Daily Reading for Saturday, April 5th, 2025

Gospel, John 7:40-53

⁴⁰ Some of the crowd who had been listening said, 'He is indeed the prophet,'

⁴¹ and some said, 'He is the Christ,' but others said, 'Would the Christ come from Galilee?

⁴² Does not scripture say that the Christ must be descended from David and come from Bethlehem, the village where David was?'

⁴³ So the people could not agree about him.

⁴⁴ Some wanted to arrest him, but no one actually laid a hand on him.

⁴⁵ The guards went back to the chief priests and Pharisees who said to them, 'Why haven't you brought him?'

⁴⁶ The guards replied, 'No one has ever spoken like this man.'

⁴⁷ 'So,' the Pharisees answered, 'you, too, have been led astray?

⁴⁸ Have any of the authorities come to believe in him? Any of the Pharisees?

⁴⁹ This rabble knows nothing about the Law -- they are damned.'

⁵⁰ One of them, Nicodemus -- the same man who had come to Jesus earlier -- said to them,

⁵¹ 'But surely our Law does not allow us to pass judgement on anyone without first giving him a hearing and discovering what he is doing?'

⁵² To this they answered, 'Are you a Galilean too? Go into the matter, and see for yourself: prophets do not arise in Galilee.'

⁵³ They all went home,

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