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 Greek of what seem to be key words is provided in blue. They are provided beneath the specific 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 does not wants us to do.
Reading I
Moses said to the people:
"Ask now of the days of old, before your time, ever since God created man upon the earth; ask from one end of the sky to the other: Did anything so great ever happen before? Was it ever heard of? Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of fire, as you did, and live? Or did any god venture to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by testings, by signs and wonders, by war, with strong hand and outstretched arm, and by great terrors, all of which the LORD, your God, did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?
This is why you must now know, and fix in your heart, that the LORD is God in the heavens above and on earth below, and that there is no other.
You must keep his statutes and commandments that I enjoin on you today, that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may have long life on the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you forever."
know =יָדַע= yāḏaʿ
to perceive and see, find out and discern; to discriminate, distinguish; to know by experience; to recognize; be acquainted with;to know (a person carnally);to know how, be skillful in; to have knowledge, be wise; to be made known, be or become known, be revealed; to be instructed; privy to; seeing; observe with the eyes; be aware of; to get to know, discover; to turn the mind to anything, to care about, to see about
heart = לֵבָב = lebab
inner man, mind, will, heart, soul, understanding; mind, knowledge, thinking, reflection, memory; inclination, resolution, determination (of will); seat of appetites; seat of emotions and passions; mode of thinking and acting; will and purpose; intellect
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 33:4-5, 6, 9, 18-19, 20, 22
R. (12b) Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
Upright is the word of the LORD, and all his works are trustworthy.
He loves justice and right; of the kindness of the Lord the earth is full.
R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
By the word of the LORD the heavens were made; by the breath of his mouth all their host.
For he spoke, and it was made; he commanded, and it stood forth.
R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
See, the eyes of the LORD are upon those who fear him, upon those who hope for his kindness,
To deliver them from death and preserve them in spite of famine.
R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
Our soul waits for the LORD, who is our help and our shield.
May your kindness, O LORD, be upon us who have put our hope in you.
R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
fear = יָרֵא= yare'
revere; to stand in awe of, be awed; reverence, honour, respect; to cause astonishment; tremble; venerate
hope = יָחַל= yāḥal
to wait, hope, expect; to be patient; tarry, trust
waits = חָכָה = ḥāḵâ
to adhere to; hence, to await:—long, tarry
kindness= חֶסֶד= checed
goodness, kindness, faithfulness; favour; (loving-) kindness; pity, zeal; benevolence; grace
Reading II
Brothers and sisters:
For those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a Spirit of adoption, through whom we cry, “Abba, Father!”
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ,if only we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.
adoption = υἱοθεσία = yhiothesia
the placing as a son
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
adoption as a son
suffer = συμπάσχω = sympaschō
to suffer or feel pain together; to suffer evils (troubles, persecutions) in the like manner with another; to experience pain jointly or of the same kind
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
have the same thing happen to one; to be affected in common with; have a fellow-feeling, sympathize, feel sympathy
Alleluia
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Glory to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; to God who is, who was, and who is to come.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel
The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them. When they all saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted.
Then Jesus approached and said to them, "All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age."
approached = προσέρχομαι = proserchomai
to come or go near to; draw near; approach
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
come or go to; approach, draw nigh; come in, surrender, capitulate; come forward to speak; appear before a tribunal; approach an official; have recourse to
behold= ἰδού = idou = ē-dü'
Imperative moods, Active and Middle Voices, respectively, of eidon, "to see," calling attention to what may be seen or heard or mentally apprehended in any way.
giving a peculiar vivacity to the style by bidding the reader or hearer to attend to what is said
What these readings tell us about God/His ways
the LORD is God in the heavens above and on earth below, and that there is no other
keep his statutes and commandmentsthat I enjoin on you today, that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may have long life on the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you
Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
Upright is the word of the LORD
all his works are trustworthy.
He loves justice and right
the kindness of the Lord
Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
By the word of the LORD the heavens were made
he spoke, and it was made
he commanded, and it stood forth.
Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
the eyes of the LORD are upon those who fear him
Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
our help and our shield.
your kindness
Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God
you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear
you received a Spirit of adoption, through whom we cry, “Abba, Father!”
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God
Jesus approached
All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me
What these readings tell us to do:
know, and fix in your heart, that the LORD is God in the heavens above and on earth below, and that there is no other
keep his statutes and
fear him
hope for his kindness
waits for the LORD
led by the Spirit of God
cry, “Abba, Father!”
make disciples of all nations, baptizing them
teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you
I am with you always, until the end of the age
What these readings tell us not to do:
fall back into fear
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