Before Pilate, the Good Confession--Mar. 29, 2015

Shout aloud and rejoice greatly;

let heart and flesh sing for joy to you,

Son of David; little children hosanna you,

but does anyone listen to what they are saying,

or remember all the amazing things you have done?

And now before Pilate you make the good confession.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 84; 150; 42; 32

Zech. 9:9-12

1 Tim. 6:12-16

Matt. 21:12-17

Selected Verses

Ps. 84:2a

…my heart and my flesh sing for joy
          to the living God.

Zech. 9:9a

Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion!
          Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem! 

1 Tim. 6:13

In the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I charge you…

Matt. 21:15-16a

But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the amazing things that [Jesus] did, and heard the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became angry and said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?”