إنجيل القدّيس مرقس 33:4-41
وكانَ يَسُوعُ يُخَاطِبُهُم بِكَلِمَةِ الله، في أَمْثَالٍ كَثِيرَةٍ كَهذِهِ، عَلَى قَدْرِ مَا كَانُوا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ أَنْ يَسْمَعُوا.
وبِدُونِ مَثَلٍ لَمْ يَكُنْ يُكَلِّمُهُم. لكِنَّهُ كانَ يُفَسِّرُ كُلَّ شَيءٍ لِتَلامِيذِهِ عَلَى ٱنْفِرَاد.
وفي مَسَاءِ ذلِكَ اليَوْم، قالَ يَسُوعُ لِتَلامِيذِهِ: «لِنَعْبُرْ إِلى الضَّفَّةِ الأُخْرَى».
فتَرَكَ التَّلامِيذُ الجَمْعَ، وأَخَذُوا يَسُوعَ مَعَهُم في السَّفِينَة، وكَانَتْ سُفُنٌ أُخْرَى تَتْبَعُهُ.
وهَبَّتْ عَاصِفَةُ ريحٍ شَدِيدَة، فٱنْدَفَعَتِ الأَمْواجُ عَلى السَّفينَة، حَتَّى أَوْشَكَتِ السَّفِينَةُ أَنْ تَمْتَلِئ.
وكانَ يَسُوعُ نَائِمًا عَلى الوِسَادَةِ في مُؤَخَّرِ السَّفينَة، فَأَيْقَظُوهُ وقَالُوا لَهُ: «يا مُعَلِّم، أَلا تُبَالي؟ فنَحْنُ نَهْلِك!».
فقَامَ وزَجَرَ الرِّيحَ وقَالَ لِلْبَحْر: «أُسْكُتْ! إِهْدَأْ!». فسَكَنَتِ الرِّيحُ، وحَدَثَ هُدُوءٌ عَظِيم.
ثُمَّ قالَ لِتَلاميذِهِ: «لِمَاذَا أَنْتُم خائِفُونَ هكَذا؟ كَيْفَ لا تُؤْمِنُون؟».
فخَافُوا خَوْفًا عظيمًا، وقَالُوا بَعْضُهُم لِبَعْض: مَنْ هُوَ هذا، حَتَّى يُطِيعَهُ البَحْرُ نَفْسُهُ والرِّيح؟

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 5:31-47.
If I testify on my own behalf, my testimony cannot be verified.
But there is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that the testimony he gives on my behalf is true.
You sent emissaries to John, and he testified to the truth.
I do not accept testimony from a human being, but I say this so that you may be saved.
He was a burning and shining lamp, and for a while you were content to rejoice in his light.
But I have testimony greater than John’s. The works that the Father gave me to accomplish, these works that I perform testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me.
Moreover, the Father who sent me has testified on my behalf. But you have never heard his voice nor seen his form,
and you do not have his word remaining in you, because you do not believe in the one whom he has sent.
You search the scriptures, because you think you have eternal life through them; even they testify on my behalf.
But you do not want to come to me to have life.
I do not accept human praise;
moreover, I know that you do not have the love of God in you.
I came in the name of my Father, but you do not accept me; yet if another comes in his own name, you will accept him.
How can you believe, when you accept praise from one another and do not seek the praise that comes from the only God?
Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father: the one who will accuse you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.
For if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me, because he wrote about me.
But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”

