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“For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
John 6:33

Today’s Bible Reading

Nehemiah lists priests and Levites who have come to Jerusalem, beginning with those who arrived with Zerubbabel and Jeshua about a century earlier (compare Ezra 2). The Judeans dedicate the wall of Jerusalem and organize the men who are to serve at the temple.

BibleGateway: Nehemiah 12 ESV Text: Nehemiah 12 Nehemiah 12 (Listen) Priests and Levites 12:1 These are the priests and the Levites who came up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, 2 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush, 3 Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth, 4 Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah, 5 Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah, 6 Shemaiah, Joiarib, Jedaiah, 7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were… 

When the Pharisees ask Jesus why His disciples eat with unwashed hands, Jesus exposes their hypocrisy—they neglect the commands of God while insisting that human traditions be observed. Jesus teaches that what comes out of a man defiles him, not what goes into him. Jesus drives the demon out of the daughter of a Syrophoenician woman and heals a deaf man.

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BibleGateway: Mark 7 ESV Text: Mark 7 Mark 7 (Listen) Traditions and Commandments 7:1 Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, 2 they saw that some of…