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November 2024 Bible Readings

stjohnstmarkchurchburyThursday, October 24, 2024

Here are the Bible readings for November 2024, which we’ll be using in St John with St Mark’s and Christ Church, in the run up to Advent.

The readings

Our Old Testament readings include gold in a furnace, the shortest sermon, people shining like stars and an Ancient One with hair like pure wool. The Gospel readings include Jesus raising Lazarus and calling the first disciples; Jesus predicting the destruction of the temple and debating with Pilot.

• Nov 3rd – All Saints: Wisdom 3:1-9; Revelation 21:1-6a; John 11:32-44;
• Nov 10th – Remembrance: Jonah 3:1-5,10; Hebrews 9:24-28; Mark 1:14-20;
• Nov 17th – 2nd before Advent: Daniel 12:1-3; Hebrews 10:11-14, 19-25; Mark 13:1-8;
• Nov 24th – Christ the King: Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14; Revelation 1:4b-8; John 18:33-37;

If you don’t have access to a Bible, then please follow this link to the Vanderbilt Divinity Library. It’s not always the same but it’s usually very close.

The Bible readings for November 2024 include this from the Wisdom of Solomon for All Saints Day…

The righteous are with God

But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever touch them.

In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died and their departure was thought to be an affliction, and their going from us to be their destruction, but they are at peace.

For though in the sight of men they were punished, their hope is full of immortality.

Having been disciplined a little, they will receive great good, because God tested them and found them worthy of himself; like gold in the furnace he tried them, and like a sacrificial burnt offering he accepted them.

In the time of their visitation they will shine forth and will run like sparks through the stubble.

They will govern nations and rule over peoples and the Lord will reign over them forever.

Those who trust in him will understand truth, and the faithful will abide with him in love, because grace and mercy are upon his elect, and he watches over his holy ones.

Thanks once again to Olivia Snow for the photo on Unsplash