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Hollywood, CA since 1904

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Mar

10

2nd Sunday of Lent

By Norma Castilho on 10-03-2006 | Parish |  


For the Week of March 12 – 18, 2006

If God is for us, who can be against us? — Romans 8:31b

2ND COLLECTION FOR THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH OFFICE OF JUSTICE & PEACE: Please give to the collection for the Universal Church and Catholic Relief Services that operates in 99 countries worldwide focusing to improve the lives of those in need by working with local communities and partners overseas in the areas of Agriculture, HIV/AIDS, Community Health, Education, Emergency Response, Peace Building, Microfinance (Village Banking). Donation envelopes are found behind the pews. Thank you for your generosity!

The presence of brothers and sisters from different cultures should be celebrated as a gift to the Church. Welcoming the Stranger Among Us: Unity in Diversity, A Statement from the U.S. Catholic Bishops

SCHOOL NEWS: Testing Dates for New Students: Wednesday, March 15th., 3:15pm. For more information, please call the school office at (323) 467-4177.

MARCH 17 IS ST. PATRICK’S FEAST: For the first time we are offering you the opportunity of buying Green Candles. They are on sale at the church parking lot. These candles are smoke-fee and are manufactured by the same company that makes our fine white candles.

ALTAR SERVERS: please come to the meeting and pot-luck scheduled for Saturday, March 18 at 11:00am in the rectory garden. Schedules will be handed out. Don’t miss it!!!

PRESIDERS FOR NEXT WEEK:
Sat/Sáb, March 18 - 6:00 pm Fr. E. C. Sebastian
Sun/Dom March 19 - 7:30 am Fr. Fred O’Brien; 9:00 am Fr. Wayne Negrete; 11:00 am Fr. Mike Mandala; 1:00 pm Fr. Wayne Negrete; 5:30 pm Fr. Mike Mandala

FLOWERS FOR THE ALTAR OF REPOSE: Easter lilies, Calla lilies, will be welcome to embellish our church this Easter season. Flower Fund donations may be made by placing your contribution in one of the special “Easter Flower envelopes” found behind the pews. You can either drop it in the offering basket or take it to the rectory.

HEALTH CABINET: The Health Cabinet Ministry is sponsoring a Vision and Glaucoma screening in conjunction with the Lions Club. This screening will take place on Sunday, March 19 from 9am until 2pm, under the school arches. First come-first served! For more information, please contact Aura Martinez at (323) 969-8519.

STATIONS OF THE CROSS: Each Friday at 11:30am (English) in the Church.
Fridays at 7:00pm (Spanish) in the Church.
Saturdays at 5:30pm (English) in the Church.

FAST AND ABSTINENCE: All Fridays of Lent and Good Friday are days of abstinence from meat. Fasting days are Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: During Lent we try to maintain a very simple church environment, please do not bring flowers. Thank you!

MULTI-LINGUAL LENTEN RECONCILIATION SERVICE: Our Lenten Reconciliation Service will be Monday, March 27, at 7:00pm. Confessions will be heard in English and Spanish. Please plan to attend this service with your family and friends as we prepare ourselves for Holy Week and our Easter Services.

SOCIAL SERVICES: From one of the Social Service Clients to all of you. (Continuation from last week)
“ The next time you see a homeless person ask yourself, what has happened in that person’s life to bring them to such a state of despair, what was it that made them loose heart to the point of not caring for themselves. It is then that Jesus calls us to care for one another.
REMEMBER, I CRIED WHEN I HAD NO SHOES UNTIL I SAW THE MAN WITH NO FEET.” — Phoenix Marlowe (exclusively for the Social Services Office at Blessed Sacrament Church)

MASS INTENTIONS
Sunday, March 12 - 7:30 Benefactors of Blessed Sacrament Church; 9:00 Rosalbina Fonseca; 1:00 Enrique Hernandez
Monday, March 13 - 8:00 Alyce “Gibby” Gibbons; 12:05 Deceased Friends of Mary Bowman
Tuesday, March 14 - 8:00 Habtesllassie Abrha; 12:05 Mathilda D. Rodgers
Wednesday, March 15 - 8:00 Florentina de Jesus; 12:05 Antonio & Julia Hidalgo
Thursday, March 16 - 8:00 Jorge Ramirez; 12:05 Bolivar Ortiz
Friday, March 17 - 8:00 Tim O’Maley; 12:05 Fr. John J. Brennan, S.J.; 7:30 Guadalupe Cortez Rojas
Saturday, March 18 - 8:00 Marcia Barredo; 12:05 Edwin Varona

NEXT WEEK’S SUNDAY SALES COORDINATORS: Charismatic Group (coffee & donuts)

FR. JOHN BRENNAN had surgery in the Los Gatos Community Hospital two weeks ago and is now recuperating in the Jesuit Infirmary in Los Gatos. Fr. E. C. Sebastian visited him last week and tells us Fr. Brennan looks tired but very alert and cheerful as usual. He is not taking any phone calls for the
time being. He appreciates and is very grateful for all who called or sent cards, for all the prayers and remembrances.

