Scripture for Jan. 13

 January 12 (Saturday evening) worship has been cancelled due to weather. January 13 (Sunday) worship is also cancelled.

Luke 3:15-17 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

John the Baptist (right) with child Jesus,
in the painting The Holy Children with a Shell
by Bartolomé Esteban Perez Murillo

15 As the people were filled with expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Messiah,[a] 16 John answered all of them by saying, “I baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful than I is coming; I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandals. He will baptize you with[b] the Holy Spirit and fire. 17 His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”

Luke 3:21-22 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

The Baptism of Jesus

21 Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened, 22 and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, “You are my Son, the Beloved;[a] with you I am well pleased.”[b]

Footnotes:

1. Luke 3:22 Or my beloved Son
2. Luke 3:22 Other ancient authorities read You are my Son, today I have begotten you

New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

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