This week's Gospel: The Baptism of the Lord

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: The Baptism of the Lord
Using data publicly available from:
http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Calendar/2009/Jan09.shtml
and The Sunday Missal to cross-check.
This Week's Gospel: Mark 1: 7 - 11
(11th-Jan-2009) The Baptism of the Lord, Year B

You are my Son, the Beloved; my favour rests on you.
The reading comprises the ending of the following capitulum, paragraphs 13:22 – 25, and the beginning of the next, 14: 1 – 4. The reading, though witnessing generally the account in Mark, uses not a single word from Mark, but is richly woven from the other three gospels.

XIII. Ubi Iohannes Baptista apparuit in Israhel.
(Where John the Baptist appeared in Israel.)
XIIII. Ubi Ihesus baptizaretur ab Iohanne.
(Where Jesus is baptized by John.)

13: 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.

14: 1
Then cometh Jesus to Galilee, to the Jordan, unto John, to be baptised by him. And Jesus himself was beginning about the age of thirty years: being, as it was supposed, the son of Joseph.
2
But John stayed him, saying:
I ought to be baptised by thee, and comest thou to me?
And Jesus answering, said to him:
Suffer it to be so now. For so it becometh us to fulfil all justice.
Then he suffered him.
3
Now it came to pass, when all the people were baptised, that Jesus also being baptised and praying, forthwith came out of the water:
4
And lo, the heavens were opened to him: and he saw the Spirit of God descending in a bodily shape, as a dove, and coming upon him.
And behold a voice from heaven saying:
Thou art my beloved Son.
In thee I am well pleased.


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