FR. FRED O’BRIEN, from the New York Province, will arrive this week and will spend two months here at Blessed. Fr. O’Brien is eager to see you all again and get to know the new people of Blessed Sacrament and work with you. Please introduce yourselves to him.

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION CONGRESS 2006: The annual Religious Education Congress at Anaheim is ready to enrich and revitalize us once more. Sponsored by the Office of Religious Education of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the Congress draws in excess of 35,000 participants over the course of this internationally acclaimed 4-day event. This year Congress is scheduled for March 30 (Youth Day) thru April 2, 2006 focuses on the theme “Step into Freedom”. Over the weekend participants will enjoy morning praise, evening liturgies and a variety of prayer experiences with internationally renowned leaders in the areas of liturgical music and worship. Concerts at noon time and evening offer additional opportunities for praise and worship-delightful experiences which engage and renew participants! For more information call RECongress info lie at 213 637 7346 or www.RECongress.org

READINGS FOR THE WEEK
Monday: Daniel 9:4b-10; Luke 6:36-38
Tuesday: Isaiah 1:10,16-20; Matthew 23:1-12
Wednesday: Jeremiah 18:18-20; Matthew 20:17-28
Thursday: Jeremiah 17:5-10; Luke 16:19-31
Friday: Gn 37:3-4, 12-13a; 17b-28a; Matthew 21:33-43,45-46
Saturday: Micah 7:14-15,18-20; Luke 15:1-3,11-32
Sunday: Exodus 20:1-17 [1-3, 7-8, 12-17]; Ps 19; 1 Corinthians 1:22-25; John 2:13-25
Alternate readings (Year A): Exodus 17:3-7; Ps 95; Romans 5:1-2,5-8; John 4:5-42 [5-15, 19b-26, 39a, 40-42]

HAVE YOU REMEMBERED YOUR PARISH OR SCHOOL IN YOUR WILL OR TRUST? For further information, please contact the rectory or H. Richard Closson, Director, Trust and Estate Programs (213) 637-7472/ HRClosson@la-archdiocese.org www.estateplanning.com/trustsacc Our correct legal title is:The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles, A Corporation Sole,

FINANCE CORNER: Our income last week was –
Regular Collection $ 8,075.00
Other income/donations $ 3,813.00
Total weekly income $11,888.00
The average expenses for the parish, including payment of the debt, are $12,800.00 weekly. Thank you for your continued support.

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2DA COLECTA PARA LA IGLESIA UNIVERSAL & DE LOS SERVICIOS DE AYUDA CATOLICA: Por favor sean generosos con la Colecta para la Iglesia Universal y de los Servicios de Ayuda Católica quienes operan en 99 países del mundo enfocandose en el mejoramiento de las vidas de los necesitados, trabajando con las comunidades locales y con nuestros compañeros en el extranjero en las áreas de Agricultura, VIH/SIDA, Salúd de la Comunidad, Educación, Respondiendo a las Emergencias, Construyendo la Paz, Microfinanza. Los sobres para su contribución están detrás de las bancas. Gracias por su generosidad y ayuda!

La presencia de hermanos y hermanas de culturas diferentes debe ser celebrada como un don a la Iglesia. Acogiéndo al Extranjero Entre Nosotros: Unidad en la Diversidad, Declaración de los Obispos Católicos de los Estados Unidos de América

NOTICIAS DE LA ESCUELA: Fecha y Horario de Exámenes para los Nuevos Alumnos: Miércoles, 15 de Marzo-3:15pm. Para mayores informes, sírvanse llamar a la escuela al télf: (323) 467-4177.

MARZO 17-DIA DE SAN PATRICIO: Por primera vez en esta fecha les estamos ofreciendo la oportunidad de comprar Velas verdes. Están a la venta en el estacionamiento de la Iglesia. Estas velas no hacen humo y son hechas por la misma compañía que nos fornece las velas blancas.

