Six days before Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

The Lord God has given me/ a well-trained tongue,/ that I might know how to speak to the weary/ a word that will rouse them./ Morning after morning/ he opens my ear that I may hear;/ and I have not rebelled,/ have not turned back./ I gave my back to those who beat me,/ my cheeks to those who plucked my beard;/ my face I did not shield/ from buffets and spitting.

X: Christ; N: Narrator; V: Voice; C: Crowd.

Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God,/ did not regard equality with God/ something to be grasped./ Rather, he emptied himself,/ taking the form of a slave,/ coming in human likeness;/ and found human in appearance,/ he humbled himself,/ becoming obedient to the point of death,/ even death on a cross./ Because of this, God greatly exalted him/ and bestowed on him the name/ which is above every name,/ that at the name of Jesus/ every knee should bend,/ of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth,/ and every tongue ­confess that/ Jesus Christ is Lord,/ to the glory of God the Father.

Thus says the Lord God: I will take the children of Israel from among the nations to which they have come, and gather them from all sides to bring them back to their land.

Many of the Jews who had come to Mary and seen what Jesus had done began to believe in him.

I hear the whisperings of many:/ “Terror on every side!/ Denounce!

The Jews picked up rocks to stone Jesus.

Jesus said to the Jews: “Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever keeps my word will never see death.” So the Jews said to him, “Now we are sure that you are possessed.

When Abram prostrated himself, God spoke to him: “My covenant with you is this: you are to become the father of a host of nations.