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Thursday, June 3

Martyr Lucillian and His Companions

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Epistle

Acts 14:20–27

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20However, when the disciples gathered around him, he rose up and went into the city. And the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.

21And when they had preached the gospel to that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

22strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, 'We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.'

23So when they had appointed elders in every church, and prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

24And after they had passed through Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia.

25Now when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.

26From there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work which they had completed.

27Now when they had come and gathered the church together, they reported all that God had done with them, and that He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

Gospel

John 9:39–10:9

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39And Jesus said, 'For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.'

40Then some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, and said to Him, 'Are we blind also?'

41Jesus said to them, 'If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.

1Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

2But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

3To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

4And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

5Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.'

6Jesus used this illustration, but they did not understand the things which He spoke to them.

7Then Jesus said to them again, 'Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

8All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.

9I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

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