MINISTERIO DE LA SALUD: El Ministerio de la Salúd ofrecerá Examen Gratis de la Vista y Prevención del Glaucoma. Este evento se realizará con el patrocinio del Club de Leones y se llevará a cabo el Domingo 19 de Marzo de 9am a 2pm a la entrada de la escuela, debajo de los arcos. No se están tomando citas, los primeros serán atendidos primero! Para más informes, favor contactar a Aura Martínez al (323) 969-8519.

COORDINADORES DE LA VENTA DEL PROXIMO DOMINGO: Carismáticos (coffee & donuts)

El MINISTERIO DE MONAGUILLOS(AS) tendrá una reunión y almuerzo de camadería el Sábado 18 de Marzo a las 11am en el patio de la rectoría. Durante esta reunión se distribuirán los horarios y calendarios para servir. Favor no se pierdan esta importante reunión!!!

LIRIOS PARA EL ALTAR DE REPOSO: Pueden dejar sus donativos en los sobres especiales “Flores para Pascua Florida” que se encuentran detrás de las bancas. Este dinero servirá para adornar nuestra Iglesia durante la Semana Santa.

VIA CRUCIS EN LA IGLESIA: Viernes de Cuaresma a las 11:30am (Inglés) en la Iglesia.
– Viernes de Cuaresma a las 7:00pm (Español) en la Iglesia - antes de la Misa de las 7:30pm.
– Sábados de Cuaresma: a las 5:30pm (Inglés).

VIA CRUCIS EN EL BARRIO:
– Martes, 14 de Marzo Comunidad Nueva Higuera a las 7:00pm-esquina Vine & Eleanor.
– Martes, 21 de Marzo Comunidad San Juan a las 7:00pm-esquina Afton & Gower.
– Domingo 9 de Abril-DOMINGO DE RAMOS-Caminata 7:30am Hollywood Blvd. & Western.

AYUNO & ABSTINENCIA: Todos los Viernes de Cuaresma y el Viernes Santo son días de abstinencia. Los días de abstinencia no se come carne. Los días de ayuno son: Miércoles de Ceniza y Viernes Santo.

AVISO IMPORTANTE: Durante la Cuaresma tratemos de mantener la decoración de la Iglesia de una manera bien simple, por favor no traigan flores. Gracias!

SERVICIO MULTI-LINGUE DEL SACRAMENTO DE RECONCILIACION DE CUARESMA: Nuestro Servicio de Reconciliación esta Cuaresma se celebrará el Lunes, 27 de Marzo a las 7:00pm. Las Confesiones serán en Inglés y Español.Los esperamos a todos ustedes y sus familias en esta nuestra preparación para los servicios de Semana Santa y Pascua Florida.

SERVICIOS SOCIALES: De una persona que usa los Servicios de la Oficina de Servicios Sociales para todos ustedes. (Continuación de la semana pasada) ” La próxima vez que te encuentres a una persona de estas en la calle pregúntate: Que ha pasado en la vida de esta persona que lo ha llevado a tal estado de desamparo Qué fue lo que hizo que perdiera él en su corazón el deseo de cuidarse a si mismo? Y peinsa en el llamdo que Jesús nos hizo para que nos cuidaramos los otros.
YO RECUERDO QUE LLORE CUANDO NO TENIA ZAPATOS, HASTA QUE VI UN HOMBRE QUE NO TENIA PIES.” — Phoenix Marlowe (exclusivo para la Oficina de Servicios Sociales En la Parrroquia del Santísimo Sacramento)

PADRE JOHN BRENNAN: El Padre John Brennan fue sometido a una cirugía en el Hospital de la Comunidad de Los Gatos hace dos semanas y está recuperándose en la Casa de Reposo de los Jesuitas en Los Gatos. El Padre Sebastian lo visitó la semana pasada y nos dice que el Padre Brennan está cansado pero muy alerta y alegre como de costumbre. Por el momento no está recibiendo llamadas telefónicas. El Padre Brennan está muy agradecido a todos los que llamaron o le mandaron tarjetas de saludo, por las oraciones y todas las manifestaciones de aprecio y cariño.

El PADRE FRED O’BRIEN, perteneciente a la Provincia de Nueva York, llegará durante la semana pasada y nos estará ayudando en la parroquia por dos meses. Vengan a saludar y presentarse personalmente al Padre O’Brien. El está ansioso de volver a ver a todos los ya conocidos y de conocer a la gente nueva de la parroquia y de trabajar con Uds.

