Daily Readings - 15/04/2026

^5:17 Then the high priest intervened with all his supporters from the party of the Sadducees. Prompted by jealousy,

^5:18 they arrested the apostles and had them put in the common gaol.

^5:19 But at night the angel of the Lord opened the prison gates and said as he led them out,

^5:20 ‘Go and stand in the Temple, and tell the people all about this new Life’.

^5:21 They did as they were told; they went into the Temple at dawn and began to preach.

^5:22 But when the officials arrived at the prison they found they were not inside, so they went back and reported,

^5:23 ‘We found the gaol securely locked and the warders on duty at the gates, but when we unlocked the door we found no one inside’.

^5:24 When the captain of the Temple and the chief priests heard this news they wondered what this could mean.

^5:25 Then a man arrived with fresh news. ‘At this very moment’ he said ‘the men you imprisoned are in the Temple. They are standing there preaching to the people.’

^5:26 The captain went with his men and fetched them. They were afraid to use force in case the people stoned them.

^33:1 Shout for joy to Yahweh, all virtuous men, praise comes well from upright hearts;

^33:2 give thanks to Yahweh on the lyre, play to him on the ten-string harp;

^33:3 sing a new song in his honour, play with all your skill as you acclaim[*a] him!

^33:4 The word of Yahweh is integrity itself, all he does is done faithfully;

^33:5 he loves virtue and justice, Yahweh’s love fills the earth.

^33:6 By the word of Yahweh the heavens were made, their whole array by the breath of his mouth;

^33:7 he collects the ocean waters as though in a wineskin, he stores the deeps in cellars.

^33:8 Let the whole world fear Yahweh, let all who live on earth revere him!

^33:9 He spoke, and it was created; he commanded, and there it stood.

^33:10 Yahweh thwarts the plans of nations, frustrates the intentions of peoples;

^33:11 but Yahweh’s plans hold good for ever, the intentions of his heart from age to age.

^33:12 Happy the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people he has chosen for his heritage.

^33:13 Yahweh looks down from heaven, he sees the whole human race;

^33:14 from where he sits he watches all who live on the earth,

^33:15 he who moulds every heart and takes note of all men do.

^33:16 A large army will not keep a king safe, nor does the hero escape by his great strength;

^33:17 it is delusion to rely on the horse for safety, for all its power, it cannot save.

^33:18 But see how the eye of Yahweh is on those who fear him, on those who rely on his love,

^33:19 to rescue their souls from death and keep them alive in famine.

^33:20 Our soul awaits Yahweh, he is our help and shield;

^33:21 our hearts rejoice in him, we trust in his holy name.

^33:22 Yahweh, let your love rest on us as our hope has rested in you.

^3:16 Yes, God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost but may have eternal life.

^3:17 For God sent his Son into the world not to condemn the world, but so that through him the world might be saved.

^3:18 No one who believes in him will be condemned; but whoever refuses to believe is condemned already, because he has refused to believe in the name of God’s only Son.

^3:19 On these grounds is sentence pronounced: that though the light has come into the world men have shown they prefer darkness to the light because their deeds were evil.

^3:20 And indeed, everybody who does wrong hates the light and avoids it, for fear his actions should be exposed;

^3:21 but the man who lives by the truth comes out into the light, so that it may be plainly seen that what he does is done in God;’