Daily Mass Readings for May 10, 2026: Gospel — Jo 14,15-21

⁵ Philip went down to the main city of Samaria and began proclaiming the Christ to them. ⁶ The crowds were paying attention with one mind to what Philip said, as they heard and saw the miraculous signs he was performing. ⁷ For unclean spirits, crying with loud shrieks, were coming out of many who were possessed, and many paralyzed and lame people were healed. ⁸ So there was great joy in that city. 1 4 :¹ The same thing happened in Iconium when Paul and Barnabas went into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a large group of both Jews and Greeks believed. ² But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers. ³ So they stayed there for a considerable time, speaking out courageously for the Lord, who testified to the message of his grace, granting miraculous signs and wonders to be performed through their hands. ⁴ But the population of the city was divided; some sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles. ⁵ When both the Gentiles and the Jews (together with their rulers) made an attempt to mistreat them and stone them, ⁶ Paul and Barnabas learned about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and the surrounding region. ⁷ There they continued to proclaim the good news. ⁸ In Lystra sat a man who could not use his feet, lame from birth, who had never walked. ⁹ This man was listening to Paul as he was speaking. When Paul stared intently at him and saw he had faith to be healed, 1 ⁰ he said with a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet.” And the man leaped up and began walking. 1 ¹ So when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in human form!” 1 ² They began to call Barnabas Zeus and Paul Hermes, because he was the chief speaker. 1 ³ The priest of the temple of Zeus, located just outside the city, brought bulls and garlands to the city gates; he and the crowds wanted to offer sacrifices to them. 1 ⁴ But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard about it, they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd, shouting, 1 ⁵ “Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them. 1 ⁶ In past generations he allowed all the nations to go their own ways, 1 ⁷ yet he did not leave himself without a witness by doing good, by giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying you with food and your hearts with joy.” 1 ⁸ Even by saying these things, they scarcely persuaded the crowds not to offer sacrifice to them. 1 ⁹ But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and after winning the crowds over, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, presuming him to be dead. 2 ⁰ But after the disciples had surrounded him, he got up and went back into the city. On the next day he left with Barnabas for Derbe. 2 ¹ After they had proclaimed the good news in that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, to Iconium, and to Antioch. 2 ² They strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying, “We must enter the kingdom of God through many persecutions.” 2 ³ When they had appointed elders for them in the various churches, with prayer and fasting they entrusted them to the protection of the Lord in whom they had believed. 2 ⁴ Then they passed through Pisidia and came into Pamphylia, 2 ⁵ and when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia. 2 ⁶ From there they sailed back to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work they had now completed. 2 ⁷ When they arrived and gathered the church together, they reported all the things God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith for the Gentiles. 2 ⁸ So they spent considerable time with the disciples. 1 5 :¹ Now some men came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” ² When Paul and Barnabas had a major argument and debate with them, the church appointed Paul and Barnabas and some others from among them to go up to meet with the apostles and elders in Jerusalem about this point of disagreement. ³ So they were sent on their way by the church, and as they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, they were relating at length the conversion of the Gentiles and bringing great joy to all the brothers. ⁴ When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all the things God had done with them. ⁵ But some from the religious party of the Pharisees who had believed stood up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise the Gentiles and to order them to observe the law of Moses.” ⁶ Both the apostles and the elders met together to deliberate about this matter. ⁷ After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that some time ago God chose me to preach to the Gentiles so they would hear the message of the gospel and believe. ⁸ And God, who knows the heart, has testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us, ⁹ and he made no distinction between them and us, cleansing their hearts by faith. 1 ⁰ So now why are you putting God to the test by placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear? 1 ¹ On the contrary, we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they are.” 1 ² The whole group kept quiet and listened to Barnabas and Paul while they explained all the miraculous signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them. 1 ³ After they stopped speaking, James replied, “Brothers, listen to me. 1 ⁴ Simeon has explained how God first concerned himself to select from among the Gentiles a people for his name. 1 ⁵ The words of the prophets agree with this, as it is written, 1 ⁶ ‘After this I will return,and I will rebuild the fallen tent of David;I will rebuild its ruins and restore it, 1 ⁷ so that the rest of humanity may seek the Lord,namely, all the Gentiles I have called to be my own,’ says the Lord, who makes these things 1 ⁸ known from long ago. 1 ⁹ “Therefore I conclude that we should not cause extra difficulty for those among the Gentiles who are turning to God, 2 ⁰ but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood. 2 ¹ For Moses has had those who proclaim him in every town from ancient times, because he is read aloud in the synagogues every Sabbath.” 