February 5, 2021
Friday, February 5, 2021
Fast Day
II Timothy 4:9-22
John 7:14-23
II Timothy 4:9-22
[9] Do your best to come to me soon.
[10] For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessaloni’ca; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
[11] Luke alone is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you; for he is very useful in serving me.
[12] Tych’icus I have sent to Ephesus.
[13] When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Tro’as, also the books, and above all the parchments.
[14] Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will requite him for his deeds.
[15] Beware of him yourself, for he strongly opposed our message.
[16] At my first defense no one took my part; all deserted me. May it not be charged against them!
[17] But the Lord stood by me and gave me strength to proclaim the message fully, that all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion’s mouth.
[18] The Lord will rescue me from every evil and save me for his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.
[19] Greet Prisca and Aq’uila, and the household of Onesiph’orus.
[20] Eras’tus remained at Corinth; Troph’imus I left ill at Mile’tus.
[21] Do your best to come before winter. Eubu’lus sends greetings to you, as do Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brethren.
[22] The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.
John 7:14-23
[14] About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and taught.
[15] The Jews marveled at it, saying, “How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?”
[16] So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me;
[17] if any man’s will is to do his will, he shall know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.
[18] He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.
[19] Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?”
[20] The people answered, “You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?”
[21] Jesus answered them, “I did one deed, and you all marvel at it.
[22] Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man upon the sabbath.
[23] If on the sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the sabbath I made a man’s whole body well?
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