Reading 1, Jeremiah 18:18-20

¹⁸ 'Come on,' they said, 'let us concoct a plot against Jeremiah, for the Law will not perish for lack of priests, nor advice for lack of wise men, nor the word for lack of prophets. Come on, let us slander him and pay no attention to anything he says.'

¹⁹ Pay attention to me, Yahweh, hear what my adversaries are saying.

²⁰ Should evil be returned for good? Now they are digging a pit for me. Remember how I pleaded before you and spoke good of them, to turn your retribution away from them.

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Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 31:5-6, 14, 15-16

⁵ to your hands I commit my spirit, by you have I been redeemed. God of truth,

⁶ you hate those who serve useless idols; but my trust is in Yahweh:

¹⁴ But my trust is in you, Yahweh; I say, 'You are my God,'

¹⁵ every moment of my life is in your hands, rescue me from the clutches of my foes who pursue me;

¹⁶ let your face shine on your servant, save me in your faithful love.

Gospel, Matthew 20:17-28

¹⁷ Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, and on the road he took the Twelve aside by themselves and said to them,

¹⁸ 'Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man is about to be handed over to the chief priests and scribes. They will condemn him to death

¹⁹ and will hand him over to the gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified; and on the third day he will be raised up again.'

²⁰ Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came with her sons to make a request of him, and bowed low;

²¹ and he said to her, 'What is it you want?' She said to him, 'Promise that these two sons of mine may sit one at your right hand and the other at your left in your kingdom.'

²² Jesus answered, 'You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I am going to drink?' They replied, 'We can.'

²³ He said to them, 'Very well; you shall drink my cup, but as for seats at my right hand and my left, these are not mine to grant; they belong to those to whom they have been allotted by my Father.'

²⁴ When the other ten heard this they were indignant with the two brothers.

²⁵ But Jesus called them to him and said, 'You know that among the gentiles the rulers lord it over them, and great men make their authority felt.

²⁶ Among you this is not to happen. No; anyone who wants to become great among you must be your servant,

²⁷ and anyone who wants to be first among you must be your slave,

²⁸ just as the Son of man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.'

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The New Jerusalem Bible (NJB) is a Catholic translation of the Bible published in 1985. The New Jerusalem Bible (NJB) has become the most widely used Roman Catholic Bible outside of the United States. It has the imprimatur of Cardinal George Basil Hume.

Like its predecessor, the Jerusalem Bible, the New Jerusalem Bible (NJB) version is translated "directly from the Hebrew, Greek or Aramaic." The 1973 French translation, the Bible de Jerusalem, is followed only "where the text admits to more than one interpretation." Introductions and notes, with some modifications, are taken from the Bible de Jerusalem.

Source: The Very Reverend Dom (Joseph) Henry Wansbrough, OSB, MA (Oxon), STL (Fribourg), LSS (Rome), a monk of Ampleforth Abbey and a biblical scholar. He was General Editor of the New Jerusalem Bible. "New Jerusalem Bible, Regular Edition", pg. v.

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