Daily Mass Readings for November 23, 2024: Gospel — Lc 20, 27-40

⁴ (These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.) ⁵ If anyone wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouths and completely consumes their enemies. If anyone wants to harm them, they must be killed this way. ⁶ These two have the power to close up the sky so that it does not rain during the time they are prophesying. They have power to turn the waters to blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague whenever they want. ⁷ When they have completed their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss will make war on them and conquer them and kill them. ⁸ Their corpses will lie in the street of the great city that is symbolically called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was also crucified. ⁹ For three and a half days those from every people, tribe, nation, and language will look at their corpses because they will not permit them to be placed in a tomb. 1 ⁰ And those who live on the earth will rejoice over them and celebrate, even sending gifts to each other because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth. 1 ¹ But after three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and tremendous fear seized those who were watching them. 1 ² Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them: “Come up here!” So the two prophets went up to heaven in a cloud while their enemies stared at them.