恭讀聖若望福音 4:43-54

那時候,耶穌離開撒瑪黎雅,往加里肋亞去了。耶穌曾親自作證說:「先知在自己的家鄉決受不到尊榮。」他一來到加肋里亞,加肋里亞人便接待了他,因為他們也曾上了耶路撒冷去過節,並親眼看見了他在慶節中所行的一切。
耶穌又來到加里肋亞加納,即他變水為酒的地方。那裏有一位王臣,他的兒子在葛法翁患病。這人一聽說耶穌從猶太到加里肋亞來了,就到他那裏去,懇求他下來醫治他的兒子,因為他快要死了。耶穌對他說:「除非你們看到神蹟和奇事,你們總是不信。」那王臣向他說:「主,在我的小孩未死以前,請你下來吧!」耶穌回答說:「去吧!你的兒子活了。」那人信了耶穌向他說的話,便走了,他正下去的時候,僕人們迎上他來,說他的孩子活了。他問他們孩子病勢好轉的時刻,他們給他說:「昨天第七時辰,熱就退了。」父親就知道正是耶穌向他說:「你的兒子活了」的那個時辰;他和他的全家便都信了。這是耶穌從猶太回到加里肋亞後,所行的第二個神蹟。

—上主的話。

(4th Week of Lent – Monday)

A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John 4:43-54

At that time Jesus left [Samaria] for Galilee. For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his native place. When he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all he had done in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves had gone to the feast.
Then he returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. Now there was a royal official whose son was ill in Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, who was near death. Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe.” The royal official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” Jesus said to him, “You may go; your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus said to him and left. While the man was on his way back, his slaves met him and told him that his boy would live. He asked them when he began to recover. They told him, “The fever left him yesterday, about one in the afternoon.” The father realized that just at that time Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live,” and he and his whole household came to believe. Now this was the second sign Jesus did when he came to Galilee from Judea.

—The Gospel of the Lord.

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