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Daily Lectionary

February 12, 2025

February 11, 2025 February 13, 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 8:1-22

Round One: Bildad's Speech:
Experience shows God punishes the wicked
81Then Bildad the Shuhite responded:
2How long will you say such things?
How long will the words of your mouth be like a blustery wind?
3Does God pervert justice?
Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
4When your children sinned against him,
he handed them over to the consequences of their rebellion.
5But if you will eagerly seek God
and plead for compassion from the Almighty,
6if you are pure and upright,
then even now he will rouse himself on your behalf,
and he will restore your rightful dwelling place.
7Then, though your beginnings were small,
your final days will be very great!
8Yes, ask the previous generations,
and consider the discoveries of their fathers,
9because we were born only yesterday and know nothing.
Our days on earth are nothing but a shadow.
10Aren't our ancestors the ones who should teach you and inform you,
the ones who brought forth words from their hearts?
11Does papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh?
Do reeds thrive where there is no water?
12While they are still growing and uncut,
they can wither faster than any other plant.
13This is the way it will be for all those who forget God.
The hope of the godless man perishes.
14His source of confidence is fragile.
He trusts in something as fragile as a spider's web.
15He leans on his web, but it does not support him.
He grasps it, but it does not hold him up.
16He is a thriving plant flourishing in the sunshine,
spreading its shoots over the garden.
17It wraps its roots around a heap of rocks.
It finds a home among the stones.
18But if it is uprooted from its place,
that place disowns it, saying, “I have never seen you!”
19Yes, the only good thing that comes from this situation is that
from the dust another plant sprouts.[]
20Certainly God does not reject a blameless man
or strengthen the hand of evildoers.
21He will again fill your mouth with laughter
and your lips with a joyful shout.
22Your enemies will be clothed with shame,
and the tents of the wicked will be no more.

John 4:27-45

27Just then his disciples returned and were surprised that he was talking to a woman. Yet no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking to her?”
28Then the woman left her water jar and went back into town. She said to the people, 29“Come, see the man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” 30They left the town and came to him.
31Meanwhile, the disciples kept urging him, “Rabbi, eat.”
32But Jesus said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”
33Then the disciples said to each other, “Did anyone bring him something to eat?”
34Jesus told them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 35Do you not say, ‘Four more months and the harvest will be here’? Pay attention to what I am telling you. Open your eyes and look at the fields, because they are already[] ripe for harvest. 36The reaper is getting paid and is gathering grain for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together. 37Indeed in this case the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’ 38I sent you to reap a harvest for which you did no hard work. Others have done the hard work, and you have benefitted from their labor.”
39Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony: “He told me everything I ever did.” 40So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them. And he stayed there two days. 41Many more believed because of his message. 42They told the woman, “We no longer believe because of what you said. Now we have heard for ourselves. And we know that this really is the Savior of the world.”
Jesus Heals an Officer's Son
43After two days, Jesus left for Galilee. 44Now Jesus himself had testified that a prophet is not honored in his own country.
45When he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all the things he did at the Festival in Jerusalem, because they also had gone to the Festival.