2006 CONGRESO DE EDUCACION RELIGIOSA: El Congreso anual de Educación Religiosa en Anaheim está próximo para renovarnos y nutrirnos una vez más. El Congreso reune cerca de 35,000 participantes durante los 4 días de este evento internacionalmente reconocido y auspiciado por la Oficina de Educación Religiosa de la Arquidiócesis de Los Angeles. Este año habrá más de 270 talleres para elegir, con temas e intereses que comprenden desde espiritualidad y desarrollo personal hasta estudio biblíco, teología y catequesis. El Congreso se realizará el 30 de Marzo (Jornada Juvenil) y 31 de Marzo al 2 de Abril con el lema “Paso a la Libertad.” Durante el fin de semana pueden disfrutar de la oración de la mañana, de liturgias y de una variedad de experiencias de oración con líderes internacionalmente conocidos en las áreas de música litúrgica y culto. Los conciertos al medio día y de la noche ofrecen oportunidades adicionales de alabanza y culto. NO se lo pierda!!! Para mayores informes llame al 213 637-7346 o visítenos en www.RECongress.org

LECTURAS DE LA SEMANA
Lunes: Daniel 9:4b-10; Lc 6:36-38
Martes: Isaiah 1:10,16-20; Matthew 23:1-12
Miércoles: Jeremiah 18:18-20; Matthew 20:17-28
Jueves: Jeremiah 17:5-10; Lc 16:19-31
Viernes: Gn 37:3-4, 12-13a; 17b-28a; Matthew 21:33-43,45-46
Sábado: Miq 7:14-15, 18-20; Lc 15:1-3, 11-32
Domingo: Exodus 20:1-17 [1-3, 7-8, 12-17; Sal 19(18); 1 Corinthians 1:22-25; John 2:13-25
Lecturas alternativas (Año A): Exodus 17:3-7; Sal 95(94); Romans 5:1-2,5-8; John 4:5-42 [5-15, 19b-26, 39a, 40-42]

RINCON FINANCIERO: Nuestro ingreso de la semana pasada fue –
Colecta Regular $ 8,075.00
Otros ingresos/donaciones $ 3,813.00
Total de ingresos $11,888.00
El promedio de gastos de la parroquia, incluyendo el pago de la deuda, es de $12,800.00 semanales. Gracias por su continuo apoyo.

