Tuesday 27 January 2037

1For the law, having a shadow of the good to come,not the very image of the things,can never with the same sacrifices year by year,which they offer continually,make perfect those who draw near.2Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered,because the worshipers,having been once cleansed,would have had no more consciousness of sins?3But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins.4For it is impossible that the blood of bullsand goats should take away sins.5Therefore when he comes into the world, he says,

“You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering,but you prepared a body for me.6You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.7Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me)to do your will, O God.’”

8Previously saying,“Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offeringsand sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire,neither had pleasure in them” (thosewhich are offered according to the law),9then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.”He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,10by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

2I waited patiently for the Lord.He turned to me, and heard my cry.4He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God.Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.

7Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire.You have opened my ears.You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.8Then I said, “Behold, I have come.It is written about me in the book in the scroll.

10I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly.Behold, I will not seal my lips, Lord, you know.

11I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart.I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation.I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.

31His mother and his brothers came,and standing outside,they sent to him, calling him.32A multitude was sitting around him,and they told him,“Behold, your mother,your brothers,and your sisters are outside looking for you.”

33He answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?”34Looking around at those who sat around him,he said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers!35For whoever does the will of God is my brother,my sister, and mother.”