Daily Readings for Tuesday January 14,2014

Season of Epiphany

12	For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
13	For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body -- Jews or Greeks, slaves or free -- and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
14	For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
15	If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.
16	And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.
17	If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?
18	But as it is, God arranged the organs in the body, each one of them, as he chose.


1	After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2	Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Beth-za'tha, which has five porticoes.
3	In these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, paralyzed.
5	One man was there, who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
6	When Jesus saw him and knew that he had been lying there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be healed?"
7	The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is troubled, and while I am going another steps down before me."
8	Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your pallet, and walk."
9	And at once the man was healed, and he took up his pallet and walked. Now that day was the sabbath.
10	So the Jews said to the man who was cured, "It is the sabbath, it is not lawful for you to carry your pallet."