Sunday 4 August 2041

1“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters!Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat!Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.2Why do you spend money for that which is not bread,and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy?Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good,and let your soul delight itself in richness.3Turn your ear, and come to me.Hear, and your soul will live.I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

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.

15The eyes of all wait for you.You give them their food in due season.16You open your hand,and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

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.

35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?Could oppression, or anguish,or persecution, or famine,or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

· · · verse 36 is not read37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.38For I am persuaded that neither death,nor life, nor angels,nor principalities,nor things present,nor things to come, nor powers,39nor height, nor depth,nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s lovewhich is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

13Now when Jesus heard this,he withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted place apart.When the multitudes heard it,they followed him on foot from the cities.

14Jesus went out, and he saw a great multitude.He had compassion on them and healed their sick.15When evening had come,his disciples came to him,saying, “This place is deserted,and the hour is already late.Send the multitudes away,that they may go into the villages,and buy themselves food.”

16But Jesus said to them, “They don’t need to go away.You give them something to eat.”

17They told him, “We only have here five loaves and two fish.”

18He said, “Bring them here to me.”19He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass;and he took the five loaves and the two fish,and looking up to heaven,he blessed, broke and gave the loaves to the disciples;and the disciples gave to the multitudes.20They all ate and were filled.They took up twelve baskets full of thatwhich remained left over from the broken pieces.21Those who ate were about five thousand men,in addition to women and children.