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23rd March 2003
Lent 3
Responsive Reading
Psalm 19: 7-10
7 ¶ Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul.
Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple.
8 Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s
commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
9 The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s
ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
10 More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine
gold; sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.
Jewish Scriptures
Exodus 20: 1-17
1 ¶ God {After "God," the Hebrew has the two letters "Aleph Tav" (the
first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet), not as a word, but as a
grammatical marker.} spoke all these words, saying,
2 "I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 You shall have no other gods before me.
4 "You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of
anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath,
or that is in the water under the earth:
5 you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I,
Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who
hate me,
6 and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me
and keep my commandments.
7 "You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for
Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
8 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 You shall labor six days, and do all your work,
10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall
not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male
servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger
who is within your gates;
11 for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all
that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed
the Sabbath day, and made it holy.
12 ¶ "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in
the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
13 "You shall not murder.
14 "You shall not commit adultery.
15 "You shall not steal.
16 "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
17 "You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not
covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female
servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your
neighbor’s."
Epistle
1 Corinthians 1: 22-2522 For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,
23 but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and
foolishness to Greeks,
24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is
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.
Gospel
John 2: 13-25
13 The
Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14 He
found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the
changers of money sitting.
15 He
made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep
and the oxen; and he poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew their
tables.
16 To
those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here! Don’t
make my Father’s house a marketplace!"
17 His
disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat
me up." {Psalm 69:9}
18 The
Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show us, seeing that you
do these things?"
19 Jesus
answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it
up."
20 The
Jews therefore said, "Forty-six years was this temple in building, and
will you raise it up in three days?"
21 But he
spoke of the temple of his body.
22 When
therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he
said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had
said.
23 ¶ Now when
he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in
his name, observing his signs which he did.
24 But
Jesus didn’t trust himself to them, because he knew everyone,
25 and
because he didn’t need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he
himself knew what was in man.
The Scripture quotations contained herein are
from the World English Bible, which is public domain.
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