Daily Readings - 25/05/2026

^3:9 But Yahweh God called to the man. ‘Where are you?’ he asked.

^3:10 ‘I heard the sound of you in the garden;’ he replied ‘I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.’

^3:11 ‘Who told you that you were naked?’ he asked ‘Have you been eating of the tree I forbade you to eat?’

^3:12 The man replied, ‘It was the woman you put with me; she gave me the fruit, and I ate it’.

^3:13 Then Yahweh God asked the woman, ‘What is this you have done?’ The woman replied, ‘The serpent tempted me and I ate’.

^3:14 Then Yahweh God said to the serpent, ‘Because you have done this, Be accursed beyond all cattle, all wild beasts. You shall crawl on your belly and eat dust every day of your life.

^3:15 I will make you enemies of each other: you and the woman, your offspring and her offspring. It will crush your head and you will strike its heel’.

^3:20 The man named his wife ‘Eve’ because she was the mother of all those who live[*a].

^1:12 So from the Mount of Olives, as it is called, they went back to Jerusalem, a short distance away, no more than a sabbath walk;

^1:13 and when they reached the city they went to the upper room where they were staying; there were Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Jude son of James.[*c]

^1:14 All these joined in continuous prayer, together with several women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.[*d]

^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.

^19:25 Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.

^19:26 Seeing his mother and the disciple he loved standing near her, Jesus said to his mother, ‘Woman, this is your son.

^19:27 Then to the disciple he said, ‘This is your mother’. And from that moment the disciple made a place for her in his home.

^19:28 After this, Jesus knew that everything had now been completed, and to fulfil the scripture perfectly he said: ‘I am thirsty’.[*c]

^19:29 A jar-full of vinegar stood there, so putting a sponge soaked in the vinegar on a hyssop stick they held it up to his mouth.

^19:30 After Jesus had taken the vinegar he said, ‘It is accomplished’; and bowing his head he gave up his spirit.

^19:31 It was Preparation Day, and to prevent the bodies remaining on the cross during the sabbath – since that sabbath was a day of special solemnity – the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken[*d] and the bodies taken away.

^19:32 Consequently the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with him and then of the other.

^19:33 When they came to Jesus, they found he was already dead, and so instead of breaking his legs

^19:34 one of the soldiers pierced his side with a lance; and immediately there came out blood and water.