Léctio sancti Evangélii secúndum Matthǽum (13,47-52)
In illo tempore: Dixit Iesus turbis: Símile est regnum cælórum sagénæ missæ in mare et ex omni génere congregánti; quam, cum impléta esset, educéntes secus litus et sedéntes collegérunt bonos in vasa, malos autem foras misérunt. Sic erit in consummatióne sǽculi: exíbunt ángeli et separábunt malos de médio iustórum et mittent eos in camínum ignis; ibi erit fletus et stridor déntium. Intellexístis hæc ómnia?” Dicunt ei: “Étiam.” Ait autem illis: “Ídeo omnis scriba doctus in regno cælórum símilis est hómini patri famílias, qui profert de thesáuro suo nova et vétera.”
At that time, Jesus said to the crowds: the Kingdom of Heaven is like to a net cast into the sea, and gathering together of all kind of fishes. Which, when it was filled, drawing it forth, and sitting by the shore, they chose out the good into vessels, but the bad they did cast out. So shall it be in the consummation of the world. The Angels shall go forth, and shall separate the evil from among the just. And shall cast them into the furnace of fire; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Have ye understood all these things? They say to him, Yea. He said unto them: Therefore every Scribe instructed in the Kingdom of Heaven, is like to a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old.
