Bible Readings - Oct. 28, 2024

Reading 1

Ephesians 4:17-24

So I declare and testify in the Lord that you must no longer live

as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds;

darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God

because of their ignorance, because of their hardness of heart,

they have become callous and have handed themselves over

to licentiousness for the practice of every kind of impurity to excess.

That is not how you learned Christ,

assuming that you have heard of him and were taught in him,

as truth is in Jesus,

that you should put away the old self of your former way of life,

corrupted through deceitful desires,

and be renewed in the spirit of your minds,

and put on the new self, created in God’s way in righteousness

and holiness of truth.

Psalm 19:2-5

The heavens declare the glory of God,

and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.

Day pours out the word to day,

and night to night imparts knowledge.

Not a word nor a discourse

whose voice is not heard;

Through all the earth their voice resounds,

and to the ends of the world, their message.

see Matthew 11:25

Blessed are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth;

You have revealed to little ones the mysteries of the Kingdom.

Gospel

Luke 13:10-17

He was teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath.

And a woman was there who for eighteen years had been crippled by a spirit;

she was bent over, completely incapable of standing erect.

When Jesus saw her, he called to her and said,

“Woman, you are set free of your infirmity.”

He laid his hands on her, and she at once stood up straight and glorified God.

But the leader of the synagogue, indignant that Jesus had cured on the sabbath,

said to the crowd in reply, “There are six days when work should be done.

Come on those days to be cured, not on the sabbath day.”

The Lord said to him in reply, “Hypocrites! Does not each one of you on the sabbath

untie his ox or his ass from the manger and lead it out for watering?

This daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound for eighteen years now,

ought she not to have been set free on the sabbath day from this bondage?”

When he said this, all his adversaries were humiliated;

and the whole crowd rejoiced at all the splendid deeds done by him.