Lenten Lectionary Á-? The Second Week of Great Lent - Page of 24
sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say,
Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?
10
But that ye may
know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive
sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)
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I say unto thee,
Arise, and take up thy bed, and
go thy way into thine
house.
12
And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and
went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all
amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this
fashion.
St. Gregory Palamas
John 10:9-16
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I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be
saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
10
The
thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to
destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that
they might have it more abundantly.
11
I am the good
shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
12
But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose
own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth
the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and
scattereth the sheep.
13
The hireling fleeth, because he is
an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
14
I am the good
shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
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As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and
I lay down my life for the sheep.
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And other sheep I have,
which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and
they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and
one shepherd.