GOSPEL
John is the messenger who prepares the way of the Lord (Lk 7, 24-30)
Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke
After John's messengers had left,
Jesus began to say to the crowds about John:
“What did you go to see in the desert?
a reed shaken by the wind?
So what did you go to see?
a man dressed in fine clothes?
But those who wear lavish clothes
and live in luxury
are in royal palaces.
So what did you go to see?
a prophet ?
Yes, I tell you; and much more than a prophet!
It is of him that it is written:
Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,
to prepare the way before you.
I say to you:
Among those born of a woman,
no one is taller than John;
and yet the least in the kingdom of God
is greater than he.
All the people who listened to John,
including the tax collectors,
on receiving baptism from him,
recognized that God was just.
But the Pharisees and doctors of the law,
by not receiving his baptism,
rejected the purpose that God had for them. »
– Let us acclaim the Word of God.
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