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Readings
6th April 2003
Lent 5
Responsive Reading
Psalm 51: 1-12
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the
prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
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51:1 Have mercy on
me, God, according to your loving kindness.
- According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out
my transgressions.
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51:2 Wash me
thoroughly from my iniquity.
- Cleanse me from my sin.
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51:3 For I know my
transgressions.
- My sin is constantly before me.
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51:4 Against you,
and you only, have I sinned,
- and done that which is evil in your sight;
- that you may be proved right when you speak,
- and justified when you judge.
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51:5 Behold, I was
brought forth in iniquity.
- In sin my mother conceived me.
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51:6 Behold, you
desire truth in the inward parts.
- You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
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51:7 Purify me with
hyssop, and I will be clean.
- Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
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51:8 Let me hear joy
and gladness,
- That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
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51:9 Hide your face
from my sins,
- and blot out all of my iniquities.
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51:10 Create in me
a clean heart, O God.
- Renew a right spirit within me.
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51:11 Don't throw
me from your presence,
- and don't take your holy Spirit from me.
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51:12 Restore to me
the joy of your salvation.
- Uphold me with a willing spirit.
Jewish Scriptures
Jeremiah 31: 31-34
31:31 Behold, the
days come, says Yahweh, that I will make a new covenant with the house
of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
31:32 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 broke, although I was a husband to them, says Yahweh.
31:33 But this is
the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,
says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their
heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my
people:
31:34 and they
shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother,
saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me, from the least of them
to the greatest of them, says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity,
and their sin will I remember no more.
Epistle
Hebrews 5: 7-9
5:7 He,
in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with
strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and
having been heard for his godly fear,
5:8 though he was a
Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.
5:9 Having been made
perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal
salvation.
Gospel
John 12: 20-33
12:20 Now
there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the
feast.
12:21 These,
therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked
him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus."
12:22 Philip came
and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with Philip, and they told
Jesus.
12:23 Jesus
answered them, "The time has come for the Son of Man to
be glorified.
12:24 Most
certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and
dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
12:25 He who loves
his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it
to eternal life.
12:26 If anyone
serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be.
If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
12:29 The multitude therefore, who stood by and heard it, said
that it had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to him."
12:30 Jesus answered, "This voice hasn't come for
my sake, but for your sakes.
12:31 Now is the
judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.
12:32 And I, if I
am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself."
12:33 But he said
this, signifying by what kind of death he should die.
The Scripture quotations contained
herein are from the World English Bible, which is public domain.
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