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The CTS New Catholic Bible - New Testament and Psalms

This edition first published 2012 by The Incorporated Catholic Truth Society, 40-46 Harleyford Road, London, SE11 5AY. Copyright © 2012 The Incorporated Catholic Truth Society, save as otherwise indicated.

Nihil Obstat: The Reverend Canon John Redford S.T.L., L.S.S., D.D.

Imprimatur: The Most Reverend Kevin McDonald B.A., S.T.L., S.T.D., Archbishop of Southwark, 31 July 2007.

The Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur are a declaration that a publication is considered to be free from doctrinal or moral error. It is not implied that those who have granted the Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur agree with the contents, opinions or statements expressed.

The publishers are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce copyright material. All biblical text excluding the Psalms © 1966, 1967 and 1968 by Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd and Doubleday & Company, Inc. Nihil Obstat: Lionel Swain S.T.L., L.S.S. Imprimatur: ✙ John Cardinal Heenan, Westminster, 4 July 1966.The texts of the Grail Psalms © The Grail (England) 1963, published by HarperCollins Publisher. Used by permission.Imprimatur: ✙ William Cardinal Godfrey, Westminster, 25 March 1962.

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FOREWORDThis edition of the Bible is intended to partner the use of the Bible in the liturgy, enabling public and private readers to prepare and follow up the liturgical readings. For this reason the translations used are those familiar from the books used in the Roman Catholic liturgy, the Jerusalem Bible and the Grail Psalter. The introductions to each Book and the explanatory notes are entirely fresh, written for this edition, though some use has been made of the notes to the New Jerusalem Bible. It is hoped that they will also prove a useful aid to private study of the Bible. Since the presumption has been that the text to be commented is that used in the liturgy, only in the rarest of cases has reference been made in the notes to alternative texts or manuscript readings. I am grateful to Dom James Leachman of Ealing Abbey for providing the admirable Liturgical Note to each book, situating the use of the Book in the liturgy of the Church.

The biblical text is preceded by a resumé of the Constitution of Vatican II on the Bible, which sums up the Church’s view of the part played by the scriptures in the life of a Christian. The biblical text is followed not only by a brief conspectus of the usual biblical apparatus, but also by an Index to the Notes, a Table of the passages prescribed for reading at the Eucharist and an explanation of this arrangement, a list of the Psalms and Canticles used in the four-week cycle of Roman Breviary, a list of scriptural passages prescribed by the Church or suggested for use in various ritual celebrations and a note on Lectio Divina. Finally the maps of the New Jerusalem Bible have been included, with grateful acknowledgement to Darton, Longman & Todd. I am deeply grateful also to Ian Boxall, who worked through the Notes to the New Testament, and made many valuable suggestions. I am also grateful to my hosts and students at Holy Trinity Institute, Tafara, where a good deal of the work was done.

Henry Wansbrough

Ampleforth Abbey

Holy Trinity Institute, Tafara, Zimbabwe


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CONTENTSScripture in the Life of the Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vPreface to the Biblical Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

THE NEW TESTAMENTTHE GOSPELS AND ACTS

THE PAULINE LETTERS

LETTERS TO ALL CHRISTIANS & REVELATION

THE PSALMSThe Psalms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486

TABLES AND NOTES1. Historical Framework. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6432. Weights, Measures & Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645

SCRIPTURE AND CATHOLIC LITURGY3. The Sunday and Weekday Lectionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646

A. The Pattern of the Readings at Mass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646B. Scripture Readings for Sunday Mass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648C. Scripture Readings for Weekday Mass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653

4. Psalms and Canticles used in the 4-week Breviary Cycle . . . . . . . 662

SCRIPTURE, PRAYER AND SACRAMENTS5. Praying with the Bible: Lectio Divina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6646. Scripture for celebrating the Sacraments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6657. Scripture and praying the Holy Rosary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666

MAPS8. Index to the Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666

Romans (Rm) . . . . . . . . . . . . .2741 Corinthians (1 Co) . . . . . . .3002 Corinthians (2 Co) . . . . . . .324Galatians (Ga) . . . . . . . . . . . .339Ephesians (Ep) . . . . . . . . . . . .349Philippians (Ph) . . . . . . . . . . .358Colossians (Col) . . . . . . . . . . .365

1 Thessalonians (1 Th). . . . . .3722 Thessalonians (2 Th). . . . . .3781 Timothy (1 Tm). . . . . . . . . .3822 Timothy (2 Tm). . . . . . . . . .389Titus (Ti) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .394Philemon (Phm). . . . . . . . . . .397Letter to the Hebrews (Heb). .400

