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           Wednesday (March 22):  My Father is working still, and I am workingScripture:  John 5:17-30 17 But Jesus answered them, "My Father is working still, and I am working." 18 This was why the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath but also called God his Father, making himself equal with God. 19 Jesus said to them, "Truly, […]

Daily Reading and Meditation  Tuesday (March 28):  When you have lifted up the Son of man Scripture:  John 8:21-30 21 Again he said to them, "I go away, and you will seek me and die in your sin; where I am going, you cannot come." 22 Then said the Jews, "Will he kill himself, since he says, `Where I am going, you cannot come'?" 23 He said to them, "You […]

Daily Reading and Meditation  Thursday (March 23):  The Father's witness to Jesus Scripture:  John 5:31-47 31 If I bear witness to myself, my testimony is not true; 32 there is another who bears witness to me, and I know that the testimony which he bears to me is true. 33 You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. 34 Not that the testimony which I receive […]

Daily Reading and Meditation  Friday (March 24):  His hour had not yet come Scripture:  John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30 1 After this Jesus went about in Galilee; he would not go about in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. 2 Now the Jews' feast of Tabernacles was at hand. 10 But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in […]

Daily Reading and Meditation  Saturday (March 25):  Reaction to Jesus' words Scripture:  John 7:40-53 (alternate reading: Luke 1:26-38) 40 When they heard these words, some of the people said, "This is really the prophet." 41 Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "Is the Christ to come from Galilee? 42 Has not the scripture said that the Christ is descended from David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village […]

Daily Reading and Meditation  Sunday (March 26):  I am the resurrection and the life Scripture:  John 11:1-45 1 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. 3 So the sisters sent to him, saying, "Lord, he whom you love […]

Daily Reading and Meditation  Monday (March 27):  Go, and do not sin again Scripture:  John 8:1-11 1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 Early in the morning he came again to the temple; all the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. 3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst […]