The Wartburg Project

Daily Lectionary

June 21, 2025

June 20, 2025 June 22, 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.

Proverbs 24:1-22

241Do not envy evil people,
and do not wish to be with them,
2because their hearts plan violence,
and their lips speak trouble.
3With wisdom a house is built.
With understanding it is established.
4With knowledge its rooms are filled with every kind of riches,
both valuable and appealing.
5A wise person grows strong,
and a knowledgeable man becomes more powerful,
6because advice prepares you for battle,
and many advisors bring victory.
7Wise decisions are out of reach[] for a stubborn fool.
In court[] he cannot open his mouth.
8Whoever plans evil will be called a master schemer.
9A foolish scheme is a sin,
and a mocker is disgusting to people.
10If you fail to act in the day of trouble,
your strength is too little.
11Rescue captives condemned to death,
and spare those staggering toward slaughter.
12If you say, “We did not know about this,”
won't the one who weighs motives notice?
Won't the one who guards your life know about it,
and won't he repay people according to what each one has done?
13My son, eat honey, because it is good.
Flowing honey is sweet on your palate.
14Know also that wisdom is sweet for your soul.
If you find it, then there is a future for you,
and your hope will never be cut off.
15Do not be like the wicked who attack the home of the righteous.
Do not destroy his resting place,
16because a righteous person may fall seven times, but he will get up,
while wicked people will stumble into misfortune.
17Do not be happy when your enemy falls.
Do not let your heart celebrate when he stumbles.
18If you do, the Lord will see it and consider it evil,
and he will turn his anger away from him.
19Do not fret about evildoers.
Do not be jealous of wicked people,
20because an evil person has no future.
The lamp of the wicked will be put out.
21Fear the Lord, my son, and also the king.
Do not associate with those who are rebellious,
22because their disaster will take place suddenly.
Who knows what ruin the Lord and the king will cause?

John 19:1-22

“Behold the Man!”
(Matthew 27:27-30; Mark 15:16-19)
191Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. 2The soldiers also twisted together a crown of thorns and placed it on his head. Then they threw a purple robe around him. 3They kept coming to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And they kept hitting him in the face.
4Pilate went outside again and said to them, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”
5So Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!”
6When the chief priests and guards saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!”
Pilate told them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.”
7The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.”
8When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid. 9He went back inside the palace again and asked Jesus, “Where are you from?”
But Jesus gave him no answer.
10So Pilate asked him, “Are you not talking to me? Don't you know that I have the authority to release you or to crucify you?”
11Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over me at all if it had not been given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.”
12From then on Pilate tried to release Jesus. But the Jews shouted, “If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar! Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar!”
13When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside. He sat down on the judge's seat at a place called the Stone Pavement, or Gabbatha in Aramaic. 14It was about the sixth hour[] on the Preparation Day for the Passover. Pilate said to the Jews, “Here is your king!”
15They shouted, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!”
Pilate said to them, “Should I crucify your king?”
“We have no king but Caesar!” the chief priests answered.
16So then Pilate handed Jesus over to them to be crucified.
“They Crucified Him”
(Matthew 27:31-44; Mark 15:20-32; Luke 23:26-38)
So they took Jesus away. 17Carrying his own cross, he went out to what is called the Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. 18There they crucified him with two others, one on each side, and Jesus in the middle.
19Pilate also had a notice written and fastened on the cross. It read, “Jesus the Nazarene, the King of the Jews.”
20Many of the Jews read this notice, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, Latin, and Greek.
21So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that this man said, ‘I am the King of the Jews.’”
22Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”