February 18, 2020

1:12	Blessed is the man who suffers temptation. For when he has been proven, he shall receive the crown of life which God has promised to those who love him.
1:13	No one should say, when he is tempted, that he was tempted by God. For God does not entice toward evils, and he himself tempts no one.
1:14	Yet truly, each one is tempted by his own desires, having been enticed and drawn away.
1:15	Thereafter, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin. Yet truly sin, when it has been consummated, produces death.
1:16	And so, do not choose to go astray, my most beloved brothers.
1:17	Every excellent gift and every perfect gift is from above, descending from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor any shadow of alteration.
1:18	For by his own will he produced us through the Word of truth, so that we might be a kind of beginning among his creatures.

8:14	And they forgot to take bread. And they did not have any with them in the boat, except one loaf.
8:15	And he instructed them, saying: “Consider and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the leaven of Herod.”
8:16	And they discussed this with one another, saying, “For we have no bread.”
8:17	And Jesus, knowing this, said to them: “Why do you consider that it is because you have no bread? Do you not yet know or understand? Do you still have blindness in your heart?
8:18	Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? Do you not remember,
8:19	when I broke the five loves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments you took up?” They said to him, “Twelve.”
8:20	“And when the seven loaves were among the four thousand, how many baskets of fragments did you take up?” And they said to him, “Seven.”
8:21	And he said to them, “How is it that you do not yet understand?”