A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew 4:12-23
When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee.
When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee.
I urge you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree in what you say, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and in the same purpose.
Jesus came with his disciples into the house.
Jesus went up the mountain and summoned those whom he wanted and they came to him.
Jesus withdrew toward the sea with his disciples.
As Jesus was passing through a field of grain on the sabbath, his disciples began to make a path while picking the heads of grain.
The disciples of John and of the Pharisees were accustomed to fast.
Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth, to you who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be holy, with all those everywhere who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours.
The Lord said to me: You are my servant,/ Israel, through whom I show my glory./ Now the Lord has spoken/ who formed me as his servant from the womb,/ that Jacob may be brought back to him/ and Israel gathered to him;/ and I am made glorious in the sight of the Lord,/ and my God is now my strength!/ It is too little, the Lord says, for you to be my servant,/ to raise up the tribes of Jacob,/ and restore the survivors of Israel;/ I will make you a light to the nations,/ that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.