Daily Reading for Friday, January 9th, 2026

Reading 1, John 4:11-18

¹¹ 'You have no bucket, sir,' she answered, 'and the well is deep: how do you get this living water?

¹² Are you a greater man than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself with his sons and his cattle?'

¹³ Jesus replied: Whoever drinks this water will be thirsty again;

¹⁴ but no one who drinks the water that I shall give will ever be thirsty again: the water that I shall give will become a spring of water within, welling up for eternal life.

¹⁵ 'Sir,' said the woman, 'give me some of that water, so that I may never be thirsty or come here again to draw water.'

¹⁶ 'Go and call your husband,' said Jesus to her, 'and come back here.'

¹⁷ The woman answered, 'I have no husband.' Jesus said to her, 'You are right to say, "I have no husband";

¹⁸ for although you have had five, the one you now have is not your husband. You spoke the truth there.'

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 72:1-2, 10, 12-13

¹ [Of Solomon] God, endow the king with your own fair judgement, the son of the king with your own saving justice,

² that he may rule your people with justice, and your poor with fair judgement.

¹⁰ the kings of Tarshish and the islands will pay him tribute. The kings of Sheba and Saba will offer gifts;

¹² For he rescues the needy who calls to him, and the poor who has no one to help.

¹³ He has pity on the weak and the needy, and saves the needy from death.