Palm Sunday
Morning
Prayer
Sunday
1st Lesson
Zechariah 9:9-12
9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of
Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having
salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an
ass. 10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from
Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace
unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and
from the river even to the ends of the earth. 11 As for thee also, by
the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit
wherein is no water. 12 Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of
hope: even today do I declare that I will render double unto
thee;
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2nd Lesson
Mark 11:1-11
1 And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany,
at the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples, 2 And
saith unto them, Go your way into the village over against you: and as
soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never
man sat; loose him, and bring him. 3 And if any man say unto you, Why do
ye this? say ye that the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will
send him hither. 4 And they went their way, and found the colt tied by
the door without in a place where two ways met; and they loose him. 5
And certain of them that stood there said unto them, What do ye, loosing
the colt? 6 And they said unto them even as Jesus had commanded: and
they let them go. 7 And they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their
garments on him; and he sat upon him. 8 And many spread their garments
in the way: and others cut down branches off the trees, and strawed them
in the way. 9 And they that went before, and they that followed, cried,
saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord: 10
Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of
the Lord: Hosanna in the highest. 11 And Jesus entered into Jerusalem,
and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things,
and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the
twelve.
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1st Lesson
Isaiah 52:13. 53:12
13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and
extolled, and be very high. 14 As many were astonied at thee; his visage
was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths
at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that
which they had not heard shall they consider.
1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord
revealed? 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a
root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we
shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He is
despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with
grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we
esteemed him not. 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our
sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our
iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his
stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have
turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the
iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he
opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a
sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. 8 He was
taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his
generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the
transgression of my people was he stricken. 9 And he made his grave with
the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no
violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. 10 Yet it pleased the
Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his
soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his
days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. 11 He
shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his
knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear
their iniquities. 12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the
great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath
poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the
transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for
the transgressors.
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2nd
Lesson
Matthew 26
1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished
all these sayings, he said unto his disciples, 2 Ye know that after two
days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be
crucified. 3 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes,
and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who
was called Caiaphas, 4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by
subtilty, and kill him. 5 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest
there be an uproar among the people. 6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in
the house of Simon the leper, 7 There came unto him a woman having an
alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as
he sat at meat. 8 But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation,
saying, To what purpose is this waste? 9 For this ointment might have
been sold for much, and given to the poor. 10 When Jesus understood it,
he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good
work upon me. 11 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have
not always. 12 For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she
did it for my burial. 13 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel
shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this
woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her. 14 Then one of the
twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, 15 And said
unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And
they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. 16 And from that
time he sought opportunity to betray him. 17 Now the first day of the
feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him,
Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover? 18 And he
said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master
saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my
disciples. 19 And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and
they made ready the passover. 20 Now when the even was come, he sat down
with the twelve. 21 And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you,
that one of you shall betray me. 22 And they were exceeding sorrowful,
and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I? 23 And he
answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the
same shall betray me. 24 The Son of man goeth as it is written of him:
but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been
good for that man if he had not been born. 25 Then Judas, which betrayed
him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast
said. 26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and
brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my
body. 27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them,
saying, Drink ye all of it; 28 For this is my blood of the new
testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. 29 But I
say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine,
until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom. 30
And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.
31 Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me
this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep
of the flock shall be scattered abroad. 32 But after I am risen again, I
will go before you into Galilee. 33 Peter answered and said unto him,
Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be
offended. 34 Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this
night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. 35 Peter said
unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee.
