Maret 10, 2024

The Second Book of Chronicles 36: 14-16, 19-23

36:14Banjur uga, para pangareping imam kabeh, karo wong, nerak ala, manut sakèhé panggawéné wong-wong dudu Yahudi. Lan padha najisake padalemane Sang Yehuwah, kang wus kasucèkaké marang Panjenengané ana ing Yérusalèm.
36:15Banjur Gusti, Gusti Allahe para leluhure, dikirim menyang wong-wong mau, dening tangane para utusane, tangi ing wayah wengi lan saben dina menehi pitutur marang dheweke. Awit Panjenengané iku asor marang umaté lan marang omahé.
36:16Nanging padha moyoki para utusane Gusti Allah, lan padha ora nggatekake pangandikane, lan padha moyoki para nabi, nganti bebendune Sang Yehuwah munggah marang umate, lan ora ana tamba.
36:19Para mungsuh ngobong padalemaning Allah, lan padha ngrusak tembok Yerusalem. Padha ngobong kabeh menara. Lan apa wae sing larang regane, padha kabongkar.
36:20Yen ana wong sing oncat saka pedhang, banjur dituntun menyang Babil. Lan dheweke ngladeni Sang Prabu lan para putrane, nganti ratu ing Pèrsi dhawuh,
36:21lan pangandikane Sang Yehuwah lumantar Yeremia bakal kaleksanan, lan tanah bakal ngrayakake dina Sabat. Kanggo ing salawas-lawase dina sepi, dheweke netepi dina Sabat, nganti pitung puluh taun rampung.
36:22Banjur, ing taun pisanan Kores, raja Pèrsi, supados netepi pangandikanipun Gusti, kang wus kapangandikakake lumantar pangandikane Nabi Yeremia, Pangeran Yehuwah ngojok-ojoki atine Kores, raja Pèrsi, kang dhawuh supaya diwartakake ing saindenging karajan, lan uga ing tulisan, ngandika:
36:23" Mangkene ujare Cyrus, raja Pèrsi: Gusti, dewa swarga, sampun maringi kula sakehing karajan ing bumi. Lan dheweke wis ndhawuhi aku supaya aku mbangun omah kanggo dheweke ing Yerusalem, kang ana ing Yudea. Sapa ing antaramu saka kabeh umate? Muga-muga Pangéran Allahé nunggil karo dhèwèké, lan kareben munggah.”

The Letter of Saint Paul to the Ephesians 2: 4-10

2:4Nanging isih, God, who is rich in mercy, for the sake of his exceedingly great charity with which he loved us,
2:5even when we were dead in our sins, has enlivened us together in Christ, by whose grace you have been saved.
2:6And he has raised us up together, and he has caused us to sit down together in the heavens, in Christ Jesus,
2:7so that he may display, in the ages soon to arrive, the abundant wealth of his grace, by his goodness toward us in Christ Jesus.
2:8For by grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not of yourselves, for it is a gift of God.
2:9And this is not of works, so that no one may glory.
2:10For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the good works which God has prepared and in which we should walk.

John 3: 14- 21

3:14And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so also must the Son of man be lifted up,
3:15so that whoever believes in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.
3:16For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.
3:17For God did not send his Son into the world, in order to judge the world, but in order that the world may be saved through him.
3:18Whoever believes in him is not judged. But whoever does not believe is already judged, because he does not believe in the name of the only-begotten Son of God.
3:19And this is the judgment: that the Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness more than light. For their works were evil.
3:20For everyone who does evil hates the Light and does not go toward the Light, so that his works may not be corrected.
3:21But whoever acts in truth goes toward the Light, so that his works may be manifested, because they have been accomplished in God.”