DGEMs – Daily Gospel E-Messages

Roll of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham:  Abraham was the father of Isaac ....  David was the father of Solomon ....  Then the deportation to Babylon took place. Jacob was the father Joseph the husband of Mary; of her was born Jesus who is called Christ.  The sum of

Jesus had gone into the Temple and was teaching, when the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him and said, ‘What authority have you for acting like this? And who gave you this authority?’ In reply Jesus said to them, ‘And I will ask you a question, only one; if you

When all the people asked John, ‘What must we do, then?’ he answered, ‘If anyone has two tunics he must share with the one who has none, and the one with something to eat must do the same.’  There were tax collectors, too, who came for baptism, and these said to him, ‘Master, what must

As they came down from the mountain the disciples put this question to Jesus, ‘Why then do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?’  ‘True’ he replied, ‘Elijah is to come to see that everything is once more as it should be; however, I tell you that Elijah has come already and they

Jesus spoke to the crowds: ‘What comparison can I find for this generation? It is like children shouting to each other as they sit in the market place: We played the pipes for you, and you wouldn't dance; we sang dirges, and you wouldn't be mourners.  ‘For John came, neither eating nor drinking, and they

Jesus spoke to the crowds: ‘I tell you solemnly, of all the children born of women, a greater than John the Baptist has never been seen; yet the least in the kingdom of Heaven is greater than he is.  Since John the Baptist came, up to this present time, the kingdom of Heaven has been