For 2 January 2013, Feast of Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Doctors of the Church, based on John 1:19-28
This is the testimony given by John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?†He confessed and did not deny it, but confessed, “I am not the Messiah.†And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?†He said, “I am not.†“Are you the prophet?†He answered, “No.†Then they said to him, “Who are you? Let us have an answer for those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?†He said,
“I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness,
‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’â€
as the prophet Isaiah said.
 Now they had been sent from the Pharisees. They asked him, “Why then are you baptizing if you are neither the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?†John answered them, “I baptize with water. Among you stands one whom you do not know, the one who is coming after me; I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandal.†This took place in Bethany across the Jordan where John was baptizing.
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
About Jim Motl, O.P.
Fr. Jim Motl, O.P., taught homiletics at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC, at the St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul, MN, and at Aquinas Institute in St. Louis, MO. At present he is limited service at St. Pius V Priory in Chicago.
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This is the testimony given by John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?†He confessed and did not deny it, but confessed, “I am not the Messiah.†And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?†He said, “I am not.†“Are you the prophet?†He answered, “No.†Then they said to him, “Who are you? Let us have an answer for those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?†He said,
“I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness,
‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’â€
as the prophet Isaiah said.
 Now they had been sent from the Pharisees. They asked him, “Why then are you baptizing if you are neither the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?†John answered them, “I baptize with water. Among you stands one whom you do not know, the one who is coming after me; I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandal.†This took place in Bethany across the Jordan where John was baptizing.
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
About Jim Motl, O.P.
Fr. Jim Motl, O.P., taught homiletics at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC, at the St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul, MN, and at Aquinas Institute in St. Louis, MO. At present he is limited service at St. Pius V Priory in Chicago.