Mount Pleasant Lutheran Church

[Jesus spoke to the crowd saying:]  16   " To what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one another,     17   ' We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;       we wailed, and you did not mourn.'   18   " For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say,  ' He has a demon ' ;   19   the Son of Man came eating and drinking, a...

[Jesus said to the twelve:]  24   " A disciple is not above the teacher nor a slave above the master;   25   it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher and the slave like the master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household!       26   " So have no fear of them, for nothing is covered up that will not be  uncovered  and...

35   Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and curing every disease and every sickness.   36   When he saw the crowds, he  had compassion  for them because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.   37   Then he said to his disciples,  " The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few;   38...

9   As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax-collection station, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he got up and followed him.       10   And as he sat at dinner in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came and were sitting with Jesus and his disciples.   11   When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples,  " Why does your teacher eat with tax c...

16   Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them.   17   When they saw him, they worshiped him, but they doubted.   18   And Jesus came and said to them,  " All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.   19   Go  therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit  ...

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 Jews, 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 Father has sent...

[Jesus said to the disciples:]  15   " If you love me, you will keep my commandments.   16   And I will ask the  Father , and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever.  17   This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him because he abides with you, and he will be in you.       18   " I will not leave you orphaned;...

[Jesus said to the disciples:]  1   " Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.   2   In my  Father ' s  house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I  go  to prepare a place for you?   3   And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also.   4   And...

[Jesus said:]  1   "Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit.  2   The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.   3   The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.   4   When he has brought out all his own, he goes ahead o...

13   Now on that same day two  [ disciples ]  were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem,  14   and talking with each other about all these things that had happened.  15   While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself came near and went with them,  16   but their eyes were kept from recognizing him.  17   And he said to them, "What are you discussing with each...

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 Jews, 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 Father has sent me, so...

1   After the Sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb.   2   And suddenly there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord, descending from heaven, came and rolled back the stone and sat on it.   3   His appearance  was like  lightning and his clothing white as snow.   4   For fear of him the guards shook and became like dead...

1   Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to  depart  from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who  were  in the world, he loved them to the end.   2   The devil had already decided that Judas son of Simon Iscariot would betray Jesus. And during supper   3   Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands and that he had com...

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...