16:1And the Lord said to Samuel. How It long will you mourn for Saul, whom I have rejected from reigning over Israel? fill your horn with oil, and come, that I may send you to Isai the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.

6And when they were come in, he saw Eliab, and said: Is the Lord's anointed before him?

7And the Lord said to Samuel: Look not on his face, nor on the height of his stature: because I have rejected him, nor do I judge according to the look of man: for man sees those things that appear, but the Lord beholdeth the heart.

10Isai therefore brought his seven sons before Samuel: and Samuel said to Isai: The Lord has not chosen any one of these.

11And Samuel said to Isai: Are here all your sons? He answered: There remaineth yet a young one, who keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said to Isai: Send, and fetch him, for we will not sit down till he come here.

12He sent therefore and brought him Now he was ruddy and beautiful to look, and of a comely face. And the Lord said: Arise, and anoint him, for this is he.

13Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brothers and sisters: and the spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward: and Samuel rose up, and went to Ramatha.

23:1A psalm for David. The Lord ruleth me: and I shall want nothing.

2He has set me in a place of pasture. He has brought me up, on the water of refreshment:

3he has converted my soul. He has led me on the paths of righteousness, for his own name's sake.

4For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they have comforted me.

5You have prepared a table before me against them that afflict me. You have anointed my head with oil; and my chalice which inebriateth me, how goodly is it!

6And your mercy will follow me all the days of my life. And that I may dwell in the house of the Lord to length of days.

5:8For you were heretofore darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk then as children of the light.

9For the fruit of the light is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth;

10Proving what is well pleasing to God:

11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

12For the things that are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of.

13But all things that are reproved, are made clear by the light; for all that is made clear is light.

14Therefore he says: Rise you that sleepest, and arise from the dead: and Christ shall enlighten you.

9:1And Jesus passing by, saw a man, who was blind from his birth:

2And his disciples asked him: Teacher, who has sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind?

3Jesus answered: Neither has this man sinned, nor his parents; but that the what God wants should be made clear in him.

4I must work the works of him that sent me, whilst it is day: the night comes, when no man can work.

5As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

6When he had said these things, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and spread the clay on his eyes,

7And said to him: Go, wash in the pool of Siloe, which is interpreted, Sent. He went therefore, and washed, and he came seeing.

8The neighbours therefore, and they who had seen him before that he was a beggar, said: Is not this he that sat and begged? Some said: This is he.

9But others said: No, but he is like him. But he said: I am he.

10They said therefore to him: How were your eyes opened?

11He answered: That man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me: Go to the pool of Siloe, and wash. And I went, I washed, and I see.

12And they said to him: Where is he? He says: I know not.

13They bring him that had been blind to the Pharisees.

14Now it was the sabbath, when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.

15Again therefore the Pharisees asked him, how he had received his sight. But he said to them: He put clay upon my eyes, and I washed, and I see.

16Some therefore of the Pharisees said: This man is not of God, who keepeth not the sabbath. But others said: How can a man that is a sinner do such signs? And there was a division among them.

17They say therefore to the blind man again: What sayest you of him that has opened they eyes? And he said: He is a prophet.

18The Jews then did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight,

19And asked them, saying: Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?

20His parents answered them, and said: We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:

21But how he now sees, we know not; or who has opened his eyes, we know not: ask himself: he is of age, let him speak for himself.

22These things his parents said, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had already agreed among themselves, that if any man should confess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

23Therefore did his parents say: He is of age, ask himself.

24They therefore called the man again that had been blind, and said to him: Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.

25He said therefore to them: If he be a sinner, I know not: one thing I know, that whereas I was blind, now I see.

26They said then to him: What did he to you? How did he open your eyes?

27He answered them: I have told you already, and you have heard: why would you hear it again? will you also become his disciples?

28They reviled him therefore, and said: Be you his disciple; but we are the disciples of Moses.

29We know that God spoke to Moses: but as to this man, we know not from whence he is.

30The man answered, and said to them: Why, herein is a wonderful thing, that you know not from whence he is, and he has opened my eyes.

31Now we know that God does not hear sinners: but if a man be a server of God, and does his will, him he hears.

32From the start of the world it has not been heard, that any man has opened the eyes of one born blind.

33Unless this man were of God, he could not do any thing.

34They answered, and said to him: You were wholly born in sins, and do you teach us? And they cast him out.

35Jesus heard that they had cast him out: and when he had found him, he said to him: Do you believe in the Son of God?

36He answered, and said: Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?

37And Jesus said to him: You have both seen him; and it is he that talketh with you.

38And he said: I believe, Lord. And falling down, he adored him.

39And Jesus said: For judgment I am come into this world; that they who see not, may see; and they who see, may become blind.

40And some of the Pharisees, who were with him, heard: and they said to him: Are we also blind?

41Jesus said to them: If you were blind, you should not have sin: but now you say: We see. Your sin remaineth.