Mount Pleasant Lutheran Church

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1   [ Jesus ]  was praying in a certain place, and after he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples." 2  So he said to them, "When you pray, say:          Father, may your name be revered as holy.       May your kingdom come.       3  Give us each day our daily bread.       4  And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone i...

38   Now as  [ Jesus and his disciples ]  went on their way, he entered a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed him.  39   She had a sister named Mary, who sat at Jesus's feet and listened to what he was saying.  40   But Martha was distracted by her many tasks, so she came to him and asked, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself? Tell her, the...

25   An expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. "Teacher," he said, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?"  26   He said to him, "What is written in the law? What do you read there?"  27   He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind and your neighbor as yourself."  28   And he said to him, "You hav...

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of hir pairs to every town and place where he himself intended to go. He said to them: "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. Go on your way; I am sending you like lambs into the midst of wolves. * Carry no purse, no bag, no sandals, and...

51   When the days drew near for   [Jesus]   to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem.   52   And he sent messengers ahead of him. On their way they entered a village of the Samaritans to prepare for his arrival,  53   but they did not receive him because his face was set toward Jerusalem.   54   When his disciples James and John saw this, they said, " Lord, do you want us to command fir...

[Jesus said,]  12   " I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.   13   When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.   14   He will glorify me because he will take what is mine and declare it to you.   15   All that the Fathe...

8   Philip said to  [ Jesus, ]  "Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied."  9   Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father . How can you say, 'Show us the Father '?  10   Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own, but t...

[Jesus prayed:]  20   " I ask not only on behalf of these but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their word,   21   that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.   22   The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one,   23   I in them and you...

22   Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, how is it that you will reveal yourself to us and not to the world?"  23   Jesus answered   him , " Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.   24   Whoever does not love me does not keep my words , and the word that you hear is not mine but is from the Father who sent me.  ...

22  At that time the Festival of the Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter,  23  and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the portico of Solomon.  24  So the Judeans gathered around him and said to him, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly."  25  Jesus answered, "I have told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name t...

1   After   [he appeared to his followers in Jerusalem,]   Jesus showed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias, and he showed himself in this way.   2   Gathered there together were Simon Peter, Thomas called the Twin, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples.   3   Simon Peter said to them, " I am going fishing. " They said to him, " We wil...

19   When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors were locked where the disciples were, for fear of the Jew ish authoritie s, Jesus came and stood among them and said, " Peace be with you. "  20   After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.   21   Jesus said to them again, " Peace be with you. As the Fa...

1   On the first day of the week, at early dawn,   [the women]   went to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared.   2   They found the stone rolled away from the tomb,   3   but when they went in they did not find the body.   4   While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men in dazzling clothes stood beside them.   5   The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the groun...

1   Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.   2   There they gave a dinner for him . Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him.   3   Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus ' s feet, and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume .   4   But J...

1   Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to   [Jesus.]   2   And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, " This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them. "       3   So he told them this parable:   11b   " There was a man who had two sons.   12   The younger of them said to his father, ' Father, give me the share of the wealth that will belong to me....

1   At that very time there were some present who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2   [Jesus]   asked them, "Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans? 3   No, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all perish as they did.   4   Or those eighteen who were killed when the t...

31   At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to   [Jesus], " Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you. "  32   He said to them, " Go and tell that fox for me, ' Listen, I am casting out demons and performing cures today and tomorrow, and on the third day I finish my work.   33   Yet today, tomorrow, and the next day I must be on my way, because it is impossible for a prophet to be ki...

31   At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to   [Jesus], " Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you. "  32   He said to them, " Go and tell that fox for me, ' Listen, I am casting out demons and performing cures today and tomorrow, and on the third day I finish my work.   33   Yet today, tomorrow, and the next day I must be on my way, because it is impossible for a prophet to be ki...

12   Since, then, we have such a hope, we act with great boldness,   13   not like Moses, who put a veil over his face to keep the people of Israel from gazing at the end of the glory that was being set aside.  14   But their minds were hardened. Indeed, to this very day, when they hear the reading of the old covenant, that same veil is still there, since only in Christ is it set aside.   15   Ind...

1   Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness,  2   where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished.  3   The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become a loaf of bread."  4   Jesus answered him, "It is written, 'One does no...

17   [ Jesus ]  came down with  [ the twelve ]  and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. 18   They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured.  19   And all in the crowd were trying to touch him, for power came...

Once while Jesus was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God,  2   he saw two boats there at the shore of the lake; the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.  3   He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little way from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds fro...

21   Then  [ Jesus ]  began to say to  [ all in the synagogue in Nazareth, ]  "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."  22   All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth. They said, "Is not this Joseph's son?"  23   He said to them, "Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, 'Doctor, cure yourself!' And you will say, 'Do here also in you...

14   Then Jesus, filled with the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and a report about him spread through all the surrounding country.  15   He began to teach in their synagogues and was praised by everyone.       16   When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read,   17   and the scroll of the prop...