Daily Reading for Friday, June 12th, 2026

Gospel, Matthew 11:25-30

²⁵ At that time Jesus exclaimed, 'I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to little children.

²⁶ Yes, Father, for that is what it pleased you to do.

²⁷ Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, just as no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

²⁸ 'Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest.

²⁹ Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

³⁰ Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light.'

Reading 2, John 4:7-16

⁷ When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, 'Give me something to drink.'

⁸ His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.

⁹ The Samaritan woman said to him, 'You are a Jew. How is it that you ask me, a Samaritan, for something to drink?' -- Jews, of course, do not associate with Samaritans.

¹⁰ Jesus replied to her: If you only knew what God is offering and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me something to drink,' you would have been the one to ask, and he would have given you living water.

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.'

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