Monday, January 13, 1997

Leavetaking of the Nativity

Fasting: No fastJulian: December 31

Epistle

Hebrews 3.5-11; Hebrews 3.17-19

Read in context

5And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;Log in to add notes

6But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.Log in to add notes

7Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,Log in to add notes

8Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:Log in to add notes

9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.Log in to add notes

10Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.Log in to add notes

11So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)Log in to add notes

17But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?Log in to add notes

18And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?Log in to add notes

19So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Mark 12.13-17

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13And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.Log in to add notes

14And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Cesar, or not?Log in to add notes

15Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.Log in to add notes

16And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Cesar’s.Log in to add notes

17And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Cesar the things that are Cesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. And they marvelled at him.Log in to add notes