Bible Readings: See BibleGateway.com.

Listed in the
Revised Common Lectionary (Year B). 

Jeremiah 31:31-34

Psalm 51:1-12  or  Psalm 119:9-16

Hebrews 5:5-10

John 12:20-33

How clever are you? (To get this, you will probably have to throw out all your pre-conceived notions. That's the point!)

What is the next number in this series: 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221,......?

The answer is below here.....

The next number is 312211.

Say the numbers out aloud! Say aloud 111221 "three ones, two twos, one one" = 312211.

This is known as Conway's look and say sequence.

That illustrates the changes you sometimes need to make in how you must think.

This is explained further here http://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2004-10-13/google/

and here http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LookandSaySequence.html