{"id":457,"date":"2015-06-23T20:22:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T00:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=457"},"modified":"2015-06-22T20:56:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T00:56:55","slug":"wednesday-june-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, June 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MATTHEW 10\/11 <sup>40\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cHe who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me. <sup>41\u00a0<\/sup>He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet\u2019s reward. And he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man\u2019s reward. <sup>42\u00a0<\/sup>And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold <em>water<\/em> in the name of a disciple, assuredly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward.\u201d Now it came to pass, when Jesus finished commanding His twelve disciples, that He departed from there to teach and to preach in their cities. <sup>2\u00a0<\/sup>And when John had heard in prison about the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples <sup>3\u00a0<\/sup>and said to Him, \u201cAre You the Coming One, or do we look for another?\u201d <sup>4\u00a0<\/sup>Jesus answered and said to them, \u201cGo and tell John the things which you hear and see: <sup>5\u00a0<\/sup><em>The<\/em> blind see and <em>the<\/em> lame walk; <em>the<\/em> lepers are cleansed and <em>the<\/em> deaf hear; <em>the<\/em> dead are raised up and <em>the<\/em> poor have the gospel preached to them. <sup>6\u00a0<\/sup>And blessed is he who is not offended because of Me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>St. John Chrysostom:<\/p>\n<p>After Jesus commissioned the apostles, he proceeded to separate himself from them, to give them room and opportunity to do what he had called them to do. For while he was present with them and healing others, no one would be inclined to approach them.<\/p>\n<p>NATIVITY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST<\/p>\n<p>Prophet and Forerunner of the coming of Christ, \/ although we cannot praise you worthily, \/ we honor you in love at your nativity, \/ for by it you ended your father\u2019s silence and your mother\u2019s barrenness, \/ proclaiming to the world the incarnation of the Son of God!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MATTHEW 10\/11 40\u00a0\u201cHe who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me. 41\u00a0He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-daily-devotional","has_no_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}