Moses
spoke to all the people, saying:
"A prophet like me will the LORD, your God,
raise up for you
from among your own kin;
to him you shall listen.
This is exactly what you requested of the LORD,
your God, at Horeb
on the day of the assembly, when you said,
'Let us not again hear the voice of the LORD,
our God,
nor see this great fire any more, lest we die.'
And the LORD said to me, 'This was well said.
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from
among their kin,
and will put my words into his mouth;
he shall tell them all that I command him.
Whoever will not listen to my words which he
speaks in my name,
I myself will make him answer for it.
But if a prophet presumes to speak in my name
an oracle that I have not commanded him to
speak,
or speaks in the name of other gods, he shall
die.'"
R. (8)
If today you hear his voice, harden not
your hearts.
Come, let us sing joyfully to the LORD;
let us acclaim the rock of our salvation.
Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving;
let us joyfully sing psalms to him.
R. If today you hear his voice, harden
not your hearts.
Come, let us bow down in worship;
let us kneel before the LORD who made us.
For he is our God,
and we are the people he shepherds, the flock he
guides.
R. If today you hear his voice, harden
not your hearts.
Oh, that today you would hear his voice:
"Harden not your hearts as at Meribah,
as in the day of Massah in the desert,
Where your fathers tempted me;
they tested me though they had seen my works."
R. If today you hear his voice, harden
not your hearts.
Brothers
and sisters:
I should like you to be free of anxieties.
An unmarried man is anxious about the things of
the Lord,
how he may please the Lord.
But a married man is anxious about the things of
the world,
how he may please his wife, and he is divided.
An unmarried woman or a virgin is anxious about
the things of the Lord,
so that she may be holy in both body and spirit.
A married woman, on the other hand,
is anxious about the things of the world,
how she may please her husband.
I am telling you this for your own benefit,
not to impose a restraint upon you,
but for the sake of propriety
and adherence to the Lord without distraction.
Then they
came to Capernaum,
and on the sabbath Jesus entered the synagogue
and taught.
The people were astonished at his teaching,
for he taught them as one having authority and
not as the scribes.
In their synagogue was a man with an unclean
spirit;
he cried out, "What have you to do with us,
Jesus of Nazareth?
Have you come to destroy us?
I know who you are?the Holy One of God!"
Jesus rebuked him and said,
"Quiet! Come out of him!"
The unclean spirit convulsed him and with a loud
cry came out of him.
All were amazed and asked one another,
"What is this?
A new teaching with authority.
He commands even the unclean spirits and they
obey him."
His fame spread everywhere throughout the whole
region of Galilee
