimed, and let the blind man come into
the sight of my clearness. 22 Keep the old and young within thy walls.
23 Wheresoever thou findest the dead, take them and bury them, and I
will give thee the first place in my resurrection. 24 Abide still, O my
people, and take thy rest, for thy quietness still come. 25 Nourish thy
children, O thou good nurse; stablish their feet. 26 As for the servants
whom I have given thee, there shall not one of them perish; for I will
require them from among thy number. 27 Be not weary: for when the day of
trouble and heaviness cometh, others shall weep and be sorrowful, but
thou shalt be merry and have abundance. 28 The heathen shall envy thee,
but they shall be able to do nothing against thee, saith the Lord. 29 My
hands shall cover thee, so that thy children shall not see hell. 30 Be
joyful, O thou mother, with thy children; for I will deliver thee, saith
the Lord. 31 Remember thy children that sleep, for I shall bring them
out of the sides of the earth, and shew mercy unto them: for I am
merciful, saith the Lord Almighty. 32 Embrace thy children until I come
and shew mercy unto them: for my wells run over, and my grace shall not
fail.
Return to Table of Readings
2nd
Lesson
Revelations 3:1-12
1 And unto the angel of the church in Sardis
write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the
seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest,
and art dead. 2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain,
that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before
God. 3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold
fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee
as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee. 4
Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their
garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy. 5
He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I
will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess
his name before my Father, and before his angels. 6 He that hath an ear,
let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. 7 And to the angel
of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy,
he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no
man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; 8 I know thy works:
behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for
thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied
my name. 9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say
they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come
and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. 10
Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee
from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try
them that dwell upon the earth. 11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that
fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. 12 Him that overcometh
will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more
out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the
city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven
from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
Return to Table of
Readings
Fourth Sunday in Lent
Monday
Morning
Prayer
1st
Lesson
Genesis 44
1 And he commanded the steward of his house,
saying, Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and
put every man's money in his sack's mouth. 2 And put my cup, the silver
cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did
according to the word that Joseph had spoken. 3 As soon as the morning
was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses. 4 And when they
were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his
steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say
unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good? 5 Is not this it in
which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done
evil in so doing. 6 And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these
same words. 7 And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these
words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing: 8
Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again
unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy
lord's house silver or gold? 9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be
found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen. 10 And
he said, Now also let it be according unto your words: he with whom it
is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless. 11 Then they
speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every
man his sack. 12 And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at
the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack. 13 Then they
rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the
city. 14 And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; for he was
yet there: and they fell before him on the ground. 15 And Joseph said
unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a
man as I can certainly divine? 16 And Judah said, What shall we say unto
my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath
found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord's
servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found. 17 And he
said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup
is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace
unto your father. 18 Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my
lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and
let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as
Pharaoh. 19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a
brother? 20 And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and
a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he
alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him. 21 And thou
saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine
eyes upon him. 22 And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his
father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die. 23 And
thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down
with you, ye shall see my face no more. 24 And it came to pass when we
came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. 25
And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food. 26 And we said,
We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go
down: for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be
with us. 27 And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife
bare me two sons: 28 And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he
is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since: 29 And if ye take this also
from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with
sorrow to the grave. 30 Now therefore when I come to thy servant my
father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in
the lad's life; 31 It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is
not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the
gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave. 32 For
thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring
him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever. 33
Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a
bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren. 34 For how
shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest
peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
Return to Table of Readings
2nd
Lesson
1 Corinthians 12:12-31a
12 For as the body is one, and hath many
members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body:
so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one
body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and
have been all made to drink into one Spirit. 14 For the body is not one
member, but many. 15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I
am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 16 And if the ear
shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it
therefore not of the body? 17 If the whole body were an eye, where were
the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? 18 But
now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath
pleased him. 19 And if they were all one member, where were the body? 20
But now are they many members, yet but one body. 21 And the eye cannot
say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the
feet, I have no need of you. 22 Nay, much more those members of the
body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: 23 And those members
of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow
more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant
comeliness. 24 For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered
the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which
lacked: 25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the
members should have the same care one for another. 26 And whether one
member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be
honoured, all the members rejoice with it. 27 Now ye are the body of
Christ, and members in particular. 28 And God hath set some in the
church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after
that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities
of tongues. 29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are
all workers of miracles? 30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak
with tongues? do all interpret? 31 But covet earnestly the best gifts:
and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
Return to Table of
Readings
Fourth Sunday in Lent
Monday
Evening
Prayer
1st
Lesson
Jeremiah 13:15
15 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the
Lord hath spoken. 16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause
darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and,
while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make
it gross darkness. 17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in
secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down
with tears, because the Lord's flock is carried away captive. 18 Say
unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your
principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory. 19 The
cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah
shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away
captive. 20 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north:
where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock? 21 What
wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be
captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a
woman in travail? 22 And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come
these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts
discovered, and thy heels made bare. 23 Can the Ethiopian change his
skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are
accustomed to do evil. 24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble
that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness. 25 This is thy lot, the
portion of thy measures from me, saith the Lord; because thou hast
forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood. 26 Therefore will I discover thy
skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear. 27 I have seen thine
adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine
abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem!
wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
Return to Table of
Readings
2nd
Lesson
Mark 12:18-27
18 Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say
there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying, 19 Master, Moses
wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him,
and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise
up seed unto his brother. 20 Now there were seven brethren: and the
first took a wife, and dying left no seed. 21 And the second took her,
and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise. 22 And the
seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also. 23 In
the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she
be of them? for the seven had her to wife. 24 And Jesus answering said
unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures,
neither the power of God? 25 For when they shall rise from the dead,
they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels
which are in heaven. 26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have
ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him,
saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob? 27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye
therefore do greatly err.
Return to Table of
Readings
Fourth Sunday in Lent
Tuesday
Morning Prayer
1st
Lesson
Genesis 45
1 Then Joseph could not refrain himself before
all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from
me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known
unto his brethren. 2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house
of Pharaoh heard. 3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth
my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were
troubled at his presence. 4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near
to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your
brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. 5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor
angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me
before you to preserve life. 6 For these two years hath the famine been
in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall
neither be earing nor harvest. 7 And God sent me before you to preserve
you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great
deliverance. 8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and
he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a
ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. 9 Haste ye, and go up to my
father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me
lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not: 10 And thou shalt dwell
in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy
children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds,
and all that thou hast: 11 And there will I nourish thee; for yet there
are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that
thou hast, come to poverty. 12 And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes
of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you. 13
And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye
have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither. 14 And he
fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon
his neck. 15 Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them:
and after that his brethren talked with him. 16 And the fame thereof was
heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it
pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants. 17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph,
Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you
unto the land of Canaan; 18 And take your father and your households,
and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and
ye shall eat the fat of the land. 19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye;
take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for
your wives, and bring your father, and come. 20 Also regard not your
stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours. 21 And the
children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the
commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way. 22 To all
of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave
three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment. 23 And to
his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good
things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat
for his father by the way. 24 So he sent his brethren away, and they
departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way. 25
And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto
Jacob their father, 26 And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he
is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for
he believed them not. 27 And they told him all the words of Joseph,
which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had
sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived: 28 And
Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see
him before I die.
Return to Table of
Readings
2nd
Lesson
1 Corinthians 12:31b—13:13
31 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet
shew I unto you a more excellent way.
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of
angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a
tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and
understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all
faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am
nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though
I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me
nothing. 4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not;
charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 Doth not behave itself
unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7 Beareth all
things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail;
whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge,
it shall vanish away. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10
But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall
be done away. 11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as
a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away
childish things. 12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known. 13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the
greatest of these is charity.
Return to Table of
Readings
Fourth Sunday in Lent
Tuesday
Evening
Prayer
1st
Lesson
Jeremiah 14:1-10
1 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah
concerning the dearth. 2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish;
they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. 3
And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to
the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty;
they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads. 4 Because the
ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were
ashamed, they covered their heads. 5 Yea, the hind also calved in the
field, and forsook it, because there was no grass. 6 And the wild asses
did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons;
their eyes did fail, because there was no grass. 7 O Lord, though our
iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our
backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee. 8 O the hope of
Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as
a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to
tarry for a night? 9 Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a
mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O Lord, art in the midst of us,
and we are called by thy name; leave us not. 10 Thus saith the Lord unto
this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained
their feet, therefore the Lord doth not accept them; he will now
remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
Return to Table of
Readings
2nd
Lesson
Mark 12:28-37
28 And one of the scribes came, and having heard
them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well,
asked him, Which is the first commandment of all? 29 And Jesus answered
him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our
God is one Lord: 30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy
strength: this is the first commandment. 31 And the second is like,
namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none
other commandment greater than these. 32 And the scribe said unto him,
Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there
is none other but he: 33 And to love him with all the heart, and with
all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength,
and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt
offerings and sacrifices. 34 And when Jesus saw that he answered
discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God.