Romans 8:31
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31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who is against us?
Daniel 9:4
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4And I prayed to the Lord my God, and I made my confession, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord God, great and terrible, who keepest the covenant, and mercy to them that love thee, and keep thy commandments.
Luke 6:36-38
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36Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
37Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you shall be forgiven.
38Give, and it shall be given to you: good measure and pressed down and shaken together and running over shall they give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you shall mete withal, it shall be measured to you again.
Isaiah 1:10,16-20
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10Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha.
16Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely,
17Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.
18And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.
19If you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land.
20But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Matthew 23:1-12
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1Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,
2Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses.
3All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not; for they say, and do not.
4For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but with a finger of their own they will not move them.
5And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad, and enlarge their fringes.
6And they love the first places at feasts, and the first chairs in the synagogues,
7And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men, Rabbi.
8But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your master; and all you are brethren.
9And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven.
10Neither be ye called masters; for one is you master, Christ.
11He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant.
12And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
Jeremiah 18:18-20
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18And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremias: for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words.
19Give heed to me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my adversaries.
20Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, so speak good for them, and turn away thy indignation from them.
Matthew 20:17-28
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17And Jesus going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples apart, and said to them:
18Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be betrayed to the chief priests and the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death.
19And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to be mocked, and scourged, and crucified, and the third day he shall rise again.
20Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons, adoring and asking something of him.
21Who said to her: What wilt thou? She saith to him: Say that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left, in thy kingdom.
22And Jesus answering, said: You know not what you ask. Can you drink the chalice that I shall drink? They say to him: We can.
23He saith to them: My chalice indeed you shall drink; but to sit on my right or left hand, is not mine to give to you, but to them for whom it is prepared by my Father.
24And the ten hearing it, were moved with indignation against the two brethren.
25But Jesus called them to him, and said: You know that the princes of the Gentiles lord it over them; and they that are the greater, exercise power upon them.
26It shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be the greater among you, let him be your minister:
27And he that will be first among you, shall be your servant.
28Even as the Son of man is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a redemption for many.
Jeremiah 17:5-10
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5Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
6For he shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come: but he shall dwell in dryness in the desert in a salt land, and not inhabited.
7Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord, and the Lord shall be his confidence.
8And he shall be as a tree that is planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots towards moisture: and it shall not fear when the heat cometh. And the leaf thereof shall be green, and in the time of drought it shall not be solicitous, neither shall it cease at any time to bring forth fruit.
9The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it?
10I am the Lord who search the heart and prove the reins: who give to every one according to his way, and according to the fruit of his devices.
Luke 16:19-31
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19There was a certain rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen; and feasted sumptuously every day.
20And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, who lay at his gate, full of sores,
21Desiring to be filled with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table, and no one did give him; moreover the dogs came, and licked his sores.
22And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was buried in hell.
23And lifting up his eyes when he was in torments, he saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom:
24And he cried, and said: Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, to cool my tongue: for I am tormented in this flame.
25And Abraham said to him: Son, remember that thou didst receive good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazareth evil things, but now he is comforted; and thou art tormented.
26And besides all this, between us and you, there is fixed a great chaos: so that they who would pass from hence to you, cannot, nor from thence come hither.
27And he said: Then, father, I beseech thee, that thou wouldst send him to my father’s house, for I have five brethren,
28That he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torments.
29And Abraham said to him: They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
30But he said: No, father Abraham: but if one went to them from the dead, they will do penance.
31And he said to him: If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they believe, if one rise again from the dead.
Matthew 21:33-43,45-46
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33Hear ye another parable. There was a man an householder, who planted a vineyard, and made a hedge round about it, and dug in it a press, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen; and went into a strange country.
34And when the time of the fruits drew nigh, he sent his servants to the husbandmen that they might receive the fruits thereof.
35And the husbandmen laying hands on his servants, beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
36Again he sent other servants more than the former; and they did to them in like manner.
37And last of all he sent to them his son, saying: They will reverence my son.
38But the husbandmen seeing the son, said among themselves: This is the heir: come, let us kill him, and we shall have his inheritance.
39And taking him, they cast him forth out of the vineyard, and killed him.
40When therefore the lord of the vineyard shall come, what will he do to those husbandmen?
41They say to him: He will bring those evil men to an evil end; and will let out his vineyard to other husbandmen, that shall render him the fruit in due season.
42Jesus saith to them: Have you never read in the Scriptures: The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner? By the Lord this has been done; and it is wonderful in our eyes.
43Therefore I say to you, that the kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and shall be given to a nation yielding the fruits thereof.
45And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they knew that he spoke of them.
46And seeking to lay hands on him, they feared the multitudes: because they held him as a prophet.
Micah 7:14-15,18-20
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14Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy inheritance, them that dwell alone in the forest, in the midst of Carmel: they shall feed in Basan and Galaad according to the days of old.
15According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt I will shew him wonders.
18Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest by the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in no more, because he delighteth in mercy.
