SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME — Year C
*Alternate* First Reading: 2 Kings 4:42-44
A reading from the second book of Kings.
A messenger came from Baal-shalishah, bringing Elisha bread from the first fruits – twenty barley loaves and ears of fresh grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” Elisha said. But the messenger replied, “How can I serve this to a hundred people?” “Give it to the people to eat,” Elisha insisted, “for Our God says this: ‘They will eat and have some left over.’ ” And so the people were served; they ate and had some left over, as Our God had said.
The Word of God recorded in the second book of Kings.