Sunday, January 17, 2021

Readings for January 17, 2021 annotated, lectionary 65



This translation is from the New American Bible. The bolded hyperlinks  will take you to additional translations. The entire chapter is included to provide context. 

Other bolded hyperlinks will take you to collections/analyses of other scriptures addressing similar principles. They are provided beneath the reading they relate to. 

Information about the meaning the original Hebrew or Greek of what seem to be key words is provided in blue. They are provided beneath the reading they relate to. 

Excerpts collected in yellow  at the end of this post tell us something about God’s nature or our relationship to Him. 

Excerpts collected in green  at the end of this post tell us about something God wants us to do. 

 

Reading I

1 Samuel 3:3-10, 19

Samuel was sleeping in the temple of the LORD where the ark of God was. 

The LORD called to Samuel, who answered, “Here I am.” Samuel ran to Eli and said, “Here I am.  You called me.” “I did not call you,” Eli said.  “Go back to sleep.” So he went back to sleep.

Again, the LORD called Samuel, who rose and went to Eli. “Here I am,” he said.  “You called me.” But Eli answered, “I did not call you, my son.  Go back to sleep.”

At that time Samuel was not familiar with the LORD, because the LORD had not revealed anything to him as yet.

The LORD called Samuel again, for the third time. Getting up and going to Eli, he said, “Here I am.  You called me.”

Then Eli understood that the LORD was calling the youth. So he said to Samuel, “Go to sleep, and if you are called, reply, Speak, LORD, for your servant is listening.”

When Samuel went to sleep in his place, the LORD came and revealed his presence, calling out as before, “Samuel, Samuel!” Samuel answered, “Speak, for your servant is listening.” 

***

Samuel grew up, and the LORD was with him, not permitting any word of his to be without effect.

 

called, calling = קָרָא= qara'

Blue Letter Bible

to call, call out, recite, read, cry out, proclaim;to summon, invite, call for, call and commission, appoint, call and endow;to be ... summoned; be called out, be chosen, bidden; invite

listening = שָׁמַע= shama`

Blue Letter Bible

to hear, listen to, obey; to hear with attention or interest, listen to; give heed; yield to; to obey, be obedient; to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.); give ear; understand; to attend to; hear and answer

  

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10

R.(8a, 9a)Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.
I have waited, waited for the LORD, and he stooped toward me and heard my cry.
And he put a new song into my mouth, a hymn to our God. 


R. Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.
Sacrifice or offering you wished not, but ears open to obedience you gave me.
Holocausts or sin-offerings you sought not; then said I, “Behold I come.”


R. Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.
“In the written scroll it is prescribed for me, to do your will, O my God, is my delight, and your law is within my heart!”


R. Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.
I announced your justice in the vast assembly;
I did not restrain my lips, as you, O LORD, know.
R. Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

 Come =חָפֵץ= chaphets

Blue Letter Bible

to delight in, take pleasure in, desire, be pleased with;to move, bend down; to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire

Scriptures addressing similar principles are collected in Wisdom Principles—True Piety

 

Reading II

1 Corinthians 6:13-15, 17-20

Brothers and sisters:
The body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body; God raised the Lord and will also raise us by his power. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? But whoever is joined to the Lord becomes one Spirit with him.

***

Avoid immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the immoral person sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been purchased at a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body. 

 

joined = μλος = melos

Blue Letter Bible

a member, limb: a member of the human body

Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon 

Limb; within [a] bodily frame; music to which a song is set, tune

 

glorify = δοξζω = doxazō

Blue Letter Bible

to magnify, extol, praise; to do honor to, to make glorious; to praise, extol, magnify, celebrate; to make renowned, render illustrious; to cause the dignity and worth of some person or thing to become manifest and acknowledged; adorn with luster; to exalt to a glorious rank or condition 

Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

magnify, extol;  to be distinguished, held in honour, magnified.
 

Alleluia

John 1:41, 17

R. Alleluia, alleluia.
We have found the Messiah: Jesus Christ, who brings us truth and grace.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

 

Gospel

John 1:35-42

John was standing with two of his disciples, and as he watched Jesus walk by, he said, “Behold, the Lamb of God.” The two disciples heard what he said and followed Jesus.

Jesus turned and saw them following him and said to them, “What are you looking for?”

They said to him, “Rabbi” — which translated means Teacher — “where are you staying?”

He said to them, “Come, and you will see.”

So they went and saw where Jesus was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about four in the afternoon. Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard John and followed Jesus. He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah” — which is translated Christ. Then he brought him to Jesus.

Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John; you will be called Cephas” — which is translated Peter.

 

followed, following = κολουθω = akoloutheō

Blue Letter Bible

to follow one who precedes, join him as his attendant, accompany him; to join one as a disciple, become or be his disciple; to be in the same way with, i.e. to accompany (specially, as a disciple); to cleave steadfastly to one, conform wholly to his example

 

Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  

follow one, go after or with him, freq. of soldiers and slaves; be guided by

 

Additional insights from this reading might (or might not) be gleaned from:

What we can learn from Jesus calling His first disciples, part 1—the “when" of God’s calls

and

What we can learn from Jesus calling His first disciples, part 2—the “where" of God’s calls


What these readings tell us about God and His ways:

The LORD called 

the LORD called 

The LORD called [] again, for the third time

the LORD came and revealed his presence,

he stooped toward me and heard my cry.
he put a new song into my mouth

ears open to obedience you gave me.

to do your will, O my God, is my delight

The body is not for immorality, but for the Lord

the Lord is for the body; God raised the Lord and will also raise us by his power

your bodies are members of Christ

whoever is joined to the Lordbecomes one Spirit with him.
the immoral person sins against his own body

your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you

you are not your own

you have been purchased at a price

the Messiah: Jesus Christ, who brings us truth and grace.

the Lamb of God

Jesus turned and saw them following him and said to them, “What are you looking for?”

Come, and you will see

Jesus looked at him

 

What these readings tell us to do:

answered, “Here I am”

“Here I am.  You called me”

“Here I am,” he said.  “You called me”

if you are called, reply, Speak, LORD, for your servant is listeningSamuel answered, “Speak, for your servant is listening.”

Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will
I have waited, waited for the LORD

Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will
ears open to obedience 

Behold I come
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will
to do your will, O my God, is my delight

Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will
I announced your justice 

Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will

joined to the Lord

Avoid immorality

glorify God in your body

Behold, the Lamb of God

heard

followed Jesus.

Come

So they went 

they stayed with him that day

heard

followed Jesus

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