Likewise also said all the disciples. 36 Then cometh Jesus with them
unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye
here, while I go and pray yonder. 37 And he took with him Peter and the
two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. 38 Then
saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death:
tarry ye here, and watch with me. 39 And he went a little further, and
fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible,
let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith
unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? 41 Watch and
pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing,
but the flesh is weak. 42 He went away again the second time, and
prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me,
except I drink it, thy will be done. 43 And he came and found them
asleep again: for their eyes were heavy. 44 And he left them, and went
away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words. 45 Then
cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take
your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed
into the hands of sinners. 46 Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at
hand that doth betray me. 47 And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of
the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves,
from the chief priests and elders of the people. 48 Now he that betrayed
him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he:
hold him fast. 49 And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail,
master; and kissed him. 50 And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore
art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him. 51
And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand,
and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest's, and smote
off his ear. 52 Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into
his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
53 Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall
presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? 54 But how then
shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be? 55 In that same
hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief
with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in
the temple, and ye laid no hold on me. 56 But all this was done, that
the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the
disciples forsook him, and fled. 57 And they that had laid hold on Jesus
led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the
elders were assembled. 58 But Peter followed him afar off unto the high
priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.
59 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false
witness against Jesus, to put him to death; 60 But found none: yea,
though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came
two false witnesses, 61 And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy
the temple of God, and to build it in three days. 62 And the high priest
arose, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these
witness against thee? 63 But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest
answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou
tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God. 64 Jesus saith unto
him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see
the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the
clouds of heaven. 65 Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He
hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold,
now ye have heard his blasphemy. 66 What think ye? They answered and
said, He is guilty of death. 67 Then did they spit in his face, and
buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands, 68
Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee? 69 Now
Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying,
Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee. 70 But he denied before them all,
saying, I know not what thou sayest. 71 And when he was gone out into
the porch, another maid saw him, and said unto them that were there,
This fellow was also with Jesus of Nazareth. 72 And again he denied with
an oath, I do not know the man. 73 And after a while came unto him they
that stood by, and said to Peter, Surely thou also art one of them; for
thy speech bewrayeth thee. 74 Then began he to curse and to swear,
saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew. 75 And Peter
remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow,
thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept
bitterly.
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Palm Sunday
Evening Prayer
Sunday
1st
Lesson
Jeremiah 8:9-15,18. 9:1
9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed
and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom
is in them? 10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their
fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least
even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even
unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. 11 For they have healed the
hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when
there is no peace. 12 Were they ashamed when they had committed
abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they
blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of
their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the Lord. 13 I will
surely consume them, saith the Lord: there shall be no grapes on the
vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things
that I have given them shall pass away from them. 14 Why do we sit
still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities,
and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence,
and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the
Lord. 15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of
health, and behold trouble!
18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow,
my heart is faint in me. 19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter
of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the
Lord in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger
with their graven images, and with strange vanities? 20 The harvest is
past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. 21 For the hurt of the
daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken
hold on me. 22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there?
why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a
fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the
daughter of my people!
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2nd
Lesson
1 Corinthians 1:17
17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to
preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ
should be made of none effect. 18 For the preaching of the cross is to
them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the
power of God. 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the
wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. 20
Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this
world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For after
that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased
God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. 22 For
the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: 23 But we
preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the
Greeks foolishness; 24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and
Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. 25 Because the
foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is
stronger than men. 26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not
many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are
called: 27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to
confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to
confound the things which are mighty; 28 And base things of the world,
and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which
are not, to bring to nought things that are: 29 That no flesh should
glory in his presence. 30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God
is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and
redemption: 31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let
him glory in the Lord.
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1st
Lesson
Isaiah 59:1-3, 9-21
1 Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that
it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: 2 But your
iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have
hid his face from you, that he will not hear. 3 For your hands are
defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have
spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither
doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for
brightness, but we walk in darkness. 10 We grope for the wall like the
blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in
the night; we are in desolate places as dead men. 11 We roar all like
bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is
none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. 12 For our
transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against
us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we
know them; 13 In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing
away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and
uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 14 And judgment is turned
away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the
street, and equity cannot enter. 15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that
departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it
displeased him that there was no judgment. 16 And he saw that there was
no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm
brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. 17
For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation
upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and
was clad with zeal as a cloak. 18 According to their deeds, accordingly
he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to
the islands he will repay recompence. 19 So shall they fear the name of
the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When
the enemy shall come in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord shall lift
up a standard against him. 20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and
unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord. 21 As
for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord; My spirit that is
upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart
out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth
of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for
ever.