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إنجيل القدّيس لوقا 11:7-17
وكَانَ بَعْدَ ذلِكَ أَنْ ذَهَبَ يَسُوعُ إِلى مَدينَةٍ تُدْعَى نَائِين، وَذَهَبَ مَعَهُ تَلاميذُهُ وَجَمْعٌ كَثِير.
وٱقْتَرَبَ مِنْ بَابِ المَدِينَة، فإِذَا مَيْتٌ مَحْمُول، وَهوَ ٱبْنٌ وَحِيدٌ لأُمِّهِ الَّتِي كانَتْ أَرْمَلَة، وَكانَ مَعَها جَمْعٌ كَبيرٌ مِنَ المَدِينَة.
وَرَآها الرَّبُّ فَتَحَنَّنَ عَلَيها، وَقَالَ لَهَا: «لا تَبْكِي!».
ثُمَّ دَنَا وَلَمَسَ النَّعْش، فَوَقَفَ حَامِلُوه، فَقَال: «أَيُّهَا الشَّاب، لَكَ أَقُولُ: قُمْ!».
فَجَلَسَ المَيْتُ وَبَدَأَ يَتَكَلَّم، فَسَلَّمَهُ يَسُوعُ إِلى أُمِّهِ.
وٱسْتَولى الخَوفُ عَلَى الجَميع، فَأَخَذُوا يُمَجِّدُونَ اللهَ وَيَقولون: «لَقَد قَامَ فِينا نَبِيٌّ عَظِيم، وَتَفَقَّدَ اللهُ شَعْبَهُ!».
وَذَاعَتْ هذِهِ الكَلِمَةُ عَنْهُ في اليَهُودِيَّةِ كُلِّهَا، وفي كُلِّ الجِوَار

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 5:17-30.
But Jesus answered them, “My Father is at work until now, so I am at work.”
For this reason the Jews tried all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but he also called God his own father, making himself equal to God.
Jesus answered and said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, a son cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees his father doing; for what he does, his son will do also.
For the Father loves his Son and shows him everything that he himself does, and he will show him greater works than these, so that you may be amazed.
For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so also does the Son give life to whomever he wishes.
Nor does the Father judge anyone, but he has given all judgment to his Son,
so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not come to condemnation, but has passed from death to life.
Amen, amen, I say to you, the hour is coming and is now here when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
For just as the Father has life in himself, so also he gave to his Son the possession of life in himself.
And he gave him power to exercise judgment, because he is the Son of Man.
Do not be amazed at this, because the hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice
and will come out, those who have done good deeds to the resurrection of life, but those who have done wicked deeds to the resurrection of condemnation.
I cannot do anything on my own; I judge as I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

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إنجيل القدّيس مرقس 47:6-56
ولَمَّا كانَ المَسَاء، كانَتِ السَّفِينَةُ في وَسَطِ البُحَيْرَة، ويَسُوعُ وَحْدَهُ عَلى اليَابِسَة.
ورَأَى التَّلامِيذَ مَنْهُوكِينَ مِنَ التَّجْذِيف، لأَنَّ الرِّيحَ كانَتْ مُخَالِفةً لَهُم، فجَاءَ إِلَيْهِم في آخِرِ اللَّيْلِ مَاشِيًا عَلَى البُحَيْرَة، وكانَ يُريدُ أَنْ يَتخَطَّاهُم.
ولَمَّا رَآهُ التَّلامِيذُ مَاشِيًا عَلَى البُحَيْرَة، ظَنُّوهُ شَبَحًا فصَرَخُوا،
لأَنَّهُم رأَوْهُ كُلُّهُم وٱضْطَرَبُوا. وفي الحَالِ كَلَّمَهُم يَسُوعُ وقَالَ لَهُم: «ثِقُوا! أَنَا هُوَ، لا تَخَافُوا!».
وصَعِدَ إِلَيْهِم، إِلى السَّفِينَة، فسَكَنَتِ الرِّيح. ودَهِشُوا في أَنْفُسِهِم غَايَةَ الدَّهَش،
لأَنَّهُم لَمْ يَفْهَمُوا مُعْجِزَةَ الأَرْغِفَةِ لِقَسَاوَةِ قُلُوبِهِم.
ولَمَّا عَبَرُوا جَاؤُوا إِلى أَرْضِ جِنَّاشَر، وأَرْسَوا هُنَاك.
ولَمَّا خَرَجُوا مِنَ السَّفِينَةِ عَرَفَهُ النَّاسُ حَالاً.
وطَافُوا تِلْكَ النَّاحِيَةَ كُلَّها، وبَدَأُوا يَحْمِلُونَ مَنْ بِهِم سُوءٌ إِلى حَيْثُ كَانُوا يَسْمَعُونَ أَنَّهُ مَوْجُود.
وحَيْثُما كانَ يَدْخُلُ قُرًى أَوْ مُدُنًا أَو ضِياعًا، كَانُوا يَضَعُونَ المَرْضَى في السَّاحَات، ويَتَوَسَّلُونَ إِلَيْهِ أَنْ يَلْمُسُوا وَلَو طَرَفَ رِدَائِهِ. وجَمِيعُ الَّذِينَ لَمَسُوهُ كانُوا يُشْفَون

