First Reading

Reading from the book of Isaiah 

Isaiah 65:17-21

Thus says the Lord:
«I am about to create new heavens and a new earth;
I will no longer remember the past,
I will forget it from my heart.

You shall be filled with joy and everlasting gladness
for what I am about to create:
I will turn Jerusalem into rejoicing
and my people into gladness.
I will rejoice over Jerusalem and take delight in my people.
No longer will groans or weeping be heard in it.

No longer will there be children who live but a few days,
nor old people who do not fulfill their years
and he who does not reach them will be considered accursed.
They shall build houses and live in them,
they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.»

Gospel

Reading from the holy gospel according to Saint John 

John 4:43-54

At that time, Jesus left Samaria and went to Galilee. Jesus himself had declared that no prophet is honored in his own country. When he arrived, the Galileans received him well, because they had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem during the feast, for they also had been there.

He returned then to Cana of Galilee, where he had turned water into wine. There was a royal official there, who had a sick son in Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to see him and begged him to go and heal his son, who was at the point of death. Jesus said to him: «Unless you see signs and wonders, you do not believe.» But the royal official insisted: «Sir, come down before my boy dies.» Jesus answered him: «Go, your son is alive.»

The man believed the word that Jesus spoke and set out on his way. As he was arriving, his servants met him to tell him that his son was alive. He asked them at what hour the improvement had begun. They told him: «Yesterday, at one in the afternoon, the fever left him.» The father realized that it was at that very hour when Jesus had said to him: ‘Your son is alive,’ and he believed, he and all his household.

This was the second miraculous sign that Jesus performed when he had come from Judea to Galilee.