Thursday, September 19, 2041

Thursday of the 15th week after Pentecost

Fasting: No fastSix-sticheraJulian: September 6

Epistle

Galatians 3.23-4.5

Read in context

3:23But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.Log in to add notes

3:24Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.Log in to add notes

3:25But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.Log in to add notes

3:26For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.Log in to add notes

3:27For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.Log in to add notes

3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.Log in to add notes

3:29And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.Log in to add notes

4:1Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;Log in to add notes

4:2But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.Log in to add notes

4:3Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:Log in to add notes

4:4But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,Log in to add notes

4:5To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Mark 6.30-45

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30And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught.Log in to add notes

31And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.Log in to add notes

32And they departed into a desert place by ship privately.Log in to add notes

33And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together unto him.Log in to add notes

34And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.Log in to add notes

35And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto him, and said, This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed:Log in to add notes

36Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.Log in to add notes

37He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?Log in to add notes

38He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.Log in to add notes

39And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.Log in to add notes

40And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.Log in to add notes

41And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all.Log in to add notes

42And they did all eat, and were filled.Log in to add notes

43And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.Log in to add notes

44And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men.Log in to add notes

45And straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the ship, and to go to the other side before unto Bethsaida, while he sent away the people.Log in to add notes