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 5:1-16.
After this, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Now there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep (Gate) a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes.
In these lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and crippled.
One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been ill for a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be well?”
The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; while I am on my way, someone else gets down there before me.”
Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your mat, and walk.”
Immediately the man became well, took up his mat, and walked. Now that day was a sabbath.
So the Jews said to the man who was cured, “It is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.”
He answered them, “The man who made me well told me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.’”
They asked him, “Who is the man who told you, ‘Take it up and walk’?”
The man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away, since there was a crowd there.
After this Jesus found him in the temple area and said to him, “Look, you are well; do not sin any more, so that nothing worse may happen to you.”
The man went and told the Jews that Jesus was the one who had made him well.
Therefore, the Jews began to persecute Jesus because he did this on a sabbath.

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إنجيل القدّيس مرقس 1:5-20
ووَصَلَ يَسُوعُ وتَلامِيذُهُ إِلى الضَّفَّةِ الأُخْرَى مِنَ البُحَيْرَة، إِلى بَلَدِ الجِراسِيِّين.
ومَا إِنْ نَزَلَ يَسُوعُ مِنَ السَّفينَةِ حَتَّى لاقَاهُ رَجُلٌ مِنْ بَيْنِ القُبُورِ فِيهِ رُوحٌ نَجِس.
كانَ يَسْكُنُ في القُبُور، ومَا كانَ أَحَدٌ يَقْدِرُ أَنْ يُكَبِّلَهُ حَتَّى بِسِلْسِلَة.
وكَثيرًا ما كَبَّلُوهُ بِقُيُودٍ وسَلاسِل، فكَانَ يَقْطَعُ السَّلاسِل، ويَكْسِرُ القُيُود، ومَا كانَ أَحَدٌ يَقْدِرُ أَنْ يَضْبِطَهُ.
وكانَ عَلَى الدَّوَام، لَيْلاً ونَهَارًا، في القُبُورِ وفي الجِبَال، يَصْرُخُ ويُهَشِّمُ جَسَدَهُ بِٱلحِجَارَة.
ورَأَى يَسُوعَ مِنْ بَعِيدٍ فَأَسْرَعَ إِلَيْهِ وسَجَدَ لَهُ.
وصَرَخَ بِصَوْتٍ عَظِيمٍ وقَال: «مَا لي ولَكَ يا يَسُوعُ ٱبْنَ اللهِ العَلِيّ؟ أَسْتَحْلِفُكَ بِٱلله! لا تُعَذِّبْني!»؛
لأَنَّ يَسُوعَ كانَ يَقُولُ لَهُ: «أُخْرُجْ مِنَ الرَّجُل، أَيُّهَا الرُّوحُ النَّجِس!».
وسأَلَهُ: «مَا ٱسْمُكَ؟». فقَالَ لَهُ: «إِسْمي فِرْقَة، لأَنَّنَا كَثِيرُون!».
