Léctio sancti Evangélii secúndum Ioánnem (6,60-69)
In illo tempore: Multi audiéntes ex discípulis Iesu dixérunt: “Dúrus est hic sermo! Quis potest eum audíre?” Sciens autem Iésus apud semetípsum quia murmurárent de hoc discípuli eíus, dixit eis: “Hoc vos scandalízat? Si ergo vidéritis Fílium hóminis ascendéntem, ubi erat prius? Spíritus est, qui vivíficat, caro non prodest quidquam; verba, quæ ego locútus sum vobis, Spíritus sunt et vita sunt. Sed sunt quidam ex vobis, qui non credunt.” Sciébat enim ab inítio Iésus, qui essent non credéntes, et quis traditúrus esset eum. Et dicébat: “Proptérea dixi vobis: Nemo potest veníre ad me, nisi fúerit ei datum a Patre.” Ex hoc multi discipulórum eíus abiérunt retro et iam non cum illo ambulábant. Dixit ergo Iésus ad Duódecim: “Númquid et vos vultis abíre?” Respóndit ei Simon Petrus: “Dómine, ad quem íbimus? Verba vitæ ætérnæ habes; et nos credídimus et cognóvimus quia tu es Sanctus Dei.”
In that time: many of the Disciples of Jesus hearing it, said: This saying is hard, and who can hear it? But Jesus knowing with himself that his Disciples murmured at this, he said to them: Doth this scandalize you? If then you shall see the Son of man ascend where he was before? It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I have spoken to you, be spirit and life. But there be certain of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that did not believe, and who he was that would betray him. And he said: Therefore did I say to you, that no man can come to me, unless it be given him of my Father. After this many of his Disciples went back: and now they walked not with him. Jesus therefore said to the Twelve: What, will you also depart? Simon Peter therefore answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
