The world honors important
people, people such
as Herod,
or the ship-owner, or
the centurion--
though these slander, betray friends, and
take up a reproach
against their neighbors.
Important people vilified
Paul, beheaded John,
crucified Jesus--but
vanished like the morning
mist or the early
dew, like swirling chaff,
or like smoke from a
window.
Paul, John, and Jesus
we remember.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 15; 147:1-11; 48; 4
Hosea 13:1-3
Acts 27:9-26
Luke 9:1-17
Selected Verses
Ps. 15:3
…who do not slander with their tongue,
and do no evil to their friends,
nor take up a reproach against their neighbors…
and do no evil to their friends,
nor take up a reproach against their neighbors…
Hosea 13:3
Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew
that goes away early, like chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like
smoke from a window.
Acts 27:11
But the centurion paid more attention to the pilot and to
the owner of the ship than to what Paul said.
Luke 9:9a
Herod said, "John I beheaded; but who is this about
whom I hear such things?"
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