And no man after that durst ask him any question. 35 And Jesus answered
and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ
is the Son of David? 36 For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The
LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine
enemies thy footstool. 37 David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and
whence is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly.
Return to Table of
Readings
Fourth Sunday in Lent
Wednesday
Morning
Prayer
1st
Lesson
Genesis 47:29-31—48:8-20
29 And the time drew nigh that Israel must die:
and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found
grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal
kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: 30 But I
will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury
me in their burying place. And he said, I will do as thou hast said. 31
And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed
himself upon the bed's head.
8 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who
are these? 9 And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God
hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto
me, and I will bless them. 10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age,
so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he
kissed them, and embraced them. 11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had
not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.
12 And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed
himself with his face to the earth. 13 And Joseph took them both,
Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his
left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him. 14
And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's
head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head,
guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn. 15 And he
blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac
did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, 16 The
Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name
be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let
them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. 17 And when Joseph
saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it
displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from
Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head. 18 And Joseph said unto his father,
Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon
his head. 19 And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know
it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly
his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become
a multitude of nations. 20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee
shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh:
and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
Return to Table of
Readings
2nd
Lesson
1 Corinthians 14:1-12
1 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual
gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. 2 For he that speaketh in an
unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man
understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries. 3 But he
that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and
comfort. 4 He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but
he that prophesieth edifieth the church. 5 I would that ye all spake
with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that
prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret,
that the church may receive edifying. 6 Now, brethren, if I come unto
you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak
to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by
doctrine? 7 And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or
harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be
known what is piped or harped? 8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain
sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? 9 So likewise ye, except
ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be
known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air. 10 There are, it
may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is
without signification. 11 Therefore if I know not the meaning of the
voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that
speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me. 12 Even so ye, forasmuch as ye
are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying
of the church.
Return to Table of
Readings
Fourth Sunday in Lent
Wednesday
Evening
Prayer
1st
Lesson
Jeremiah 15:1-9
1 Then said the Lord unto me, Though Moses and
Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people:
cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth. 2 And it shall come to
pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt
tell them, Thus saith the Lord; Such as are for death, to death; and
such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine,
to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity. 3
And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the Lord: the sword to
slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts
of the earth, to devour and destroy. 4 And I will cause them to be
removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of
Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem. 5 For who
shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who
shall go aside to ask how thou doest? 6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the
Lord, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand
against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting. 7 And I will
fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of
children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their
ways. 8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I
have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at
noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon
the city. 9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the
ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed
and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword
before their enemies, saith the Lord.
Return to Table of
Readings
2nd
Lesson
Mark 12:38
38 And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware
of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations
in the marketplaces, 39 And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the
uppermost rooms at feasts: 40 Which devour widows' houses, and for a
pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation. 41
And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast
money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. 42 And
there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make
a farthing. 43 And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto
them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in,
than all they which have cast into the treasury: 44 For all they did
cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she
had, even all her living.
