Daily Lectionary

February 14, 2025

February 13, 2025 February 15, 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 10:1-22

10¹With all my heart I am weary of my life,

so I will express my complaint freely.

I will speak from the bitterness of my heart.

²I will say this to God: Do not condemn me.

Tell me why you are pressing charges against me.

³Is it good that you are oppressing me,

that you are rejecting what your hands have made,

at the same time that you favor the plans of the wicked?

⁴Do you have eyes made of flesh?

Do you see things the way a man does?

⁵Are your days like a man's days?

Are your years like the life span of a human?

⁶You do, in fact, investigate guilt,

and you do search carefully for sin.

⁷Although you know that I am not guilty,

there is no one who can rescue me from your hand.

⁸Your hands shaped me and made me,

but now you swallow me up completely.

⁹Please remember that it was you who shaped me like a clay pot.

Will you now return me to the dust?

¹⁰Aren't you the one who poured me out like milk,

who thickened me like a curd of cheese?

¹¹You clothed me with skin and flesh.

You wove me together with bones and tendons.

¹²You provided me with life and mercy,

and your watchful care has guarded my spirit.

¹³You hid these things in your heart,

but I know that this is what you had in mind:

¹⁴If I sinned and you were watching me,

you would not acquit me of my guilt.

¹⁵If I was wicked, I would be cursed!

But even if I was righteous, I could not lift up my head,

because I am filled with shame and aware^[] of my misery.

¹⁶If I lift myself up,^[] you hunt me down like a lion.

You turn and display amazing power against me.

¹⁷You produce new witnesses to oppose me,

and you become more irritated with me.

You attack me with reinforcements.

¹⁸Why, then, did you bring me out from the womb?

I wish I had died. Then no eye would have seen me.

¹⁹I wish I had been like someone who never lived.

Then I would have been carried from the womb to the tomb.

²⁰Don't I have only a few days?

Stop! Leave me alone, so that I can be happy for a short time,

²¹before I walk into the land of darkness

and into the shadow of death, never to return,

²²into the land of gloom, as dark as the shadow of death,

into the land of chaos, where even light is darkness.

John 5:1-18

Healing at the Pool

5¹After this, there was a Jewish festival, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

²Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool, called Bethesda^[] in Aramaic,^[] which has five colonnades. ³Within these lay a large number of sick people—blind, lame, or paralyzed—who were waiting for the movement of the water. ⁴For an angel would go down at certain times into the pool and stir up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.^[] ⁵One man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years. ⁶When Jesus saw him lying there and knew he had already been sick a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”

⁷“Sir,” the sick man answered, “I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I'm going, someone else goes down ahead of me.”

⁸Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” ⁹Instantly the man was healed. He picked up his mat and walked.

That day was the Sabbath. ¹⁰So the Jews told the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath! You are not permitted to carry your mat.”

¹¹He answered them, “The one who made me well told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”

¹²Then they asked him, “Who is the man who told you, ‘Pick it up and walk’?” ¹³But the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

¹⁴Later Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “Look, you are well now. Do not sin anymore so that nothing worse happens to you.”

¹⁵The man went back and reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who made him well.

God's Son

¹⁶So the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. ¹⁷But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working right up to the present time, and I am working too.”

¹⁸This is why the Jews tried all the more to kill him, because he was not merely breaking the Sabbath, but was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.