Daily Readings - 23/03/2026

^23:1 Yahweh is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

^23:2 In meadows of green grass he lets me lie. To the waters of repose he leads me;

^23:3 there he revives my soul. He guides me by paths of virtue for the sake of his name.

^23:4 Though I pass through a gloomy Valley, beside me your rod and your staff are there, to hearten me.

^23:5 You prepare a table before me under the eyes of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil, my cup brims over.

^23:6 Ah, how goodness and kindness pursue me, every day of my life, my home, the house of Yahweh, as long as I live!

^8:1 and Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

^8:2 At daybreak he appeared in the Temple again; and as all the people came to him, he sat down and began to teach them.

^8:3 The scribes and Pharisees brought a woman along who had been caught committing adultery; and making her stand there in full view of everybody,

^8:4 they said to Jesus, ‘Master, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery,

^8:5 and Moses has ordered us in the Law to condemn women like this to death by stoning. What have you to say?’

^8:6 They asked him this as a test, looking for something to use against him. But Jesus bent down and started writing on the ground with his finger.

^8:7 As they persisted with their question, he looked up and said, ‘If there is one of you who has not sinned, let him be the first to throw a stone at her’.

^8:8 Then be bent down and wrote on the ground again.

^8:9 When they heard this they went away one by one, beginning with the eldest, until Jesus was left alone with the woman, who remained standing there.

^8:10 He looked up and said, ‘Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?’

^8:11 ‘No one, sir’ she replied. ‘Neither do I condemn you,’ said Jesus ‘go away, and don’t sin any more.’