Wednesday, January 20, 2049

Synaxis of St John the Baptist

Fasting: FastDoxologyJulian: January 7

Epistle — Forerunner

Acts 19.1-8

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1And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,Log in to add notes

2He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.Log in to add notes

3And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John’s baptism.Log in to add notes

4Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.Log in to add notes

5When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.Log in to add notes

6And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.Log in to add notes

7And all the men were about twelve.Log in to add notes

8And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.Log in to add notes

Epistle

Hebrews 10.1-18

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1For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.Log in to add notes

2For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.Log in to add notes

3But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.Log in to add notes

4For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.Log in to add notes

5Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:Log in to add notes

6In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.Log in to add notes

7Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.Log in to add notes

8Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;Log in to add notes

9Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.Log in to add notes

10By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.Log in to add notes

11And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:Log in to add notes

12But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;Log in to add notes

13From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.Log in to add notes

14For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.Log in to add notes

15Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,Log in to add notes

16This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;Log in to add notes

17And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.Log in to add notes

18Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.Log in to add notes

Gospel — Forerunner

John 1.29-34

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29The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.Log in to add notes

30This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.Log in to add notes

31And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.Log in to add notes

32And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.Log in to add notes

33And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.Log in to add notes

34And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Mark 8.30-34

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30And he charged them that they should tell no man of him.Log in to add notes

31And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.Log in to add notes

32And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.Log in to add notes

33But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.Log in to add notes

34And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.Log in to add notes