2 ² Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to send men chosen from among them, Judas called Barsabbas and Silas, leaders among the brothers, to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. 2 ³ They sent this letter with them: From the apostles and elders, your brothers, to the Gentile brothers and sisters in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia, greetings! 2 ⁴ Since we have heard that some have gone out from among us with no orders from us and have confused you, upsetting your minds by what they said, 2 ⁵ we have unanimously decided to choose men to send to you along with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul, 2 ⁶ who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 ⁷ Therefore we are sending Judas and Silas who will tell you these things themselves in person. 2 ⁸ For it seemed best to the Holy Spirit and to us not to place any greater burden on you than these necessary rules: 2 ⁹ that you abstain from meat that has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what has been strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from doing these things, you will do well. Farewell. 3 ⁰ So when they were dismissed, they went down to Antioch, and after gathering the entire group together, they delivered the letter. 3 ¹ When they read it aloud, the people rejoiced at its encouragement. 3 ² Both Judas and Silas, who were prophets themselves, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with a long speech. 3 ³ After they had spent some time there, they were sent off in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them. 3 ⁵ But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, teaching and proclaiming (along with many others) the word of the Lord. 3 ⁶ After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord to see how they are doing.” 3 ⁷ Barnabas wanted to bring John called Mark along with them too, 3 ⁸ but Paul insisted that they should not take along this one who had left them in Pamphylia and had not accompanied them in the work. 3 ⁹ They had a sharp disagreement, so that they parted company. Barnabas took along Mark and sailed away to Cyprus, 4 ⁰ but Paul chose Silas and set out, commended to the grace of the Lord by the brothers and sisters. 4 ¹ He passed through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. 1 6 :¹ He also came to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple named Timothy was there, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but whose father was a Greek. ² The brothers in Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him. ³ Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was Greek. ⁴ As they went through the towns, they passed on the decrees that had been decided on by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the Gentile believers to obey. ⁵ So the churches were being strengthened in the faith and were increasing in number every day. ⁶ They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the message in the province of Asia. ⁷ When they came to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them to do this, ⁸ so they passed through Mysia and went down to Troas. ⁹ A vision appeared to Paul during the night: A Macedonian man was standing there urging him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us!” 1 ⁰ After Paul saw the vision, we attempted immediately to go over to Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to proclaim the good news to them. 1 ¹ We put out to sea from Troas and sailed a straight course to Samothrace, the next day to Neapolis, 1 ² and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of that district of Macedonia, a Roman colony. We stayed in this city for some days. 1 ³ On the Sabbath day we went outside the city gate to the side of the river, where we thought there would be a place of prayer, and we sat down and began to speak to the women who had assembled there. 1 ⁴ A woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, a God-fearing woman, listened to us. The Lord opened her heart to respond to what Paul was saying. 1 ⁵ After she and her household were baptized, she urged us, “If you consider me to be a believer in the Lord, come and stay in my house.” And she persuaded us. 1 ⁶ Now as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave girl met us who had a spirit that enabled her to foretell the future by supernatural means. She brought her owners a great profit by fortune-telling. 1 ⁷ She followed behind Paul and us and kept crying out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation.” 1 ⁸ She continued to do this for many days. But Paul became greatly annoyed, and turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out of her at once. 1 ⁹ But when her owners saw their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities. 2 ⁰ When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said, “These men are throwing our city into confusion. They are Jews 2 ¹ and are advocating customs that are not lawful for us to accept or practice, since we are Romans.” 2 ² The crowd joined the attack against them, and the magistrates tore the clothes off Paul and Silas and ordered them to be beaten with rods. 2 ³ After they had beaten them severely, they threw them into prison and commanded the jailer to guard them securely. 2 ⁴ Receiving such orders, he threw them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks. 2 ⁵ About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the rest of the prisoners were listening to them. 2 ⁶ Suddenly a great earthquake occurred, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. Immediately all the doors flew open, and the bonds of all the prisoners came loose. 2 ⁷ When the jailer woke up and saw the doors of the prison standing open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself because he assumed the prisoners had escaped. 2 ⁸ But Paul called out loudly, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here!” 2 ⁹ Calling for lights, the jailer rushed in and fell down trembling at the feet of Paul and Silas. 