The Wartburg Project

Daily Lectionary

June 4, 2025

June 3, 2025 June 5, 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.

Numbers 16:23-40

23The Lord spoke to Moses: 24“Tell the assembly, ‘Move away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram!’” 25So Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram. The elders of Israel followed him. 26He told the assembly, “Move back from the tents of these wicked men. Do not touch anything that belongs to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins!” 27So from every side, they moved away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the entrance to their tents with their wives, children, and little ones.
28Moses said, “This is how you will know that the Lord has sent me to do all these things and that all this was not just my idea.[] 29If these men die a death like everyone else and if they suffer the same fate that everyone does, then the Lord has not sent me. 30But if the Lord creates something unheard of and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the grave,[] you will know that these men have treated the Lord with contempt.”
31As soon as he finished speaking all these words, the ground beneath them split open. 32The earth opened its mouth and swallowed up everyone who was with Korah, along with their households and all their possessions. 33So they and everything that belonged to them went down alive into the grave. The earth closed up over them, and they disappeared from the midst of the assembly. 34Hearing their screams, all the Israelites who were around them fled, because they said, “The earth will swallow us up too!” 35Fire went out from the Lord and consumed the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.
36The Lord spoke to Moses:[] 37“Tell Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to remove the censers from the burning debris and scatter the fire far away, for the censers are holy. 38Make the censers belonging to those who sinned at the cost of their own lives into hammered sheets for plating the altar, because they presented them before the Lord, and the censers are holy. They will serve as a sign to the Israelites.”
39Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which had been presented by those who had been burned up by fire. They hammered them into plating for the altar 40as a reminder to the Israelites that no unauthorized person, who is not from the descendants of Aaron, should come near to burn incense before the Lord and become like Korah and his followers. Eleazar the priest did just as the Lord said to him through Moses.

Luke 19:29-48

29As he came near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples ahead, 30saying, “Go to the village ahead of you. When you enter it, you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it here. 31And if anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ you will say this: ‘The Lord needs it.’”
32Those who were sent ahead went and found things just as he had told them. 33As they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?”
34They said, “The Lord needs it.”
35Then they brought the colt to Jesus. They threw their robes on the colt and set Jesus on it. 36As he went along, people spread their robes on the road. 37As he was approaching the slope of the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began to praise God joyfully, with a loud voice, for all the miracles they had seen, 38saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord![] Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
39Some of the Pharisees from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!”
40He replied, “I tell you, if these people would be silent, the stones would cry out.”
41As he came near, he saw the city and wept over it. 42He said, “If you, yes you, had only known on this day[] the things that would bring peace to you. But now, it is hidden from your eyes. 43In fact, the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you, surround you, and hem you in on every side. 44Within your walls, they will dash you and your children to the ground. And within your walls, they will not leave one stone on top of another, because you did not recognize the time when God came to help you.”[]
Jesus Cleanses His Father's House
(Matthew 21:12-17; Mark 11:15-19)
45Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling[] things there. 46He told them, “It is written, ‘My house will be a house of prayer,’[] but you have made it a ‘den of robbers’!”[]
47Every day he was teaching in the temple courts, but the chief priests, the experts in the law, and the leaders of the people continued to look for a way to put him to death. 48They could not find any way to do it, because all the people were clinging to him and listening.