Friday of the 4th week of Lent

1For they said within themselves, with unsound reasoning,

“Our life is short and sorrowful.

There is no healing when a man comes to his end,

and no one was ever known who was released from Hades.

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12But let’s lie in wait for the righteous man,

because he annoys us,

is contrary to our works,

reproaches us with sins against the law,

and charges us with sins against our training.

13He professes to have knowledge of God,

and calls himself a child of the Lord.

14He became to us a reproof of our thoughts.

15He is grievous to us even to look at,

because his life is unlike other men’s,

and his paths are strange.

16We were regarded by him as something worthless,

and he abstains from our ways as from uncleanness.

He calls the latter end of the righteous happy.

He boasts that God is his father.

17Let’s see if his words are true.

Let’s test what will happen at the end of his life.

18For if the righteous man is God’s son, he will uphold him,

and he will deliver him out of the hand of his adversaries.

19Let’s test him with insult and torture,

that we may find out how gentle he is,

and test his patience.

20Let’s condemn him to a shameful death,

for he will be protected, according to his words.”

21Thus they reasoned, and they were led astray;

for their wickedness blinded them,

22and they didn’t know the mysteries of God,

neither did they hope for wages of holiness,

nor did they discern that there is a prize for blameless souls.

16The LORD’s face is against those who do evil,

to cut off their memory from the earth.

17The righteous cry, and the LORD hears,

and delivers them out of all their troubles.

18The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart,

and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

19Many are the afflictions of the righteous,

but the LORD delivers him out of them all.

20He protects all of his bones.

Not one of them is broken.

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22The LORD redeems the soul of his servants.

None of those who take refuge in him shall be condemned.

1After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. 2Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.

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10But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

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25Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill? 26Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ? 27However, we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.” 28Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know. 29I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.” 30They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.