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FEBRUARY 23

John Mark’s restoration to useful ministry and preparation for writing his Gospel was due, in
part,to his extended close relationship with Peter (1 Pet.5:13).The older apostle was no stranger to
failure, and his influence on the younger man was no doubt instrumental. Mark grew out of the
instability of his youth and into the strength and maturity he would need for the work to which God
had called him. Mark’s Gospel represents primarily Peter’s version of the life of Jesus.

or two young pigeons, and come before the
February 23 and give them to the priest. Then the priest
LORD, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting,
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shall offer them, the one as a sin offering and
the other as a burnt offering. So the priest
Leviticus 15:1–16:34
shall make atonement for him before the LORD
And the LORD spoke to Moses and because of his discharge.
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15 Aaron, saying, “Speak to the children of 16 ‘If any man has an emission of semen, then
Israel, and say to them: ‘When any man has a he shall wash all his body in water, and be
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discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean until evening. And any garment and
unclean. And this shall be his uncleanness in any leather on which there is semen, it shall
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regard to his discharge—whether his body be washed with water, and be unclean until
runs with his discharge, or his body is evening. Also, when a woman lies with a
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stopped up by his discharge, it is his unclean- man, and there is an emission of semen, they
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ness. Every bed is unclean on which he who shall bathe in water, and be unclean until
has the discharge lies, and everything on evening.
which he sits shall be unclean. And whoever 19 ‘If a woman has a discharge, and the dis-
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touches his bed shall wash his clothes and charge from her body is blood, she shall be
bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. set apart seven days; and whoever touches
He who sits on anything on which he who has her shall be unclean until evening. Every-
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the discharge sat shall wash his clothes and thing that she lies on during her impurity shall
bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. be unclean; also everything that she sits on
And he who touches the body of him who has shall be unclean. Whoever touches her bed
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the discharge shall wash his clothes and bathe shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and
in water, and be unclean until evening. If he be unclean until evening. And whoever
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who has the discharge spits on him who is touches anything that she sat on shall wash
clean, then he shall wash his clothes and his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean
bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. until evening. If anything is on her bed or on
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Any saddle on which he who has the dis- anything on which she sits, when he touches it,
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charge rides shall be unclean. Whoever he shall be unclean until evening. And if any
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touches anything that was under him shall be man lies with her at all, so that her impurity is
unclean until evening. He who carries any of on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and
those things shall wash his clothes and bathe every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.
in water, and be unclean until evening. And 25 ‘If a woman has a discharge of blood for
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whomever the one who has the discharge many days, other than at the time of her custom-
touches, and has not rinsed his hands in ary impurity, or if it runs beyond her usual time
water, he shall wash his clothes and bathe in of impurity, all the days of her unclean dis-
water, and be unclean until evening. The ves- charge shall be as the days of her customary
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sel of earth that he who has the discharge impurity. She shall be unclean. Every bed on
touches shall be broken, and every vessel of which she lies all the days of her discharge
wood shall be rinsed in water. shall be to her as the bed of her impurity; and
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‘And when he who has a discharge is whatever she sits on shall be unclean, as the
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cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count uncleanness of her impurity. Whoever touch-
for himself seven days for his cleansing, wash es those things shall be unclean; he shall wash
his clothes, and bathe his body in running his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean
water; then he shall be clean. On the eighth until evening.
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day he shall take for himself two turtledoves 28 ‘But if she is cleansed of her discharge,
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