Saturday of the 4th week of Lent

18But thou, O Lord, hast shewn me, and I have known: then thou shewedst me their doings. 19And I was as a meek lamb, that is carried to be a victim: and I knew not that they had devised counsels against me, saying: Let us put wood on his bread, and cut him off from the land of the living, and let his name be remembered no more. 20But thou, O Lord of Sabaoth, who judgest justly, and triest the reins and hearts, let me see thy revenge on them: for to thee I have revealed my cause.

2O Lord my God, in thee have I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me.

3Lest at any time he seize upon my soul like a lion, while there is no one to redeem me, nor to save.

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9The Lord judgeth the people. Judge me, O Lord, according to my justice, and according to my innocence in me.

10The wickedness of sinners shall be brought to nought: and thou shalt direct the just: the searcher of hearts and reins is God.

11Just is my help from the Lord: who saveth the upright of heart.

12God is a just judge, strong and patient: is he angry every day?

40Of that multitude therefore, when they had heard these words of his, some said: This is the prophet indeed. 41Others said: This is the Christ. But some said: Doth the Christ come out of Galilee? 42Doth not the scripture say: That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem the town where David was? 43So there arose a dissension among the people because of him. 44And some of them would have apprehended him: but no man laid hands on him. 45The ministers therefore came to the chief priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them: Why have you not brought him? 46The ministers answered: Never did man speak like this man. 47The Pharisees therefore answered them: Are you also seduced? 48Hath any one of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? 49But this multitude, that knoweth not the law, are accursed. 50Nicodemus said to them, (he that came to him by night, who was one of them:) 51Doth our law judge any man, unless it first hear him, and know what he doth? 52They answered, and said to him: Art thou also a Galilean? Search the scriptures, and see, that out of Galilee a prophet riseth not. 53And every man returned to his own house.