Return to Table of
Readings
Fourth Sunday in Lent
Thursday
Morning
Prayer
1st
Lesson
Genesis 49:33—50:26
33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding
his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the
ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and
wept upon him, and kissed him. 2 And Joseph commanded his servants the
physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. 3
And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of
those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore
and ten days. 4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph
spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in
your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 5 My
father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged
for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore
let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again. 6
And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee
swear. 7 And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all
the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of
the land of Egypt. 8 And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and
his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their
herds, they left in the land of Goshen. 9 And there went up with him
both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company. 10 And they
came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there
they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a
mourning for his father seven days. 11 And when the inhabitants of the
land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said,
This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it
was called Abemizraim, which is beyond Jordan. 12 And his sons did unto
him according as he commanded them: 13 For his sons carried him into the
land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah,
which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace
of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. 14 And Joseph returned into Egypt,
he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father,
after he had buried his father. 15 And when Joseph's brethren saw that
their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and
will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him. 16 And
they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before
he died, saying, 17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee
now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee
evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the
God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him. 18 And his
brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold,
we be thy servants. 19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in
the place of God? 20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God
meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much
people alive. 21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your
little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them. 22 And
Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an
hundred and ten years. 23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third
generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought
up upon Joseph's knees. 24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and
God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land
which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 25 And Joseph took an
oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and
ye shall carry up my bones from hence. 26 So Joseph died, being an
hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a
coffin in Egypt.
Return to Table of
Readings
2nd
Lesson
1 Corinthians 14:13-25
13 Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown
tongue pray that he may interpret. 14 For if I pray in an unknown
tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. 15 What
is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the
understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with
the understanding also. 16 Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit,
how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy
giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest? 17 For
thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified. 18 I thank
my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: 19 Yet in the church I
had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I
might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye
children, but in understanding be men. 21 In the law it is written, With
men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and
yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord. 22 Wherefore
tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that
believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but
for them which believe. 23 If therefore the whole church be come
together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in
those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are
mad? 24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not,
or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all: 25 And
thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on
his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a
truth.
Return to Table of
Readings
Fourth Sunday in Lent
Thursday
Evening
Prayer
1st
Lesson
Jeremiah 15:10
10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me
a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have
neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one
of them doth curse me. 11 The Lord said, Verily it shall be well with
thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the
time of evil and in the time of affliction. 12 Shall iron break the
northern iron and the steel? 13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I
give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all
thy borders. 14 And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a
land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which
shall burn upon you. 15 O Lord, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me,
and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering:
know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. 16 Thy words were found,
and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of
mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts. 17 I sat
not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of
thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation. 18 Why is my pain
perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt
thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail? 19
Therefore thus saith the Lord, If thou return, then will I bring thee
again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the
precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto
thee; but return not thou unto them. 20 And I will make thee unto this
people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they
shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to
deliver thee, saith the Lord. 21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand
of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the
terrible.
Return to Table of Readings
2nd
Lesson
Mark 13:1-13
1 And as he went out of the temple, one of his
disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what
buildings are here! 2 And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou
these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another,
that shall not be thrown down. 3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives
over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him
privately, 4 Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the
sign when all these things shall be fulfilled? 5 And Jesus answering
them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you: 6 For many shall
come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 7 And when
ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such
things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet. 8 For nation shall
rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be
earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles:
these are the beginnings of sorrows. 9 But take heed to yourselves: for
they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be
beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for
a testimony against them. 10 And the gospel must first be published
among all nations. 11 But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up,
take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye
premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak
ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost. 12 Now the brother
shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children
shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to
death. 13 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he
that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Return to Table of
Readings
Fourth
Sunday in Lent
Friday
Morning
Prayer
1st
Lesson
Exodus 1:8-14, 22
8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt,
which knew not Joseph. 9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people
of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: 10 Come on, let
us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that,
when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and
fight against us, and so get them up out of the land. 11 Therefore they
did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And
they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. 12 But the
more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they
were grieved because of the children of Israel. 13 And the Egyptians
made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: 14 And they made their
lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all
manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made
them serve, was with rigour.
22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying,
Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter
ye shall save alive.
Return to Table of
Readings
2nd
Lesson
1 Corinthians 14:26
26 How is it then, brethren? when ye come
together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue,
hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto
edifying. 27 If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or
at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret. 28 But
if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let
him speak to himself, and to God. 29 Let the prophets speak two or
three, and let the other judge. 30 If any thing be revealed to another
that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace. 31 For ye may all
prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted. 32
And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. 33 For God
is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the
saints. 34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not
permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under
obedience, as also saith the law. 35 And if they will learn any thing,
let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to
speak in the church. 36 What? came the word of God out from you? or came
it unto you only? 37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or
spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are
the commandments of the Lord. 38 But if any man be ignorant, let him be
ignorant. 39 Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to
speak with tongues. 40 Let all things be done decently and in order.
