The Wartburg Project

Daily Lectionary

October 25, 2027

October 24, 2027 October 26, 2027

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.

Deuteronomy 27:1-26

The Altar for Cursing and Blessing
271Moses and the elders of Israel gave the following orders to the people:
Keep the entire set of commands that I am giving you today.
2At the time that you cross the Jordan into the land that the Lord your God is giving to you, set up large stones and coat them with lime plaster. 3Write on them all the words of this law when you cross over to enter the land that the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your fathers, promised you. 4When you cross over the Jordan, set up these stones on Mount Ebal and coat them with lime plaster, as I am commanding you today.
5Build an altar there to the Lord your God, an altar made of stones. Do not shape them with an iron tool. 6Build the altar of the Lord your God with whole, uncut stones, and offer whole burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God. 7Sacrifice fellowship offerings and eat there, and rejoice before the Lord your God.
8Write clearly and carefully all of the words of this law on the stones.
9Moses and the priests, who are Levites, also spoke the following to all Israel:
Be silent and listen, Israel! Today you have become the people of the Lord your God. 10Obey the voice of the Lord your God and carry out his commandments and statutes that I am giving you today.
11Then Moses gave this command to the people that day:
12The following tribes will stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people when you cross the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin. 13The following will stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
The Liturgical Curses From Mount Ebal
14The Levites will testify to every person of Israel with a loud voice:
15Cursed is the man that makes a carved image or a molten metal image, an abomination to the Lord, a work of the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up secretly.
All the people will say, “Amen!”
16Cursed is anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.
All the people will say, “Amen!”
17Cursed is anyone who moves the boundary marker of his neighbor.
All the people will say, “Amen!”
18Cursed is anyone who leads astray a blind man on his way.
All the people will say, “Amen!”
19Cursed is anyone who perverts the justice due to an alien who resides among you, or justice due to the fatherless or a widow.
All the people will say, “Amen!”
20Cursed is any man who lies down with his father's wife, because he has removed the skirt that is reserved for his father.
All the people will say, “Amen!”
21Cursed is anyone who lies down with any animal.
All the people will say, “Amen!”
22Cursed is any man who lies down with his sister, either the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.
All the people will say, “Amen!”
23Cursed is any man who lies down with his mother-in-law.
All the people will say, “Amen!”
24Cursed is anyone who strikes down his neighbor secretly.
All the people will say, “Amen!”
25Cursed is anyone who takes payment to strike down an innocent person.
All the people will say, “Amen!”
26Cursed is anyone who does not uphold the words of this law by doing them.
All the people will say, “Amen!”

Matthew 17:14-27

Jesus Heals a Boy With a Demon
(Mark 9:14-29; Luke 9:37-43)
14When they came to the crowd, a man approached Jesus and knelt in front of him. 15“Lord,” he said, “have mercy on my son because he has seizures and is suffering terribly. He often falls into the fire or into the water. 16I brought him to your disciples, but they were not able to cure him.”
17Jesus answered, “O unbelieving and perverse generation! How long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him here to me.” 18Jesus rebuked the demon, and it went out of the boy, and he was cured from that hour.
19Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why were we unable to drive it out?”
20He said to them, “Because of your little faith.[] Amen I tell you: If you have faith like a mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you. 21But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”[]
Jesus Predicts His Death and Resurrection Again
(Mark 9:30-32; Luke 9:43-45)
22While they were gathering together in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men. 23They will kill him, but on the third day he will be raised.” And they were greatly distressed.
A Coin in a Fish's Mouth
24When they came to Capernaum, those who collected the temple tax[] came to Peter and said, “Doesn't your teacher pay the temple tax?”
25He said, “Yes.”
When he came into the house, Jesus spoke first, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth collect tolls or a tax? From their own sons or from others?”
26Peter said to him, “From others.”
Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are exempt. 27But, so that we do not offend them, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take the first fish that you pull up. When you open its mouth, you will find a silver coin.[] Take that coin and give it to them for me and for you.”