April 26, 2015

Reading

The Acts of the Apostles 4: 8-12

4:8	Så Peter, fyldt med Helligånden, sagde til dem: "Folkets ledere og ældste, Hør efter.
4:9	Hvis vi i dag bliver dømt af en god gerning, der er gjort mod en svag mand, hvorved han er blevet hel,
4:10	lad det blive kendt for jer alle og for hele Israels folk, det i vor Herre Jesu Kristi Nazaræers navn, hvem du korsfæstede, hvem Gud har oprejst fra de døde, af ham, denne mand står foran dig, sund og rask.
4:11	Han er stenen, som blev afvist af dig, bygherrerne, som er blevet hovedet af hjørnet.
4:12	Og der er ingen frelse i nogen anden. For der er intet andet navn under himlen givet til mennesker, hvorved det er nødvendigt for os at blive frelst."

Second Reading

The First Letter of Saint John 3: 1-2

3:1	See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we would be called, and would become, Guds sønner. På grund af dette, the world does not know us, for it did not know him.
3:2	Mest elskede, we are now the sons of God. But what we shall be then has not yet appeared. We know that when he does appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

Evangelium

The Holy Gospel According to John 10: 11-18

10:11	I am the good Shepherd. The good Shepherd gives his life for his sheep.
10:12	But the hired hand, and whoever is not a shepherd, to whom the sheep do not belong, he sees the wolf approaching, and he departs from the sheep and flees. And the wolf ravages and scatters the sheep.
10:13	And the hired hand flees, because he is a hired hand and there is no concern for the sheep within him.
10:14	I am the good Shepherd, and I know my own, and my own know me,
10:15	just as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for my sheep.
10:16	And I have other sheep that are not of this fold, and I must lead them. They shall hear my voice, and there shall be one sheepfold and one shepherd.
10:17	Af denne grund, the Father loves me: because I lay down my life, so that I may take it up again.
10:18	No one takes it away from me. I stedet, I lay it down of my own accord. And I have the power to lay it down. And I have the power to take it up again. This is the commandment that I have received from my Father.”