FIRST READING: Zechariah 8: 20 - 23
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Thus saith the Lord of hosts, until people come, and dwell in many
cities,
21
And the inhabitants go one to another, saying: Let us go, and entreat
the face of the Lord, and let us seek the Lord of hosts: I also will
go.
22
And many peoples, and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of
hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the face of the Lord.
23
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: In those days, wherein ten men of all
languages of the Gentiles shall take hold, and shall hold fast the
shirt of one that is a Jew, saying: We will go with you: for we have
heard that God is with you.
1
The foundations thereof are in the holy mountains:
2
The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.
3
Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.
4
I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold the
foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians, these were
there.
5
Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the
Highest himself hath founded her.
6
The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of
them that have been in her.
7
The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing.
51
And it came to pass, when the days of his assumption were
accomplishing, that he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem.
52
And he sent messengers before his face; and going, they entered into
a city of the Samaritans, to prepare for him.
53
And they received him not, because his face was of one going to
Jerusalem.
54
And when his disciples James and John had seen this, they said: Lord,
wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume
them?
55
And turning, he rebuked them, saying: You know not of what spirit you
are.
56
The Son of man came not to destroy souls, but to save. And they went
into another town.
