Léctio sancti Evangélii secúndum Matthǽum (10,17-22)
In illo tempore: Dixit Iesus Apóstolis suis: Cavéte ab homínibus; tradent enim vos in concíliis, et in synagógis suis flagellábunt vos; et ad prǽsides et ad reges ducémini propter me in testimónium illis et géntibus. Cum autem tradent vos, nolíte cogitáre quómodo aut quid loquámini; dábitur enim vobis in illa hora quid loquámini. Non enim vos estis, qui loquímini, sed Spíritus Patris vestri, qui lóquitur in vobis. Tradet autem frater fratrem in mortem, et pater fílium; et insúrgent fílii in paréntes et morte eos affícient. Et éritis ódio ómnibus propter nomen meum; qui autem perseveráverit in finem, hic salvus erit.
At that time, Jesus said to His Apostles: take heed of men. For they will deliver you up in Councils, and in their Synagogues they will scourge you. And to presidents and to kings shall you be led for my sake, in testimony to them and the Gentiles. But when they shall deliver you up, take no thought how or what to speak: for it shall be given you in that hour what to speak. For it is not you that speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaketh in you. The brother also shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the Son: and the children shall rise up against the parents, and shall work their death, and you shall be odious to all men for my name: but he that shall persevere unto the end, he shall be saved.
