{"id":975,"date":"2008-01-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/contentfeeds\/2008\/01\/gospel-reading-for-tuesday-jan-1.html"},"modified":"2008-01-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T00:00:00","slug":"gospel-reading-for-tuesday-jan-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/2008\/01\/gospel-reading-for-tuesday-jan-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Gospel Reading for Tuesday, January 8, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John 7:37-52<br \/>\n37 On the last day of the festival, the great day, while Jesus was standing there, he cried out, \u201cLet anyone who is thirsty come to me, 38 and let the one who believes in me drink. As the scripture has said, \u2018Out of the believer&#8217;s heartl shall flow rivers of living water.\u2019 \u201d 39 Now he said this about the Spirit, which believers in him were to receive; for as yet there was no Spirit, because Jesus was not yet glorified.<br \/>\n40 When they heard these words, some in the crowd said, \u201cThis is really the prophet.\u201d 41 Others said, \u201cThis is the Messiah.\u201d But some asked, \u201cSurely the Messiah does not come from Galilee, does he? 42 Has not the scripture said that the Messiah is descended from David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?\u201d 43 So there was a division in the crowd because of him. 44 Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.<br \/>\n45 Then the temple police went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, \u201cWhy did you not arrest him?\u201d 46 The police answered, \u201cNever has anyone spoken like this!\u201d 47 Then the Pharisees replied, \u201cSurely you have not been deceived too, have you? 48 Has any one of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him? 49 But this crowd, which does not know the law\u2014they are accursed.\u201d 50 Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus before, and who was one of them, asked, 51 \u201cOur law does not judge people without first giving them a hearing to find out what they are doing, does it?\u201d 52 They replied, \u201cSurely you are not also from Galilee, are you? Search and you will see that no prophet is to arise from Galilee.\u201d<br \/>\n<font>From the <a target='_blank' href='http:\/\/www.nrsv.net'>New Revised Standard Version<\/a>. Reprinted with permission from HarperBibles.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 7:37-52 37 On the last day of the festival, the great day, while Jesus was standing there, he cried out, \u201cLet anyone who is thirsty come to me, 38 and let the one who believes in me drink. 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