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2nd
Lesson
John 12:20-36
20 And there were certain Greeks among them that
came up to worship at the feast: 21 The same came therefore to Philip,
which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we
would see Jesus. 22 Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew
and Philip tell Jesus. 23 And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is
come, that the Son of man should be glorified. 24 Verily, verily, I say
unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it
abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. 25 He that
loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world
shall keep it unto life eternal. 26 If any man serve me, let him follow
me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me,
him will my Father honour. 27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I
say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this
hour. 28 Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven,
saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. 29 The
people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered:
others said, An angel spake to him. 30 Jesus answered and said, This
voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. 31 Now is the judgment
of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. 32 And I,
if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. 33 This he
said, signifying what death he should die. 34 The people answered him,
We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how
sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?
35 Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you.
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that
walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. 36 While ye have
light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These
things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from
them.
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Palm Sunday
Morning Prayer
Monday
1st
Lesson
Isaiah 42:1-7
1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect,
in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall
bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. 2 He shall not cry, nor lift up,
nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. 3 A bruised reed shall he
not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring
forth judgment unto truth. 4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till
he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
5 Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched
them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of
it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them
that walk therein: 6 I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and
will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant
of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; 7 To open the blind eyes, to
bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness
out of the prison house.
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Second
Lesson
John 14:1-14
1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in
God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it
were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive
you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. 4 And whither I
go ye know, and the way ye know. 5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know
not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? 6 Jesus saith unto
him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the
Father, but by me. 7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father
also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. 8 Philip saith
unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. 9 Jesus saith
unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known
me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest
thou then, Shew us the Father? 10 Believest thou not that I am in the
Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak
not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else
believe me for the very works' sake. 12 Verily, verily, I say unto you,
He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and
greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. 13
And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father
may be glorified in the Son. 14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I
will do it.
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Palm Sunday
Evening Prayer
Monday
1st
Lesson
Lamintations 1:7-12
7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her
affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in
the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and
none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her
sabbaths. 8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed:
all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness:
yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward. 9 Her filthiness is in her
skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down
wonderfully: she had no comforter. O Lord, behold my affliction: for the
enemy hath magnified himself. 10 The adversary hath spread out his hand
upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered
into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter
into thy congregation. 11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they
have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O
Lord, and consider; for I am become vile. 12 Is it nothing to you, all
ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my
sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in
the day of his fierce anger.
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2nd
Lesson
John 14:15
15 If ye love me, keep my commandments. 16 And I
will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he
may abide with you for ever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world
cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye
know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. 18 I will not
leave you comfortless: I will come to you. 19 Yet a little while, and
the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live
also. 20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me,
and I in you. 21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it
is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father,
and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. 22 Judas saith
unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself
unto us, and not unto the world? 23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If
a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and
we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. 24 He that loveth me
not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but
the Father's which sent me. 25 These things have I spoken unto you,
being yet present with you. 26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy
Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all
things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said
unto you. 27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as
the world giveth, 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 come to pass, that, when it is come to
pass, ye might believe. 30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for
the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. 31 But that the
world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me
commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
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Palm Sunday
Morning Prayer
Tuesday
1st
Lesson
Hosea 14
1 O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for
thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. 2 Take with you words, and turn to
the Lord: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us
graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips. 3 Asshur shall not
save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to
the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless
findeth mercy. 4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely:
for mine anger is turned away from him. 5 I will be as the dew unto
Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree,
and his smell as Lebanon. 7 They that dwell under his shadow shall
return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent
thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon. 8 Ephraim shall say, What have
I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am
like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found. 9 Who is wise, and he
shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the
ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the
transgressors shall fall therein.
