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.

^23:1 Yahweh is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

^23:2 In meadows of green grass he lets me lie. To the waters of repose he leads me;

^23:3 there he revives my soul. He guides me by paths of virtue for the sake of his name.

^23:4 Though I pass through a gloomy Valley, beside me your rod and your staff are there, to hearten me.

^23:5 You prepare a table before me under the eyes of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil, my cup brims over.

^23:6 Ah, how goodness and kindness pursue me, every day of my life, my home, the house of Yahweh, as long as I live!

^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.