Daily Readings for Tuesday, 1 April 2014
Ezekiel 47:
He brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, waters issued out from
under the threshold of the house eastward; (for the forefront of the house was
toward the east;) and the waters came down from under, from the right side of
the house, on the south of the altar. 2 Then he brought me out by the way of
the gate northward, and led me round by the way outside to the outer gate, by
the way of the gate that looks toward the east; and behold, there ran out
waters on the right side. 3 When the man went out eastward with the line in his
hand, he measured one thousand cubits,[a] and he caused me to pass through the
waters, waters that were to the ankles. 4 Again he measured one thousand, and
caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he
measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through waters that were to the
waist. 5 Afterward he measured one thousand; and it was a river that I could
not pass through; for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that
could not be passed through. 6 He said to me, Son of man, have you seen? Then
he brought me, and caused me to return to the bank of the river. 7 Now when I
had returned, behold, on the bank of the river were very many trees on the one
side and on the other. 8 Then he said to me, These waters flow out toward the
eastern region, and will go down into the Arabah; and they will go toward the
sea; and flow into the sea which will be made to flow out; and the waters will
be healed. 9 It shall happen, that every living creature which swarms, in every
place where the rivers come, shall live; and there shall be a very great
multitude of fish; for these waters have come there, and the waters of the sea
shall be healed, and everything shall live wherever the river comes.
Footnotes:
a. Ezekiel 47:3 a
cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man's
arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.
12 By the river on
its bank, on this side and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose
leaf shall not wither, neither shall its fruit fail: it shall produce new fruit
every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary; and its fruit shall
be for food, and its leaf for healing.
Psalm 46: 2 Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes,
though the mountains are shaken into the
heart of the seas;
3 though its waters roar and are troubled,
though the mountains tremble with their
swelling.
Selah.
5 God is within her.
She shall not be moved.
God will help her at dawn.
6 The nations raged.
The kingdoms were moved.
He lifted his voice, and the earth melted.
8 Come, see Yahweh’s
works,
what desolations he has made in the earth.
9 He makes wars
cease to the end of the earth.
He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear.
He burns the chariots in the fire.
John 5: After these things, there was a feast of the
Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate,
there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, “Bethesda”, having five porches. 3
In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or
paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water; 4 for an angel went down at
certain times into the pool, and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first
after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had. 5 A
certain man was there, who had been sick for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus
saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked
him, “Do you want to be made well?”
7 The sick man
answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is
stirred up, but while I’m coming, another steps down before me.”
8 Jesus said to him,
“Arise, take up your mat, and walk.”
9 Immediately, the
man was made well, and took up his mat and walked.
Now it was the
Sabbath on that day. 10 So the Jews said to him who was cured, “It is the
Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat.”
11 He answered them,
“He who made me well, the same said to me, ‘Take up your mat, and walk.’”
12 Then they asked
him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your mat, and walk’?”
13 But he who was
healed didn’t know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the
place.
14 Afterward Jesus
found him in the temple, and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no
more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”
15 The man went away, and
told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. 16 For this cause the
Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on
the Sabbath.-------
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