Saturday, December 5, 2043

Saturday of the 24th week after Pentecost

Fasting: No fastSix-sticheraJulian: November 22

Epistle

2 Corinthians 11.1-6

Read in context

1Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.Log in to add notes

2For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.Log in to add notes

3But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.Log in to add notes

4For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.Log in to add notes

5For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.Log in to add notes

6But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Luke 9.57-62

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57And it came to pass, that, as they went in the way, a certain man said unto him, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.Log in to add notes

58And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.Log in to add notes

59And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.Log in to add notes

60Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.Log in to add notes

61And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.Log in to add notes

62And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.Log in to add notes