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John 15:1-16
1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the
husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away:
and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring
forth more fruit. 3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have
spoken unto you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear
fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye
abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in
me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye
can do nothing. 6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a
branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the
fire, and they are burned. 7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in
you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. 8 Herein
is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my
disciples. 9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue
ye in my love. 10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love;
even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. 11
These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you,
and that your joy might be full. 12 This is my commandment, That ye love
one another, as I have loved you. 13 Greater love hath no man than this,
that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14 Ye are my friends, if
ye do whatsoever I command you. 15 Henceforth I call you not servants;
for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you
friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known
unto you. 16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained
you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should
remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may
give it you.
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Palm Sunday
Evening Prayer
Tuesday
1st
Lesson
Lamentations 2:10, 13-19
10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon
the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads;
they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem
hang down their heads to the ground.
13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee?
what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I
equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for
thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee? 14 Thy prophets
have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered
thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false
burdens and causes of banishment. 15 All that pass by clap their hands
at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem,
saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy
of the whole earth? 16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against
thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up:
certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have
seen it. 17 The Lord hath done that which he had devised; he hath
fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath
thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to
rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries. 18
Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let
tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not
the apple of thine eye cease. 19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the
beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face
of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young
children, that faint for hunger in the top of every
street.
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John 15:17
17 These things I command you, that ye love one
another. 18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it
hated you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but
because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world,
therefore the world hateth you. 20 Remember the word that I said unto
you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted
me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will
keep yours also. 21 But all these things will they do unto you for my
name's sake, because they know not him that sent me. 22 If I had not
come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no
cloke for their sin. 23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also. 24 If I
had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not
had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. 25
But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is
written in their law, They hated me without a cause. 26 But when the
Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the
Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of
me: 27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from
the beginning.
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Morning Prayer
Wednesday
1st
Lesson
Zechariah 12:9-10 & 13:1,
7-9
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I
will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. 10 And
I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look
upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one
mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one
that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened
to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and
for uncleanness.
7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and
against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts: smite the
shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand
upon the little ones. 8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land,
saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the
third shall be left therein. 9 And I will bring the third part through
the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them
as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I
will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my
God.
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John 16:1-15
1 These things have I spoken unto you, that ye
should not be offended. 2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea,
the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God
service. 3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not
known the Father, nor me. 4 But these things have I told you, that when
the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these
things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you. 5
But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me,
Whither goest thou? 6 But because I have said these things unto you,
sorrow hath filled your heart. 7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It
is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter
will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. 8 And
when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness,
and of judgment: 9 Of sin, because they believe not on me; 10 Of
righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; 11 Of
judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. 12 I have yet many
things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. 13 Howbeit when he,
the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he
shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he
speak: and he will shew you things to come. 14 He shall glorify me: for
he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. 15 All things that
the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine,
and shall shew it unto you.
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Psalm Sunday
Evening Prayer
Wednesday
1st
Lesson
Lamintations 3:1, 14-33
1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the
rod of his wrath.
14 I was a derision to all my people; and their
song all the day. 15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me
drunken with wormwood. 16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel
stones, he hath covered me with ashes. 17 And thou hast removed my soul
far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. 18 And I said, My strength and
my hope is perished from the Lord: 19 Remembering mine affliction and my
misery, the wormwood and the gall. 20 My soul hath them still in
remembrance, and is humbled in me. 21 This I recall to my mind,
therefore have I hope. 22 It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not
consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23 They are new every
morning: great is thy faithfulness. 24 The Lord is my portion, saith my
soul; therefore will I hope in him. 25 The Lord is good unto them that
wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. 26 It is good that a man
should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. 27 It
is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. 28 He sitteth
alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. 29 He
putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. 30 He giveth
his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. 31
For the Lord will not cast off for ever: 32 But though he cause grief,
yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of
men.
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John 16:16
16 A little while, and ye shall not see me: and
again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.
17 Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that
he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a
little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father? 18
They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we
cannot tell what he saith. 19 Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to
ask him, and said unto them, Do ye inquire among yourselves of that I
said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little
while, and ye shall see me? 20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye
shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be
sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. 21 A woman when she
is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she
is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy
that a man is born into the world. 22 And ye now therefore have sorrow:
but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no
man taketh from you. 23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily,
verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name,
he will give it you. 24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask,
and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. 25 These things have I
spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more
speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.
