Daily Mass Readings

First Reading

Wisdom 2:1a, 12-22

¹For they have said, reasoning with themselves, but not right: The time of our life is short and tedious, and in the end of a man there is no remedy, and no man hath been known to have returned from hell:

¹²Let us therefore lie in wait for the just, because he is not for our turn, and he is contrary to our doings, and upbraideth us with transgressions of the law, and divulgeth against us the sins of our way of life.

¹³He boasteth that he hath the knowledge of God, and calleth himself the son of God.

¹⁴He is become a censurer of our thoughts.

¹⁵He is grievous unto us, even to behold: for his life is not like other men’s, and his ways are very different.

¹⁶We are esteemed by him as triflers, and he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness, and he preferreth the latter end of the just, and glorieth that he hath God for his father.

¹⁷Let us see then if his words be true, and let us prove what shall happen to him, and we shall know what his end shall be.

¹⁸For if he be the true son of God, he will defend him, and will deliver him from the hands of his enemies.

¹⁹Let us examine him by outrages and tortures, that we may know his meekness and try his patience.

²⁰Let us condemn him to a most shameful death: for there shall be respect had unto him by his words.

²¹These things they thought, and were deceived: for their own malice blinded them.

²²And they knew not the secrets of God, nor hoped for the wages of justice, nor esteemed the honour of holy souls.

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (Catholic canon)

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 34:17-18, 19-20, 21 and 23

¹⁷The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

¹⁸The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

¹⁹Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

²⁰He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.

²¹Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

Text shown in KJV (public domain).

Gospel

John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30

¹After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.

²Now the Jews’ feast of tabernacles was at hand.

¹⁰But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.

²⁵Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?

²⁶But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?

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

²⁸Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying,Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.

²⁹But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.

³⁰Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

Text shown in KJV (public domain).

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Verse text shown from public-domain translations (KJV; Douay-Rheims chain for deuterocanonical books). The text proclaimed at Mass in the United States is the NABRE Lectionary — read it at the USCCB link.