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  Sunday, April 30, 2023, | Easter Fourth Sunday of Easter Year A First Reading Acts 6:1–9, 7:2a, 51–60 Old Testament 1 Samuel 17:34–37 (Supplemental) Psalm Psalm 23 New Testament 1 Peter 2:19–25 New Testament Hebrews 13:20, 21 (Supplemental) Gospel John 10:1–10   Christian Worship Three-Year Lectionary (with Supplemental Lectionary) . Print. Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2009. Sunday, April 30, 2023, | Easter Fourth Sunday of Easter Old Testament Ezekiel 34:11–16 Psalm Psalm 23 New Testament 1 Peter 2:21–25 Gospel John 10:11–16   Christian Worship One Year Lectionary . Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2009. Print. Sunday, April 30, 2023, | Easter Fourth Sunday of Easter Year A First Reading Acts 2:42–47 Psalm Psalm 23 Second Reading 1 Peter 2:19–25 Gospel John 10:1–10   Episcopal Church (USA) Revised Common Lectionary . Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2016. Print. Sunday, April 30, 2023, |

  April 30 Lesson 9 (KJV) Jesus Makes a Promise Devotional Reading: Psalm 24 Background Scripture: Acts 1:1–11 Acts 1:1–11 1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach , 2 Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen : 3 To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things about the kingdom of God : 4 And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. 5 For John truly baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. 6 When they came together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel again? 7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the