FIRST READING:
Timothy 1: 1 - 3, 6 - 12
1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the
promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
2
To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the
Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
3
I thank God whom I serve with a clear conscience, as did my fathers,
when I remember you constantly in my prayers.
6
Hence I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you
through the laying on of my hands;
7
for God did not give us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power
and love and self-control.
8
Do not be ashamed then of testifying to our Lord, nor of me his
prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel in the power of God,
9
who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not in virtue of our
works but in virtue of his own purpose and the grace which he gave us
in Christ Jesus ages ago,
10
and now has manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ
Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light
through the gospel.
11
For this gospel I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher,
12
and therefore I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom
I have believed, and I am sure that he is able to guard until that
Day what has been entrusted to me.
PSALM:
Psalms 123: 1 - 2
1
To thee I lift up my eyes, O thou who art enthroned in the heavens!
2
Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as
the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to
the LORD our God, till he have mercy upon us.
GOSPEL: Mark
12: 18 - 27
18
And Sad'ducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection;
and they asked him a question, saying,
19
"Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and
leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the wife, and
raise up children for his brother.
20
There were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died
left no children;
21
and the second took her, and died, leaving no children; and the third
likewise;
22
and the seven left no children. Last of all the woman also died.
23
In the resurrection whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as
wife."
24
Jesus said to them, "Is not this why you are wrong, that you
know neither the scriptures nor the power of God?
25
For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in
marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
26
And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of
Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, `I am the
God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?
27
He is not God of the dead, but of the living; you are quite wrong."
