Daily Bible Reading for June 22 2007 6/22/07 Friday

EPISTLE READING

The Reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 11:25-36

BRETHREN, I want you to understand this mystery: a hardening has come upon part
of Israel, until the full number of Gentiles come in, and so all Israel will be
saved; as it is written, "The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish
ungodliness from Jacob"; "and this will be my covenant with them when I take
away their sins." As regards the gospel they are enemies of God, for your sake;
but as regards election they are beloved for the sake of their fore fathers.
For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable. Just as you were once
disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience,
so they have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they
also may receive mercy. For God has consigned all men to disobedience, that he
may have mercy upon all. O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of
God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! "For who
has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?" "Or who has
given a gift to him that he might be repaid?" For from him and through him and
to him are all things. To him be glory for ever. Amen.


GOSPEL READING

4th Friday after Pentecost

The Reading is from Matthew 12:1-8

At that time, Jesus went through the grain fields on the sabbath; his disciples
were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. But when the
Pharisees saw it, they said to him, "Look, your disciples are doing what is not
lawful to do on the sabbath." He said to them, "Have you not read what David
did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him: how he entered the house
of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to
eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? Or have you not
read in the law how on the sabbath the priests in the temple profane the
sabbath, and are guiltless? I tell you, something greater than the temple is
here. And if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not
sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is
lord of the sabbath."