A NEW TESTAMENT LECTIONARY
John Winn
ADVENT
First Sunday in Advent
Matthew 11:2-6 Philippians 2:1-11
Second Sunday in Advent
Matthew 21:33-42 Galatians 3:23-4:7
Third Sunday in Advent
Matthew 9:16-17 Galatians 5:1-6; 13-14
Fourth Sunday in Advent
Matthew 22:35-40 I Corinthians 13
CHRISTMASTIDE
Christmas Day
Matthew 1:18-25 II Corinthians 5:16-21
First Sunday After
Matthew 25:31-40 I John 4:7-12; 16-21
Second Sunday After
Matthew 5:3-16 Hebrews 1:1-12
EPIPHANY
Epiphany Sunday
Matthew 2:1-12 I Peter 2:4-10
Second Sunday After
Matthew 2:13-23 Ephesians 6:10-17
Third Sunday After
Matthew 3:13-17 I Corinthians 11:23-26
Fourth Sunday After
Matthew 4:1-11 Hebrews 2:8b-18
Fifth Sunday After
Matthew 6:1-15; 7:1-5 James 1:22-25; I Corinthians 4:1-5
Sixth Sunday After
Matthew 16:13-23 I Corinthians 12:4-27
Seventh Sunday After
Matthew 17:1-8 Colossians 1:11-23
Eighth Sunday After
Matthew 20:1-16 Ephesians 2:8-22
Ninth Sunday After
Matthew 20:17-28 Hebrews 3:1-14; I Peter 4:17
ASH WEDNESDAY
John 8:2-11 Romans 3:23; 8:31
First Sunday in Lent
John 6:30-36 Romans 1:8-12
Second Sunday in Lent
John 8:12; 10:7-17 Romans 1:16-17
Third Sunday in Lent
John 14:1-7 Romans 4:13-25
Fourth Sunday in Lent
John 15:1-5 Romans 11:13-18
Fifth Sunday in Lent
John 11:1-44 Romans 5:1-11
Palm Sunday
John 12:1-19 Romans 10:4-17
Monday before Easter John 14:1-14
Tuesday before Easter John 15:1-16
Wednesday before Easter John 16:1-15
Maundy Thursday
John 13:18-38 Romans 12:9-21
Good Friday
John19:1-42 Romans 8:18-27
EASTERTIDE
Easter Sunday
John 20:1-9 Romans 8:28; 31-32; 35; 37-39
Second Sunday of Easter
John 20:24-29 Romans 3:21-26
Third Sunday of Easter
John 21:1-13 Romans 8:1-11
Fourth Sunday of Easter
John 21:15-17 Romans 7:15-25
Fifth Sunday of Easter
John 6:37-40 Romans 6:9-11
Sixth Sunday of Easter
John 3:16-17 Romans 13:7-12
Ascension Day
John 16:16-22 Romans 12:1-2
Seventh Sunday of Easter
John 14:15-31 Romans 12:3-8
PENTECOST
Pentecost Sunday
Luke 2:25-35 Acts 2:1-21
First Sunday After
Luke 4:16-21 Acts 2:37-42
Second Sunday After
Luke 5:17-26 Acts 3:1-7; 11-16
Third Sunday After
Luke 16:19-31 Acts 4:8-20
Fourth Sunday After
Luke 21:8-19 Acts 5:27-39
Fifth Sunday After
Luke 15:11-32 Acts 9:1-31
Sixth Sunday After
Luke 10:25-37 Acts 10:1-35
Seventh Sunday After
Luke 12:13-21 Acts 11:25-30
Eighth Sunday After
Luke 7:1-10 Acts 15:1-11
Ninth Sunday After
Luke 9:57-62 Acts 16:1-10
Tenth Sunday After
Luke 17:11-19 Acts 16:20-34
Eleventh Sunday After
Luke 8:4-15 Acts 17:16-34
Twelfth Sunday After
Luke 18:9-14 Acts 18:1-17
Thirteenth Sunday After
Luke 16:10-15 Acts 19:23-41
Fourteenth Sunday After
Luke 17:20-25 Acts 20:17-38
Fifteenth Sunday After
Luke 15:1-10 Acts 28:16-31
MISSIONTIDE
Last Sunday in August to First Sunday in Advent
First Sunday In
Mark 2:13-17 Galatians 6:1-5
Second Sunday In
Mark 2:23-3:6 II Corinthians 3:2-6
Third Sunday In
Mark 3:13-19 Philippians 3:4b-14
Fourth Sunday In
Mark 4:26-29 Revelation 21:1-5a
Fifth Sunday In
Mark 4:30-32 I Corinthians 15:35-37
Sixth Sunday In
Mark 7:31-37 II Corinthians 4:7-14
Seventh Sunday In
Mark 8:22-26 Hebrews 11:1-3
Eighth Sunday In
Mark 8:34-9:1 I Corinthians 9:24-27
Ninth Sunday In
Mark 9:33-42 Hebrews 5:11-6:3
Tenth Sunday In
Mark 10:13-16 Ephesians 4:1-6; 14-16; 25-27
Eleventh Sunday In
Mark 10:17-22 II Timothy 4:1-4
Twelfth Sunday In
Mark 11:12-22 Hebrews 10:1-4
Thirteenth Sunday In
Mark 12:13-17 I Corinthians 6:12; 10:23-24
Fourteenth Sunday In
Mark 13:32-37 I Thessalonians 5 :1-11
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JW YALE NEW TESTAMENT LECTIONARY
READINGS FOR ADVENT-CHRISTMAS-CHRISTMASTIDE
FIRST SUNDAY IN ADVENT
Matthew 11:2-6
2 When John heard in prison what the Messiah was doing, he sent word by his disciples 3 and said to him, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or are we to wait for another?’ 4 Jesus answered them, ‘Go and tell John what you hear and see: 5 the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news brought to them. 6 And blessed is anyone who takes no offence at me.’
