Daily Word Of GodMatthew 5:2b-10 This is what Jesus taught his disciples: ‘How happy are the poor in spirit: theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Happy are the gentle: they shall have the earth for their heritage. Happy those who mourn: they shall be comforted. Happy those who hunger and thirst for what is right:…
Daily Word Of GodMark 3:22-26, 28-30 The scribes who had come down from Jerusalem were saying, Beelzebul is in him,’ and, ‘It is through the prince of devils that he drives devils out.’ So he called them to him and spoke to them in parables, ‘How can Satan drive out Satan? If a kingdom is…
Daily Word Of GodJohn 2:42-43, 46-47, 48b-51 When Jesus was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover. When the days of the feast were over and they set off home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem without his parents knowing it. It happened that, three days later,…
Daily Word Of GodJohn 19:31-37 It was the Day of Preparation, and to avoid the bodies' remaining on the cross during the Sabbath -- since that Sabbath was a day of special solemnity -- the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken away. Consequently the soldiers came and broke the…
Daily Word Of GodMark 12:28b-34a One of the scribes came up to Jesus put a question to him, ‘Which is the first of all the commandments?’ Jesus replied, ‘This is the first: Listen, Israel, the Lord our God is the one, only Lord, and you must love the Lord your God with all your heart,…
Daily Word Of GodMark 12:18-20, 22-25 Some Sadducees - who deny that there is a resurrection - came to Jesus and they put this question to him, ‘Master, Moses prescribed for us that if a man's brother dies leaving a wife but no child, the man must marry the widow to raise up children for…
Daily Word Of GodMark 12:13-17 The chief priests and the scribes and the elders sent to Jesus some Pharisees and some Herodians to catch him out in what he said. These came and said to him, ‘Master, we know that you are an honest man, that you are not afraid of anyone, because human rank…
Daily Word Of GodMark 12:1-3, 5b-9 Jesus began to speak to the chief priests, the scribes and the elders in parables, ‘A man planted a vineyard; he fenced it round, dug out a trough for the winepress and built a tower; then he leased it to tenants and went abroad. When the time came, he…
Daily Word Of GodMark 14:12a, 16, 18, 21a, 22-25 On the first day of Unleavened Bread, the disciples set out and went to the city and found everything as Jesus had told them, and prepared the Passover. And while they were at table eating, Jesus said, ‘In truth I tell you, one of you is…
Daily Word Of GodMark 11:27-33 Jesus and his disciples came to Jerusalem, and as Jesus was walking in the Temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him, and they said to him, ‘What authority have you for acting like this? Or who gave you authority to act like this?’ Jesus…