Léctio sancti Evangélii secúndum Ioánnem (7,40-53)
In illo tempore: Ex turba, cum audíssent sermónes Iesu, dicébant: “Hic est vere prophéta!”; álii dicébant: “Hic est Christus!”; quidam autem dicébant: “Númquid a Galilǽa Christus venit? Nonne Scriptúra dixit: ‘Ex sémine David et de Béthlehem castéllo, ubi erat David, venit Christus’?” Dissénsio ítaque facta est in turba propter eum. Quidam autem ex ipsis volébant apprehéndere eum, sed nemo misit super illum manus. Venérunt ergo minístri ad pontífices et pharisǽos; et dixérunt eis illi: “quáre non adduxístis eum?” Respondérunt minístri: “Númquam sic locútus est homo.” Respondérunt ergo eis pharisǽi: “Númquid et vos sedúcti estis? Numquid áliquis ex princípibus crédidit in eum aut ex pharisǽis? Sed turba hæc, quæ non novit legem, maledícti sunt!” Dicit Nicodémus ad eos, ille qui venit ad eum ántea, qui unus erat ex ipsis: “Númquid lex nostra iúdicat hóminem, nisi audíerit ab ipso prius et cognóverit quid fáciat?” Respondérunt et dixérunt ei: “Númquid et tu ex Galilǽa es? Scrutáre et vide quia prophéta a Galilǽa non surgit!” Et revérsi sunt unusquísque in domum suam.
At that time: Of that multitude therefore, when they had heard these words of Jesus, some said: This is the Prophet indeed. Others said: This is Christ. But certain said: Why, doth Christ come from Galilee? Doth not the scripture say: That of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem the town where David was, Christ doth come? Therefore there arose dissension in the multitude for him. And certain of them would have apprehended him: but no man laid hands upon him. The ministers therefore came to the chief Priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them: Why have you not brought him? The Ministers answered: Never did there man so speak, as this man. The Pharisees therefore answered them: Why, are you also seduced? Hath any of the Princes believed in him, or of the Pharisees? but this multitude that knoweth not the law, are accursed. Nicodemus said to them, he that came to him by night, who was one of them: Doth our law judge a man, unless it first hear him, and know what he doeth? They answered & said to him: Why, art thou also a Galilæan? Search, & see that from Galilee a Prophet riseth not. And every man returned to his house.
