Daily Readings - 01/05/2026

^13:26 ‘My brothers, sons of Abraham’s race, and all you who fear God, this message of salvation is meant for you.

^13:27 What the people of Jerusalem and their rulers did, though they did not realise it, was in fact to fulfil the prophecies read on every sabbath.

^13:28 Though they found nothing to justify his death, they condemned him and asked Pilate to have him executed.

^13:29 When they had carried out everything that scripture foretells about him they took him down from the tree and buried him in a tomb.

^13:30 But God raised him from the dead,

^13:31 and for many days he appeared to those who had accompanied him from Galilee to Jerusalem: and it is these same companions of his who are now his witnesses before our people.

^13:32 ‘We have come here to tell you the Good News. It was to our ancestors that God made the promise but

^13:33 it is to us, their children, that he has fulfilled it, by raising Jesus from the dead. As scripture says in the first psalm: You are my son: today I have become your father.

^2:1 Why this uproar among the nations? Why this impotent muttering of pagans –

^2:2 kings on earth rising in revolt, princes plotting against Yahweh and his Anointed,

^2:3 ‘Now let us break their fetters! Now let us throw off their yoke!’

^2:4 The One whose throne is in heaven sits laughing, Yahweh derides them.

^2:5 Then angrily he addresses them, in a rage he strikes them with panic,

^2:6 ‘This is my king, installed by me on Zion, my holy mountain’.

^2:7 Let me proclaim Yahweh’s decree; he has told me, ‘You are my son, today I have become your father.

^2:8 Ask and I will give you the nations for your heritage, the ends of the earth for your domain.

^2:9 With iron sceptre you will break them, shatter them like potter’s ware.’

^2:10 So now, you kings, learn wisdom, earthly rulers, be warned:

^2:11 serve Yahweh, fear him,

^2:12 tremble and kiss his feet, or he will be angry and you will perish, for his anger is very quick to blaze. Happy all who take shelter in him.

^14:1 ‘Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God still, and trust in me.

^14:2 There are many rooms in my Father’s house; if there were not, I should have told you. I am going now to prepare a place for you,

^14:3 and after I have gone and prepared you a place, I shall return to take you with me; so that where I am you may be too.

^14:4 You know the way to the place where I am going.’

^14:5 Thomas said, ‘Lord, we do not know where you are going, so how can we know the way?’

^14:6 Jesus said: ‘I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

^13:54 and, coming to his home town,[*e] he taught the people in their synagogue in such a way that they were astonished and said, ‘Where did the man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?

^13:55 This is the carpenter’s son, surely? Is not his mother the woman called Mary, and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Jude?

^13:56 His sisters, too, are they not all here with us? So where did the man get it all?’

^13:57 And they would not accept him. But Jesus said to them, ‘A prophet is only despised in his own country and in his own house’,

^13:58 and he did not work many miracles there because of their lack of faith.