Reader’s Guide: “The Word for Today” Saturday, April 12, 2014 Read Psalm 34 Psalm 34 is even more remote to most of us. At first reading it may seem that this psalm isn’t much like Psalm 22 or Psalm 69. It is a far more upbeat psalm. Yet, as we will discover a little later in John’s gospel this psalm played a part as he references the thought that not one of Jesus’ bones were broken (Psalm 34:20 = John19:36). It is clear that the OT has an influence on how the gospel writers choose to tell the story.