Daily Readings - 26/04/2026

^2:14 Then Peter stood up with the Eleven and addressed them in a loud voice: ‘Men of Judaea, and all you who live in Jerusalem, make no mistake about this, but listen carefully to what I say.

^2:36 ‘For this reason the whole House of Israel can be certain that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ.’

^2:37 Hearing this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the apostles, ‘What must we do, brothers?’

^2:38 ‘You must repent,’ Peter answered ‘and every one of you must be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

^2:39 The promise that was made is for you and your children, and for all those who are far away, for all those whom the Lord our God will call to himself.'[*h]

^2:40 He spoke to them for a long time using many arguments, and he urged them, ‘Save yourselves from this perverse generation’.

^2:41 They were convinced by his arguments, and they accepted what he said and were baptised. That very day about three thousand were added to their number.

^22:1 My God, my God, why have you deserted me? How far from saving me, the words I groan!

^22:2 I call all day, my God, but you never answer, all night long I call and cannot rest.

^22:3 Yet, Holy One, you who make your home in the praises of Israel,

^22:4 in you our fathers put their trust, they trusted and you rescued them;

^22:5 they called to you for help and they were saved, they never trusted you in vain.

^22:6 Yet here am I, now more worm than man, scorn of mankind, jest of the people,

^22:7 all who see me jeer at me, they toss their heads and sneer,

^22:8 ‘He relied on Yahweh, let Yahweh save him! If Yahweh is his friend, let Him rescue him!’

^22:9 Yet you drew me out of the womb, you entrusted me to my mother’s breasts;

^22:10 placed on your lap from my birth, from my mother’s womb you have been my God.

^22:11 Do not stand aside: trouble is near, I have no one to help me!

^22:12 A herd of bulls surrounds me, strong bulls of Bashan close in on me;

^22:13 their jaws are agape for me, like lions tearing and roaring.

^22:14 I am like water draining away, my bones are all disjointed, my heart is like wax, melting inside me;

^22:16 A pack of dogs surrounds me, a gang of Villains closes me in; they tie me hand and foot

^22:17 I can count every one of my bones, and there they glare at me, gloating;

^22:18 they divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothes.

^22:19 Do not stand aside, Yahweh. O my strength, come quickly to my help;

^22:20 rescue my soul from the sword, my dear life from the paw of the dog,

^22:21 save me from the lion’s mouth, my poor soul from the wild bulls’ horns!

^22:22 Then I shall proclaim your name to my brothers, praise you in full assembly:

^22:23 you who fear Yahweh, praise him! Entire race of Jacob, glorify him! Entire race of Israel, revere him!

^22:24 For he has not despised or disdained the poor man in his poverty, has not hidden his face from him, but has answered him when he called.

^22:25 You are the theme of my praise in the Great Assembly, I perform my vows in the presence of those who fear him.

^22:26 The poor will receive as much as they want to eat. Those who seek Yahweh will praise him. Long life to their hearts!

^22:27 The whole earth, from end to end, will remember and come back to Yahweh; all the families of the nations will bow down before him.

^22:28 For Yahweh reigns, the ruler of nations!

^22:29 Before him all the prosperous of the earth will bow down, before him will bow all who go down to the dust. And my soul will live for him,

^22:30 my children will serve him; men will proclaim the Lord to generations

^22:31 still to come, his righteousness to a people yet unborn. All this he has done.

^10:1 ‘I tell you most solemnly, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold through the gate, but gets in some other way is a thief and a brigand.

^10:2 The one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the flock;

^10:3 the gatekeeper lets him in, the sheep hear his voice, one by one he calls his own sheep and leads them out.

^10:4 When he has brought out his flock, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow because they know his voice.

^10:5 They never follow a stranger but run away from him: they do not recognise the voice of strangers.’

^10:6 Jesus told them[*a] this parable but they failed to understand what he meant by telling it to them.

^10:7 So Jesus spoke to them again: ‘I tell you most solemnly, I am the gate of the sheepfold.

^10:8 All others who have come are thieves and brigands; but the sheep took no notice of them

^10:9 I am the gate. Anyone who enters through me will be safe: he will go freely in and out and be sure of finding pasture.

^10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it to the full.