26 At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I
will pray the Father for you: 27 For the Father himself loveth you,
because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. 28
I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave
the world, and go to the Father. 29 His disciples said unto him, Lo, now
speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb. 30 Now are we sure that
thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee:
by this we believe that thou camest forth from God. 31 Jesus answered
them, Do ye now believe? 32 Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come,
that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me
alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. 33 These
things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the
world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome
the world.
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Palm Sunday
Morning Prayer
Thursday
1st
Lesson
Jeremiah 31:31-34
31 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I
will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of
Judah: 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers
in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of
Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto
them, saith the Lord: 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make
with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put
my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be
their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And they shall teach no more
every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the
Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the
greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and
I will remember their sin no more.
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John 13:18
18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have
chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread
with me hath lifted up his heel against me. 19 Now I tell you before it
come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he. 20
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send
receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. 21
When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and
said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.
22 Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake.
23 Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom
Jesus loved. 24 Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, that he should
ask who it should be of whom he spake. 25 He then lying on Jesus' breast
saith unto him, Lord, who is it? 26 Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I
shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop,
he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. 27 And after the sop
Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do
quickly. 28 Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spake this
unto him. 29 For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that
Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against
the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor. 30 He then
having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night. 31
Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man
glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32 If God be glorified in him,
God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify
him. 33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek
me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I
say to you. 34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one
another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35 By this
shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to
another. 36 Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus
answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt
follow me afterwards. 37 Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow
thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake. 38 Jesus answered him,
Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto
thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me
thrice.
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Psalm Sunday
Evening Prayer
Thursday
1st
Lesson
Lamentations 3:40-58
40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn
again to the Lord. 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God
in the heavens. 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not
pardoned. 43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast
slain, thou hast not pitied. 44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud,
that our prayer should not pass through. 45 Thou hast made us as the
offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. 46 All our enemies
have opened their mouths against us. 47 Fear and a snare is come upon
us, desolation and destruction. 48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of
water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 49 Mine eye
trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, 50 Till the
Lord look down, and behold from heaven. 51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart
because of all the daughters of my city. 52 Mine enemies chased me sore,
like a bird, without cause. 53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon,
and cast a stone upon me. 54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said,
I am cut off. 55 I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.
56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my
cry. 57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou
saidst, Fear not. 58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul;
thou hast redeemed my life.
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John 17
1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his
eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son,
that thy Son also may glorify thee: 2 As thou hast given him power over
all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast
given him. 3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the
only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 4 I have glorified
thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory
which I had with thee before the world was. 6 I have manifested thy name
unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and
thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. 7 Now they have known
that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. 8 For I have
given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received
them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have
believed that thou didst send me. 9 I pray for them: I pray not for the
world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. 10 And
all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. 11
And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I
come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou
hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. 12 While I was with them
in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have
kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the
scripture might be fulfilled. 13 And now come I to thee; and these
things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in
themselves. 14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated
them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that
thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 16 They are not of the world,
even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy
word is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I
also sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself,
that they also might be sanctified through the truth. 20 Neither pray I
for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through
their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and
I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe
that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have
given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and
thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may
know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me
where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for
thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous
Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these
have known that thou hast sent me. 26 And I have declared unto them thy
name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me
may be in them, and I in them.
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Morning Prayer
Good
Friday
1st
Lesson
Genesis 22:1-18
1 And it came to pass after these things, that
God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold,
here I am. 2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom
thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there
for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee
of. 3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and
took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the
wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of
which God had told him. 4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his
eyes, and saw the place afar off. 5 And Abraham said unto his young men,
Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and
worship, and come again to you. 6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt
offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his
hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together. 7 And Isaac
spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am
I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the
lamb for a burnt offering? 8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide
himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham
built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his
son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. 10 And Abraham stretched
forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. 11 And the angel of
the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and
he said, Here am I. 12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad,
neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest
God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. 13
And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram
caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and
offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. 14 And
Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to
this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen. 15 And the angel of
the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, 16 And said,
By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this
thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: 17 That in
blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed
as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore;
and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; 18 And in thy seed
shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed
my voice.
