Acts of the Apostles 6:8-15.
Stephen, filled with grace and power, was working
great wonders and signs among the people.
Certain members of
the so-called Synagogue of Freedmen, Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and people from Cilicia and Asia,
came forward and debated with Stephen, but they could not withstand the wisdom and the spirit with
which he spoke.
Then they instigated some men to say, "We have
heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God."
They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, accosted him, seized him, and brought him
before the Sanhedrin.
They presented false witnesses who
testified, "This man never stops saying things against (this) holy place and the law.
For we have heard him claim that this Jesus the Nazorean will
destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us."
All those who sat in the Sanhedrin looked intently at him and saw
that his face was like the face of an angel.
Psalms 119(118):23-24.26-27.29-30.
Though princes meet and talk against me,
your servant studies your laws.
Your decrees are my delight;
they are my counselors.
I disclosed my ways and you
answered me;
teach me your laws.
Make me understand the way of your
precepts;
I will ponder your wondrous deeds.
Lead me
from the way of deceit;
favor me with your teaching.
The way of loyalty I
have chosen;
I have set your edicts before me.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 6:22-29.
[After Jesus had fed the five
thousand men, his disciples saw him walking on the sea.] The next day, the crowd that remained
across the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not gone along with
his disciples in the boat, but only his disciples had left.
Other boats came from Tiberias near the place where they had eaten the bread when the Lord gave
thanks.
When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples
were there, they themselves got into boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus.
And when they found him across the sea they said to him, "Rabbi, when
did you get here?" Jesus answered them and said, "Amen, amen, I say to you, you are looking for me
not because you saw signs but because you ate the loaves and were filled.
Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that
endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him the Father, God, has set
his seal."So they said to him, "What can we do to accomplish the works of God?" Jesus answered and
said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent."
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