19He will turn again, and have mercy on us: he will put away our iniquities: and he will cast all our sins into the bottom of the sea.
20Thou wilt perform the truth of Jacob, the mercy to Abraham: which thou hast sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
Luke 15:1-3,11-32
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1Now the publicans and sinners drew near unto him to hear him.
2And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying: This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
3And he spoke to them this parable, saying:
11And he said: A certain man had two sons:
12And the younger of them said to his father: Father, give me the portion of substance that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his substance.
13And not many days after, the younger son, gathering all together, went abroad into a far country: and there wasted his substance, living riotously.
14And after he had spent all, there came a mighty famine in that country; and he began to be in want.
15And he went and cleaved to one of the citizens of that country. And he sent him into his farm to feed swine.
16And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks the swine did eat; and no man gave unto him.
17And returning to himself, he said: How many hired servants in my father’s house abound with bread, and I here perish with hunger?
18I will arise, and will go to my father, and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee:
19I am not worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
20And rising up he came to his father. And when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and running to him fell upon his neck, and kissed him.
21And the son said to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, I am not now worthy to be called thy son.
22And the father said to his servants: Bring forth quickly the first robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
23And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it, and let us eat and make merry:
24Because this my son was dead, and is come to life again: was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
25Now his elder son was in the field, and when he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing:
26And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant.
27And he said to him: Thy brother is come, and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe.
28And he was angry, and would not go in. His father therefore coming out began to entreat him.
29And he answering, said to his father: Behold, for so many years do I serve thee, and I have never transgressed thy commandment, and yet thou hast never given me a kid to make merry with my friends:
30But as soon as this thy son is come, who hath devoured his substance with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
31But he said to him: Son, thou art always with me, and all I have is thine.
32But it was fit that we should make merry and be glad, for this thy brother was dead and is come to life again; he was lost, and is found.
Exodus 20:1-17
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1And the Lord spoke all these words:
2I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.
4Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth.
5Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:
6And shewing mercy unto thousands to them that love me, and keep my commandments.
7Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain.
8Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day.
9Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.
10But on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work on it, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy beast, nor the stranger that is within thy gates.
11For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.
12Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayest be longlived upon the land which the Lord thy God will give thee.
13Thou shalt not kill.
14Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15Thou shalt not steal.
16Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
17Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house: neither shalt thou desire his wife, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his.
1 Corinthians 1:22-25
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22For both the Jews require signs, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
23But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews indeed a stumblingblock, and unto the Gentiles foolishness:
24But unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
25For the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
John 2:13-25
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13And the pasch of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14And he found in the temple them that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting.
15And when he had made, as it were, a scourge of little cords, he drove them all out of the temple, the sheep also and the oxen, and the money of the changers he poured out, and the tables he overthrew.
16And to them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic.
17And his disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up.
18The Jews, therefore, answered, and said to him: What sign dost thou shew unto us, seeing thou dost these things?
19Jesus answered, and said to them: Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
20The Jews then said: Six and forty years was this temple in building; and wilt thou raise it up in three days?
21But he spoke of the temple of his body.
22When therefore he was risen again from the dead, his disciples remembered, that he had said this, and they believed the scripture, and the word that Jesus had said.
23Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the pasch, upon the festival day, many believed in his name, seeing his signs which he did.
24But Jesus did not trust himself unto them, for that he knew all men,
25And because he needed not that any should give testimony of man: for he knew what was in man.
Exodus 17:3-7
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3So the people were thirsty there for want of water, and murmured against Moses, saying: Why didst thou make us go forth out of Egypt, to kill us and our children, and our beasts with thirst?
4And Moses cried to the Lord, saying: What shall I do to this people? Yet a little more and they will stone me.
5And the Lord said to Moses: God before the people, and take with thee of the ancients of Israel: and take in thy hand the rod wherewith thou didst strike the river, and go.
6Behold I will stand there before thee, upon the rock Horeb: and thou shalt strike the rock, and water shall come out of it that the people may drink. Moses did so before the ancients of Israel:
7And he called the name of that place Temptation, because the chiding of the children of Israel, and for that they tempted the Lord, saying: Is the Lord amongst us or not?
Romans 5:1-2,5-8
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1Being justified therefore by faith, let us have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2By whom also we have access through faith into this grace, wherein we stand, and glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God.
5And hope confoundeth not: because the charity of God is poured forth in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost, who is given to us.
6For why did Christ, when as yet we were weak, according to the time, die for the ungodly?
7For scarce for a just man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man some one would dare to die.
8But God commendeth his charity towards us; because when as yet we were sinners, according to the time,
John 4:5-42
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5He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria, which is called Sichar, near the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus saith to her: Give me to drink.
8For his disciples were gone into the city to buy meats.
9Then that Samaritan woman saith to him: How dost thou, being a Jew, ask of me to drink, who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews do not communicate with the Samaritans.
10Jesus answered, and said to her: If thou didst know the gift of God, and who he is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou perhaps wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
11The woman saith to him: Sir, thou hast nothing wherein to draw, and the well is deep; from whence then hast thou living water?
12Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13Jesus answered, and said to her: Whosoever drinketh of this water, shall thirst again; but he that shall drink of the water that I will give him, shall not thirst for ever:
14But the water that I will give him, shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting.
