Daily Mass Readings for January 28, 2026: Gospel — Mc 4,1-20

⁴ That night the Lord’s message came to Nathan, ⁵ “Go, tell my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord has said: Do you really intend to build a house for me to live in? ⁶ I have not lived in a house from the time I brought the Israelites up from Egypt to the present day. Instead, I was traveling with them and living in a tent. ⁷ Wherever I moved among all the Israelites, I did not say to any of their leaders whom I appointed to care for my people Israel, “Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?”’ ⁸ “So now, say this to my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has said: I took you from the pasture and from your work as a shepherd to make you leader of my people Israel. ⁹ I was with you wherever you went, and I defeated all your enemies before you. Now I will make you as famous as the great men of the earth. 1 ⁰ I will establish a place for my people Israel and settle them there; they will live there and not be disturbed anymore. Violent men will not oppress them again, as they did in the beginning 1 ¹ and during the time when I appointed judges to lead my people Israel. Instead, I will give you relief from all your enemies. The Lord declares to you that he himself will build a dynastic house for you. 1 ² When the time comes for you to die, I will raise up your descendant, one of your own sons, to succeed you, and I will establish his kingdom. 1 ³ He will build a house for my name, and I will make his dynasty permanent. 1 ⁴ I will become his father and he will become my son. When he sins, I will correct him with the rod of men and with wounds inflicted by human beings. 1 ⁵ But my loyal love will not be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I removed from before you. 1 ⁶ Your house and your kingdom will stand before me permanently; your dynasty will be permanent.’” 1 ⁷ Nathan told David all these words that were revealed to him.