Return to Table of
Readings
Fourth Sunday in Lent
Friday
Evening
Prayer
1st
Lesson
Jeremiah 16:5-13
5 For thus saith the Lord, Enter not into the
house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have
taken away my peace from this people, saith the Lord, even
lovingkindness and mercies. 6 Both the great and the small shall die in
this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them,
nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them: 7 Neither shall
men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead;
neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their
father or for their mother. 8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of
feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink. 9 For thus saith the
Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of
this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the
voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the
bride. 10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people
all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the Lord
pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or
what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God? 11 Then
shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith
the Lord, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and
have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law; 12
And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one
after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto
me: 13 Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye
know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other
gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.
Return to Table of
Readings
2nd
Lesson
Mark 13:14-23
14 But when ye shall see the abomination of
desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought
not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea
flee to the mountains: 15 And let him that is on the housetop not go
down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his
house: 16 And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to
take up his garment. 17 But woe to them that are with child, and to them
that give suck in those days! 18 And pray ye that your flight be not in
the winter. 19 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not
from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time,
neither shall be. 20 And except that the Lord had shortened those days,
no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen,
he hath shortened the days. 21 And then if any man shall say to you, Lo,
here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not: 22 For false
Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders,
to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect. 23 But take ye heed:
behold, I have foretold you all things.
Return to Table of
Readings
Fourth Sunday in Lent
Saturday
Morning
Prayer
1st
Lesson
Exodus 2:1-22
1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and
took to wife a daughter of Levi. 2 And the woman conceived, and bare a
son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three
months. 3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an
ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the
child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. 4 And
his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him. 5 And the
daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her
maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among
the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. 6 And when she had opened it,
she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on
him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. 7 Then said his
sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the
Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? 8 And Pharaoh's
daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's
mother. 9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away,
and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took
the child, and nursed it. 10 And the child grew, and she brought him
unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name
Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water. 11 And it came
to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his
brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting
an Hebrew, one of his brethren. 12 And he looked this way and that way,
and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him
in the sand. 13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of
the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong,
Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? 14 And he said, Who made thee a
prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst
the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known. 15
Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses
fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he
sat down by a well. 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and
they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's
flock. 17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up
and helped them, and watered their flock. 18 And when they came to Reuel
their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon today? 19 And
they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds,
and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock. 20 And he said
unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the
man? call him, that he may eat bread. 21 And Moses was content to dwell
with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter. 22 And she bare
him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a
stranger in a strange land.
Return to Table of
Readings
1st
Lesson
1 Corinthians 15:1-11
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the
gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and
wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory
what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3 For I
delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that
Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was
buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the
scriptures: 5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: 6
After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom
the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. 7
After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. 8 And last
of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. 9 For I
am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle,
because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am
what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but
I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of
God which was with me. 11 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we
preach, and so ye believed.
Return to Table of
Readings
Fourth Sunday in Lent
Saturday
Evening
Prayer
1st
Lesson
Jeremiah 17:5-14
5 Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that
trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth
from the Lord. 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall
not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the
wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. 7 Blessed is the man that
trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. 8 For he shall be as a
tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the
river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green;
and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease
from yielding fruit. 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and
desperately wicked: who can know it? 10 I the Lord search the heart, I
try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and
according to the fruit of his doings. 11 As the partridge sitteth on
eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by
right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall
be a fool. 12 A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of
our sanctuary. 13 O Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee
shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the
earth, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living
waters. 14 Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall
be saved: for thou art my praise.
Return to Table of
Readings
2nd
Lesson
Mark 13:24
24 But in those days, after that tribulation,
the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, 25 And
the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall
be shaken. 26 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the
clouds with great power and glory. 27 And then shall he send his angels,
and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the
uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven. 28 Now
learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and
putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near: 29 So ye in like
manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is
nigh, even at the doors. 30 Verily I say unto you, that this generation
shall not pass, till all these things be done. 31 Heaven and earth shall
pass away: but my words shall not pass away. 32 But of that day and that
hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the
Son, but the Father. 33 Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not
when the time is. 34 For the Son of man is as a man taking a far
journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to
every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. 35 Watch ye
therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even,
or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: 36 Lest coming
suddenly he find you sleeping. 37 And what I say unto you I say unto
all, Watch.
Return to Table of Readings
|