15The woman saith to him: Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.
16Jesus saith to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
17The woman answered, and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: Thou hast said well, I have no husband:
18For thou hast had five husbands: and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husband. This thou hast said truly.
19The woman saith to him: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
20Our fathers adored on this mountain, and you say, that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore.
21Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe me, that the hour cometh, when you shall neither on this mountain, not in Jerusalem, adore the Father.
22You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know; for salvation is of the Jews.
23But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeketh such to adore him.
24God is a spirit; and they that adore him, must adore him in spirit and in truth.
25The woman saith to him: I know that the Messias cometh (who is called Christ). Therefore, when he is come, he will tell us all things.
26Jesus saith to her: I am he, who am speaking with thee.
27And immediately his disciples came; and they wondered that he talked with the woman. Yet no man said: What seekest thou? or, why talkest thou with her?
28The woman therefore left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men there:
29Come, and see a man who has told me all things whatsoever I have done. Is not he the Christ?
30They went therefore out of the city, and came unto him.
31In the mean time the disciples prayed him, saying: Rabbi, eat.
32But he said to them: I have meat to eat, which you know not.
33The disciples therefore said one to another: Hath any man brought him to eat?
34Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work.
35Do you not say, There are yet four months, and then the harvest cometh? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the countries; for they are white already to harvest.
36And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting: that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth, may rejoice together.
37For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth.
38I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour: others have laboured, and you have entered into their labours.
39Now of that city many of the Samaritans believed in him, for the word of the woman giving testimony: He told me all things whatsoever I have done.
40So when the Samaritans were come to him, they desired that he would tarry there. And he abode there two days.
41And many more believed in him because of his own word.
42And they said to the woman: We now believe, not for thy saying: for we ourselves have heard him, and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.
Daniel 9:4
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4And I prayed to the Lord my God, and I made my confession, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord God, great and terrible, who keepest the covenant, and mercy to them that love thee, and keep thy commandments.
Isaiah 1:10,16-20
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10Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha.
16Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely,
17Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.
18And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.
19If you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land.
20But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Matthew 23:1-12
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1Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,
2Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses.
3All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not; for they say, and do not.
4For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but with a finger of their own they will not move them.
5And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad, and enlarge their fringes.
6And they love the first places at feasts, and the first chairs in the synagogues,
7And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men, Rabbi.
8But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your master; and all you are brethren.
9And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven.
10Neither be ye called masters; for one is you master, Christ.
11He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant.
12And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
Jeremiah 18:18-20
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18And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremias: for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words.
19Give heed to me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my adversaries.
20Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, so speak good for them, and turn away thy indignation from them.
Matthew 20:17-28
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17And Jesus going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples apart, and said to them:
18Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be betrayed to the chief priests and the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death.
19And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to be mocked, and scourged, and crucified, and the third day he shall rise again.
20Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons, adoring and asking something of him.
21Who said to her: What wilt thou? She saith to him: Say that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left, in thy kingdom.
22And Jesus answering, said: You know not what you ask. Can you drink the chalice that I shall drink? They say to him: We can.
23He saith to them: My chalice indeed you shall drink; but to sit on my right or left hand, is not mine to give to you, but to them for whom it is prepared by my Father.
24And the ten hearing it, were moved with indignation against the two brethren.
25But Jesus called them to him, and said: You know that the princes of the Gentiles lord it over them; and they that are the greater, exercise power upon them.
26It shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be the greater among you, let him be your minister:
27And he that will be first among you, shall be your servant.
28Even as the Son of man is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a redemption for many.
Jeremiah 17:5-10
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5Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
6For he shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come: but he shall dwell in dryness in the desert in a salt land, and not inhabited.
7Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord, and the Lord shall be his confidence.
8And he shall be as a tree that is planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots towards moisture: and it shall not fear when the heat cometh. And the leaf thereof shall be green, and in the time of drought it shall not be solicitous, neither shall it cease at any time to bring forth fruit.
9The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it?
10I am the Lord who search the heart and prove the reins: who give to every one according to his way, and according to the fruit of his devices.
Matthew 21:33-43,45-46
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33Hear ye another parable. There was a man an householder, who planted a vineyard, and made a hedge round about it, and dug in it a press, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen; and went into a strange country.
34And when the time of the fruits drew nigh, he sent his servants to the husbandmen that they might receive the fruits thereof.
35And the husbandmen laying hands on his servants, beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
36Again he sent other servants more than the former; and they did to them in like manner.
37And last of all he sent to them his son, saying: They will reverence my son.
38But the husbandmen seeing the son, said among themselves: This is the heir: come, let us kill him, and we shall have his inheritance.
39And taking him, they cast him forth out of the vineyard, and killed him.
40When therefore the lord of the vineyard shall come, what will he do to those husbandmen?
41They say to him: He will bring those evil men to an evil end; and will let out his vineyard to other husbandmen, that shall render him the fruit in due season.
42Jesus saith to them: Have you never read in the Scriptures: The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner? By the Lord this has been done; and it is wonderful in our eyes.
43Therefore I say to you, that the kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and shall be given to a nation yielding the fruits thereof.
45And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they knew that he spoke of them.
