Daily Readings - 03/02/2026

^86:1 Listen to me, Yahweh, and answer me, poor and needy as I am;

^86:2 keep my soul: I am your devoted one, save your servant who relies on you. You are my God,

^86:3 take pity on me, Lord, I invoke you all day long;

^86:4 give your servant reason to rejoice, for to you, Lord, I lift my soul.

^86:5 Lord, you are good and forgiving, most loving to all who invoke you;

^86:6 Yahweh, hear my prayer, listen to me as I plead.

^86:7 Lord, in trouble I invoke you, and you answer my prayer;

^86:8 there is no god to compare with you, no achievement to compare with yours.

^86:9 All the pagans will come and adore you, Lord, all will glorify your name,

^86:10 since you alone are great, you perform marvels, you God, you alone.

^86:11 Yahweh, teach me your way, how to walk beside you faithfully, make me single-hearted in fearing your name.

^86:12 I thank you with all my heart, Lord my God, I glorify your name for ever,

^86:13 your love for me has been so great, you have rescued me from the depths of Sheol.

^86:14 Now arrogant men, God, are attacking me, a brutal gang hounding me to death: people to whom you mean nothing.

^86:15 Lord God, you who are always merciful and tender-hearted, slow to anger, always loving, always loyal,

^86:16 turn to me and pity me. Give me your strength, your saving help, me your servant, this son of a pious mother,

^86:17 give me one proof of your goodness. Yahweh, make my opponents ashamed, show them that you are my help and consolation.

^5:21 When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered round him and he stayed by the lakeside.

^5:22 Then one of the synagogue officials came up, Jairus by name, and seeing him, fell at his feet

^5:23 and pleaded with him earnestly, saying, ‘My little daughter is desperately sick. Do come and lay your hands on her to make her better and save her life.’

^5:24 Jesus went with him and a large crowd followed him; they were pressing all round him.

^5:25 Now there was a woman who had suffered from a haemorrhage for twelve years;

^5:26 after long and painful treatment under various doctors, she spent all she had without being any the better for it, in fact, she was getting worse.

^5:27 She had heard about Jesus, and she came up behind him through the crowd and touched his cloak.

^5:28 ‘If I can touch even his clothes,’ she had told herself ‘I shall be well again.’

^5:29 And the source of the bleeding dried up instantly, and she felt in herself that she was cured of her complaint.

^5:30 Immediately aware that power had gone out from him, Jesus turned round in the crowd and said, ‘Who touched my clothes?’

^5:31 His disciples said to him, ‘You see how the crowd is pressing round you and yet you say, “Who touched me?”‘

^5:32 But he continued to look all round to see who had done it.

^5:33 Then the woman came forward, frightened and trembling[*b] because she knew what had happened to her, and she fell at his feet and told him the whole truth.

^5:34 ‘My daughter,’ he said ‘your faith has restored you to health; go in peace and be free from your complaint.’

^5:35 While he was still speaking some people arrived from the house of the synagogue official to say, ‘Your daughter is dead: why put the Master to any further trouble?’

^5:36 But Jesus had overheard this remark of theirs and he said to the official, ‘Do not be afraid; only have faith’.

^5:37 And he allowed no one to go with him except Peter and James and John the brother of James.

^5:38 So they came to the official’s house and Jesus noticed all the commotion, with people weeping and wailing unrestrainedly.

^5:39 He went in and said to them, ‘Why all this commotion and crying? The child is not dead, but asleep.’

^5:40 But they laughed at him. So he turned them all out and, taking with him the child’s father and mother and his own companions, he went into the place where the child lay.

^5:41 And taking the child by the hand he said to her, ‘Talitha, kum!’ which means, ‘Little girl, I tell you to get up’.

^5:42 The little girl got up at once and began to walk about, for she was twelve years old. At this they were overcome with astonishment,

^5:43 and he ordered them strictly not to let anyone know about it, and told them to give her something to eat.