Daily Readings for Thursday January 05,2017

Season of Nativity

20	and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus,
21	whom heaven must receive until the time for establishing all that God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old.
22	Moses said, `The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet from your brethren as he raised me up. You shall listen to him in whatever he tells you.
23	And it shall be that every soul that does not listen to that prophet shall be destroyed from the people.'
24	And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came afterwards, also proclaimed these days.
25	You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God gave to your fathers, saying to Abraham, `And in your posterity shall all the families of the earth be blessed.'
26	God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you in turning every one of you from your wickedness."

12	Now when he heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee;
13	and leaving Nazareth he went and dwelt in Caper'na-um by the sea, in the territory of Zeb'ulun and Naph'tali,
14	that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:
15	"The land of Zeb'ulun and the land of Naph'tali, toward the sea, across the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles --
16	the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death light has dawned."
17	From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."