Pentecost

The Gospel for Pentecost is John 7:37-52, 8:12:

 (Jn 7:37-52) ³⁷Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! ³⁸He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water." ³⁹But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.

⁴⁰Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophet." ⁴¹Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "What, does the Christ come out of Galilee? ⁴²Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David,* and from Bethlehem,* the village where David was?" ⁴³So there arose a division in the multitude because of him. ⁴⁴Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him. ⁴⁵The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"

⁴⁶The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!"

⁴⁷The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren't also led astray, are you? ⁴⁸Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? ⁴⁹But this multitude that doesn't know the law is accursed."

⁵⁰Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them, ⁵¹"Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"

⁵²They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.*"

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(Jn 8:12) ¹²Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world.* He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life."

Notes:

John 7:37-38:

(Ps 62(63):1-8) ¹God, you are my God.

I will earnestly seek you.

My soul thirsts for you.

My flesh longs for you,

in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

²So I have seen you in the sanctuary,

watching your power and your glory.

³Because your loving kindness is better than life,

my lips shall praise you.

⁴So I will bless you while I live.

I will lift up my hands in your name.

⁵My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food.

My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,

⁶when I remember you on my bed,

and think about you in the night watches.

⁷For you have been my help.

I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.

⁸My soul stays close to you.

Your right hand holds me up.

John 7:40:

(Dt 18:15-19) ¹⁵Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him. ¹⁶This is according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die. ¹⁷Yahweh said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken. ¹⁸I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him. ¹⁹It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

John 7:41-43:

(Mi 5:2) ²But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,

being small among the clans of Judah,

out of you one will come forth to me that is to be ruler in Israel;

whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.

John 8:12:

(Jn 1:4-9) ⁴In him was life, and the life was the light of men. ⁵The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it. ⁶There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. ⁷The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him. ⁸He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light. ⁹The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

(1Jn 1:5) ⁵This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

(Mt 5:14) ¹⁴You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can't be hidden.

(Phl 2:15) ¹⁵that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

(Jn 9:1-7) ¹As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. ²His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"

³Jesus answered, "Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him. ⁴I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work. ⁵While I am in the world, I am the light of the world." ⁶When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man's eyes with the mud, ⁷and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means "Sent"). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.