3 ⁰ Then he brought them outside and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” 3 ¹ They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.” 3 ² Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him, along with all those who were in his house. 3 ³ At that hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds; then he and all his family were baptized right away. 3 ⁴ The jailer brought them into his house and set food before them, and he rejoiced greatly that he had come to believe in God, together with his entire household. 3 ⁵ At daybreak the magistrates sent their police officers, saying, “Release those men.” 3 ⁶ The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent orders to release you. So come out now and go in peace.” 3 ⁷ But Paul said to the police officers, “They had us beaten in public without a proper trial—even though we are Roman citizens—and they threw us in prison. And now they want to send us away secretly? Absolutely not! They themselves must come and escort us out!” 3 ⁸ The police officers reported these words to the magistrates. They were frightened when they heard Paul and Silas were Roman citizens 3 ⁹ and came and apologized to them. After they brought them out, they asked them repeatedly to leave the city. 4 ⁰ When they came out of the prison, they entered Lydia’s house, and when they saw the brothers, they encouraged them and then departed. 1 7 :¹ After they traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. ² Paul went to the Jews in the synagogue, as he customarily did, and on three Sabbath days he addressed them from the scriptures, ³ explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and to rise from the dead, saying, “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ.” ⁴ Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large group of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few prominent women. ⁵ But the Jews became jealous, and gathering together some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace, they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason’s house, trying to find Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly. ⁶ When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, screaming, “These people who have stirred up trouble throughout the world have come here too, ⁷ and Jason has welcomed them as guests! They are all acting against Caesar’s decrees, saying there is another king named Jesus!” ⁸ They caused confusion among the crowd and the city officials who heard these things. ⁹ After the city officials had received bail from Jason and the others, they released them. 1 ⁰ The brothers sent Paul and Silas off to Berea at once, during the night. When they arrived, they went to the Jewish synagogue. 1 ¹ These Jews were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they eagerly received the message, examining the scriptures carefully every day to see if these things were so. 1 ² Therefore many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men. 1 ³ But when the Jews from Thessalonica heard that Paul had also proclaimed the word of God in Berea, they came there too, inciting and disturbing the crowds. 1 ⁴ Then the brothers sent Paul away to the coast at once, but Silas and Timothy remained in Berea. 1 ⁵ Those who accompanied Paul escorted him as far as Athens, and after receiving an order for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they left. 1 ⁶ While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was greatly upset because he saw the city was full of idols. 1 ⁷ So he was addressing the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles in the synagogue, and in the marketplace every day those who happened to be there. 1 ⁸ Also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him, and some were asking, “What does this foolish babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods.” (They said this because he was proclaiming the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.) 1 ⁹ So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are proclaiming? 2 ⁰ For you are bringing some surprising things to our ears, so we want to know what they mean.” 2 ¹ (All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there used to spend their time in nothing else than telling or listening to something new.) 2 ² So Paul stood before the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in all respects. 2 ³ For as I went around and observed closely your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: ‘To an unknown god.’ Therefore what you worship without knowing it, this I proclaim to you. 2 ⁴ The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands, 2 ⁵ nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone. 2 ⁶ From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live, 2 ⁷ so that they would search for God and perhaps grope around for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 2 ⁸ For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’ 2 ⁹ So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination. 3 ⁰ Therefore, although God has overlooked such times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent, 3 ¹ because he has set a day on which he is going to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom he designated, having provided proof to everyone by raising him from the dead.” 3 ² Now when they heard about the resurrection from the dead, some began to scoff, but others said, “We will hear you again about this.” 3 ³ So Paul left the Areopagus. 3 ⁴ But some people joined him and believed. Among them were Dionysius, who was a member of the Areopagus, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

1 ⁵ But set Christ apart as Lord in your hearts and always be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks about the hope you possess. 1 ⁶ Yet do it with courtesy and respect, keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you. 1 ⁷ For it is better to suffer for doing good, if God wills it, than for doing evil. 1 ⁸ Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.