Reading I
2 Kgs 4:8-11, 14-16a
And there was a day when Eliseus passed by Sunam: now there was a great woman there, who detained him to eat bread: and as he passed often that way, he turned into her house to eat bread.
And she said to her husband: I perceive that this is a holy man of God, who often passeth by us.
Let us, therefore, make him a little chamber, and put a little bed in it for him, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick, that when he cometh to us he may abide there.
Now, there was a certain day, when he came, and turned into the chamber, and rested there.
And he said: What will she then that I do for her? And Giezi said: Do not ask, for she hath no son, and her husband is old.
Then he bid him call her. And when she was called, and stood before the door,
He said to her: At this time, and this same hour, if life be in company, thou shalt have a son in thy womb. But she answered: Do not, I beseech thee, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid.