وكانَ يَتَوَسَّلُ إِلَيْهِ كَثِيرًا أَنْ لا يَطْرُدَهُم مِنْ ذلِكَ البَلَد.
وكانَ هُنَاكَ قَطِيعٌ كَبيرٌ مِنَ الخَنَازيرِ يَرْعَى قُرْبَ الجَبَل.
فتَوَسَّلَتِ الأَرْوَاحُ النَّجِسَةُ إِلى يَسُوعَ قَائِلَة: «أَرْسِلْنَا إِلى الخَنَازِيرِ فَنَدْخُلَ فِيها!».
وأَذِنَ لَهَا فَخَرَجَتْ، ودَخَلَتْ في الخَنَازِير، فَإِذَا بِٱلقَطِيعِ – وعَدَدُهُ نَحْوُ أَلْفَيْن – قَدْ وَثَبَ مِنْ عَلَى المُنْحَدَرِ الوَعْر، وغَرِقَ في البُحَيْرَة.
وهَرَبَ رُعَاةُ الخَنَازِير، وأَذاعُوا الخَبَرَ في المَدِينَةِ والقُرَى، فذَهَبَ النَّاسُ لِيَرَوا ما جَرَى.
فلَمَّا وصَلُوا إِلى يَسُوعَ شَاهَدُوا المَمْسُوس، الَّذي كانَ فِيهِ فِرْقَةُ شيَاطِين، جَالِسًا، لابِسًا، سَلِيمَ العَقْل، فخَافُوا.
والَّذين رَأَوا أَخْبَرُوهُم بِمَا جَرَى لِلْمَمْسُوسِ وَلِلْخَنَازِير،
فبَدَأُوا يَتَوَسَّلُونَ إِلى يَسُوعَ أَنْ يَرْحَلَ عَنْ دِيَارِهِم.
وفِيمَا هُوَ صَاعِدٌ إِلى السَّفينَة، تَوَسَّلَ إِلَيْهِ ذَاكَ الَّذي كانَ مَمْسُوسًا أَنْ يَكُونَ مَعَهُ.
فلَمْ يَسْمَحْ لَهُ يَسُوع، بَلْ قَالَ لَهُ: «إِذْهَبْ إِلى بَيْتِكَ، إِلى أَهْلِكَ، وَأَخْبِرْهُم بِكُلِّ ما صَنَعَ الرَّبُّ إِلَيْك، وَبِرَحْمَتِهِ لَكَ».
فذَهَبَ وبَدَأَ يُنَادي في المُدُنِ العَشْرِ بِكُلِّ مَا صَنَعَ إِلَيْهِ يَسُوع، وكانَ الجَمْيعُ يَتَعَجَّبُون

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 4:43-54.
After the two days, he left there for Galilee.
For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his native place.
When he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all he had done in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves had gone to the feast.
Then he returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. Now there was a royal official whose son was ill in Capernaum.
When he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, who was near death.
Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”
The royal official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”
Jesus said to him, “You may go; your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus said to him and left.
While he was on his way back, his slaves met him and told him that his boy would live.
He asked them when he began to recover. They told him, “The fever left him yesterday, about one in the afternoon.”
The father realized that just at that time Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live,” and he and his whole household came to believe.
(Now) this was the second sign Jesus did when he came to Galilee from Judea.

