This week's Gospel: 3rd Sunday of Advent

The actual Latin source is Codex Sangallensis 56,
but this is believed to be an ultra-faithful copy of Victor's Codex Fuldensis Gospel.

This week’s Gospel as in the Codex Fuldensis Gospel: 3rd Sunday of Advent
Using data publicly available from:
http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Calendar/2008/Dec08.shtml
and The Sunday Missal to cross-check.
This Week's Gospel: John 1: 6 - 8, 19 - 28
(14th-Dec-2008) 3rd Sunday of Advent, Year B

There stands among you, unknown to you, the one who is coming after me.
The reading specified has already been given in the reading for last week. Thus the reading is as was, but the specified parts will be enboldened, and the acclamation will be underlined.

XIII. Ubi Iohannes Baptista apparuit in Israhel.
(Where John the Baptist appeared in Israel.)

13: 1
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of Iturea and the country of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilina: Under the high priests Anna and Caiphas: the word of God was made unto John, the son of Zachary, in the desert.
2
And he came into all the country about the Jordan, preaching the baptism of penance for the remission of sins. Saying:
Do penance: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
3
For this is he that was spoken of by Isaias the prophet, saying:
A voice of one crying in the desert,
Prepare ye the way of the Lord,
make straight his paths.
Every valley shall be filled
and every mountain
and hill shall be brought low:
and the crooked
shall be made straight,
and the rough ways plain.
And all flesh shall see
the salvation of God.
4
This man came for a witness, to give testimony of the light, that all men might believe through him. He was not the light, but was to give testimony of the light. That was the true light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world.
5
He was in the world:
and the world was made by him:
and the world knew him not.
He came unto his own:
and his own received him not.
6
But as many as received him, he gave them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in his name. Who, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God, are born.
7
And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (and we saw his glory, the glory as it were of the only acknowledged of the Father), full of grace and truth.
8
John beareth witness of him and crieth out, saying:
This was he of whom I spoke to you: He that shall come after me is preferred before me: because he was before me.
9
And of his fulness we all have received: and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
10
No man hath seen God at any time: the only acknowledged Son who is in the Bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
11
And the same John had his garment of camels’ hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
12
Then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea, and all the country about Jordan: and were baptised by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
13
And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them:
Ye brood of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath that is to be?
14
Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of penance. And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our father. For I tell you that God can of these stones, raise up children to Abraham.
15
For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doth not yield good fruit, shall be cut down, and cast into the fire.
16
And the people asked him, saying:
What then shall we do?
And he answering, said to them:
He that hath two coats, let him give to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do in like manner.
17
And the publicans also came to be baptised and said to him:
Master, what shall we do?
Thereupon he said to them:
Do nothing more than which is appointed you.
18
And the soldiers also asked him, saying:
And what shall we do?
And he said to them:
Do violence to no man, neither calumniate any man; and be content with your pay.
19
And as the people were of opinion, and all were thinking in their hearts of John, that perhaps he might be the Christ: the Judeans sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites, to ask him:
Who art thou?
And he confessed and did not deny: and he confessed:
I am not the Christ.
20
And they asked him:
What then? Art thou Elias?
And he said: I am not.
Art thou the prophet?
And he answered: No.
21
They said therefore unto him:
Who art thou, that we may give an answer to them that sent us? What sayest thou of thyself?
He said:
I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaias.
And they that were sent were of the Pharisees.
22
And they asked him and said to him:
Why then dost thou baptise, if thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?
23
John answered them, saying:
I indeed baptise you in water unto penance, but he that shall come after me, is mightier than me, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: one in the midst of you, whom you know not, he shall baptise you with the Holy Ghost and fire.
24
Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor and gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.
25
And many other things exhorting did he preach to the people. These things were done in Bethania, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptising.


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