“We have blatantly rebelled; you have not forgiven.”

Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”

We have sinned like our ancestors; we have done wrong, we have done evil.

Look, you have instructed many; you have strengthened feeble hands.

I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith!

My kinsmen have failed me; my friends have forgotten me.

We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.

For my eyes have seen your salvation

For he says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are the people who have not seen and yet have believed.”

I have discovered David, my servant. With my holy oil I have anointed him as king.

For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me!”

Now I have sent Tychicus to Ephesus.

What we have heard and learned – that which our ancestors have told us –

The water would have overpowered us; the current would have overwhelmed us.

I have not learned wisdom, nor do I have knowledge of the Holy One.

The raging water would have overwhelmed us.

I have not taken advantage of you through anyone I have sent to you, have I?

Your words have supported those who stumbled, and you have strengthened the knees that gave way.

But you have plowed wickedness; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of deception. Because you have depended on your chariots; you have relied on your many warriors.