PRI Reflections on Scripture | Saturday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time

Finding God In Our Hearts with Msgr. Don Fischer · Aug 1, 2026 · 7m

Original Post Date: August 3, 2024

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Gospel

Matthew 14:1-12

Herod the tetrarch heard of the reputation of Jesus

and said to his servants, "This man is John the Baptist.

He has been raised from the dead;

that is why mighty powers are at work in him."

Now Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison

on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip,

for John had said to him,

"It is not lawful for you to have her."

Although he wanted to kill him, he feared the people,

for they regarded him as a prophet.

But at a birthday celebration for Herod,

the daughter of Herodias…