Daily Readings - 26/03/2026

^17:3 Abram bowed to the ground and God said this to him,

^17:4 Here now is my covenant with you: you shall become the father of a multitude of nations.

^17:5 You shall no longer be called Abram; Your name shall be Abraham,[*b] for I make you father of a multitude of nations.

^17:6 I will make you most fruitful. I will make you into nations, and your issue shall be kings.

^17:7 I will establish my Covenant between myself and you, and your descendants after you, generation after generation, a Covenant in perpetuity, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

^17:8 I will give to you and to your descendants after you the land you are living in, the whole land of Canaan, to own in perpetuity, and I will be your God’

^17:9 God said to Abraham, ‘You on your part shall maintain my Covenant, yourself and your descendants after you, generation after generation.

^105:1 Alleluia! Give thanks to Yahweh, call his name aloud, proclaim his deeds to the peoples!

^105:2 Sing to him, play to him, tell over all his marvels!

^105:3 Glory in his holy name, let the hearts that seek Yahweh rejoice!

^105:4 Seek Yahweh and his strength, seek his face untiringly;

^105:5 remember the marvels he has done, his wonders, the judgements from his mouth.

^105:6 Stock of Abraham his servant, sons of Jacob his chosen one!

^105:7 He is Yahweh our God, his authority is over all the earth.

^105:8 Remember his covenant for ever, his word of command for a thousand generations,

^105:9 the pact he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac.

^105:10 He established it as a statute for Jacob, an everlasting covenant for Israel.

^105:11 ‘I give you a land,’ he said ‘Canaan, your allotted heritage.

^105:12 There where you were easily counted, few in number, strangers to the country.’

^105:13 They went from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people;

^105:14 he let no man oppress them, he punished kings on their behalf.

^105:15 ‘Do not touch my anointed ones,’ he said ‘do not harm my prophets!’

^105:16 Next, he called down famine on the country, he broke their staff, that is, their bread;

^105:17 he sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, sold as a slave.

^105:18 They tortured his feet with fetters, they put his neck in irons;

^105:19 time passed, Joseph’s oracle came true, Yahweh’s word proved him right.

^105:20 The king gave orders to release him, that master of nations set him free,

^105:21 putting him in charge of his household, in control of all he possessed,

^105:22 to train his officials as he thought fit and convert his elders into sages.

^105:23 Israel then migrated to Egypt, Jacob settled in the land of Ham.

^105:24 He made his people fertile and more vigorous than their oppressors,

^105:25 whose hearts he then disposed to hatred of his people and double-dealing with his servants.

^105:26 He sent his servant Moses, and Aaron, the man of his choice;

^105:27 there they displayed his signs, his wonders in the land of Ham.

^105:28 He sent darkness, darkness fell, but still they defied his word.

^105:29 He turned their rivers into blood, thus killing all their fish.

^105:30 Their country was overrun with frogs even in the royal apartments;

^105:31 he spoke: flies and mosquitoes swarmed throughout the country.

^105:32 He sent them hail instead of rain, fire swept across their land;

^105:33 he blasted their vines and fig trees, he shattered the trees throughout the country.

^105:34 He spoke: there came locusts, grasshoppers, more than you could count,

^105:35 eating every scrap of greenstuff, every blade their soil produced.

^105:36 Next, he struck down all the first-born in their land, the entire first-fruits of their fertility;

^105:37 then he led Israel out with gold and silver, and not one man of their tribes was left behind.

^105:38 Egypt was glad to see them go, they had filled her with alarm;

^105:39 he spread a cloud to cover them, and a fire to glow at night.

^105:40 They demanded food, he sent them quails, he satisfied them with the bread of heaven;

^105:41 he opened the rock, the waters gushed to flow through the desert like a river.

^105:42 Yes, faithful to the sacred promise given to his servant Abraham,

^105:43 he led his happy people forward, to joyful shouts from his chosen,

^105:44 and gave them the pagans’ territories. Where others had toiled, they took possession,

^105:45 on condition that they kept his statutes and remained obedient to his laws.

^8:51 I tell you most solemnly, whoever keeps my word will never see death.’

^8:52 The Jews said, ‘Now we know for certain that you are possessed. Abraham is dead, and the prophets are dead, and yet you say, “Whoever keeps my word will never know the taste of death”.

^8:53 Are you greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? The prophets are dead too. Who are you claiming to be?’

^8:54 Jesus answered: ‘If I were to seek my own glory that would be no glory at all; my glory is. conferred by the Father, by the one of whom you say, “He is our God”

^8:55 although you do not know him. But I know him, and if I were to say: I do not know him, I should be a liar, as you are liars yourselves. But I do know him, and I faithfully keep his word.

^8:56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to think that he would see my Day; he saw it and was glad.’

^8:57 The Jews then said, ‘You are not fifty yet, and you have seen Abraham!’

^8:58 Jesus replied: ‘I tell you most solemnly, before Abraham ever was, I Am’.

^8:59 At this they picked up stones to throw at him[*b]; but Jesus hid himself and left the Temple.