Tuesday 8 March 2022 DAILY LECTIONARY

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Tuesday 8 March 2022 
DAILY LECTIONARY

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Genesis 37:12-24

Now his brothers went to pasture their father’s flock near Shechem.
And Israel said to Joseph, ‘Are not your brothers pasturing the
flock at Shechem? Come, I will send you to them.’ He answered,
‘Here I am.’ So he said to him, ‘Go now, see if it is well with
your brothers and with the flock; and bring word back to me.’ So he
sent him from the valley of Hebron.

He came to Shechem, and a man found him wandering in the fields; the
man asked him, ‘What are you seeking?’ ‘I am seeking my
brothers,’ he said; ‘tell me, please, where they are pasturing the
flock.’ The man said, ‘They have gone away, for I heard them say,
“Let us go to Dothan.” ’ So Joseph went after his brothers, and
found them at Dothan. They saw him from a distance, and before he came
near to them, they conspired to kill him. They said to one another,
‘Here comes this dreamer. Come now, let us kill him and throw him
into one of the pits; then we shall say that a wild animal has
devoured him, and we shall see what will become of his dreams.’ But
when Reuben heard it, he delivered him out of their hands, saying,
‘Let us not take his life.’ Reuben said to them, ‘Shed no blood;
throw him into this pit here in the wilderness, but lay no hand on
him’—that he might rescue him out of their hand and restore him to
his father. So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of
his robe, the long robe with sleeves* that he wore; and they took him
and threw him into a pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it.
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1 Corinthians 1:20-31

Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the
debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through
wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of our proclamation, to
save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire
wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling-block to Jews
and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are the called, both
Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For
God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness
is stronger than human strength.

 Consider your own call, brothers and sisters:* not many of you were
wise by human standards,* not many were powerful, not many were of
noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the
wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God
chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to
reduce to nothing things that are, so that no one* might boast in the
presence of God. He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, who
became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification
and redemption, in order that, as it is written, ‘Let the one who
boasts, boast in* the Lord.’
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Mark 1:14-28

Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the
good news* of God,* and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the
kingdom of God has come near;* repent, and believe in the good
news.’* 

 As Jesus passed along the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his
brother Andrew casting a net into the lake—for they were fishermen.
And Jesus said to them, ‘Follow me and I will make you fish for
people.’ And immediately they left their nets and followed him. As
he went a little farther, he saw James son of Zebedee and his brother
John, who were in their boat mending the nets. Immediately he called
them; and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired
men, and followed him.
 They went to Capernaum; and when the sabbath came, he entered the
synagogue and taught. They were astounded at his teaching, for he
taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes. Just then
there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he
cried out, ‘What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you
come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God.’ But
Jesus rebuked him, saying, ‘Be silent, and come out of him!’ And
the unclean spirit, throwing him into convulsions and crying with a
loud voice, came out of him. They were all amazed, and they kept on
asking one another, ‘What is this? A new teaching—with authority!
He* commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.’ At once
his fame began to spread throughout the surrounding region of Galilee.
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Morning Psalms: Psalm 45

Psalm 45

My heart overflows with a goodly theme;
   I address my verses to the king;
   my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe. 

You are the most handsome of men;
   grace is poured upon your lips;
   therefore God has blessed you for ever. 
Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one,
   in your glory and majesty. 

In your majesty ride on victoriously
   for the cause of truth and to defend* the right;
   let your right hand teach you dread deeds. 
Your arrows are sharp
   in the heart of the king’s enemies;
   the peoples fall under you. 

Your throne, O God,* endures for ever and ever.
   Your royal sceptre is a sceptre of equity; 
   you love righteousness and hate wickedness.
Therefore God, your God, has anointed you
   with the oil of gladness beyond your companions; 
   your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia.
>From ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad; 
   daughters of kings are among your ladies of honour;
   at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir. 

Hear, O daughter, consider and incline your ear;
   forget your people and your father’s house, 
   and the king will desire your beauty.
Since he is your lord, bow to him; 
   the people* of Tyre will seek your favour with gifts,
   the richest of the people with all kinds of wealth. 

The princess is decked in her chamber with gold-woven robes;* 
   in many-coloured robes she is led to the king;
   behind her the virgins, her companions, follow. 
With joy and gladness they are led along
   as they enter the palace of the king. 

In the place of ancestors you, O king,* shall have sons;
   you will make them princes in all the earth. 
I will cause your name to be celebrated in all generations;
   therefore the peoples will praise you for ever and ever.
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Evening Psalms: Psalm 47, 48

Psalm 47

Clap your hands, all you peoples;
   shout to God with loud songs of joy. 
For the Lord, the Most High, is awesome,
   a great king over all the earth. 
He subdued peoples under us,
   and nations under our feet. 
He chose our heritage for us,
   the pride of Jacob whom he loves.
          Selah 

God has gone up with a shout,
   the Lord with the sound of a trumpet. 
Sing praises to God, sing praises;
   sing praises to our King, sing praises. 
For God is the king of all the earth;
   sing praises with a psalm.* 

God is king over the nations;
   God sits on his holy throne. 
The princes of the peoples gather
   as the people of the God of Abraham.
For the shields of the earth belong to God;
   he is highly exalted.

Psalm 48

Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised
   in the city of our God.
His holy mountain, beautiful in elevation,
   is the joy of all the earth,
Mount Zion, in the far north,
   the city of the great King. 
Within its citadels God
   has shown himself a sure defence. 

Then the kings assembled,
   they came on together. 
As soon as they saw it, they were astounded;
   they were in panic, they took to flight; 
trembling took hold of them there,
   pains as of a woman in labour, 
as when an east wind shatters
   the ships of Tarshish. 
As we have heard, so have we seen
   in the city of the Lord of hosts,
in the city of our God,
   which God establishes for ever.
          Selah 

We ponder your steadfast love, O God,
   in the midst of your temple. 
Your name, O God, like your praise,
   reaches to the ends of the earth.
Your right hand is filled with victory. 
   Let Mount Zion be glad,
let the towns* of Judah rejoice
   because of your judgements. 

Walk about Zion, go all around it,
   count its towers, 
consider well its ramparts;
   go through its citadels,
that you may tell the next generation 
   that this is God,
our God for ever and ever.
   He will be our guide for ever.
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