James (Jm) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4211 Peter (1 P) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4282 Peter (2 P) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4361 John (1 Jn). . . . . . . . . . . . . .441

2 John (2 Jn). . . . . . . . . . . . . .4523 John (3 Jn). . . . . . . . . . . . . .454Jude (Jude) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .455Book of Revelation (Rv) . . . . .458

Matthew (Mt) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Mark (Mk) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61

Luke (Lk) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99John (Jn). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160

Acts of the Apostles (Ac) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214


JOHN

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO

JOHNIntroduction

John and the Synoptic GospelsThe fourth gos pel is a chal lenge to the reader. It is very dif fer ent from the other,syn op tic, gos pels. The out line pat tern is dif fer ent: the syn op tics show Jesus mak -ing a sin gle, week-long visit to Jeru sa lem at the end of his min is try, but Johnshows him mak ing four sep a rate vis its to Jeru sa lem. In the syn op tics Jesus’ oppo -nents are described as Sad du cees, Phar i sees and scribes; in John Sad du cees andscribes are not men tioned, and the oppo nents are described over whelm ingly as‘the Jews’. The syn op tic gos pels are built from short, inde pend ent inci dents, say -ings and par a bles; John con tains no par a bles, and many fewer inci dents. Butthese much lon ger inci dents, described in detail, with extended dia logue, oftendevelop into reflec tive and med i ta tive dis courses by Jesus or the evan ge list. Most sig nif i cant of all, in the syn op tics Jesus is bent on estab lish ing the Sov er eignty or King dom of God, while in John the King dom of God is men tioned only once,and Jesus prin ci pally reveals him self and his rela tion ship to the Father. Par a dox i -cally, the por trait of Jesus is at once the most human and the most tran scen dentof the gos pel por traits, so that Augus tine wrote, ‘John, as though scorn ing totread upon earth, rose by his very first words not only above the earth, above theatmo sphere, above the heav ens, but even above the whole army of angels and all the array of invis i ble pow ers’.

John and HistoryIn a pre vi ous age schol ars con sid ered that John was the least reli able his tor i cally.More recently it has become appar ent that many of the his tor i cal details in Johnare supe rior to those of the syn op tics. Where John and the syn op tics both have asay ing, the form given in John is often more prim i tive, e.g. John 20.23 com pared with Mat thew 18.18. The author’s famil iar ity with the city of Jeru sa lem and thesur round ing coun try is con sid er ably more detailed. Espe cially in the lon ger dis -courses, how ever, Jesus often speaks in a style which is quite unlike that of thepithy say ings reported by the syn op tics, and mark edly similar to John’s ownmeditative style.

The Composition of the GospelThe struc ture of the gos pel is also a puz zle: sev eral sec tions of the gos pel seemdetach able or mis placed. The poetic and theo log i cal pro logue (1.1-18) is of aquite dif fer ent stamp to the rest of the gos pel. The final chap ter seems to be anaddi tional epi logue, mak ing a new start after the con clud ing verses, 20.20-21,reit er ated in 21.25. Chap ter 6 on the Bread of Life may have been inserted toillus trate the state ment about Moses in 5.45. The Rais ing of Laz a rus (chap ter 11)seems to have been added after the con clu sion to Jesus’ pub lic min is try in 10.40-42. There seem to be three ver sions of the Dis course after the Last Sup per, whichpar tially over lap (chap ters 14, 15-16 and 17). Nev er the less, there are traits ofstyle run ning through out the gos pel which show that the final ver sion is the

I. PROLOGUE

a

1 In the beginning was the Word: b

the Word was with Godand the Word was God.

2 He was with God in the beginning.3 Through him all things came to be,

not one thing had its being but through him.4 All that came to be had life in him

and that life was the light of men,5 a light that shines in the dark,

a light that darkness could not overpower. c

6 A man came, sent by God.His name was John.

7 He came as a witness,as a witness to speak for the light,so that everyone might believe through him.

8 He was not the light,only a witness to speak for the light.

9 The Word was the true lightthat enlightens all men;and he was coming into the world.

10 He was in the worldthat had its being through him,and the world

d did not know him.11 He came to his own domain

and his own people did not accept him. e

12 But to all who did accept himhe gave power to become children of God,to all who believe in the name of him

13 who was born f not out of human stock

or urge of the fleshor will of manbut of God himself.

