Mount Pleasant Lutheran Church

1   Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.  2   Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill.   3   So the sisters sent a message to Jesus,  " Lord, he whom you love is ill. "  4   But when Jesus heard it, he said,  " This illness does not lead to death; rather, it is for God ' s...

5   [Jesus]   came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6   Jacob ' s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was  about  noon.       7   A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her,  " Give me a drink. "  8   (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.)   9   The Samaritan w...

1   Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews.   2   He came to Jesus by night and said to him,  " Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with that person. "  3   Jesus answered him,  " Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above. "  4   Nicodemus said to h...

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1   Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain, by themselves.   2   And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became bright as light.   3   Suddenly there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him.   4   Then Peter said to Jesus,  " Lord, it is good for us to be here; if you wish, I...

[Jesus said:]  13   "You are  the salt of the earth , but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything but is thrown out and trampled  under foot .       14   "You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be  hid .  15   People do not light a lamp and put it under the bushel basket; rather, they put it on the  lampstand, and it g...

  1   When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he sat down, his disciples came to him.  2   And he began to speak and taught them, saying:       3   "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.       4   " Blessed  are  those who mourn, for they will be comforted.       5   " Blessed  are  the meek, for they will inherit the earth.       6   " Blessed ...

12   Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee.   13   He left Nazareth and made his home in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali,   14   so that what had been spoken through the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:     15   " Land of Zebulun, land of Naphtali,       on the road by the sea, across the Jordan, Galilee of the gentiles—     16  ...

  29   [John the Baptist]  saw Jesus coming toward him and declared, "Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!  30   This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who ranks ahead of me because he was before me.'  31   I myself did not know him, but I came baptizing with water for this reason, that he might be revealed to Israel."  32   And John testified, "I saw the Spirit d...

13   Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be baptized by him.   14   John would have prevented him, saying,  " I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me? "  15   But Jesus answered him,  " Let it be so now, for it is proper for us in this way to fulfill all righteousness. "  Then he consented.   16   And when  Jesus had been baptized, just as he came up from the water, sudde...

1   In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.   2   He was in the beginning with God.   3   All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being   4   in him was life, and  the life  was the light of all people.   5   The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it.       6   The...

2   When John heard in prison what the Messiah was doing, he sent word by his disciples   3   and said to him, " Are you the one who is to come, or are we to wait for another? "  4   Jesus answered them, " Go and tell John what you hear and see:   5   the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, those with a skin disease are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good new...

1   In those days John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea, proclaiming,  2   "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near."  3   This is the one of whom the prophet Isaiah spoke when he said,     "The voice of one crying out in the wilderness:     'Prepare the way of the Lord;       make his paths straight.' "   4   Now John wore clothing of camel's hair with a leather belt around...

[Jesus said to the disciples,]  36   " About that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.   37   For as the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.   38   For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark,   39   and they knew nothing until the...

5   When some were speaking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and gifts dedicated to God,  [ Jesus ]  said,  6   "As for these things that you see, the days will come when not one stone will be left upon another; all will be thrown down."       7   They asked him, "Teacher, when will this be, and what will be the sign that this is about to take place?"  8   And he said, "B...

27   Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to  [ Jesus ]   28   and asked him a question: "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother.  29   Now there were seven brothers; the first married a woman and died childless;  30   then the second  31   and the third mar...

1   [ Jesus ]  entered Jericho and was passing through it. 2   A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was rich.  3   He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature.  4   So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see him, because he was going to pass that way.  5   When Jesus came to the place, he looked...

19   Now we know that, whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.  20   For no human will be justified before him by deeds prescribed by the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.       21   But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been disclosed and is attes...

11   On the way to Jerusalem Jesus was going through the region between Samaria and Galilee.  12   As he entered a village, ten men with a skin disease approached him. Keeping their distance,  13   they called out, saying, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!"  14   When he saw them, he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And as they went, they were made clean.  15   Then one of th...

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1   Then Jesus said to the disciples, " There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was squandering his property.   2   So he summoned him and said to him, ' What is this that I hear about you ? Give me an accounting of your management because you cannot be my manager any longer. '  3   Then the manager said to himself, ' What will I do, now that my master...

25   Now large crowds were traveling with   [Jesus], and he turned and said to them,   26 " Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple.   27   Whoever does not carry the cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.   28   For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and es...

1   On one occasion when Jesus was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the Sabbath, they were watching him closely.       7   When he noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable.  8   "When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited by...

10   Now   [Jesus]   was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.   11   And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand up straight.   12   When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, " Woman, you are set free from your ailment. "  13   When he laid his hands on her, immediately she stood up...

[Jesus said:]  49   "I have come to cast fire upon the earth, and how I wish it were already ablaze!  50   I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what constraint I am under until it is completed!   51   Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!   52   From now on five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against...