Sunday 18 June 2028

7Nathan said to David, “You are the man!This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says:‘I anointed you king over Israel,and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.8I gave you your master’s houseand your master’s wives into your bosom,and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah;and if that would have been too little,I would have added to you many more such things.9Why have you despised the Lord’s word,to do that which is evil in his sight?You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword,have taken his wife to be your wife,and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.10Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house,because you have despised meand have taken Uriah the Hittite’s wife to be your wife.’

· · · verses 11–12 are not read13David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.”

Nathan said to David,“The Lord also has put away your sin.You will not die.

1Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven,whose sin is covered.2Blessed is the man to whom the Lord doesn’t impute iniquity,in whose spirit there is no deceit.

5I acknowledged my sin to you.I didn’t hide my iniquity.I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.

7You are my hiding place.You will preserve me from trouble.You will surround me with songs of deliverance.

11Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, you righteous!Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!

16yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the lawbut through faith in Jesus Christ,even we believed in Christ Jesus,that we might be justified by faith in Christand not by the works of the law,because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.· · · verses 17–18 are not read19For I through the law died to the law,that I might live to God.20I have been crucified with Christ,and it is no longer I who live,but Christ lives in me.That life which I now live in the flesh,I live by faith in the Son of God,who loved me and gave himself up for me.21I don’t reject the grace of God.For if righteousness is through the law,then Christ died for nothing!”

36One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him.He entered into the Pharisee’s house and sat at the table.37Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner,when she knewthat he was reclining in the Pharisee’s house,brought an alabaster jar of ointment.38Standing behind at his feet weeping,she began to wet his feet with her tears,and she wiped them with the hair of her head,kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.39Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it,he said to himself,“This man, if he were a prophet,would have perceived whoand what kind of woman this is who touches him,that she is a sinner.”

40Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to tell you.”

He said, “Teacher, say on.”

41“A certain lender had two debtors.The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.42When they couldn’t pay, he forgave them both.Which of them therefore will love him most?”

43Simon answered, “He,I suppose, to whom he forgave the most.”

He said to him, “You have judged correctly.”44Turning to the woman,he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman?I entered into your house,and you gave me no water for my feet,but she has wet my feet with her tears,and wiped them with the hair of her head.45You gave me no kiss,but she, since the time I came in,has not ceased to kiss my feet.46You didn’t anoint my head with oil,but she has anointed my feet with ointment.47Therefore I tell you,her sins, which are many,are forgiven, for she loved much.But one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.”48He said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”

49Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves,“Who is this who even forgives sins?”

50He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you.Go in peace.”

1Soon afterwards, he went about through cities and villages,preaching and bringing the good news of God’s Kingdom.With him were the twelve,2and certain womenwho had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities:Mary who was called Magdalene,from whom seven demons had gone out;3and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod’s steward;Susanna; and many otherswho served them from their possessions.