Daily Bible Readings Saturday March 28 2009 Fourth Week of Lent

March 28 2009 Saturday Fourth Week of Lent
Saint of the Day – Blessed Francis Faà di Bruno

About the sources used. The readings on this site are from the Haydock Bible according to the daily Lectionary readings for the American Roman Catholic Church. The Haydock Bible contains traditional Catholic commentary and is free from copyright. Due to verse numbering differences and pastoral deletions in the actual Lectionary, these readings may at times vary from the actual readings.

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Jeremiah 11:18-20
Douay-Rheims Challoner

But thou, O Lord, hast shewn me, and I have known: then thou shewedst me their doings. And I was as a meek lamb, that is carried to be a victim: and I knew not that they had devised counsels against me, saying: Let us put wood on his bread, and cut him off from the land of the living, and let his name be remembered no more. But thou, O Lord of Sabaoth, who judgest justly, and triest the reins and the hearts, let me see thy revenge on them: for to thee have I revealed my cause.

Responsorial Psalm 7:2-3, 9bc-12
DR Challoner Text Only

O Lord, my God, in thee have I put my trust;
save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me.
Lest at any time he seize upon my soul like a lion,
while there is no one to redeem me, nor to save.
Judge me, O Lord, according to my justice,
and according to my innocence in me.
The wickedness of sinners shall be brought to nought;
and thou shalt direct the just: the searcher of hearts and reins is God.
Just Is my help from the Lord; who saveth the upright of heart.
God is a just judge, strong and patient: is he angry every day?

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint John 7:40-53
Haydock New Testament

Of that multitude, therefore, when they had heard these words of his, some said:

This is the prophet indeed.

Others said:

This is the Christ.

But some said:

Doth the Christ come out of Galilee? Doth not the Scripture say: That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of Bethlehem, the town where David was?

So there arose a dissension among the people because of him. And some of them would have apprehended him: but no man laid hands upon him. The ministers therefore came to the chief priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them:

Why have you not brought him?

The ministers answered:

Never did man speak like this man.

Then the Pharisees answered them:

Are you also seduced? Hath any one of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? But this multitude, that knoweth not the law, are accursed.

Nicodemus said to them, he that came to him by night, who was one of them:

Doth our law judge any man, unless it first hear him, and know what he doth?

They answered, and said to him:

Art thou also a Galilean? Search the Scriptures, and see that out of Galilee a prophet riseth not.

And every man returned to his own house.

Haydock Commentary Jeremias 11:18-20
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 18. Shewedst me. He insinuates that something more than what appears must be understood. Theod. — All Christians explain what follows of Jesus Christ, (S. Jer. W.) whom Jeremias prefigured in his sufferings. C. — “Let us follow the rule which shews that all the prophets did most things for a type of our Lord and Saviour; and what was now done by Jeremias, foreshewed what would happen to our Lord.” S. Jer.
• Ver. 19. Meek: pet lamb. The Arabs still keep one in their houses. 2 K. xii. 3. Bochart ii. 46. C. — Knew. I acted as if I had been ignorant. M. — Yet Christ foretold his sufferings. Mat. xx. 18. &c. W. — Bread. Christ, the bread of life, was nailed to the disgraceful wood. S. Jer. S. Greg. Mor. iii. 12. — They threaten to beat him, (De Dieu) or to mix a poisonous wood with his food. C. M. — Some Jews had corrupted this text in S. Justin’s time. D.
• Ver. 20. Sabaoth. That is, of hosts or armies; a name frequently given to God, in the Scriptures. — Thy revenge. This was rather a prediction of what was to happen, with an approbation of the divine justice, than an imprecation. Ch. — He speaks of the impenitent, (S. Jer.) and wishes they may be converted.

Haydock Commentary John 7:40-53

• Ver. 41. A prophet does not come from Galilee, but the Lord of the prophets does. S. Aust. tract. 38. in Joan. — Without faith, without advantage, they again return to their habitations of infidelity and impiety. Alcuin.
• Ver. 49. But this multitude . . . are accursed; i.e. falls under the curses of the law, by being seduced and led away by false preachers. Wi.
• Ver. 52. They say to Nicodemus: Art thou also a Galilean, who defendest this Galilean, whereas no prophet, nor especially the Messias, comes from Galilee? Wi. — A prophet, properly the prophet: for they could not be ignorant that the prophet Jonas was from Galilee. We have not indeed the article the in this verse, but we find it in ver. 40, with which this appears to correspond. A.