18 March 2021, Thursday 📖GOSPEL "Your accuser is Moses, in whom you put your hope" A Reading From The Holy Gospel According To John (5, 31-47)

18 March 2021, Thursday 

📖GOSPEL 

"Your accuser is Moses, in whom you put your hope" 

A Reading From The Holy Gospel According To John (5, 31-47) 

At that time, Jesus said to the Jews, “If it is I who bear witness, my testimony is not true; it is another who bears witness to me, and I know that his testimony to me is true. You sent a delegation to John the Baptist, and he bore witness to the truth. Me, it is not from a man that I receive the testimony, but I speak thus so that you are saved. John was the lamp that burns and shines, and you wanted to rejoice for a moment in his light. But I have for myself a testimony greater than that of John: these are the works which the Father has given me to accomplish; the very works that I do testify that the Father has sent me. And the Father who sent me bore witness to me. You never heard his voice, you never saw his face, and you do not let his word abide in you, since you do not believe on him whom the Father has sent. You search the Scriptures because you think you will find eternal life there; now the scriptures bear witness to me, and you do not want to come to me to have life! Glory, I do not receive it from men; besides, I know you: you do not have the love of God within you. I have come in the name of my Father, and you do not receive me; let another come in his own name, that one you will receive! How could you believe, you who receive your glory from one another, and who do not seek the glory that comes from the one God? Do not think that it is I who will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you put your hope. If you believed Moses, you would believe me too, because it is about me that he wrote. But if you don't believe his writings, how will you believe my words? " 

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