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Daily Lectionary

February 24, 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 19:1-12, 21-27

Round Two: Job's Second Speech:
I Know That My Redeemer Lives
191Then Job responded:
2How long will you torment my soul?
How long will you crush me with words?
3Ten times now you have insulted me,
but you are not ashamed that you are treating me so badly.
4But even if I actually were in the wrong,
my error would remain my own concern.
5To be sure, when you lord it over me,
and you hurl my disgrace against me,
6you should know that God has denied me justice,
and he has trapped me in his net.
7Listen to me!
I cry out, “Injustice,” but I get no answer.
I call for help, but there is no justice.
8He has blocked my way, so I cannot get by.
He has brought darkness on my paths.
9He has stripped me of my honor,
and he has taken the crown off my head.
10He tears me down on every side, until I am gone.
He uproots my hope like a tree.
11His anger burns against me,
and he regards me as his enemy.
12Together his troops advance against me.
They build a siege ramp against me.
They camp all around my tent.
21Have mercy on me.
Have mercy on me, you friends of mine,
because the hand of God has struck me.
22Why do you pursue me the way God does?
Will you never get enough of my flesh?
23Oh how I wish that my words were written down.
Oh how I wish that they were inscribed in bronze,[]
24that they would be engraved in rock forever
with an iron tool and letters filled with lead.
25As for me, I know that my Redeemer[] lives,
and that at the end of time[] he will stand over the dust.
26Then, even after my skin has been destroyed,
nevertheless, in my own flesh I will see God.[]
27I myself will see him.
My own eyes will see him, and not as a stranger.
My emotions are in turmoil[] within me.

John 8:1-20

The Adulteress
81But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2Early in the morning, he came back into the temple courts. And all the people kept coming to him. He sat down and taught them.
3Then the experts in the law and Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery and had her stand in the center. 4“Teacher,” they said to him, “this woman was caught in the act of committing adultery. 5In the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” 6They asked this to test him, so that they might have evidence to accuse him.
Jesus bent down and started writing on the ground with his finger. 7But when they kept on asking him for an answer, he stood up and said to them, “Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8Then he stooped down again and wrote on the ground.
9When they heard this, they went away one by one, beginning with the older men. Jesus was left alone with the woman in the center. 10Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
11“No one, Lord,” she answered.
Then Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go, and from now on do not sin anymore.”
Jesus Is the Light of the World
12When Jesus spoke to them again, he said, “I am the Light of the World. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
13So the Pharisees said to him, “You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid.”
14“Even if I testify about myself,” Jesus replied, “my testimony is valid, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I came from or where I am going. 15You judge according to the flesh. I am not judging anyone. 16But even if I were to judge, my judgment would be true, because I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me. 17Even in your law it is written that the testimony of two people is valid. 18I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”
19Then they asked him, “Where is your Father?”
“You do not know me or my Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew me, you would also know my Father.”
20He spoke these words while teaching in the temple area near the offering box. But no one arrested him, because his time had not arrived yet.