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3:6 Greek version reads your fathers.
3:14 Or I Will Be What
I Will Be.
3:15 Yahweh (also in 3:16) is a transliteration of the
proper name YHWH that is sometimes rendered “Jehovah”; in
this translation it is usually rendered “the Lord” (note the use
of small capitals). 3:19 As in Greek and Latin versions; Hebrew
reads will not let you go, not by a mighty hand.
MATTHEW 17:10‑27
Then his disciples asked him, “Why do the
teachers of religious law insist that Elijah
must return before the Messiah comes?*”
11
Jesus replied, “Elijah is indeed coming
first to get everything ready. 12 But I tell you,
Elijah has already come, but he wasn’t recognized, and they chose to abuse him. And in the
same way they will also make the Son of Man
suffer.” 13 Then the disciples realized he was
talking about John the Baptist.
14 At the foot of the mountain, a large crowd
was waiting for them. A man came and knelt
before J esus and said, 15 “Lord, have mercy on
my son. He has seizures and suffers terribly.
He often falls into the fire or into the water.
16 So I brought him to your disciples, but they
couldn’t heal him.”
17
Jesus said, “You faithless and corrupt
people! How long must I be with you? How
long must I put up with you? Bring the boy
here to me.” 18 Then Jesus rebuked the demon
in the boy, and it left him. From that moment
the boy was well.
19 Afterward the disciples asked Jesus privately, “Why couldn’t we cast out that demon?”
20 “You don’t have enough faith,” J
esus told
them. “I tell you the truth, if you had faith
even as small as a mustard seed, you could
say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to
there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be
impossible.*”
22 After they gathered again in Galilee, J
esus
told them, “The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of his enemies. 23 He will
be killed, but on the third day he will be raised
from the dead.” And the disciples were filled
with grief.
24 On their arrival in Capernaum, the collectors of the Temple tax* came to Peter and
asked him, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the
Temple tax?”
25 “Yes, he does,” Peter replied. Then he went
into the house.
But before he had a chance to speak, Jesus
asked him, “What do you think, Peter?* Do
kings tax their own people or the people they
have conquered?*”
26 “They tax the people they have conquered,”
Peter replied.
“Well, then,” J esus said, “the citizens are free!
27 However, we don’t want to offend them, so go
down to the lake and throw in a line. Open the
mouth of the first fish you catch, and you will
find a large silver coin.* Take it and pay the tax
for both of us.”
17:10 Greek that Elijah must come first?
17:20 Some
manuscripts add verse 21, But this kind of demon won’t leave
except by prayer and fasting. Compare Mark 9:29. 17:24 Greek
the two-drachma [tax]; also in 17:24b. See Exod 30:13‑16; Neh
17:25a Greek Simon?
17:25b Greek their sons or
10:32‑33.
17:27 Greek a stater [a Greek coin equivalent to four
others?
drachmas].
PSALM 22:1‑18
For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be sung
to the tune “Doe of the Dawn.”
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2
3
4
5
6
7
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10
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14
My God, my God, why have you
abandoned me?
Why are you so far away when I groan
for help?
Every day I call to you, my God, but you
do not answer.
Every night I lift my voice, but I find
no relief.
Yet you are holy,
enthroned on the praises of Israel.
Our ancestors trusted in you,
and you rescued them.
They cried out to you and were saved.
They trusted in you and were never
disgraced.
But I am a worm and not a man.
I am scorned and despised by all!
Everyone who sees me mocks me.
They sneer and shake their heads,
saying,
“Is this the one who relies on the Lord?
Then let the Lord save him!
If the Lord loves him so much,
let the Lord rescue him!”
Yet you brought me safely from my
mother’s womb
and led me to trust you at my mother’s
breast.
I was thrust into your arms at my birth.
You have been my God from the moment
I was born.
Do not stay so far from me,
for trouble is near,
and no one else can help me.
My enemies surround me like a herd of
bulls;
fierce bulls of Bashan have hemmed
me in!
Like lions they open their jaws against me,
roaring and tearing into their prey.
My life is poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint.