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1 a. The pro logue intro duces the cen tralideas of the gos pel: light, life, accep tance/rejec tion, the divine glory of the Word. It iscon structed con cen tri cally: on God, v. 1 –John’s wit ness, v. 6 – light, v. 9 – rejec tion, v.10 – chil dren of God, v. 12 – accep tance, v. 13 –glory, v. 14 – John’s wit ness, v. 15 – in God,v. 18. The whole gos pel is a drama of accep -tance or rejec tion of Jesus, cf. 1.11e.

b. Start ing his gos pel ‘In the begin ning’, Jnalludes to the cre ation, Gn 1.1. God cre ated byhis Word, and by his Wis dom, which existedin God before the cre ation, one with God butsome how not iden ti cal, Pr 8.22-31; Ws 7.25-26. Sim i larly, God’s Word accom plishes thedivine pur pose and returns to God, Is 55.10-11. In con tem po rary Jew ish writ ing (Philo),God’s Word gives order, sense and pur pose tocre ation, just as the divine Wis dom does; Si42.15c. Jn uses Word, logos, rather than Wis -dom, sophia (the two are equated in Ws 9.1),

pos si bly because it is mas cu line. c. Lit. ‘grasp’. With typ i cal Johannine ambi -

gu ity, this could mean either ‘un der stand’ or‘over power’.

d. ‘The world’ is often (but not always) used by Jn in a pejo ra tive sense of the oppo si tion toGod and to Jesus, 7.7; 12.31; 14.17; 15.18-19;16.8; 17.14.

e. The theme of accep tance and rejec tionruns through out Jn. The gos pel is a great trial-scene, in which Jesus is accepted or rejected,and peo ple are accepted or rejected by theirreac tion to Jesus, cli max ing in 18.28-19.16.Legal terms abound: ‘wit ness’, ‘truth’, ‘judge’,‘con demn’, cf. 3.11c.

f. If this MS read ing is cor rect it refers toJesus’ divine ori gin. How ever, there are strongargu ments in favour of the alter na tive MSread ing, ‘who were born’, refer ring to thedivine ori gin of the chil dren of God, v. 12.

THEPSALMS


PSALM

THE PSALMSIntroduction

Note on the num ber ing of the psalms: the psalms were all orig i nally writ ten inHebrew and were trans lated cen tu ries later into Greek. For that trans la tion theHebrew psalms 9 and 10 and the Hebrew psalms 114 and 115 were each joinedinto one, but con versely the Hebrew psalms 116 and 147 were divided into two.This means that from 10 to 148 the num ber ing of the Hebrew is one higher thanthat of the Greek. On the whole Roman Cath o lic writ ing and lit urgy (fol low ingthe Latin Vul gate) pre serves the Greek num ber ing, while Protestant writ ing andlit urgy revert to the orig i nal Hebrew num ber ing. Here the Greek numbering isused.

The prayerbook of IsraelThe psal ter is the prayerbook of Israel, the trea sury of Israel’s hopes and fears,suc cesses and fail ures, loves and hates. The 150 psalms of the Hebrew Bible areonly a part of the rich har vest of sacred songs con tained in the Bible. Other suchcan ti cles can be found else where in the OT (e.g. the Song of Hannah in 1 Sam uel2) in the New Tes ta ment (the Benedictus and the Mag ni fi cat, the can ti cles of Mary and Zech a riah from Luke 1, which form part of Morn ing and Eve ning Prayerrespec tively), and in the hymn col lec tion of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Author ship ofthese psalms is attrib uted to King David, not least because he soothed King Saulby his play ing of the harp, but also because he was revered as the founder of theTem ple lit urgy. Many of the psalms were sub se quently imag i na tively pref acedby a title which attached the psalm to par tic u lar events in David’s life. In facttheir com po si tion can not be lim ited to David and spans a thou sand years. Someare based on ancient Canaanite hymns, still retain ing traces of the pre-Isra el itereli gion of Canaan, hymns to the god of storm, thun der and light ning (Ps 28).Oth ers reflect the tri umphs and glory of the mon ar chy in Jeru sa lem (Ps 43, 109).Still oth ers sing of the sad ness of exile in Bab y lon, when the nation was car riedoff to cap tiv ity and ser vi tude, leav ing in ruins Jeru sa lem and its Tem ple (Ps 136).It was dur ing this period of exile that obser vance of the Law became the dom i -nant fea ture of Juda ism, so that psalms of this period are char ac ter ised by love ofthe Law (Ps 1 and 118) and by the repen tance for sin which was so dom i nant inthe spir i tu al ity of the Exile (Ps 50). Still other psalms, espe cially the Psalms ofAscent (Ps 119–133) may sing of the joy of return ing to Jeru sa lem on pil grim agefor the great fes ti vals. There are psalms of national vic tory and psalms ofnational defeat, psalms of indi vid ual achieve ment and psalms of indi vid ualfailure, psalms which hymn the work of God in nature and psalms which cel e -brate the work of God in the his tory of Israel. Some psalms beg for release fromtrial, oth ers thank God for deliv er ance. It can be quite use ful when pray ing apsalm to reflect for a moment on the prin ci pal con text and likely orig i nal pur -pose of the psalm.

