This translation is from the New American Bible. The bolded hyperlinks will take you to additional translations. The entire chapter is included to provide context.
Information about the meaning the original Hebrew or Greek of what seem to be key words is provided in blue. They are provided beneath the reading they relate to.
Excerpts collected in yellow at the end of this post tell us something about God’s nature or our relationship to Him.
Excerpts collected in green at the end of this post tell us about something God wants us to do.
Excerpts collected in red at the end of this post tell us about something God wants us not to do.
Reading I
Moses spoke to all the people, saying:
“A prophet like me will the LORD, your God, raise up for you from among your own kin; to him you shall listen. This is exactly what you requested of the LORD, your God, at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, ‘Let us not again hear the voice of the LORD, our God, nor see this great fire any more, lest we die.’ And the LORD said to me, ‘This was well said. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their kin, and will put my words into his mouth; he shall tell them all that I command him. Whoever will not listen to my words which he speaks in my name, I myself will make him answer for it. But if a prophet presumes to speak in my name an oracle that I have not commanded him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, he shall die.’”
listen = שָׁמַע = shama`
to hear, listen to, obey;to hear with attention or interest;yield to; to obey, be obedient; to hear and answer; to understand things heard
Responsorial Psalm
R. (8) If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Come, let us sing joyfully to the LORD; let us acclaim the rock of our salvation.
Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us joyfully sing psalms to him.
R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Come, let us bow down in worship; let us kneel before the LORD who made us.
For he is our God, and we are the people he shepherds, the flock he guides.
R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Oh, that today you would hear his voice: “Harden not your hearts as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the desert, where your fathers tempted me; they tested me though they had seen my works.”
R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
hear = שָׁמַע = shama`
to hear, listen to, obey;to hear with attention or interest;yield to; to obey, be obedient; to hear and answer; to understand things heard
Reading II
Brothers and sisters:
I should like you to be free of anxieties.
An unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.
But a married man is anxious about the things of the world, how he may please his wife, and he is divided.
An unmarried woman or a virgin is anxious about the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy in both body and spirit.
A married woman, on the other hand, is anxious about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
I am telling you this for your own benefit, not to impose a restraint upon you, but for the sake of propriety and adherence to the Lord without distraction.
hear = שָׁמַע = shama`
to hear, listen to, obey;to hear with attention or interest;yield to; to obey, be obedient; to hear and answer; to understand things heard
Alleluia
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
The people who sit in darkness have seen a great light; on those dwelling in a land overshadowed by death, light has arisen.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel
Then they came to Capernaum, and on the sabbath Jesus entered the synagogue and taught. The people were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes.
In their synagogue was a man with an unclean spirit; he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!”
Jesus rebuked him and said, “Quiet! Come out of him!” The unclean spirit convulsed him and with a loud cry came out of him.
All were amazed and asked one another, “What is this? A new teaching with authority. He commands even the unclean spirits and they obey him.” His fame spread everywhere throughout the whole region of Galilee.
teach = διδάσκω = didaskō
to hold discourse with others in order to instruct them; to impart instruction
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
instruct a person, or teach a thing; explain, show by argument; prove
teaching = διδαχή = didachē
that which is taught; doctrine, teaching, concerning something;
What these readings tell us about god/His ways:
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their kin,
will put my words into his mouth;
the LORD who made us.
he is our God
we are the people he shepherds, the flock he guides.
a great light
light has arisen.
Jesus entered the synagogue and taught
he taught them as one having authority
the Holy One of God
Jesus rebuked him
The unclean spirit convulsed him and with a loud cry came out of him.
He commands even the unclean spirits and they obey him
What these readings tell us to do:
you shall listen.
hear the voice of the LORD
listen to my words
hear his voice
sing joyfully to the LORD
acclaim the rock of our salvation
come into his presence with thanksgiving
joyfully sing psalms to him
hear his voice
bow down in worship
kneel before the LORD
hear his voice
hear his voice
hear his voice
be free of anxieties.
please the Lord
adherence to the Lord without distraction.
What these readings tell us not to do:
not listen to my words
presumes to speak in my name
an oracle that I have not commanded him to speak
speaks in the name of other gods,
harden not your hearts
harden not your hearts
harden not your hearts
Harden not your hearts
tempted me
tested
harden not your hearts
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