Philippians 2:1-11
2 If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, 2 make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others. 5 Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,
6 who, though he was in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God
as something to be exploited,
7 but emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
being born in human likeness.
And being found in human form,
8 he humbled himself
and became obedient to the point of death—
even death on a cross.
9 Therefore God also highly exalted him
and gave him the name
that is above every name,
10 so that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bend,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
SECOND SUNDAY IN ADVENT
Matthew 21:33-42
33 ‘Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watch-tower. Then he leased it to tenants and went to another country. 34 When the harvest time had come, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his produce. 35 But the tenants seized his slaves and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again he sent other slaves, more than the first; and they treated them in the same way. 37 Finally he sent his son to them, saying, “They will respect my son.” 38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, “This is the heir; come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.” 39 So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. 40 Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?’ 41 They said to him, ‘He will put those wretches to a miserable death, and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the harvest time.’ 42 Jesus said to them, ‘Have you never read in the scriptures:
“The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;
this was the Lord’s doing,
and it is amazing in our eyes”?
Galatians 3:23-4:7
23 Now before faith came, we were imprisoned and guarded under the law until faith would be revealed. 24 Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian, 26 for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. 27 As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28 There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to the promise.
4 My point is this: heirs, as long as they are minors, are no better than slaves, though they are the owners of all the property; 2 but they remain under guardians and trustees until the date set by the father. 3 So with us; while we were minors, we were enslaved to the elemental spirits of the world. 4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children. 6 And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, ‘Abba! Father!’ 7 So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if a child then also an heir, through God.
THIRD SUNDAY IN ADVENT
Matthew 9:16-17
16 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak, for the patch pulls away from the cloak, and a worse tear is made. 17 Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; otherwise, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.’
Galatians 5:1-6; 13-14
5 1 For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. 2 Listen! I, Paul, am telling you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you. 3 Once again I testify to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obliged to obey the entire law. 4 You who want to be justified by the law have cut yourselves off from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. 5 For through the Spirit, by faith, we eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything; the only thing that counts is faith working through love.
13 For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become slaves to one another. 14 For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’
FOURTH SUNDAY IN ADVENT
Matthew 22:35-40
35 and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. 36 ‘Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?’ 37 He said to him, ‘ “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.” 38 This is the greatest and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.” 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.’
I Corinthians 13
13 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. 9 For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; 10 but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
CHRISTMASTIDE
CHRISTMAS DAY
Matthew 1:18-25
18 Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. 19 Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to expose her to public disgrace, planned to dismiss her quietly. 20 But just when he had resolved to do this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, ‘Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will bear a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.’ 22 All this took place to fulfil what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet:
23 ‘Look, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
and they shall name him Emmanuel’,
which means, ‘God is with us.’ 24 When Joseph awoke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him; he took her as his wife, 25 but had no marital relations with her until she had borne a son; and he named him Jesus.
II Corinthians 5:16-21
16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer in that way. 17 So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us. 20 So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
FIRST SUNDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS
Matthew 25:31-40
31 ‘When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, 33 and he will put the sheep at his right hand and the goats at the left. 34 Then the king will say to those at his right hand, “Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; 35 for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36 I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.” 37 Then the righteous will answer him, “Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? 38 And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or naked and gave you clothing? 39 And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and visited you?” 40 And the king will answer them, “Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.”
I John 4:7-12; 16-21
7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.
16 So we have known and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them. 17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness on the day of judgement, because as he is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love. 19 We love because he first loved us. 20 Those who say, ‘I love God’, and hate their brothers or sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen. 21 The commandment we have from him is this: those who love God must love their brothers and sisters also.
SECOND SUNDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS
Matthew 5:3-16
3 ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 ‘Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
5 ‘Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
6 ‘Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
7 ‘Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.
8 ‘Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
9 ‘Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
10 ‘Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 ‘Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. 12 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
13 ‘You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled under foot.
14 ‘You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.
Hebrews 1:1-12
1 Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom he also created the worlds. 3 He is the reflection of God’s glory and the exact imprint of God’s very being, and he sustains all things by his powerful word. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 4 having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs. 5 For to which of the angels did God ever say,
‘You are my Son;
today I have begotten you’?
Or again,
‘I will be his Father,
and he will be my Son’?
6 And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says,
‘Let all God’s angels worship him.’
7 Of the angels he says,
‘He makes his angels winds,
and his servants flames of fire.’
8 But of the Son he says,
‘Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever,
and the righteous sceptre is the sceptre of your kingdom.
9 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
therefore God, your God, has anointed you
with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.’
10 And,
‘In the beginning, Lord, you founded the earth,
and the heavens are the work of your hands;
11 they will perish, but you remain;
they will all wear out like clothing;
12 like a cloak you will roll them up,
and like clothing they will be changed.
But you are the same,
and your years will never end.’
