Wednesday 29 March 2028

8The Lord says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time.I have helped you in a day of salvation.I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the people,to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage,9saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’;to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’“They shall feed along the paths,and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.10They shall not hunger nor thirst;neither shall the heat nor sun strike them,for he who has mercy on them will lead them.He will guide them by springs of water.11I will make all my mountains a road,and my highways shall be exalted.12Behold, these shall come from afar,and behold, these from the north and from the west,and these from the land of Sinim.”13Sing, heavens, and be joyful, earth!Break out into singing, mountains!For the Lord has comforted his people,and will have compassion on his afflicted.14But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me,and the Lord has forgotten me.”15“Can a woman forget her nursing child,that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?Yes, these may forget,yet I will not forget you!

8The Lord is gracious, merciful,slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.9The Lord is good to all.His tender mercies are over all his works.

13Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom.Your dominion endures throughout all generations.The Lord is faithful in all his words,and loving in all his deeds.14The Lord upholds all who fall,and raises up all those who are bowed down.

17The Lord is righteous in all his ways,and gracious in all his works.18The Lord is near to all those who call on him,to all who call on him in truth.

17But Jesus answered them,“My Father is still working,so I am working, too.”

18For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him,because he not only broke the Sabbath,but also called God his own Father,making himself equal with God.19Jesus therefore answered them,“Most certainly, I tell you,the Son can do nothing of himself,but what he sees the Father doing.For whatever things he does,these the Son also does likewise.20For the Father has affection for the Son,and shows him all things that he himself does.He will show him greater works than these,that you may marvel.21For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life,even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.22For the Father judges no one,but he has given all judgment to the Son,23that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father.He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.

24“Most certainly I tell you,he who hears my word and believes himwho sent me has eternal life,and doesn’t come into judgment,but has passed out of death into life.25Most certainly I tell you,the hour comes, and now is,when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice;and those who hear will live.26For as the Father has life in himself,even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.27He also gave him authority to execute judgment,because he is a son of man.28Don’t marvel at this,for the hour comes in which allwho are in the tombs will hear his voice29and will come out;those who have done good, to the resurrection of life;and those who have done evil,to the resurrection of judgment.30I can of myself do nothing.As I hear, I judge;and my judgment is righteous,because I don’t seek my own will,but the will of my Father who sent me.