Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

81 A psalm for Asaph. God hath stood in the congregation of gods: and being in the midst of them he judgeth gods.

² How long will you judge unjustly: and accept the persons of the wicked?

³ Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and the poor.

⁴ Rescue the poor; and deliver the needy out of the hand of the sinner.

⁵ They have not known nor understood: they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be moved.

⁶ I have said: You are gods and all of you the sons of the most High.

⁷ But you like men shall die: and shall fall like one of the princes.

⁸ Arise, O God, judge thou the earth: for thou shalt inherit among all the nations.

⁴ Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all ye families of the house of Israel.

⁵ Thus saith the Lord: What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

⁶ And they have not said: Where is the Lord, that made us come up out of the land of Egypt? that led us through the desert, through a land uninhabited and unpassable, through a land of drought, and the image of death, through a land wherein no man walked, nor any man dwelt?

⁷ And I brought you into the land of Carmel, to eat the fruit thereof, and the best things thereof: and when ye entered in, you defiled my land, and made my inheritance an abomination.

⁸ The priests did not say: Where is the Lord? and they that held the law knew me not, and the pastors transgressed against me: and the prophets prophesied in Baal, and followed idols.

⁹ Therefore will I yet contend in judgement with you, saith the Lord, and I will plead with your children.

¹⁰ Pass over to the isles of Cethim, and see: and send into Cedar, and consider diligently: and see if there hath been done any thing like this.

¹¹ If a nation hath changed their gods, and indeed they are not gods: but my people have changed their glory into an idol.

¹² Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and ye gates thereof, be very desolate, saith the Lord.

¹³ For my people have done two evils. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and have digged to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

¹⁴ Now about the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.

¹⁵ And the Jews wondered, saying: How doth this man know letters, having never learned?

¹⁶ Jesus answered them, and said: My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

¹⁷ If any man do the will of him; he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

¹⁸ He that speaketh of himself, seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true, and there is no injustice in him.

¹⁹ Did Moses not give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law?

²⁰ Why seek you to kill me? The multitude answered, and said: Thou hast a devil; who seeketh to kill thee?

²¹ Jesus answered, and said to them: One work I have done; and you all wonder:

²² Therefore, Moses gave you circumcision (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and on the sabbath day you circumcise a man.

²³ If a man receive circumcision on the sabbath day, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are you angry at me because I have healed the whole man on the sabbath day?

²⁴ Judge not according to the appearance, but judge just judgment.

²⁵ Some therefore of Jerusalem said: Is not this he whom they seek to kill?

²⁶ And behold, he speaketh openly, and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers known for a truth, that this is the Christ?

²⁷ But we know this man, whence he is: but when the Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.

²⁸ Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching, and saying: You both know me, and you know whence I am: and I am not come of myself; but he that sent me, is true, whom you know not.

²⁹ I know him, because I am from him, and he hath sent me.

³⁰ They sought therefore to apprehend him: and no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

³¹ But of the people many believed in him, and said: When the Christ cometh, shall he do more miracles, than these which this man doth?

³⁷ And on the last, and great day of the festivity, Jesus stood and cried, saying: If any man thirst, let him come to me, and drink.

³⁸ He that believeth in me, as the scripture saith, Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

³⁹ Now this he said of the Spirit which they should receive, who believed in him: for as yet the Spirit was not given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.