4.26.2015

Today's Bible story

April 26, 2015

We hope that today is a good day.

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Gospel: John 10:11-18

11 I am the good shepherd.☆ The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

12 He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.

13 The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't care for the sheep.

14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by my own;

15 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

16 I have other sheep, which are not of this fold.☆ I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

17 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, ☆ that I may take it again.

18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."


☆10:11: Isaiah 40:11; Ezekiel 34:11-12,15,22

☆10:16: Isaiah 56:8

☆10:17: Isaiah 53:7-8

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Acts 4:8-12

8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

9 if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,

10 be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in him does this man stand here before you whole.

11 He is 'the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.'☆

12 There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given amongst men, by which we must be saved!"


☆4:11: Psalm 118:22

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1 John 3:1-2

1 See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

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◇ The World English Bible
http://ebible.org/web/

◇ April 26, 2015 Daily Mass Reading
http://ccc.usccb.org/cccradio/NABPodcasts/15_04_26.mp3

◇ Daily Readings April 26, 2015
http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/042615.cfm

◇ Zondervan King James Audio Bible
http://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/kjv/John.20

◇ King James Version Bible Online
http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/book.php?book=John&chapter=20&verse=

◇ The New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)
http://www.usccb.org/bible/books-of-the-bible/index.cfm

◇ Douay-Rheims Bible
http://www.drbo.org/

☆ The Jesus Film (English Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pGEv9qXVaY

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