Texts for Sunday January 25th, 2015

First Reading: Jonah 3:1–5, 10

The word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time, saying,  ²Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.  ³So Jonah set out and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly large city, a three days' walk across.  ⁴Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's walk. And he cried out, "Forty days more, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!"  ⁵And the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and everyone, great and small, put on sackcloth.

¹⁰When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil ways, God changed his mind about the calamity that he had said he would bring upon them; and he did not do it.

Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 7:29–31

²⁹I mean, brothers and sisters, the appointed time has grown short; from now on, let even those who have wives be as though they had none,  ³⁰and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no possessions,  ³¹and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.

Gospel: Mark 1:14–20

¹⁴Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God,  ¹⁵and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near, repent, and believe in the good news."

¹⁶As Jesus passed along the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the sea — for they were fishermen.  ¹⁷And Jesus said to them, "Follow me and I will make you fish for people."  ¹⁸And immediately they left their nets and followed him.  ¹⁹As he went a little farther, he saw James son of Zebedee and his brother John, who were in their boat mending the nets.  ²⁰Immediately he called them; and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men, and followed him.