March 17, 2026
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Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent
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☆ Gospel:John 5:1-16
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After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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Now in Jerusalem near the sheep-market there is a public bath which in Hebrew is named Beth-zatha. It has five doorways.
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In these doorways there were a great number of people with different diseases: some unable to see, some without the power of walking, some with wasted bodies.
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One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
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When Jesus saw him there on the floor it was clear to him that he had been now a long time in that condition, and so he said to the man, Is it your desire to get well?
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The ill man said in answer, Sir, I have nobody to put me into the bath when the water is moving; and while I am on the way down some other person gets in before me.
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Jesus said to him, Get up, take your bed and go.
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And the man became well straight away, and took up his bed and went. Now that day was the Sabbath.
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So the Jews said to the man who had been made well, It is the Sabbath; and it is against the law for you to take up your bed.
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He said to them, But he who made me well, said to me, Take up your bed and go.
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Then they put to him the question: Who is the man who said to you, Take it up and go?
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Now he who had been made well had no knowledge who it was, Jesus having gone away because of the number of people who were in that place.
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After a time Jesus came across him in the Temple and said to him, See, you are well and strong; do no more sin for fear a worse thing comes to you.
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The man went away and said to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
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And for this reason the Jews were turned against Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.
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☆ Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12
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And he took me back to the door of the house; and I saw that waters were flowing out from under the doorstep of the house on the east, for the house was facing east: and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south side of the altar.
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And he took me out by the north doorway, and made me go round to the outside of the doorway looking to the east; and I saw waters running slowly out on the south side.
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And the man went out to the east with the line in his hand, and after measuring a thousand cubits, he made me go through the waters, which came over my feet.
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And again, measuring a thousand cubits, he made me go through the waters which came up to my knees. Again, measuring a thousand, he made me go through the waters up to the middle of my body.
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Again, after his measuring a thousand, it became a river which it was not possible to go through: for the waters had become deep enough for swimming, a river it was not possible to go through.
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And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen this? Then he took me to the river's edge.
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And he took me back, and I saw at the edge of the river a very great number of trees on this side and on that.
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And he said to me, These waters are flowing out to the east part of the land and down into the Arabah; and they will go to the sea, and the waters will be made sweet.
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And it will come about that every living and moving thing, wherever their streams come, will have life; and there will be very much fish because these waters have come there and have been made sweet: and everything wherever the river comes will have life.
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And by the edge of the river, on this side and on that, will come up every tree used for food, whose leaves will ever be green and its fruit will not come to an end: it will have new fruit every month, because its waters come out from the holy place: the fruit will be for food and the leaf will make well those who are ill.
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