Cam Villages, Author at Cam Villages Bible Reading Group

28th August 201712th August 2017

28 August – 1 September, John 19.1-16

This is Friday’s Additional Weekday Lectionary Bible reading, which we will include in the Cam Villages pop-up prayer.

John 19.1-16

¹ So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him. ² The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment. ³ They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and they kept slapping him.
⁴ Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”
⁵ Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the man!”
⁶ When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!”
Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.”
⁷ The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”
⁸ When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid. ⁹ He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer. ¹⁰ Pilate therefore said to him, “Aren’t you speaking to me? Don’t you know that I have power to release you and have power to crucify you?”
¹¹ Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”
¹² At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you release this man, you aren’t Caesar’s friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!”
¹³ When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgement seat at a place called “The Pavement”, but in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.” ¹⁴ Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour.¹ He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”
¹⁵ They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!”
Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?”
The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”
¹⁶ So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.

Notes

¹ 19:14: “the sixth hour” would have been 6:00 a.m. according to the Roman timekeeping system, or noon for the Jewish timekeeping system in use, then.
World English Bible, British Edition

The Psalm for Friday is Psalm 88, which may be found (complete with the Common Worship refrain and a concluding prayer) through this link.

21st August 201712th August 2017

21 – 25 August, Hebrews 1.1-9

This is Friday’s Additional Weekday Lectionary Bible reading, which we will include in the Cam Villages pop-up prayer.

Hebrews 1.1-9

¹ God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, ² has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds. ³ His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high, ⁴ having become as much better than the angels as the more excellent name he has inherited is better than theirs. ⁵ For to which of the angels did he say at any time,
“You are my Son.
Today I have become your father?”¹
and again,
“I will be to him a Father,
and he will be to me a Son?”²
⁶ When he again brings in the firstborn into the world he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him.”³ ⁷ Of the angels he says,
“He makes his angels winds,
and his servants a flame of fire.”^†
⁸ But of the Son he says,
“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever.
The sceptre of uprightness is the sceptre of your Kingdom.
⁹ You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity;
therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”^‡

¹ 1:5: Psalm 2:7
² 1:5: 2 Samuel 7:14; 1 Chronicles 17:13
³ 1:6: Deuteronomy 32:43 LXX
^† 1:7: Psalm 104:4
^‡ 1:9: Psalm 45:6-7

World English Bible, British Edition

The Psalm for Friday is Psalm 55, which may be found (complete with the Common Worship refrain and a concluding prayer) through this link.

14th August 201712th August 2017

14 – 18 August, Isaiah 59.8-21

Holocaust Memorial - Isaiah 43:10 You are my witnesses

This is Friday’s Additional Weekday Lectionary Bible reading, which we will include in the Cam Villages pop-up prayer.

Isaiah 59.8-21

⁸ They don’t know the way of peace;
and there is no justice in their ways.
They have made crooked paths for themselves;
whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.

⁹ Therefore justice is far from us,
and righteousness doesn’t overtake us.
We look for light, but see darkness;
for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
¹⁰ We grope for the wall like the blind.
Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes.
We stumble at noon as if it were twilight.
Amongst those who are strong, we are like dead men.
¹¹ We all roar like bears
and moan bitterly like doves.
We look for justice, but there is none,
for salvation, but it is far off from us.

¹² For our transgressions are multiplied before you,
and our sins testify against us;
for our transgressions are with us,
and as for our iniquities, we know them:
¹³ transgressing and denying the LORD,
and turning away from following our God,
speaking oppression and revolt,
conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
¹⁴ Justice is turned away backward,
and righteousness stands far away;
for truth has fallen in the street,
and uprightness can’t enter.
¹⁵ Yes, truth is lacking;
and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.

The LORD saw it,
and it displeased him that there was no justice.
¹⁶ He saw that there was no man,
and wondered that there was no intercessor.
Therefore his own arm brought salvation to him;
and his righteousness sustained him.
¹⁷ He put on righteousness as a breastplate,
and a helmet of salvation on his head.
He put on garments of vengeance for clothing,
and was clad with zeal as a mantle.
¹⁸ According to their deeds,
he will repay as appropriate,
wrath to his adversaries,
recompense to his enemies;
he will repay the islands their due.
¹⁹ So they will fear the LORD’s name from the west,
and his glory from the rising of the sun;
for he will come as a rushing stream,
which the LORD’s breath drives.

²⁰ “A Redeemer will come to Zion,
and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,” says the LORD.
²¹ “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says the LORD, “from now on and forever.”

World English Bible, British Edition

The Psalm for Friday is Psalm 51, which may be found (complete with the Common Worship refrain and a concluding prayer) through this link.

7th August 20175th July 2017

7 – 11 August, Luke 8.4-15

This is Friday’s Additional Weekday Lectionary Bible reading, which we will include in the Cam Villages pop-up prayer.

Luke 8.4-15

⁴ When a great multitude came together, and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable. ⁵ “The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it. ⁶ Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture. ⁷ Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it. ⁸ Other fell into the good ground, and grew, and produced one hundred times as much fruit.” As he said these things, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
⁹ Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?”
¹⁰ He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’^✡ ¹¹ Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. ¹² Those along the road are those who hear, then the devil comes, and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved. ¹³ Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation. ¹⁴ That which fell amongst the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity. ¹⁵ Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.”

Notes to the text

^✡8:10: See Isaiah 6:9

World English Bible, British Edition

The Psalm for Friday is Psalm 31, which may be found (complete with the Common Worship refrain and a concluding prayer) through this link.