Daily Readings - 15/01/2026

^43:1 Defend me, take up my cause against people who have no pity; from the treacherous and cunning man rescue me, God.

^43:2 It is you, God, who are my shelter: why do you abandon me? Why must I walk so mournfully, oppressed by the enemy?

^43:3 Send out your light and your truth, let these be my guide, to lead me to your holy mountain and to the place where you live.

^43:4 Then I shall go to the altar of God, to the God of my joy, I shall rejoice, I shall praise you on the harp, Yahweh, my God.

^43:5 Why so downcast, my soul, why do you sigh within me? Put your hope in God: I shall praise him yet, my saviour, my God.

^1:40 A leper came to him and pleaded on his knees: ‘If you want to’ he said ‘you can cure me’.

^1:41 Feeling sorry for him, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him. ‘Of course I want to!’ he said. ‘Be cured!’

^1:42 And the leprosy left him at once and he was cured.

^1:43 Jesus immediately sent him away and sternly ordered him,

^1:44 ‘Mind you say nothing to anyone, but go and show yourself to the priest, and make the offering for your healing prescribed by Moses as evidence of your recovery’.

^1:45 The man went away, but then started talking about it freely and telling the story everywhere, so that Jesus could no longer go openly into any town, but had to stay outside in places where nobody lived. Even so, people from all around would come to him.