The Wartburg Project

Daily Lectionary

March 7, 2025

March 6, 2025 March 8, 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.

Genesis 2:4-25

The Creation of Man and Woman
4This is the account about the development[] of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens:
5No bushes that grow in the field were yet on the earth,[] and no plants of the field had yet sprung up, since the Lord God had not yet caused it to rain on the earth. There was not yet a man to till the soil, 6but water[] came up from the earth and watered the entire surface of the ground.
7The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground[] and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. 8The Lord God planted a garden[] in Eden in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9Out of the ground the Lord God made every kind of tree grow—trees that are pleasant to look at and good for food, including the Tree of Life in the middle of the garden and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
10A river went out from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided and became the headwaters of four rivers. 11The name of the first river is Pishon. It flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold, 12and the gold of that land is good. Incense[] and onyx stone are also found there. 13The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that winds through the whole land of Cush.[] 14The name of the third river is Tigris. This is the one which flows along the east side of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
15The Lord God took the man and settled him in the Garden of Eden to work it and to take care of it. 16The Lord God gave a command to the man. He said, “You may freely eat from every tree in the garden, 17but you shall not eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, for on the day that you eat from it, you will certainly die.”
18The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is a suitable partner for him.” 19Out of the soil the Lord God had formed every wild animal and every bird of the sky, and he brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that became its name. 20The man gave names to all the livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every wild animal, but for Adam[] no helper was found who was a suitable partner for him. 21The Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, the Lord God took a rib[] and closed up the flesh where it had been. 22The Lord God built a woman from the rib that he had taken from the man and brought her to the man.
23The man said,
Now this one is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh.
She will be called “woman,”
because she was taken out of man.[]
24For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother
and will remain united with his wife,
and they will become one flesh.[]
25They were both naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed.

Mark 1:29-45

Jesus Heals Many
(Matthew 8:14-17; Luke 4:38-41)
29They left the synagogue and went with James and John to the home of Simon and Andrew. 30Simon's mother-in-law was lying in bed, sick with a fever. Without delay they told Jesus about her. 31He went to her, took her by the hand, and raised her up. The fever left her, and she began to serve them. 32That evening, when the sun had set, the people kept bringing to him all who were sick and demon-possessed. 33The whole town gathered at the door. 34He healed many people who were sick with various diseases and drove out many demons. But he did not allow the demons to speak, because they knew who he was.[]
Jesus Preaches in Galilee
(Matthew 4:23-25; Luke 4:42-44)
35Jesus got up early in the morning, while it was still dark, and went out. He withdrew to a solitary place and was praying there. 36Simon and his companions searched for him, 37and, when they found him, they said to him, “Everyone is looking for you!”
38He told them, “Let's go somewhere else, to the neighboring villages, so that I can preach there too. In fact, that is why I have come.” 39Then he went throughout the whole region of Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and driving out demons.
Jesus Heals a Leper
(Matthew 8:1-4; Luke 5:12-15)
40A leper came to Jesus. He knelt down and begged him, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.”
41Moved with compassion, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him. “I am willing,” he told him. “Be clean.” 42Immediately the leprosy left him, and he was healed. 43Then Jesus gave him a stern warning and immediately sent him away. 44He told him, “See that you do not say anything to anyone. Instead go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the sacrifices for your cleansing that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”
45But after the man left, he began to proclaim it widely. He spread the word so much that Jesus was no longer able to enter a town openly but stayed outside in deserted places. Yet people kept coming to him from all directions.