Especially in the Gospel of John, the three-year battle between Jesus and the Pharisees echoes
the whole reading from Wisdom. Jesus is the sore-beset just man.
Friday of the 4th Week in Lent 2026
When we hear the quotation from our first reading, we might shiver.
The Book of Wisdom, a deuterocanonical scripture from the first century before
Christ, has a number of lines that remind us of nobody but Jesus. “The wicked
said among themselves, thinking
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