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Wisdom, 2:1,
12-24
1 For
the ungodly said, reasoning with themselves, but not aright, Our life is
short and tedious, and in the death of a man there is no remedy: neither
was there any man known to have returned from the grave.
12
Therefore let us lie in wait for the righteous; because he is not for
our turn, and he is clean contrary to our doings: he upbraideth us with
our offending the law, and objecteth to our infamy the transgressings of
our education. 13 He professeth to have the knowledge of God: and he
calleth himself the child of the Lord. 14 He was made to reprove our
thoughts. 15 He is grievous unto us even to behold: for his life is not
like other men's, his ways are of another fashion. 16 We are esteemed of
him as counterfeits: he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness: he
pronounceth the end of the just to be blessed, and maketh his boast that
God is his father. 17 Let us see if his words be true: and let us prove
what shall happen in the end of him. 18 For if the just man be the son
of God, he will help him, and deliver him from the hand of his enemies.
19 Let us examine him with despitefulness and torture, that we may know
his meekness, and prove his patience. 20 Let us condemn him with a
shameful death: for by his own saying he shall be respected. 21 Such
things they did imagine, and were deceived: for their own wickedness
hath blinded them. 22 As for the mysteries of God, they kn ew them not:
neither hoped they for the wages of righteousness, nor discerned a
reward for blameless souls. 23 For God created man to be immortal, and
made him to be an image of his own eternity. 24 Nevertheless through
envy of the devil came death into the world: and they that do hold of
his side do find it.
1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went
forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into
the which he entered, and his disciples. 2 And Judas also, which
betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with
his disciples. 3 Judas then, having received a band of men and officers
from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and
torches and weapons. 4 Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should
come upon him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye? 5 They
answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am he. And
Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them. 6 As soon then as he
had said unto them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground.
7 Then asked he them again, Whom seek ye? And they said, Jesus of
Nazareth. 8 Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he: if therefore
ye seek me, let these go their way: 9 That the saying might be
fulfilled, which he spake, Of them which thou gavest me have I lost
none. 10 Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high
priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was
Malchus. 11 Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the
sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it? 12
Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and
bound him, 13 And led him away to Annas first; for he was father in law
to Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year. 14 Now Caiaphas
was he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one
man should die for the people. 15 And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so
did another disciple: that disciple was known unto the high priest, and
went in with Jesus into the palace of the high priest. 16 But Peter
stood at the door without. Then went out that other disciple, which was
known unto the high priest, and spake unto her that kept the door, and
brought in Peter. 17 Then saith the damsel that kept the door unto
Peter, Art not thou also one of this man's disciples? He saith, I am
not. 18 And the servants and officers stood there, who had made a fire
of coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and Peter stood
with them, and warmed himself. 19 The high priest then asked Jesus of
his disciples, and of his doctrine. 20 Jesus answered him, I spake
openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple,
whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing. 21
Why askest thou me? ask them which heard me, what I have said unto them:
behold, they know what I said. 22 And when he had thus spoken, one of
the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand,
saying, Answerest thou the high priest so? 23 Jesus answered him, If I
have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest
thou me? 24 Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest.
25 And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. They said therefore unto
him, Art not thou also one of his disciples? He denied it, and said, I
am not. 26 One of the servants of the high priest, being his kinsman
whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with
him? 27 Peter then denied again: and immediately the cock crew. 28 Then
led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was
early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they
should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover. 29 Pilate then
went out unto them, and said, What accusation bring ye against this man?
