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Today's Readings
Reading I
Jer 11:18-20
I knew their plot because the LORD informed me; at that time you, O
LORD, showed me their doings. Yet I, like a trusting
lamb led to slaughter, had not realized that they were hatching
plots against me: “Let us destroy the tree in its vigor; let
us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will be
spoken no more.” But, you, O LORD of hosts, O just Judge,
searcher of mind and heart, Let me witness the vengeance you take on
them, for to you I have entrusted my cause!
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 7:2-3, 9bc-10, 11-12
R. (2a) O Lord, my God, in you I take refuge. O LORD, my God,
in you I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers and rescue me,
Lest I become like the lion’s prey, to be torn to pieces, with no
one to rescue me. R. O Lord, my God, in you I take refuge. Do
me justice, O LORD, because I am just, and because of the innocence
that is mine. Let the malice of the wicked come to an end, but
sustain the just, O searcher of heart and soul, O just God. R. O
Lord, my God, in you I take refuge. A shield before me is God,
who saves the upright of heart; A just judge is God, a God who
punishes day by day. R. O Lord, my God, in you I take refuge.
Gospel
Jn 7:40-53
Some in the crowd who heard these words of Jesus said, “This is
truly the Prophet.” Others said, “This is the Christ.” But others
said, “The Christ will not come from Galilee, will he? Does not
Scripture say that the Christ will be of David’s family and come
from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?” So a division
occurred in the crowd because of him. Some of them even wanted to
arrest him, but no one laid hands on him. So the guards went
to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why did you not
bring him?” The guards answered, “Never before has anyone spoken
like this man.” So the Pharisees answered them, “Have you also been
deceived? Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in
him? But this crowd, which does not know the law, is accursed.”
Nicodemus, one of their members who had come to him earlier, said to
them, “Does our law condemn a man before it first hears him and
finds out what he is doing?” They answered and said to him, “You are
not from Galilee also, are you? Look and see that no prophet
arises from Galilee.” Then each went to his own house. |
