First Reading

Isaiah 65:17-21

17For behold, I create the new heavens and the new earth. And the former things will not be in memory and will not enter into the heart. 18But you will be glad and exult, even forever, in these things that I create. For behold, I create Jerusalem as an exultation, and its people as a joy. 19And I will exult in Jerusalem, and I will rejoice in my people. And neither a voice of weeping, nor a voice of outcry, will be heard in her anymore. 20There will no longer be an infant of only a few days there, nor an elder who does not complete his days. For a mere child dies at a hundred years of age, and a sinner of a hundred years will be accursed. 21And they will build houses, and will inhabit them. And they will plant vineyards, and will eat their fruits.

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 29

2I will extol you, Lord, for you have sustained me, and you have not allowed my enemies to delight over me. 3O Lord my God, I have cried out to you, and you have healed me. 4Lord, you led my soul away from Hell. You have saved me from those who descend into the pit. 5Sing a psalm to the Lord, you his saints, and confess with remembrance of his holiness. 6For wrath is in his indignation, and life is in his will. Toward evening, weeping will linger, and toward morning, gladness. 7But I have said in my abundance: “I will never be disturbed.” 8O Lord, in your will, you made virtue preferable to beauty for me. You turned your face away from me, and I became disturbed. 9To you, Lord, I will cry out. And I will make supplication to my God. 10What use would there be in my blood, if I descend into corruption? Will dust confess to you or announce your truth? 11The Lord has heard, and he has been merciful to me. The Lord has become my helper.

Gospel

John 4:43-54

43Then, after two days, he departed from there, and he traveled into Galilee. 44For Jesus himself offered testimony that a Prophet has no honor in his own country. 45And so, when he had arrived in Galilee, the Galileans received him, because they had seen all that he had done at Jerusalem, in the day of the feast. For they also went to the feast day. 46Then he went again into Cana of Galilee, where he made water into wine. And there was a certain ruler, whose son was sick at Capernaum. 47Since he had heard that Jesus came to Galilee from Judea, he sent to him and begged him to come down and heal his son. For he was beginning to die. 48Therefore, Jesus said to him, “Unless you have seen signs and wonders, you do not believe.” 49The ruler said to him, “Lord, come down before my son dies.” 50Jesus said to him, “Go, your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and so he went away. 51Then, as he was going down, his servants met him. And they reported to him, saying that his son was alive. 52Therefore, he asked them at which hour he had become better. And they said to him, “Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left him.” 53Then the father realized that it was at the same hour that Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” And both he and his entire household believed. 54This next sign was the second that Jesus accomplished, after he had arrived in Galilee from Judea.