Daily Readings for Friday, 4 April 2014

Daily Readings for Friday, 4 April 2014

Book of Wisdom 2:1  For, not thinking rightly, they said among themselves:

“Brief and troubled is our lifetime;

there is no remedy for our dying,

nor is anyone known to have come back from Hades.

12 Let us lie in wait for the righteous one, because he is annoying to us;

he opposes our actions,

Reproaches us for transgressions of the law

and charges us with violations of our training.

13 He professes to have knowledge of God

and styles himself a child of the LORD.

14 To us he is the censure of our thoughts;

merely to see him is a hardship for us,

15 Because his life is not like that of others,

and different are his ways.

16 He judges us debased;

he holds aloof from our paths as from things impure.

He calls blest the destiny of the righteous

and boasts that God is his Father.

17 Let us see whether his words be true;

let us find out what will happen to him in the end.

18 For if the righteous one is the son of God, God will help him

and deliver him from the hand of his foes.

19 With violence and torture let us put him to the test

that we may have proof of his gentleness

and try his patience.

20 Let us condemn him to a shameful death;

for according to his own words, God will take care of him.”

21 These were their thoughts, but they erred;

for their wickedness blinded them,

22 And they did not know the hidden counsels of God;

neither did they count on a recompense for holiness

nor discern the innocent souls’ reward.

Psalm 34:17 The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears,

    and delivers them out of all their troubles.

18 Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart,

    and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous,

    but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

20 He protects all of his bones.

    Not one of them is broken.

21 Evil shall kill the wicked.

    Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

23 The LORD is the redeemer of the souls of his servants;

and none are condemned who take refuge in him.

John 7:1 After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. 2 Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.

10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

25 Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill? 26 Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ? 27 However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.”

28 Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know. 29 I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”

30 They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

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