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كانت هذه الأعجوبة في قرية كفرنحوم التي تعني بيت الراحة، وهي ترمز الى حياة الراحة مع المسيح. فمن يعيش بحياة روحية مع الله، تكون كفرنحوم في نفسه، فكلنا ننظر الى بطولة القدّيسين، فهم في الخارج كانوا يعيشون حياةً صعبة وقشفة، امّا في داخلهم فكانوا يعيشون في كفرنحوم اي في راحة مع الله.
هؤلاء الرجال الأربعة الذين وضعوا المخلّع امام المسيح يعلّموننا ثلاثة اشياء: أولاً : فلنضع انفسنا ومشاكلنا امام الله، فهو اقرب من نفسنا إلينا، وهو يستجب سؤلنا، إذ قد وضعوه امامه ولم يسألوا شيئاً، ونالوا ما يطلبون. ثانياً، لنصلّي مِن أجل بعضنا، فنحمل بصلاتنا كل مريض، وكل من هو بحاجة لصلاتنا الى الله، فصلاة الجماعة تعضض المحاج الضعيف. ثالثاً: هؤلاء الرجال الأربعة قد نزعوا السقف الذي يفصلهم عن المسيح، فتعالوا نفعل نفس الشيء وننزع كل ما يفصلنا عن المسيح، من اعمال واهتمامات وسهرات …
ثم قال له المسيح : “يَا ابْني، مَغْفُورَةٌ لَكَ خطَايَاك!”، وهاذا اثار غضب الفرّيسيين، إذ هم مخلّعون في نفوسهم وفي روحانيتهم المكبّلة بالشريعة لا بالرحمة.
واخيراً فلنتمثّل بهاذا المخلّع، إذ قال له المسيح “لَكَ أَقُول: قُم، إِحْمِلْ فِرَاشَكَ، واذْهَبْ إِلى بَيْتِكَ!”، فقد حمل هذا سريره اي كل عالمه الذي كان يقعده، فبنعمة المسيح نستطيع نحن مثله أن نحمل كل ما كان يقعدنا ونمشي

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My loving Lord, it’s so hard to love the world sometimes
and to love it the way Jesus did seems impossible.
Help me to be inspired by His love and guided by His example.
Most of all, I want to accept that I can’t do it alone, and that trying is an arrogance of self-centeredness.
I need You, dear God, to give me support in this journey.
Show me how to unlock my heart so that I am less selfish.
Let me be less fearful of the pain and darkness
that will be transformed by You into Easter joy.

By Deanna Nakhle

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إنجيل القدّيس مرقس 1:3-12
وعَادَ يَسُوعُ فَدَخَلَ إِلى المَجْمَع. وكانَ هُنَاكَ رَجُلٌ يَدُهُ يَابِسَة.
وكانُوا يُرَاقِبُونَ هَلْ يَشْفِيهِ يَوْمَ السَّبْت، لِيَشْكُوه.
فقالَ لِلرَّجُلِ الَّذي يَدُهُ يَابِسَة: «قُمْ في الوَسَط!».
ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُم: «هَلْ يَحِلُّ في السَّبْتِ عَمَلُ الخَيْرِ أَمْ عَمَلُ الشَرّ؟ تَخْليصُ نَفْسٍ أَمْ قَتْلُها؟». فَظَلُّوا صَامِتِين.
فأَجَالَ يَسُوعُ فِيهِم نَظَرَهُ غَاضِبًا، حَزينًا لِقَسَاوَةِ قُلُوبِهِم، ثُمَّ قالَ لِلرَّجُل: «مُدَّ يَدَكَ». ومَدَّ يَدَهُ فعَادَتْ صَحِيحَة.
وفي الحَالِ خَرَجَ الفَرِّيسيُّونَ مَعَ الهِيرُودُوسيِّين، وأَخَذُوا يَتَشَاوَرُونَ عَلَيْهِ لِيُهْلِكُوه.
وٱنْصَرَفَ يَسُوعُ مَعَ تَلامِيذِه إِلى البُحَيْرَة، وتَبِعَهُ جُمْهُورٌ غَفِيرٌ مِنَ الجَليل، وَمِنَ اليَهُودِيَّة،
ومِنْ أُورَشَلِيمَ وَمِنْ أَدُومَ وَعِبْرِ الأُرْدُنّ، وَمِنْ نَوَاحِي صُورَ وصَيْدَا، جُمْهُورٌ غَفِير، سَمِعُوا بِكُلِّ ما صَنَع، فَأَتَوا إِلَيْه.
وأَمَرَ تَلامِيذَهُ أَنْ يُعِدُّوا لَهُ قَارِبًا، يَكُونُ بِتَصَرُّفِهِ، لِئَلاَّ تَزْحَمَهُ الجُمُوع،
لأَنَّهُ شَفَى كَثِيرين، فصَارَ كُلُّ مَنْ بِهِ دَاءٌ يتَهَافَتُ عَلَيْهِ لِيَلْمُسَهُ.
وكَانَتِ الأَرْوَاحُ النَّجِسَة، حِينَ تَرَاه، تَسْقُطُ أَمَامَهُ وتَصْرُخُ قَائِلَة: «أَنْتَ هُوَ ٱبْنُ الله».
وكانَ يَسُوعُ يُحَذِّرُهَا بِشِدَّةٍ مِنْ أَنْ تُشْهِرَهُ

