Readings at Mass

In those days: The high priest rose up, and all who were with him (that is, the party of the Sadducees), and, filled with jealousy, they arrested the Apostles and put them in the public prison. But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said, ‘Go and stand in the Temple and speak to the people all the words of this Life.’ And when they heard this, they entered the Temple at daybreak and began to teach.

At that time: Jesus said to Nicodemus, ‘For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the judgement: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.’