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Easter Weekday

First Reading

Acts 5:27-33

27And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest questioned them,

28saying, “We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and you intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.”

29But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

30The God of our fathers raised Jesus whom you killed by hanging him on a tree.

31God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.

32And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.”

33When they heard this they were enraged and wanted to kill them.

Responsorial Psalm

Psalms 34:2, 9, 17-20

1I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

8O taste and see that the LORD is good! Happy is the man who takes refuge in him!

16The face of the LORD is against evildoers, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

17When the righteous cry for help, the LORD hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

18The LORD is near to the brokenhearted, and saves the crushed in spirit.

19Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but the LORD delivers him out of them all.

Gospel

John 3:31-36

31He who comes from above is above all; he who is of the earth belongs to the earth, and of the earth he speaks; he who comes from heaven is above all.

32He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony;

33he who receives his testimony sets his seal to this, that God is true.

34For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for it is not by measure that he gives the Spirit;

35the Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

36He who believes in the Son has eternal life; he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God rests upon him.