Daily Reading for Sunday January 24, 2021
FIRST READING
"The people of Nineveh turned away from their bad conduct"
from the book of Jonah (3, 1-5.10)
The word of the Lord was addressed again to Jonah: “Arise, go to Nineveh, the great pagan city, proclaim the message that I am giving you on it. Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now, Nineveh was an extraordinarily large city: it took three days to cross it. Jonah walked through it barely a day proclaiming: "Another forty days, and Nineveh will be destroyed!" Immediately the people of Nineveh believed in God. They announced a fast, and all, from the largest to the smallest, dressed in sackcloth.
Seeing their reaction, and how they turned away from their bad behavior, God renounced the punishment with which He had threatened them.
The Word of the Lord
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