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March 03, 2024

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Lectionary Theme: Jesus Christ who redeems all (4th Sunday of Lent)

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    2. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

    3. I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

    4. So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

    5. Abram took his wife Sarai and his brother’s son Lot, and all the possessions that they had gathered, and the persons whom they had acquired in Haran; and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan. When they had come to the land of Canaan,

    6. Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.

    7. Then the Lord appeared to Abram, and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

    8. From there he moved on to the hill country on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the Lord and invoked the name of the Lord.

    9. And Abram journeyed on by stages toward the Negeb. Abram and Sarai in Egypt

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    26. Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is a wilderness road.)

    27. So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to Jerusalem to worship

    28. and was returning home; seated in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah.

    29. Then the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over to this chariot and join it.”

    30. So Philip ran up to it and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah. He asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

    31. He replied, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to get in and sit beside him.

    32. Now the passage of the scripture that he was reading was this: “Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter, and like a lamb silent before its shearer, so he does not open his mouth.

    33. In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is taken away from the earth.”

    34. The eunuch asked Philip, “About whom, may I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?”

    35. Then Philip began to speak, and starting with this scripture, he proclaimed to him the good news about Jesus.

    36. As they were going along the road, they came to some water; and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water! What is to prevent me from being baptized?”

    38. He commanded the chariot to stop, and both of them, Philip and the eunuch, went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.

    39. When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away; the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing.

    40. But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he was passing through the region, he proclaimed the good news to all the towns until he came to Caesarea.

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    14. I myself feel confident about you, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.

    15. Nevertheless, on some points I have written to you rather boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by God

    16. to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

    17. In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to boast of my work for God.

    18. For I will not be so bold as to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to win obedience from the gentiles, by word and deed,

    19. by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit, so that from Jerusalem and as far around as Illyricum I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.

    20. Thus I make it my ambition to proclaim the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, so that I do not build on someone else’s foundation,

    21. but as it is written, “Those who have never been told of him shall see, and those who have never heard of him shall understand.”

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    24. From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice,

    25. but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet.

    26. Now the woman was a gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

    27. He said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.”

    28. But she answered him, “Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”

    29. Then he said to her, “For saying that, you may go—the demon has left your daughter.”

    30. And when she went home, she found the child lying on the bed and the demon gone.