Tuesday, December 19 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 7,11-18.

The Jews were looking for him at the festival and saying, ‘Where is he?’
And there was considerable complaining about him among the crowds. While some were saying, ‘He is a good man’, others were saying, ‘No, he is deceiving the crowd.’
Yet no one would speak openly about him for fear of the Jews.
About the middle of the festival Jesus went up into the temple and began to teach.
The Jews were astonished at it, saying, ‘How does this man have such learning, when he has never been taught?’
Then Jesus answered them, ‘My teaching is not mine but his who sent me.
Anyone who resolves to do the will of God will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own.
Those who speak on their own seek their own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and there is nothing false in him.

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