Who Stands Up Against the Wicked?

Jesus, like prophets before you,

you tackled controversial subjects;

like them, you faced hostile questions,

and like them, you ignored the dangers.

Who among us, with patient endurance,

is ready to share the persecution?

Who rises up for you against

the wicked, stands up

for you against

evildoers?

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 33; 146; 85; 94

Amos 7:10-17

Rev. 1:9-16

Matt. 22:34-46

Selected Verses

Ps. 94:16

Who rises up for me against the wicked?

            Who stands up for me against evildoers?

Amos 7:12-13

And Amaziah said to Amos, "O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, earn your bread there, and prophesy there; but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom."

Rev. 1:9

I, John, your brother who share with you in Jesus the persecution and the kingdom and the patient endurance, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

Matt. 22:34-35

When the Pharisees heard that [Jesus] had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him.