Daily Readings - 10/04/2026

^4:1 While they were still talking to the people the priests came up to them, accompanied by the captain of the Temple and the Sadducees.[*a]

^4:2 They were extremely annoyed at their teaching the people the doctrine of the resurrection from the dead by proclaiming the resurrection of Jesus.

^4:3 They arrested them, but as it was already late, they held them till the next day.

^4:4 But many of those who had listened to their message became believers, the total number of whom had now risen to something like five thousand.

^4:5 The next day the rulers, elders and scribes[*b] had a meeting in Jerusalem

^4:6 with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, Jonathan, Alexander and all the members of the high-priestly families.

^4:7 They made the prisoners stand in the middle and began to interrogate them, ‘By what power, and by whose name have you men done this?’

^4:8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, addressed them, ‘Rulers of the people, and elders!

^4:9 If you are questioning us today about an act of kindness to a cripple, and asking us how he was healed,

^4:10 then I am glad to tell you all, and would indeed be glad to tell the whole people of Israel, that it was by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, the one you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by this name and by no other that this man is able to stand up perfectly healthy, here in your presence, today.

^4:11 This is the stone rejected by you the builders, but which has proved to be the keystone.[*c]

^4:12 For of all the names in the world given to men, this is the only one by which we can be saved.’

^118:1 Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, his love is everlasting!

^118:2 Let the House of Israel say it, ‘His love is everlasting!’

^118:3 Let the House of Aaron say it, ‘His love is everlasting!’

^118:4 Let those who fear Yahweh say it, ‘His love is everlasting!’

^118:5 Hard-pressed, I invoked Yahweh, he heard me and came to my relief.

^118:6 With Yahweh on my side, I fear nothing: what can man do to me?

^118:7 With Yahweh on my side, best help of all, I can triumph over my enemies.

^118:8 I would rather take refuge in Yahweh than rely on men;

^118:9 I would rather take refuge in Yahweh than rely on princes.

^118:10 The pagans were swarming round me, in the name of Yahweh I cut them down;

^118:11 they swarmed round me closer and closer, in the name of Yahweh I cut them down;

^118:12 they swarmed round me like bees, they blazed like a thorn-fire, in the name of Yahweh I cut them down.

^118:13 I was pressed, pressed, about to fall, but Yahweh came to my help;

^118:14 Yahweh is my strength and my song, he has been my saviour.

^118:15 Shouts of joy and safety in the tents of the virtuous: Yahweh’s right hand is wreaking havoc,

^118:16 Yahweh’s right hand is winning, Yahweh’s right hand is wreaking havoc!

^118:17 No, I shall not die, I shall live to recite the deeds of Yahweh;

^118:18 though Yahweh has punished me often, he has not abandoned me to Death.

^118:19 Open the gates of virtue to me, I will come in and give thanks to Yahweh.

^118:20 This is Yahweh’s gateway, through which the virtuous may enter.

^118:21 I thank you for having heard me, you have been my saviour.

^118:22 It was the stone rejected by the builders that proved to be the keystone;

^118:23 this is Yahweh’s doing and it is wonderful to see.

^118:24 This is the day made memorable by Yahweh, what immense joy for us!

^118:25 Please, Yahweh, please save us. Please, Yahweh, please give us prosperity.

^118:26 Blessings on him who comes in the name of Yahweh! We bless you from the house of Yahweh.

^118:27 Yahweh is God, he smiles on us. With branches in your hands draw up in procession as far as the horns of the altar,

^118:28 You are my God, I give you thanks, I extol you, my God; I give you thanks for having heard me, you have been my saviour.

^118:29 Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, his love is everlasting!

^21:1 Later on, Jesus showed himself again to the disciples. It was by the Sea of Tiberias, and it happened like this:

^21:2 Simon Peter, Thomas called the Twin, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee and two more of his disciples were together.

^21:3 Simon Peter said, ‘I’m going fishing’. They replied, ‘We’ll come with you’. They went out and got into the boat but caught nothing that night.

^21:4 It was light by now and there stood Jesus on the shore, though the disciples did not realise that it was Jesus.

^21:5 Jesus called out, ‘Have you caught anything, friends?’ And when they answered, ‘No’,

^21:6 he said, ‘Throw the net out to starboard and you’ll find something’. So they dropped the net, and there were so many fish that they could not haul it in.

^21:7 The disciple Jesus loved said to Peter, ‘It is the Lord’. At these words ‘It is the Lord’, Simon Peter, who had practically nothing on, wrapped his cloak round him and jumped into the water.

^21:8 The other disciples came on in the boat, towing the net and the fish; they were only about a hundred yards from land.

^21:9 As soon as they came ashore they saw that there was some bread there, and a charcoal fire with fish cooking on it.

^21:10 Jesus said, ‘Bring some of the fish you have just caught’.

^21:11 Simon Peter went aboard and dragged the net to the shore, full of big fish, one hundred and fifty-three of them; and in spite of there being so many the net was not broken.

^21:12 Jesus said to them, ‘Come and have breakfast’. None of the disciples was bold enough to ask, ‘Who are you?’; they knew quite well it was the Lord.

^21:13 Jesus then stepped forward, took the bread and gave it to them, and the same with the fish.

^21:14 This was the third time that Jesus showed himself to the disciples after rising from the dead.