March 9, 2025
March 5 – Ash Wednesday | First Lesson: Joel 2:12–19 | Second Lesson: 2 Cor. 5:20b–6:10 | Gospel: Matt. 6:(1–6) 16–21
Offerings of Firstfruits and Tithes
26 “When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and live in it, 2 you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall go to the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name to dwell there. 3 And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, ‘I declare today to the Lord your God that I have come into the land that the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.’ 4 Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the Lord your God.
5 “And you shall make response before the Lord your God, ‘A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous. 6 And the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor. 7 Then we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression. 8 And the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great deeds of terror,[a] with signs and wonders. 9 And he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10 And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, O Lord, have given me.’ And you shall set it down before the Lord your God and worship before the Lord your God. 11 And you shall rejoice in all the good that the Lord your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you.
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 26:8 Hebrew with great terror
Second Lesson
8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); 9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. 11 For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. 13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Gospel
The Temptation of Jesus
4 And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness 2 for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry. 3 The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.” 4 And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone.’” 5 And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, 6 and said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will. 7 If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.” 8 And Jesus answered him, “It is written,
“‘You shall worship the Lord your God,
and him only shall you serve.’”
9 And he took him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, 10 for it is written,
“‘He will command his angels concerning you,
to guard you,’
11 and
“‘On their hands they will bear you up,
lest you strike your foot against a stone.’”
12 And Jesus answered him, “It is said, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’” 13 And when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from him until an opportune time.
Scripture taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Text provided by the Crossway Bibles Web Service. English Standard Version (ESV) The Holy Bible. ESV® Text Edition: 2018. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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Weekly Bible Readings
March 2025
March 2
The Transfiguration of Our Lord
First Lesson: Deut. 34:1–12
Psalm 99
Second Lesson: Heb. 3:1–6
Gospel: Luke 9:28–36
LENT
March 5
Ash Wednesday
First Lesson: Joel 2:12–19
Psalm 51:1–13 (14–19)
Second Lesson: 2 Cor. 5:20b–6:10
Gospel: Matt. 6:(1–6) 16–21
March 9
First S. in Lent
First Lesson: Deut. 26:1–11
Psalm 91:1–13
Second Lesson: Rom. 10:8b–13
Gospel: Luke 4:1–13
March 16
Second S. in Lent
First Lesson: Jer. 26:8–15
Psalm 4
Second Lesson: Phil. 3:17–4:1
Gospel: Luke 13:31–35
March 23
Third S. in Lent
First Lesson: Ezek. 33:7–20
Psalm 85
Second Lesson: 1 Cor. 10:1–13
Gospel: Luke 13:1–9
March 30
Fourth S. in Lent
First Lesson: Isaiah 12:1–6
Psalm 32
Second Lesson: 2 Cor. 5:16–21
Gospel: Luke 15:1–3, 11–32
April 6
Fifth S. in Lent
First Lesson: Isaiah 43:16–21
Psalm 126
Second Lesson: Phil. 3:(4b–7) 8–14
Gospel: Luke 20:9–20
HOLY WEEK
April 13
Palm Sunday (Palmarum)
First Lesson: Deut. 32:36–39
Psalm 118:19–29 or Psalm 31:9–16
Second Lesson: Phil. 2:5–11
John 12:12–19 (Procession)
Gospel: Luke 22:1–23:56 or Luke 23:1–56 or John 12:20–43
April 17
Holy (Maundy) Thursday
First Lesson: Jer. 31:31–34 or Ex. 12:1–14
Psalm 116:12–19
Second Lesson: Heb. 10:15–25 or 1 Cor. 11:23–32
Gospel: Luke 22:7–20 or John 13:1–17, 31b–35
April 18
Good Friday
First Lesson: Isaiah 52:13–53:12
Psalm 22 or Psalm 31
Second Lesson: Heb. 4:14–16; 5:7–9
Gospel: John 18:1–19:42 or John 19:17–30
EASTER
April 20
The Resurrection of Our Lord (Sunrise)
First Lesson: Job 19:23–27
Psalm 118:15–29
Second Lesson: 1 Cor. 15:51–57
Gospel: John 20:1–18
The Resurrection of Our Lord
First Lesson: Isaiah 65:17–25
Psalm 16
Second Lesson: 1 Cor. 15:19–26
Gospel: Luke 24:1–12
April 27
Second S. of Easter
First Lesson: Acts 5:12–20 (21–32)
Psalm 148
Second Lesson: Rev. 1:4–18
Gospel: John 20:19–31