Daily Readings for Monday April 23,2018
Season of Resurrection
The parable of the wicked tenants
Reading 3, 1 Tim 6: 13-16 : Obey the commandments
13 | In the presence of God who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, |
14 | I charge you to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ; |
15 | and this will be made manifest at the proper time by the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, |
16 | who alone has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen. |
Gospel, Lk 20: 9-16 : The parable of the wicked tenants
9 | And he began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country for a long while. |
10 | When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, that they should give him some of the fruit of the vineyard; but the tenants beat him, and sent him away empty-handed. |
11 | And he sent another servant; him also they beat and treated shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed. |
12 | And he sent yet a third; this one they wounded and cast out. |
13 | Then the owner of the vineyard said, `What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; it may be they will respect him.' |
14 | But when the tenants saw him, they said to themselves, `This is the heir; let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.' |
15 | And they cast him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? |
16 | He will come and destroy those tenants, and give the vineyard to others." When they heard this, they said, "God forbid!" |