恭讀聖瑪竇福音 21:23-27

那時候,耶穌進入聖殿,正教訓人時,司祭長和民間的長老來到他跟前說:「你憑什麽權柄作這些事?誰給了你這種權柄?」耶穌回答說:「我也問你們一句話,你們若答覆我,我就告訴你們:我憑什麽權柄作這些事。若翰的洗禮,是從那裏來的?是從天上來的?還是從人來的?」他們心中思量說:如果我們說:是從天上來的,他必對我們說:你們為什麼不信他?如果我們說:是從人來的,我們害怕民眾,因爲眾人都以若翰為一位先知。他們便回答耶穌說:「我們不知道。」耶穌也對他們說:「我也不告訴你們:我憑什麽權柄作這些事。」

—上主的話。

(3rd Week of Advent – Monday)

A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew 21:23-27

(Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe)

When Jesus had come into the temple area, the chief priests and the elders of the people approached him as he was teaching and said, “By what authority are you doing these things? And who gave you this authority?” Jesus said to them in reply, “I shall ask you one question, and if you answer it for me, then I shall tell you by what authority I do these things. Where was John’s baptism from? Was it of heavenly or of human origin?” They discussed this among themselves and said, “If we say ‘Of heavenly origin,’ he will say to us, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’ But if we say, ‘Of human origin,’ we fear the crowd, for they all regard John as a prophet.” So they said to Jesus in reply, “We do not know.” He himself said to them, “Neither shall I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

—The Gospel of the Lord.

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