The Wartburg Project

Daily Lectionary

February 6, 2025

February 5, 2025 February 7, 2025

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.

Job 3:11-26

11Why did I not die at birth
or pass away as I came from the womb?
12Why did my mother's knees receive me?
Why were her breasts there to nurse me?
13For then I would be lying down peacefully.
I would be sleeping and resting quietly
14with the kings and counselors of the earth,
with those who rebuilt ruined cities for themselves,[]
15with high officials who accumulated gold,
with those who filled their houses with silver.
16Why was I not hidden like a stillborn child,
like the infants who never see the light of day?
17There the wicked cease from turmoil.
There the weary are at rest.
18There the prisoners are at ease together.
They no longer hear the voice of the slave driver.
19There the small and great are alike,
and the slave is free from his master.
20Why is light given to those weighed down with grief?
Why is life given to those whose spirit is bitter,
21to those who yearn for death but it does not come,
though they dig for it more than for buried treasure,
22to those who will be thrilled with happiness,
those who will celebrate when they reach the grave?
23Why is light given to a man whose path is hidden,
to one whom God has hedged in?
24Now my sighing takes the place of my daily bread.
My groans gush forth like water,
25because what I feared has overwhelmed me,
and that which I dreaded has come upon me.
26I have no ease, no quiet, no rest.
Instead, turmoil has come.

John 1:35-51

The First Disciples
(Matthew 4:18-22; Mark 1:14-20; Luke 5:1-11)
35The next day, John was standing there again with two of his disciples. 36When John saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look! The Lamb of God!” 37The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus.
38When Jesus turned around and saw them following him, he asked, “What are you looking for?”
They said to him, “Rabbi” (which means “Teacher”), “where are you staying?”
39He told them, “Come, and you will see.” So they came and saw where he was staying. They stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.[]
40Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who heard John and followed Jesus. 41The first thing Andrew did was to find his own brother Simon and say to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is translated “the Christ”).[] 42He brought him to Jesus.
Looking at him, Jesus said, “You are Simon, son of Jonah.[] You will be called Cephas,” (which means the same thing as Peter).[]
43The next day, Jesus wanted to leave for Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.” 44Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the hometown of Andrew and Peter.
45Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
46Nathanael said to him, “Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?”
“Come and see!” Philip told him.
47Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said about him, “Truly, here is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit.”
48Nathanael asked him, “How do you know me?”
Jesus answered, “Before Philip called you, while you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”
49Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”
50Jesus replied, “You believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree. You will see greater things than that!” 51Then he added, “Amen, Amen,[] I tell you:[] You will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”