First Reading

Jeremiah 11:18-20

18But you, O Lord, have revealed this to me, and I have understood. Then you displayed their efforts to me. 19And I was like a meek lamb, who is being carried to be a victim. And I did not realize that they had devised plans against me, saying: “Let us place wood upon his bread, and let us eradicate him from the land of the living, and let his name no longer be remembered.” 20But you, O Lord of hosts, who judges justly, and who tests the temperament and the heart, let me see your vengeance against them. For I have revealed my case to you.

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 7

2O Lord, my God, in you I have hoped. Save me from all those who persecute me, and free me: 3lest at any time, like a lion, he might seize my soul, while there is no one to redeem me, nor any who can save. 4O Lord, my God, if there is iniquity in my hands, if I have done this: 5if I have repaid those who rendered evils to me, may I deservedly fall away empty before my enemies: 6let the enemy pursue my soul, and take hold of it, and trample my life into the earth, and drag down my glory into the dust. Pause 7Rise up, Lord, in your anger. And be exalted to the borders of my enemies. And rise up, O Lord my God, according to the precept that you commanded, 8and a congregation of people will surround you. And, because of this, return on high. 9The Lord judges the people. Judge me, O Lord, according to my justice and according to my innocence within me. 10The wickedness of sinners will be consumed, and you will direct the just: the examiner of hearts and temperaments is God. 11Just is my help from the Lord, who saves the upright of heart. 12God is a just judge, strong and patient. How could he be angry throughout every day?

Gospel

John 7:40-53

40Therefore, some from that crowd, when they had heard these words of his, were saying, “This one truly is the Prophet.” 41Others were saying, “He is the Christ.” Yet certain ones were saying: “Does the Christ come from Galilee? 42Does Scripture not say that the Christ comes from the offspring of David and from Bethlehem, the town where David was?” 43And so there arose a dissension among the multitude because of him. 44Now certain ones among them wanted to apprehend him, but no one laid hands upon him. 45Therefore, the attendants went to the high priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them, “Why have you not brought him?” 46The attendants responded, “Never has a man spoken like this man.” 47And so the Pharisees answered them: “Have you also been seduced? 48Have any of the leaders believed in him, or any of the Pharisees? 49But this crowd, which does not know the law, they are accursed.” 50Nicodemus, the one who came to him by night and who was one of them, said to them, 51“Does our law judge a man, unless it has first heard him and has known what he has done?” 52They responded and said to him: “Are you also a Galilean? Study the Scriptures, and see that a prophet does not arise from Galilee.” 53And each one returned to his own house.