1.08.2019

 Today's Bible story *

January 8, 2019

I hope you have a nice day today too.

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Tuesday after Epiphany

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Gospel : Mark 6:34-44

34 Jesus came out, saw a great multitude, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.

35 When it was late in the day, his disciples came to him, and said, "This place is deserted, and it is late in the day.

36 Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat."

37 But he answered them, "You give them something to eat."
They asked him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii† worth of bread, and give them something to eat?"

38 He said to them, "How many loaves do you have? Go see."
When they knew, they said, "Five, and two fish."

39 He commanded them that everyone should sit down in groups on the green grass.

40 They sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties.

41 He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke the loaves, and he gave to his disciples to set before them, and he divided the two fish amongst them all.

42 They all ate, and were filled.

43 They took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and also of the fish.

44 Those who ate the loaves were‡ five thousand men.


†6:37: 200 denarii was about 7 or 8 months wages for an agricultural labourer.

‡6:44: TR adds "about"

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1 John 4:7-10

7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

8 He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.

9 By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice* for our sins.


*4:10: "atoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "ιλασμο?", an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation?the sacrifice that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.

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* The World English Bible
http://ebible.org/web/

◇ January 8, 2019 Daily Mass Reading
http://ccc.usccb.org/cccradio/NABPodcasts/19_01_08.mp3

◇ Daily Readings January 8, 2019
http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/010819.cfm

◇ Liturgical Calendar
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/calendarday.php?date=2019-01-08

◇ Zondervan King James Audio Bible
http://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/kjv/Mark.6

◇ King James Version Bible Online
http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/book.php?book=Mark&chapter=6&verse=

◇ The New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)
http://www.usccb.org/bible/books-of-the-bible/index.cfm

◇ Douay-Rheims Bible
http://www.drbo.org/

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