Season of Epiphany

Reading 3, Rom 9:30-33 : Righteousness through faith
30 | What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, righteousness through faith; |
31 | but that Israel who pursued the righteousness which is based on law did not succeed in fulfilling that law. |
32 | Why? Because they did not pursue it through faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, |
33 | as it is written, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone that will make men stumble, a rock that will make them fall; and he who believes in him will not be put to shame." |
Gospel, Jn 10: 31-39 : Son does the will of the Father
31 | The Jews took up stones again to stone him. |
32 | Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of these do you stone me?" |
33 | The Jews answered him, "It is not for a good work that we stone you but for blasphemy; because you, being a man, make yourself God." |
34 | Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, `I said, you are gods'? |
35 | If he called them gods to whom the word of God came (and scripture cannot be broken), |
36 | do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, `You are blaspheming,' because I said, `I am the Son of God'? |
37 | If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; |
38 | but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father." |
39 | Again they tried to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands. |