Daily Mass Readings for March 17, 2024: Gospel — Jo 12, 20-33

3 ¹ “Indeed, a time is coming,” says the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. 3 ² It will not be like the old covenant that I made with their ancestors when I delivered them from Egypt. For they violated that covenant, even though I was like a faithful husband to them,” says the Lord. 3 ³ “But I will make a new covenant with the whole nation of Israel after I plant them back in the land,” says the Lord. “I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts and minds. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 3 ⁴ “People will no longer need to teach their neighbors and relatives to know me. For all of them, from the least important to the most important, will know me,” says the Lord. “For I will forgive their sin and will no longer call to mind the wrong they have done.”

⁷ During his earthly life Christ offered both requests and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his devotion. ⁸ Although he was a son, he learned obedience through the things he suffered. ⁹ And by being perfected in this way, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,