30 They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we
would not have delivered him up unto thee. 31 Then said Pilate unto
them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews
therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to
death: 32 That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake,
signifying what death he should die. 33 Then Pilate entered into the
judgment hall again, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the
King of the Jews? 34 Jesus answered him, Sayest thou this thing of
thyself, or did others tell it thee of me? 35 Pilate answered, Am I a
Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me:
what hast thou done? 36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world:
if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I
should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from
hence. 37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus
answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for
this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the
truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice. 38 Pilate saith
unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again
unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all. 39
But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the
passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the
Jews? 40 Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas.
Now Barabbas was a robber.
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Palm Sunday
Evening Prayer
Good
Friday
1st
Lesson
Isaiah 52:13. 53:12
13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he
shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. 14 As many were
astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his
form more than the sons of men: 15 So shall he sprinkle many nations;
the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been
told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they
consider.
1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is
the arm of the Lord revealed? 2 For he shall grow up before him as a
tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor
comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should
desire him. 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and
acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was
despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs,
and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God,
and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was
bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him;
and with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone
astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid
on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his
generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the
transgression of my people was he stricken. 9 And he made his grave with
the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no
violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. 10 Yet it pleased the
Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his
soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his
days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. 11 He
shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his
knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear
their iniquities. 12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the
great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath
poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the
transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for
the transgressors.
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2nd
Lesson
1 Peter 2:11
11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers
and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; 12
Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they
speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they
shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. 13 Submit yourselves
to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the
king, as supreme; 14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by
him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do
well. 15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to
silence the ignorance of foolish men: 16 As free, and not using your
liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. 17
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. 18
Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good
and gentle, but also to the froward. 19 For this is thankworthy, if a
man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. 20 For
what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take
it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it
patiently, this is acceptable with God. 21 For even hereunto were ye
called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that
ye should follow his steps: 22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found
in his mouth: 23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he
suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth
righteously: 24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the
tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by
whose stripes ye were healed. 25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but
are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your
souls.
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Morning Prayer
Easter
Even
1st
Lesson
Job 14:1-14
1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days,
and full of trouble. 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down:
he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. 3 And dost thou open
thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? 4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. 5 Seeing his
days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast
appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; 6 Turn from him, that he may
rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day. 7 For there is
hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that
the tender branch thereof will not cease. 8 Though the root thereof wax
old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; 9 Yet through
the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. 10
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where
is he? 11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and
drieth up: 12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no
more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. 13 O that
thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret,
until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and
remember me! 14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my
appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
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2nd
Lesson
John 19:38
38 And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a
disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate
that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He
came therefore, and took the body of Jesus. 39 And there came also
Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a
mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. 40 Then took
they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices,
as the manner of the Jews is to bury. 41 Now in the place where he was
crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein
was never man yet laid. 42 There laid they Jesus therefore because of
the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at
hand.
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2nd
Lesson
Hebrews 4
1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being
left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short
of it. 2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but
the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in
them that heard it. 3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as
he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest:
although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For
he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did
rest the seventh day from all his works. 5 And in this place again, If
they shall enter into my rest. 6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some
must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not
in because of unbelief: 7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in
David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will
hear his voice, harden not your hearts. 8 For if Jesus had given them
rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. 9 There
remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 10 For he that is
entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God
did from his. 11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest
any man fall after the same example of unbelief. 12 For the word of God
is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing
even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and
marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13
Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all
things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to
do. 14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into
the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. 15
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling
of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet
without sin. 16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace,
that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of
need.
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Evening Prayer
Easter
Even
1st
Lesson
Job 19:21-27a
21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my
friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. 22 Why do ye persecute me
as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? 23 Oh that my words were
now written! oh that they were printed in a book! 24 That they were
graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! 25 For I know
that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon
the earth: 26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in
my flesh shall I see God: 27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes
shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within
me.
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Lesson
Romans 6:3-11
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were
baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we
are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was
raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also
should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been planted together
in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his
resurrection: 6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him,
that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not
serve sin. 7 For he that is dead is freed from sin. 8 Now if we be dead
with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: 9 Knowing that
Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more
dominion over him. 10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in
that he liveth, he liveth unto God. 11 Likewise reckon ye also
yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus
Christ our Lord.
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