Reading 1, First John 3:7-10

⁷ Children, do not let anyone lead you astray. Whoever acts uprightly is upright, just as he is upright.

⁸ Whoever lives sinfully belongs to the devil, since the devil has been a sinner from the beginning. This was the purpose of the appearing of the Son of God, to undo the work of the devil.

⁹ No one who is a child of God sins because God's seed remains in him. Nor can he sin, because he is a child of God.

¹⁰ This is what distinguishes the children of God from the children of the devil: whoever does not live uprightly and does not love his brother is not from God.

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Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 98:1, 7-8, 9

¹ [Psalm] Sing a new song to Yahweh, for he has performed wonders, his saving power is in his right hand and his holy arm.

⁷ Let the sea thunder, and all that it holds, the world and all who live in it.

⁸ Let the rivers clap their hands, and the mountains shout for joy together,

⁹ at Yahweh's approach, for he is coming to judge the earth; he will judge the world with saving justice and the nations with fairness.

Gospel, John 1:35-42

³⁵ The next day as John stood there again with two of his disciples, Jesus went past,

³⁶ and John looked towards him and said, 'Look, there is the lamb of God.'

³⁷ And the two disciples heard what he said and followed Jesus.

³⁸ Jesus turned round, saw them following and said, 'What do you want?' They answered, 'Rabbi' -- which means Teacher -- 'where do you live?'

³⁹ He replied, 'Come and see'; so they went and saw where he lived, and stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.

⁴⁰ One of these two who became followers of Jesus after hearing what John had said was Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter.

⁴¹ The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother and say to him, 'We have found the Messiah' -- which means the Christ-

⁴² and he took Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, 'You are Simon son of John; you are to be called Cephas' -- which means Rock.

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