FIRST
READING: Acts 13: 26 - 33
26
"Brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you
that fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation.
27
For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did
not recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets which
are read every sabbath, fulfilled these by condemning him.
28
Though they could charge him with nothing deserving death, yet they
asked Pilate to have him killed.
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And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took
him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.
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But God raised him from the dead;
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and for many days he appeared to those who came up with him from
Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.
32
And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers,
33
this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus; as also
it is written in the second psalm, `Thou art my Son, today I have
begotten thee.'
PSALM: Psalms 2: 6 - 11
6
"I have set my king on Zion, my holy hill."
7 I
will tell of the decree of the LORD: He said to me, "You are my
son, today I have begotten you.
8
Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of
the earth your possession.
9
You shall break them with a rod of iron, and dash them in pieces like
a potter's vessel."
10
Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth.
11
Serve the LORD with fear, with trembling.
GOSPEL: John 14: 1 - 6
1
"Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also
in me.
2
In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, would I have
told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
3
And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will
take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
4
And you know the way where I am going."
5
Thomas said to him, "Lord, we do not know where you are going;
how can we know the way?"
6
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life;
no one comes to the Father, but by me.
