Reading 1,
Jer 11:18-20
18 Yahweh informed me and I knew it; you then revealed their scheming to me.
19 I for my part was like a trustful lamb being led to the
slaughterhouse, not knowing the schemes they were plotting against me,
'Let us destroy the tree in its strength, let us cut him off from the
land of the living, so that his name may no longer be remebered!'
20 Yahweh Sabaoth, whose judgement is upright, tester of
motives and thoughts, I shall see your vengeance on them, for I have
revealed my
cause to you.
Responsorial Psalm,
Psalms 7:2-3, 9-10, 11-12
2 or he
will savage me like a lion, carry me off with no one to rescue me.
3 Yahweh my God, if I have done this: if
injustice has stained my hands,
9 Put an end to the malice of the wicked, make the upright stand firm, you who discern hearts and minds,
God the upright.
10 God is a shield that protects me, saving the honest of heart.
11 God is an upright judge, slow to anger, but a
God at all times threatening
12 for those who
will not repent. Let the enemy whet his sword, draw his bow and make ready;
Gospel,
Jn 7:40-53
40 Some of the crowd who had been listening said, 'He is indeed the prophet,'
41 and some said, 'He is the Christ,' but others said, 'Would the
Christ come from Galilee?
42 Does not
scripture say that the
Christ must be descended from David and come from Bethlehem, the village where David was?'
43 So the people could not agree about him.
44 Some wanted to arrest him, but no one actually laid a hand on him.
45 The guards went back to the chief priests and
Pharisees who said to them, 'Why haven't you brought him?'
46 The guards replied, 'No one has ever spoken like this man.'
47 'So,' the
Pharisees answered, 'you, too, have been led astray?
48 Have any of the authorities come to believe in him? Any of the Pharisees?
49 This rabble knows nothing about the
Law -- they are damned.'
50 One of them,
Nicodemus -- the same
man who had come to
Jesus earlier -- said to them,
51 'But surely our
Law does not allow us to pass judgement on anyone without first giving him a hearing and discovering what he is doing?'
52 To this they answered, 'Are you a Galilean too? Go into the matter, and see for yourself: prophets do not arise in Galilee.'
53 They all went home,
