The Wartburg Project

Daily Lectionary

February 18, 2025

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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.

Job 13:13-28

13Silence! Let me speak.
I intend to speak up, no matter what happens.
14Why do I bite my flesh with my teeth?
Why do I take my life in my hands?
15Even if he slays me, I will wait for him with hope.[]
No matter what, I will defend my ways to his face.
16Even this may turn out for my salvation,
for no godless person would dare to face him.
17Listen carefully to my words!
Give my testimony a hearing.
18Please, listen. I have laid out my case.
I know that I am innocent.
19Who can make a case against me?
If anyone can, I will be quiet and die.
20Just do two things for me, God.
If you do, I will not hide from your face.
21Take your hands off me,
and do not terrify me with your grandeur.[]
22Summon me, and I will answer.
Or, I will speak, and you can respond to me.
23How much guilt and how many sins do I have?
Reveal my rebellion and my sin to me.
24Why do you hide your face?
Why do you treat me like your enemy?
25Will you toss me around[] like a wind-blown leaf?
Will you chase me away like dry chaff?
26You write bitter accusations against me,
and you hold me accountable for the guilt of my youth.
27You lock my feet in stocks
and station guards along all my paths.
You put your brand on the soles of my feet.
28So a man rots away like a garment eaten by moths.

John 6:22-40

Bread From Heaven
22The next day, the crowd that stayed on the other side of the sea noticed that only one boat[] was there. They also knew that Jesus had not stepped into the boat with his disciples, but they had gone away without him. 23Other boats from Tiberias came to shore near the place where they ate the bread after the Lord gave thanks. 24When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus. 25When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”
26Jesus answered them, “Amen, Amen, I tell you: You are not looking for me because you saw the miraculous signs, but because you ate the loaves and were filled. 27Do not continue to work for the food that spoils, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”
28So they said to him, “What should we do to carry out the works of God?”
29Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God: that you believe in the one he sent.”
30Then they asked him, “So what miraculous sign are you going to do, that we may see it and believe you? What miraculous sign are you going to perform? 31Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”[]
32Jesus said to them, “Amen, Amen, I tell you: Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the real bread from heaven. 33For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
34“Sir,” they said to him, “give us this bread all the time!”
35“I am the Bread of Life,” Jesus told them. “The one who comes to me will never be hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty. 36But I said to you that you have also seen me, and you do not believe. 37Everyone the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never cast out. 38For I have come down from heaven, not to do my will, but the will of him who sent me. 39And this is the will of him who sent me: that I should lose none of those he has given me, but raise them up on the Last Day. 40For this is the will of my Father: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life. And I will raise him up on the Last Day.”