Daily Readings - 27/03/2026

^20:10 I hear so many disparaging me, ‘”Terror from every side!” Denounce him! Let us denounce him!’ All those who used to be my friends watched for my downfall, ‘Perhaps he will be seduced into error. Then we will master him and take our revenge!’

^20:11 But Yahweh is at my side, a mighty hero; my opponents will stumble, mastered, confounded by their failure; everlasting, unforgettable disgrace will be theirs.

^20:12 But you, Yahweh Sabaoth, you who probe with justice, who scrutinise the loins and heart, let me see the vengeance you will take on them, for I have committed my cause to you.

^20:13 Sing to Yahweh, praise Yahweh, for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hands of evil men.

^17:1 Yahweh, hear the plea of virtue, listen to my appeal, lend an ear to my prayer, my lips free from dishonesty.

^17:2 From your presence will my sentence come, your eyes are fixed on what is right.

^17:3 You probe my heart, examine me at night, you test me yet find nothing, no murmuring from me: my mouth has never sinned

^17:4 as most men’s do. No, I have treasured the words from your lips; in the path prescribed

^17:5 walking deliberately in your footsteps, so that my feet do not slip.

^17:6 I invoke you, God, and you answer me; turn your ear to me, hear what I say,

^17:7 display your marvellous kindness, saviour of fugitives! From those who revolt against you

^17:8 guard me like the pupil of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings

^17:9 from the onslaughts of the wicked. My enemies cluster round me, breathing hostility;

^17:10 entrenched in their fat, their mouths utter arrogant claims;

^17:11 now they are closing in, they have eyes for nothing but to see me overthrown.

^17:12 They look like a lion eager to tear to pieces, like a young lion crouching in its hide.

^17:13 Rise, Yahweh, subdue him face to face, rescue my soul from the wicked with your sword,

^17:14 with your hand, Yahweh, rescue me from men, from the sort of men whose lot is here and now. Cram their bellies from your stores, give them all the sons that they could wish for, let them have a surplus to leave their children!

^17:15 For me the reward of virtue is to see your face, and, on waking, to gaze my fill on your likeness.

^10:31 The Jews fetched stones to stone him,

^10:32 so Jesus said to them, ‘I have done many good works for you to see, works from my Father; for which of these are you stoning me?’

^10:33 The Jews answered him, ‘We are not stoning you for doing a good work but for blasphemy: you are only a man and you claim to be God.’

^10:34 Jesus answered: ‘Is it not written in your Law: I said, you are gods?[*b]

^10:35 So the Law uses the word gods of those to whom the word of God was addressed, and scripture cannot be rejected.

^10:36 Yet you say to someone the Father has consecrated and sent into the world, “You are blaspheming”, because he says, “I am the son of God”.

^10:37 If I am not doing my Father’s work, there is no need to believe me;

^10:38 but if I am doing it, then even if you refuse to believe in me, at least believe in the work I do; then you will know for sure that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.’

^10:39 They wanted to arrest him then, but he eluded them.

^10:40 He went back again to the far side of the Jordan to stay in the district where John had once been baptising.

^10:41 Many people who came to him there said, ‘John gave no signs, but all he said about this man was true’;

^10:42 and many of them believed in him.