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 18:9-14.
He then addressed this parable to those who were convinced of their own righteousness and despised everyone else.
Two people went up to the temple area to pray; one was a Pharisee and the other was a tax collector.
The Pharisee took up his position and spoke this prayer to himself, ‘O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity–greedy, dishonest, adulterous–or even like this tax collector.
I fast twice a week, and I pay tithes on my whole income.’
But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed, ‘O God, be merciful to me a sinner.’
I tell you, the latter went home justified, not the former; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

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إنجيل القدّيس متّى 27:9-35
وفيمَا يَسُوعُ مُجْتَازٌ مِنْ هُنَاك، تَبِعَهُ أَعْمَيَانِ يَصْرُخَانِ ويَقُولان: «إِرْحَمْنَا، يَا ٱبْنَ دَاوُد!».
ولَمَّا جَاءَ إِلى البَيْتِ تَقَدَّمَ إِلَيْهِ الأَعْمَيَان. فَقَالَ لَهُمَا يَسُوع: «أَتُؤْمِنَانِ أَنِّي قَادِرٌ أَنْ أَفْعَلَ هذَا؟». قَالا لَهُ: «نَعَم، يَا رَبّ».
حينَئِذٍ لَمَسَ أَعْيُنَهُمَا قَائِلاً: «فَلْيَكُنْ لَكُمَا بِحَسَبِ إِيْمَانِكُمَا!».
فَٱنْفَتَحَتْ أَعْيُنُهُمَا. وٱنْتَهَرَهُمَا يَسُوعُ قَائِلاً: «أُنْظُرَا، لا تُخْبِرَا أَحَدًا».
ولكِنَّهُمَا خَرَجَا ونَشَرَا الخَبَرَ في تِلْكَ الأَنْحَاءِ كُلِّهَا.
ولَمَّا خَرَجَ الأَعْمَيَان، قَدَّمُوا إِلَيْهِ مَمْسُوسًا أَخْرَس.
وأُخْرِجَ الشَّيْطَانُ فَتَكَلَّمَ الأَخْرَس. وتَعَجَّبَ الجُمُوعُ فَقَالُوا: «لَمْ يُرَ شَيْءٌ مِثْلُ هذَا في إِسْرَائِيل».
أَمَّا الفَرِّيسِيُّونَ فَكَانُوا يَقُولُون: «إِنَّهُ بِرَئِيْسِ الشَّيَاطِيْنِ يُخْرِجُ الشَّيَاطِين».
وكَانَ يَسُوعُ يَطُوفُ المُدُنَ كُلَّهَا والقُرَى يُعَلِّمُ في مَجَامِعِهم، ويَكْرِزُ بِإِنْجِيلِ المَلَكُوت، ويَشْفِي الشَّعْبَ مِنْ كُلِّ مَرَضٍ وكُلِّ عِلَّة

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 12:28-34.
One of the scribes, when he came forward and heard them disputing and saw how well he had answered them, asked him, “Which is the first of all the commandments?”
Jesus replied, “The first is this: ‘Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone!
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’
The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
The scribe said to him, “Well said, teacher. You are right in saying, ‘He is One and there is no other than he.’
And ‘to love him with all your heart, with all your understanding, with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself’ is worth more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
And when Jesus saw that (he) answered with understanding, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And no one dared to ask him any more questions.

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