Léctio sancti Evangélii secúndum Ioánnem (10,31-42)
In illo tempore: Sustulérunt íterum lápides Iudǽi, ut lapidárent Iesum. Respóndit eis Iésus: “Múlta ópera bona osténdi vobis ex Patre; propter quod eórum opus me lapidátis?” Respondérunt ei Iudǽi: “De bono ópere non lapidámus te sed de blasphémia, et quia tu, homo cum sis, facis teípsum Deum.” Respóndit eis Iésus: “Nónne scriptum est in lege vestra: ‘Ego dixi: Dii estis?’ Si illos dixit deos, ad quos sermo Dei factus est, et non potest solvi Scriptúra, quem Pater sanctificávit et misit in mundum, vos dícitis: ‘Blasphémas!’, quia dixi: Fílius Dei sum? Si non fácio ópera Patris mei, nolíte crédere mihi; si autem fácio, et si mihi non vultis crédere, opéribus crédite, ut cognoscátis et sciátis quia in me est Pater, et ego in Patre.” Quærébant ergo íterum eum prehéndere; et exívit de mánibus eórum. Et ábiit íterum trans Iordánem in eum locum, ubi erat Ioánnes baptízans primum, et mansit illic. Et multi venérunt ad eum et dicébant: “Ioánnes quidem signum fecit nullum; ómnia autem, quæcúmque dixit Ioánnes de hoc, vera erant.” Et multi credidérunt in eum illic.
At that time: The Jews took up stones, to stone Jesus. He answered them: Many good works I have shewed you from my Father, for which of those works do you stone me? The Jews answered him: For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy, and because thou being a man, makest thyself God. Jesus answered them: Is it not written in your law, that I said, you are gods? If he called them gods, to whom the word of God was made, and the scripture cannot be broken; whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world, say you, That thou blasphemest, because I said I am the Son of God? If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, and if you will not believe me, believe the works: that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father. They sought therefore to apprehend him; and he went forth out of their hands. And he went again beyond Jordan into that place where John was baptizing first; and he tarried there. and many came to him, and they said: That John indeed did no sign. But all things whatsoever John said of this man, were true. And many believed in him.
Commentarium evangelii
Commentary on the Gospel
