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Today's Readings
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Sunday, 23rd January 2022 --- 15 Tubah 1738
Vespers Gospel
Stand in the fear of God and listen to the Holy Gospel.
A reading from the Gospel according to our teacher Saint John the Evangelist.
May His Blessings be with us all.
John 5 : 1 - 18
Chapter 5
1 | After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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2 | Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches.
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3 | In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water.
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4 | For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had.
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5 | Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years.
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6 | When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, "Do you want to be made well?"
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7 | The sick man answered Him, "Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me."
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8 | Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your bed and walk."
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9 | And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked. And that day was the Sabbath.
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10 | The Jews therefore said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed."
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11 | He answered them, "He who made me well said to me, "Take up your bed and walk."'
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12 | Then they asked him, "Who is the Man who said to you, "Take up your bed and walk'?"
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13 | But the one who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a multitude being in that place.
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14 | Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you."
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15 | The man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
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16 | For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath.
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17 | But Jesus answered them, "My Father has been working until now, and I have been working."
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18 | Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.
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And Glory be to God forever.
Acknowledgement
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