ডিসেম্বর 11, 2011, Third Sunday of Advent, গসপেল

জনের মতে পবিত্র গসপেল 1: 6-8, 19-28

1:6 ঈশ্বর প্রেরিত এক ব্যক্তি ছিলেন, যার নাম ছিল জন.
1:7 তিনি আলোর বিষয়ে সাক্ষ্য দিতে একজন সাক্ষী হিসেবে এসেছিলেন, যাতে সবাই তার মাধ্যমে বিশ্বাস করে.
1:8 তিনি আলো ছিলেন না, কিন্তু তিনি আলোর বিষয়ে সাক্ষ্য দিতেন৷.
1:19 And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to him, so that they might ask him, "তুমি কে?"
1:20 And he confessed it and did not deny it; and what he confessed was: “I am not the Christ.”
1:21 And they questioned him: “Then what are you? Are you Elijah?" এবং সে বলেছিল, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, "না।"
1:22 অতএব, they said to him: "তুমি কে, so that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?"
1:23 সে বলেছিল, “I am a voice crying out in the desert, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ just as the prophet Isaiah said.”
1:24 And some of those who had been sent were from among the Pharisees.
1:25 And they questioned him and said to him, “Then why do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, and not Elijah, and not the Prophet?"
1:26 John answered them by saying: “I baptize with water. But in your midst stands one, whom you do not know.
1:27 The same is he who is to come after me, who has been placed ahead of me, the laces of whose shoes I am not worthy to loosen.”
1:28 These things happened in Bethania, জর্ডান জুড়ে, where John was baptizing.