I am an emeritus professor from Cornell University and was a Commissioned Lay Preacher in the Presbyterian Church (USA). For many years I have followed the Daily Lectionary as printed in the Mission Yearbook of my church. For each day of a two-year cycle, the lectionary lists four psalms and three other scriptural passages--usually one from the Old Testament and two from the New Testament. My practice is to copy down a verse or two from one of the psalms and from each of the other three passages. After I have written out all four selections, I reflect upon them, rearrange their order, and incorporate them into a meditation. Sometimes I retain much of the original wording; sometimes all that remains of a selection is an idea that was stimulated when I read the original words. All selections are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible. For the Daily Lectionary, see the link below.

Who Struck You, Jesus?--June 30, 2015


Lord Jesus, who was it that struck you,
blindfolded and beat you, mocked you?

What is the matter
with the people,
that they are weeping?
Why the loud lamentation?
The insolent have risen against you,
and the ruthless seek your life, O Christ.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 54; 146; 28; 99
1 Sam. 11:1-15
Acts 8:1b-13
Luke 22:63-71

Selected Verses
Ps. 54:3
For the insolent have risen against me,
          the ruthless seek my life;
          they do not set God before them.     Selah

1 Sam. 11:5
Now Saul was coming from the field behind the oxen; and Saul said, “What is the matter with the people, that they are weeping?”

Acts 8:2
Devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation over him. 

Luke 22:63-64
Now the men who were holding Jesus began to mock him and beat him; they also blindfolded him and kept asking him, “Prophesy!  Who is it that struck you?” 
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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