Psalms and the LiturgySing ing, danc ing and instru men tal music were impor tant ele ments in the Tem -ple lit urgy. Sac ri fice, pro ces sions and other litur gi cal activ i ties are fre quentlymen tioned in the psalms, which sug gests that they were used for such

The Psalms

a

PSALM 1b

The two paths1 Happy

c indeed is the manwho follows not the counsel of the wicked;nor lingers in the way of sinnersnor sits in the company of scorners,

2 but whose delight d is the law of the Lord

and who ponders his law day and night.3 He is like a tree that is planted

beside the flowing waters,that yields its fruit in due seasonand whose leaves shall never fade;and all that he does shall prosper.

4 Not so are the wicked, not so!

For they like winnowed chaffshall be driven away by the wind.

5 When the wicked are judged they shall not stand,nor find room among those who are just;

6 for the Lord guards e the way of the just

but the way of the wicked leads to doom.

PSALM 2

a

The messianic drama1 Why this tumult among nations,

among peoples this useless murmuring?2 They arise, the kings of the earth,

princes plot against the Lord and his Anointed.3 “Come, let us break their fetters,

come, let us cast off their yoke."4 He who sits in the heavens laughs;

the Lord is laughing them to scorn.5 Then he will speak in his anger,

his rage will strike them with terror.

896 PSALM 1

1 a. The text here used is that of the Grail Psal -ter.

b. This Wis dom psalm, placed as a pref aceto the psal ter, sums up the bless ing of delightin the Law of the LORD. It uses con cen tric bal -ance: descrip tion – image (tree) – image(chaff) – descrip tion.

c. Not nec es sar ily merry, but blessed byGod. Such ‘be at i tudes’ are fre quent in theBible: Ps 118.1-2; Si 14.1; 25.8-9; Mt 5.3-11par; 13.16 par; 16.17; Lk 11.27-28; Rv 1.3.

d. The faith ful who mur murs the Law half-aloud until it becomes part of the whole being.

e. Lit. ‘knows’, a word often denot ing emo -tional or even sex ual, Gn 4.1, 17, close ness aswell as pro tec tion, cf. Jn 10.14.2 a. Closely related to Ps 109, this Ps isregarded as mes si anic in the NT. It is a cor o na -tion chant, mock ing the upris ings which oftenoccurred at the acces sion of a new mon arch,and coun ter ing them with the Egyp tian idea ofa divine adop tion of the king at his acces sion.vv. 1-3, rebel lions; vv. 4-5, the LORD’s mock -ery; vv. 6-9 adop tion by the LORD; vv. 10-12b,reply to the rebel lious.

�Ac 4.25-26

�Rv 19.19

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Table of the 3 prescribed readings for Sunday Mass throughout the year (3 year cycle: A, B & C)* These readings are the same for every year

