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JUNE 1
6 Let not those who wait for You, O Lord And the father of a fool has no joy.
GOD of hosts, be ashamed because 22 A merry heart does good, like
of me;
medicine,
Let not those who seek You be But a broken spirit dries the bones.
confounded because of me, O God
of Israel.
7 Because for Your sake I have borne John 12:1–26
reproach; Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus
Shame has covered my face. 12 came to Bethany, where Lazarus was
8 I have become a stranger to my who had been dead, whom He had raised
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brothers, from the dead. There they made Him a sup-
And an alien to my mother’s children; per; and Martha served, but Lazarus was one
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9 Because zeal for Your house has eaten of those who sat at the table with Him. Then
me up, Mary took a pound of very costly oil of spike-
And the reproaches of those who nard, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His
reproach You have fallen on me. feet with her hair. And the house was filled
with the fragrance of the oil.
4 But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, Si-
mon’s son, who would betray Him, said, “Why
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was this fragrant oil not sold for three hun-
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brought hatred and hostility on himself by his dred denarii and given to the poor?” This he
unyielding insistence that the behavior of the said, not that he cared for the poor, but
people measure up to their outward claim of because he was a thief, and had the money
devotion to God. Whenever God was dishon- box; and he used to take what was put in it.
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ored,he felt the pain,because he loved God so But Jesus said, “Let her alone; she has kept
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greatly.Jesus claimed for Himself this attitude, this for the day of My burial. For the poor you
as indicated in John 2:17; Romans 15:3. have with you always, but Me you do not have
always.”
9 Now a great many of the Jews knew that He
10 When I wept and chastened my soul was there; and they came, not for Jesus’ sake
with fasting, only, but that they might also see Lazarus,
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That became my reproach. whom He had raised from the dead. But the
11 I also made sackcloth my garment; chief priests plotted to put Lazarus to death
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I became a byword to them. also, because on account of him many of the
12 Those who sit in the gate speak Jews went away and believed in Jesus.
against me, 12 The next day a great multitude that had
And I am the song of the drunkards. come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus
was coming to Jerusalem, took branches of
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13 But as for me, my prayer is to You, palm trees and went out to meet Him, and
O LORD, in the acceptable time; cried out:
O God, in the multitude of Your mercy,
Hear me in the truth of Your salvation. “Hosanna!
14 Deliver me out of the mire, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name
And let me not sink; of the LORD!’
Let me be delivered from those who The King of Israel!”
hate me, 14 Then Jesus, when He had found a young
And out of the deep waters.
15 Let not the floodwater overflow me, donkey, sat on it; as it is written:
Nor let the deep swallow me up; 15 “Fear not, daughter of Zion;
And let not the pit shut its mouth on me. Behold, your King is coming,
Sitting on a donkey’s colt.”
Proverbs 17:20–22
16 His disciples did not understand these
20 He who has a deceitful heart finds no things at first; but when Jesus was glorified,
good, then they remembered that these things were
And he who has a perverse tongue falls written about Him and that they had done
into evil.
these things to Him.
21 He who begets a scoffer does so to his 17 Therefore the people, who were with Him
sorrow, when He called Lazarus out of his tomb and

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