Daily Readings - 28/04/2026

^11:19 Those who had escaped during the persecution that happened because of Stephen travelled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch,[*a] but they usually proclaimed the message only to Jews.

^11:20 Some of them, however, who came from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch where they started preaching to the Greeks, proclaiming the Good News of the Lord Jesus to them as well.

^11:21 The Lord helped them, and a great number believed and were converted to the Lord.

^11:22 The church in Jerusalem heard about this and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

^11:23 There he could see for himself that God had given grace, and this pleased him, and he urged them all to remain faithful to the Lord with heartfelt devotion;

^11:24 for he was a good man, filled with the Holy Spirit and with faith. And a large number of people were won over to the Lord.

^11:25 Barnabas then left for Tarsus to look for Saul,

^11:26 and when he found him he brought him to Antioch. As things turned out they were to live together in that church a whole year, instructing a large number of people. It was at Antioch that the disciples were first called ‘Christians’.

^87:1 his city founded on the holy mountain;

^87:3 He has glorious predictions to make of you, city of God! (pause)

^87:4 ‘I will add Egypt and Babylon to the nations that acknowledge me. Of Philistia, Tyre, Ethiopia, “Here so and so was born” men say.

^87:5 But all call Zion “Mother”, since all were born in her.’ It is he who makes her what she is, he, the Most High,

^87:6 Yahweh; and as he registers the peoples, ‘It was here’ he writes ‘that so and so was born’. (pause)

^87:7 And there will be princes dancing there[*a]. All find their home in you.

^10:22 It was the time when the feast of Dedication was being celebrated in Jerusalem. It was winter,

^10:23 and Jesus was in the Temple walking up and down in the Portico of Solomon.

^10:24 The Jews gathered round him and said, ‘How much longer are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.’

^10:25 Jesus replied: ‘I have told you, but you do not believe. The works I do in my Father’s name are my witness;

^10:26 but you do not believe, because you are no sheep of mine.

^10:27 The sheep that belong to me listen to my voice; I know them and they follow me.

^10:28 I give them eternal life; they will never be lost and no one will ever steal them from me.

^10:29 The Father who gave them to me is greater than anyone, and no one can steal from the Father.

^10:30 The Father and I are one.’