Day Yr 1st Reading 2nd Reading GospelAdvent

Wk 1ABC

Is 2.1-5Is 63.16-17,64.1,3-8Jr 33.14-16

Rm 13.11-141 Co 1.3-91 Th 3.12-4.2

Mt 24.37-44Mk 13.33-37Lk 21.25-28,34-36

Wk 2ABC

Is 11.1-10Is 40.1-5,9-11Ba 5.1-9

Rm 15.4-92 P 3.8-14Ph 1.4-6,8-11

Mt 3.1-12Mk 1.1-8Lk 3.1-6

Wk 3ABC

Is 35.1-6,10Is 61.1-2,10-11Zp 3.14-18

Jm 5.7-101 Th 5.16-24Ph 4.4-7

Mt 11.2-11Jn 1.6-8,19-28Lk 3.10-18

Wk 4ABC

Is 7.10-142 S 7.1-5,8-16,Mi 5.1-4

Rm 1.1-7Rm 16.25-27Heb 10.5-10

Mt 1.18-24Lk 1.26-38Lk 1.39-45

ChristmastideChristmas Vigil * Is 62.1-5 Ac 13.16-17,22-25 Mt 1.1-25

Christmas M’night * Is 9.1-6 Tt 2.11-14 Lk 2.1-14

Christmas Dawn * Is 62.11-12 Tt 3.4-7 Lk 2.15-20

Christmas Day * Is 52.7-10 Heb 1.1-6 Jn 1.1-18

Holy Family

ABC

Si 3.2-6,12-14Gn 15.1-6;21.1-31 S 1.20-22,24-28

Col 3.12-21Heb 11.11-12,17-191 Jn 3.1-2,21-24

Mt 2.13-15,19-23Lk 2.22-40Lk 2.41-52

Mother of God * Nb 6.22-27 Ga 4.4-7 Lk 2.16-21

2nd Sun Christmas * Si 24.1-4,12-16 Ep 1.3-6,15-18 Jn 1.1-18

Epiphany * Is 60.1-6 Ep 3.2-3,5-6 Mt 2.1-12Baptismof Our Lord

ABC

Is 42.1-4, 6-7Is 55.1-11Is 40.1-5, 9-11

Ac 10.34-381 Jn 5.1-9Tt 2.11-14;3.4-7

Mt 3.13-17Mk 1.7-11Lk 3.15-16,21-22

Lent

Wk 1ABC

Gn 2.7-9;3.1-7Gn 9.8-15Dt 26.4-10

Rm 5.12-191 P 3.18-22Rm 10.8-13

Mt 4.1-11Mk 1.12-15Lk 4.1-13

Wk 2ABC

Gn 12.1-4Gn 22.1-2,9-13,15-18Gn 15.5-12,17-18

2 Tm 1.8-10Rm 8.31-34Ph 3.17-4.1

Mt 17.1-9Mk 9.2-10Lk 9.28-36

Wk 3ABC

Ex 17.3-7Ex 20.1-17Ex 3.1-8,13-15

Rm 5.1-2, 5-81 Co 1.22-251 Co 10.1-6,10-12

Jn 4.5-42Jn 2.13-25Lk 13.1-9

B. Scripture Readings for Sunday Mass


655

Day 1st Reading GospelWk 4 Mi 7.7-9 Jn 9.1-41

Mon Is 65.17-21 Jn 4.43-54Tues Ezk 47.1-9,12 Jn 5.1-16Wed Is 49.8-13 Jn 5.17-30Thur Ex 32.7-14 Jn 5.31-47Fri Ws 2.1,12-22 Jn 7.1-2,10,25-30Sat Jr 11.18-20 Jn 7.40-54

Wk 5 2 K 4.18-21,32-37 Jn 11.1-45

Mon Dn 13.1-9,15-17,19-30,33-62 Jn 8.1-11 (Jn 8.12-20)Tues Nb 21.4-9 Jn 8.21-30Wed Dn 3.14-20,91-92,95 Jn 8.31-42Thur Gn 17.3-9 Jn 8.51-59Fri Jr 20.10-13 Jn 10.31-42Sat Ezk 37.21-28 Jn 11.45-56

Holy WeekMon Is 42.1-7 Jn 12.1-11Tues Is 49.1-6 Jn 13.21-33,36-38Wed Is 50.4-9 Mt 26.14-25

Day 1st Reading 2nd Reading GospelThur, Chrism Mass Is 61.1-3,6,8-9 Rv 1.5-8 Lk 4.16-21

Easter Season WeekdaysDay 1st Reading Gospel

Wk 1Mon Ac 2.14,22-33 Mt 28.8-15Tues Ac 2.36-41 Jn 20.11-18Wed Ac 3.1-10 Lk 24.13-35Thur Ac 3.11-26 Lk 24.35-48Fri Ac 4.1-12 Jn 21.1-14Sat Ac 4.13-21 Mk 16.9-15Wk 2Mon Ac 4.23-31 Jn 3.1-8Tues Ac 4.32-37 Jn 3.7-15Wed Ac 5.17-26 Jn 3.16-21Thur Ac 5.27-33 Jn 3.31-36Fri Ac 5.34-42 Jn 6.1-15Sat Ac 6.1-7 Jn 6.16-21Wk 3Mon Ac 6.8-15 Jn 6.22-29Tues Ac 7.51-8.1 Jn 6.30-35Wed Ac 8.1-8 Jn 6.35-40Thur Ac 8.26-40 Jn 6.44-51Fri Ac 9.1-20 Jn 6.52-59Sat Ac 9.31-42 Jn 6.60-69

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