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Daily Lectionary

April 29, 2025

April 28, 2025 April 30, 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.

Exodus 23:14-33

Laws About Festivals
(Leviticus 23, Deuteronomy 16)
14Three times a year you shall observe pilgrimage festivals for me:
15You shall observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread.[] For seven days you shall eat bread without yeast, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib (for during that month you came out from Egypt). No one is to appear before me empty-handed.
16Next observe the Festival of Reaping[] by presenting the first ripe produce of your labors, which you sow in the field.
Finally, observe the Festival of Ingathering,[] at the end of the year, when you pick the fruits of your labors from the fields. 17Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord God.
18You shall not offer any bread made with yeast together with the blood of my sacrifices. None of the fat from my festival shall remain until morning. 19The very first produce from your soil you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God.
You shall not boil a baby goat in its mother's milk.
The Angel of the Lord Will Lead Israel
20Look, I will send an angel before you to guard you on your way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. 21Pay attention to him. Listen to his voice. Do not provoke him, because he will not pardon your disobedience, for my Name is in him. 22But if you carefully listen to his voice and carry out all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
23Yes, my Angel shall go ahead of you and bring you into the territory of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. Then I will cut them off. 24You shall not bow down to their gods. Do not serve them or follow their practices, but you must completely overthrow them and demolish their sacred memorial stones. 25You shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst. 26No one will miscarry or be childless[] in your land. I will grant you the full number of your days.
27I will send my terror before you, and I will spread confusion among all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs and flee from you. 28I will send the hornet ahead of you. It will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from your presence. 29I will not drive them out from before you in a single year, or the land would become desolate, and the wild animals would become too numerous for you. 30As you advance, I will drive them out little by little, until you have grown in number and taken possession of the land.
31I will establish your border from the Red Sea[] all the way to the Mediterranean Sea,[] and from the Wilderness[] to the River.[] So I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you. 32You shall not make a treaty[] with them or with their gods. 33They are not to dwell in your land, or they will make you sin against me, because if you serve their gods, this will surely be a trap for you.

Luke 4:31-44

Jesus Drives Out a Demon
(Mark 1:21-28)
31He went down to Capernaum, a town of Galilee, and was teaching them on the Sabbath. 32They were amazed by his teaching, because his message had authority. 33In the synagogue there was a man who was possessed by the unclean spirit of a demon. He cried out with a loud voice, 34“Leave us alone! What do you have to do with us, Jesus the Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God!”
35Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!” The demon threw him down in front of them and came out of him without harming him.
36They were all filled with awe and began to say to one another, “What is this message? With authority and power he commands unclean spirits, and they come out!” 37News about him spread to every place in the surrounding area.
Jesus Heals Many
(Matthew 8:14-18; Mark 1:29-34)
38Jesus got up, left the synagogue, and went into Simon's house. Simon's mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever. They asked him to help her. 39He stood over her, rebuked the fever, and it left her. Immediately she got up and began to serve them. 40As the sun was setting, they brought to him all who were sick with various diseases. He laid his hands on every one of them and healed them. 41Demons also came out of many people, crying out, “You are the Son of God!” He rebuked them and did not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.
42When it was day, he went out to a deserted place. The crowds were looking for him. They went up to him and were trying to prevent him from leaving them. 43But he told them, “I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns too, because that is why I was sent.” 44And he continued to preach in the synagogues in the land of the Jews.[]