Thursday, June 23, 2016
Liturgical Season: 
V The Season of Pentecost

Heb 11:17-22

17By faith Abraham, when put to the test, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was ready to offer his only son,n 18of whom it was said, “Through Isaac descendants shall bear your name.”o 19* He reasoned that God was able to raise even from the dead,p and he received Isaac back as a symbol. 20By faith regarding things still to come Isaac* blessed Jacob and Esau.q 21By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and “bowed in worship, leaning on the top of his staff.”r 22By faith Joseph, near the end of his life, spoke of the Exodus of the Israelites and gave instructions about his bones.s

Jn 7:25-31

25So some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, “Is he not the one they are trying to kill? 26And look, he is speaking openly and they say nothing to him. Could the authorities* have realized that he is the Messiah? 27But we know where he is from. When the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from.”n 28So Jesus cried out in the temple area as he was teaching and said, “You know me and also know where I am from. Yet I did not come on my own, but the one who sent me, whom you do not know, is true.o 29I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”p 30So they tried to arrest him, but no one laid a hand upon him, because his hour had not yet come.q 31But many of the crowd began to believe in him, and said, “When the Messiah comes, will he perform more signs than this man has done?”r