From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
— 2 Timothy 3:15-17
For bible readings in our services, we follow a traditional, fixed schedule intended to lead us through the entire bible every four years. Each Sunday one of the psalms is read responsively and one of the three main readings for the day forms the basis of the sermon.
Doing this helps us with the discipline to ensure that “the whole counsel of God” is preached.
We will update this page each week for the coming Sunday’s service.
These readings are for May 24,2026
THE DAY OF PENTECOST
LCMS MISSOURI SYNOD CHURCH CALENDAR YEAR 2026
INTROIT
Ps. 104:24, 27–28, 30
COLLECT OF THE DAY
as posted
GRADUAL
Acts 2:17; Rom. 10:10
OLD TESTAMENT READING
Numbers 11:24–30
SECOND READING
Acts 2:1–21
THE HOLY GOSPEL
John 7:37–39
INTROIT
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of the faithful,*
and kindle in them the fire of your love. Alleluia.
O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all;*
the earth is full of your creatures.
These all | look to you,*
to give them their food in due season.
When you give it to them, they gather it up;*
when you open your hand, they are filled with good things.
When you send forth your Spirit, they are created,*
and you renew the face of the ground.
Glory be to the Father and | to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of the faithful, and kindle in them the fire of your love. Alleluia.
COLLECT OF THE DAY
O God, on this day You once taught the hearts of Your faithful people by sending them the light of Your Holy Spirit. Grant us in our day by the same Spirit to have a right understanding in all things and evermore to rejoice in His holy consolation; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
GRADUAL
I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh,*
and your sons and your daughters shall | prophesy.
With the heart one believes and is justified,*
and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
OLD TESTAMENT READING
Numbers 11:24–30 12–26
Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord. And he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the tent. Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. And as soon as the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied. But they did not continue doing it.
Now two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other named Medad, and the Spirit rested on them. They were among those registered, but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp. And a young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.” And Joshua the son of Nun, the assistant of Moses from his youth, said, “My lord Moses, stop them.” But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the Lord’s people were prophets, that the Lord would put his Spirit on them!” And Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp.
SECOND READING
Acts 2:1–21
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in his own language. And they were amazed and astonished, saying, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language? Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians—we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.” And all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” But others mocking said, “They are filled with new wine.”
But Peter, standing with the eleven, lifted up his voice and addressed them, “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and give ear to my words. For these men are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day. But this is what was uttered through the prophet Joel:
“ ‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. And I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke; the sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the day of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day. And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.’ ”
The Gospel Reading
John 7:37–39
On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ ” Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
MATTHEW 24:35
“Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.“