46And seeking to lay hands on him, they feared the multitudes: because they held him as a prophet.
Exodus 20:1-17
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1And the Lord spoke all these words:
2I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.
4Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth.
5Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:
6And shewing mercy unto thousands to them that love me, and keep my commandments.
7Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain.
8Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day.
9Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.
10But on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work on it, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy beast, nor the stranger that is within thy gates.
11For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.
12Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayest be longlived upon the land which the Lord thy God will give thee.
13Thou shalt not kill.
14Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15Thou shalt not steal.
16Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
17Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house: neither shalt thou desire his wife, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his.
1 Corinthians 1:22-25
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22For both the Jews require signs, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
23But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews indeed a stumblingblock, and unto the Gentiles foolishness:
24But unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
25For the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
John 2:13-25
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13And the pasch of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14And he found in the temple them that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting.
15And when he had made, as it were, a scourge of little cords, he drove them all out of the temple, the sheep also and the oxen, and the money of the changers he poured out, and the tables he overthrew.
16And to them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic.
17And his disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up.
18The Jews, therefore, answered, and said to him: What sign dost thou shew unto us, seeing thou dost these things?
19Jesus answered, and said to them: Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
20The Jews then said: Six and forty years was this temple in building; and wilt thou raise it up in three days?
21But he spoke of the temple of his body.
22When therefore he was risen again from the dead, his disciples remembered, that he had said this, and they believed the scripture, and the word that Jesus had said.
23Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the pasch, upon the festival day, many believed in his name, seeing his signs which he did.
24But Jesus did not trust himself unto them, for that he knew all men,
25And because he needed not that any should give testimony of man: for he knew what was in man.
Exodus 17:3-7
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3So the people were thirsty there for want of water, and murmured against Moses, saying: Why didst thou make us go forth out of Egypt, to kill us and our children, and our beasts with thirst?
4And Moses cried to the Lord, saying: What shall I do to this people? Yet a little more and they will stone me.
5And the Lord said to Moses: God before the people, and take with thee of the ancients of Israel: and take in thy hand the rod wherewith thou didst strike the river, and go.
6Behold I will stand there before thee, upon the rock Horeb: and thou shalt strike the rock, and water shall come out of it that the people may drink. Moses did so before the ancients of Israel:
7And he called the name of that place Temptation, because the chiding of the children of Israel, and for that they tempted the Lord, saying: Is the Lord amongst us or not?
Romans 5:1-2,5-8
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1Being justified therefore by faith, let us have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2By whom also we have access through faith into this grace, wherein we stand, and glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God.
5And hope confoundeth not: because the charity of God is poured forth in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost, who is given to us.
6For why did Christ, when as yet we were weak, according to the time, die for the ungodly?
7For scarce for a just man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man some one would dare to die.
8But God commendeth his charity towards us; because when as yet we were sinners, according to the time,
John 4:5-42
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5He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria, which is called Sichar, near the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus saith to her: Give me to drink.
8For his disciples were gone into the city to buy meats.
9Then that Samaritan woman saith to him: How dost thou, being a Jew, ask of me to drink, who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews do not communicate with the Samaritans.
10Jesus answered, and said to her: If thou didst know the gift of God, and who he is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou perhaps wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
11The woman saith to him: Sir, thou hast nothing wherein to draw, and the well is deep; from whence then hast thou living water?
12Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13Jesus answered, and said to her: Whosoever drinketh of this water, shall thirst again; but he that shall drink of the water that I will give him, shall not thirst for ever:
14But the water that I will give him, shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting.
15The woman saith to him: Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.
16Jesus saith to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
17The woman answered, and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: Thou hast said well, I have no husband:
18For thou hast had five husbands: and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husband. This thou hast said truly.
19The woman saith to him: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
20Our fathers adored on this mountain, and you say, that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore.
21Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe me, that the hour cometh, when you shall neither on this mountain, not in Jerusalem, adore the Father.
22You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know; for salvation is of the Jews.
23But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeketh such to adore him.
24God is a spirit; and they that adore him, must adore him in spirit and in truth.
25The woman saith to him: I know that the Messias cometh (who is called Christ). Therefore, when he is come, he will tell us all things.
26Jesus saith to her: I am he, who am speaking with thee.
27And immediately his disciples came; and they wondered that he talked with the woman. Yet no man said: What seekest thou? or, why talkest thou with her?
28The woman therefore left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men there:
29Come, and see a man who has told me all things whatsoever I have done. Is not he the Christ?
30They went therefore out of the city, and came unto him.
31In the mean time the disciples prayed him, saying: Rabbi, eat.
32But he said to them: I have meat to eat, which you know not.
33The disciples therefore said one to another: Hath any man brought him to eat?
34Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work.
35Do you not say, There are yet four months, and then the harvest cometh? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the countries; for they are white already to harvest.
36And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting: that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth, may rejoice together.
37For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth.
38I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour: others have laboured, and you have entered into their labours.
39Now of that city many of the Samaritans believed in him, for the word of the woman giving testimony: He told me all things whatsoever I have done.
40So when the Samaritans were come to him, they desired that he would tarry there. And he abode there two days.
41And many more believed in him because of his own word.
42And they said to the woman: We now believe, not for thy saying: for we ourselves have heard him, and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.

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