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Daily Lectionary

February 27, 2024

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These daily readings from the EHV follow the one-year daily lectionary provided in Christian Worship: Hymnal, the Lutheran Service Book, and the Treasury of Daily Prayer. In this lectionary, two readings of 15-25 verses each are provided for each day. Under this plan, nearly all of the New Testament and approximately one-third of the Old Testament are read each year. These readings fit well within the daily offices of Matins, Vespers, or Compline as daily family devotions.

Genesis 21:1-21

The Birth of Isaac
211The Lord visited[] Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as he had promised. 2Sarah conceived and gave birth to a son for Abraham in his old age, at the set time which God had announced to him. 3Abraham named the son who was born to him—the son whom Sarah had borne to him—[]Isaac.[] 4Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. 5Abraham was one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
6Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.” 7She said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne a son for him in his old age.”
8The child grew and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. 9Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, the son whom Hagar had borne to Abraham, laughing at Isaac. 10Therefore she said to Abraham, “Throw out this slave girl[] and her son! For the son of this slave will not be heir with my son Isaac.”
11Abraham was very distressed because of his son. 12God said to Abraham, “Do not be so distressed because of the boy and because of your maid.[] Listen to everything that Sarah says to you, because the family line of your descendants[] will be traced through Isaac. 13I will also make the son of the maid into a nation because he too is your offspring.”
14Abraham got up early in the morning. He took bread and a waterskin, which he gave to Hagar, putting it over her shoulder. He sent her away with her child. She set out and wandered in the wilderness near Beersheba. 15The water in the skin was used up, and she dragged the child under one of the bushes. 16She went and sat down by herself, across from him, at a distance, about a bow shot away, because she said, “Do not let me see the death of the child.” She sat across from him and wept loudly.
17God heard the boy's voice, and the Angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven and said to her, “What is wrong, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the boy's voice right where he is. 18Get up. Help the boy up, and take him by the hand, because I will make him into a great nation.”
19God opened her eyes, and she saw a well with water in it. She went, filled the skin with water, and gave the boy a drink. 20God was with the boy, and as he grew up, he lived in the wilderness and became an archer. 21He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Mark 6:35-56

35It was already late in the day when his disciples came to him and said, “This is a deserted place and it is already very late. 36Send them away so they can go into the surrounding country and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”
37But he answered them, “You give them something to eat.”
They asked him, “Should we go and buy two hundred denarii[] worth of bread and give them something to eat?”
38He said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go see.”
When they found out, they said, “Five, and two fish.”
39He directed everyone to sit down in groups on the green grass. 40They sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties. 41Jesus took the five loaves and the two fish, looked up to heaven, and blessed the loaves and broke them. Then he kept giving pieces to his disciples to set in front of them. He also divided the two fish among them all. 42They all ate and were satisfied. 43Then they picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces of bread and fish. 44There were five thousand men who ate the loaves.
Jesus Walks on Water
(Matthew 14:22-33; John 6:15-21)
45Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he himself dismissed the crowd. 46After he had sent them off, he went up the mountain to pray.
47When it was evening, the boat was in the middle of the sea, and Jesus was alone on the land. 48He saw them straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. About the fourth watch of the night,[] he went to them, walking on the sea. He was ready to pass by them. 49When they saw him walking on the sea, they thought he was a ghost, and they cried out. 50They all saw him and were terrified. Immediately he spoke with them and said, “Take courage! It is I.[] Do not be afraid.” 51Then he climbed up into the boat with them, and the wind stopped. They were completely amazed, 52because they had not understood about the loaves. Instead, their hearts were hardened.
53When they had crossed over, they landed at Gennesaret and anchored there. 54As soon as they stepped out of the boat, people recognized Jesus. 55They ran around that whole region and began to bring sick people on their stretchers to where they heard he was. 56Wherever he entered villages, cities, or the countryside, they were laying sick people in the marketplaces and pleading with him that they might just touch the edge of his garment. And all who touched it were made well.