Thursday, November 20, 2008

Thursday of the 23rd week after Pentecost

Fasting: No fastJulian: November 7

Epistle

1 Thessalonians 2.9-14

Read in context

9For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.Log in to add notes

10Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:Log in to add notes

11As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,Log in to add notes

12That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.Log in to add notes

13For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.Log in to add notes

14For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:Log in to add notes

Gospel

Luke 13.1-9

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1There were present at that season some that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.Log in to add notes

2And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things?Log in to add notes

3I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.Log in to add notes

4Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?Log in to add notes

5I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.Log in to add notes

6He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.Log in to add notes

7Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?Log in to add notes

8And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:Log in to add notes

9And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.Log in to add notes