Monday, December 23, 2041

Monday of the 29th week after Pentecost

Fasting: No fastJulian: December 10

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 8.11-21

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11And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.Log in to add notes

12And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.Log in to add notes

13And he left them, and entering into the ship again departed to the other side.Log in to add notes

14Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf.Log in to add notes

15And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.Log in to add notes

16And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have no bread.Log in to add notes

17And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?Log in to add notes

18Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?Log in to add notes

19When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.Log in to add notes

20And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.Log in to add notes

21And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?Log in to add notes