{"id":130,"date":"2015-05-01T00:26:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T00:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=130"},"modified":"2015-05-01T00:26:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T00:26:41","slug":"friday-may-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Friday May 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #165916;\"><strong>Orthodox Daily Devotional<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Life of the Saint<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He is the author of the Old Testament book that bears his name and of the Book of Lamentations. Jeremiah was the son of Helkiah, of the tribe of Levi, from the city of Anathoth in the land of Benjamin. He prophecied for thirty years, from 613 to 583 BC. When the Hebrew people were taken into captivity in the reigh of Zedekiah, the Prophet remained behind and mourned the downfall of the Jerusalem: this is the origin of the book of Lamentations. The Jews who remained fled into Egypt, forcibly taking Jeremiah and his scribe Baruch with them. In Egypt, his prophecies continued to disturb his own people, who stoned him to death by in 583.\u00a0 His name means &#8220;The Lord is exalted.&#8221; He is ranked second among the great Prophets, after Isaiah.\u00a0 The holy Prophets and Forefathers, who lived before Christ&#8217;s coming in the flesh are counted as Saints of the Church because they foresaw His coming, spoke of it in their prophecies, looked forward to it with Joy, and greeted Jesus as their Savior when he descended into Hades before his Resurrection.\u00a0 (abbamoses.com)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Scripture Reading<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span>JOHN\u00a0 5: <sup>16\u00a0<\/sup>For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath. <sup>17\u00a0<\/sup>But Jesus answered them, \u201cMy Father has been working until now, and I have been working.\u201d <sup>18\u00a0<\/sup>Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God. <sup>19\u00a0<\/sup>Then Jesus answered and said to them, \u201cMost assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. <sup>20\u00a0<\/sup>For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel. <sup>21\u00a0<\/sup>For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to <em>them,<\/em> even so the Son gives life to whom He will. <sup>22\u00a0<\/sup>For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son, <sup>23\u00a0<\/sup>that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">New Calendar\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/oca.org\/saints\/lives\" target=\"_blank\">Saints<\/a> &amp;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/oca.org\/readings\" target=\"_blank\">Lectionary Scriptures<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Old Calendar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holytrinityorthodox.com\/calendar\/\" target=\"_blank\">Saints &amp; Lectionary Scriptures<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;\">Scripture taken from the New King James Version. \u00a9 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. 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