In this episode, we'll explore:

• Why every day in the Easter Octave is celebrated as a solemnity and how that's like a Catholic "Groundhog Day" [00:00:47]
• The surprising connection between Sunday, the story of creation, and the octave of Easter, including how the eighth day symbolizes the new creation ushered in by Christ's resurrection [00:11:21]
• How Jesus’s resurrected body is profoundly different from Lazarus’s—able to pass through locked doors and free of burial cloths—revealing theology behind the glorified body [00:19:16]
• Why Jesus’s greeting of "peace be with you" is far more than a polite hello, and how He infuses the apostles with an efficacious peace that heals their spiritual failures [00:21:02]
• What Father Jacques Philippe teaches about reflecting God in our souls, and why picking yourself up quickly after a fall—not never failing—is the true mark of spiritual progress [00:26:30]
• The hidden significance of Jesus showing his wounds, with insights from St. Thomas Aquinas and the reason why crucifixes matter in our homes today [00:36:39]
• When and why, according to this passage, Jesus institutes the sacrament of confession—giving the apostles power to forgive sins and linking it all the way back to God breathing life into Adam [00:40:06]
• The fascinating debate about whether Jesus’s words to Thomas are a question or a statement, and what that means for our own faith and blessedness when trusting in His Divine Mercy [00:49:06]

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Tapping the Old and New Testaments to illuminate the mystery of the Triduum, this special Easter episode of Sunday Dive explores:

• The real meaning behind the lamb's sacrifice at Passover—how Exodus describes its slaughter and consumption, and how every one-year-old, unblemished lamb foreshadows Christ’s ultimate role as the true Passover Lamb [00:05:56]
• Why John's Gospel skips the institution of the Eucharist narrative and instead dives into the washing of the feet, and how this act is tied to priestly ordination through Old Testament prescriptions for the priests’ washing in Exodus [00:16:14]
• Why Jesus does not appear to finish the Passover meal with his disciples before heading to the garden, and the theory that the final cup of the Seder is actually drunk from the cross—linking "I thirst" and "It is finished" to the fulfillment of the feast and the inauguration of his kingdom [00:29:03]
• Concrete evidence for the illegal nature of Jesus’s trial according to Jewish law, including why court at night and without the full Sanhedrin constituted a sham, and why Pilate’s involvement was mandatory under Roman rule [00:34:13]
• Staggering details about how first-century Passover lambs were cruciform when prepared for roasting in the Temple—so much so that their sacrifice was referred to as "the crucifixion of the lambs"—and how this sheds new light on the imagery of Christ on the cross [00:40:17]
• The breathtaking Old Testament parallel that as Adam’s side is opened in sleep to bring forth Eve, the new Adam’s side is pierced so that blood and water birth the Church—culminating with the risen Christ naming Mary Magdalene in the garden and revealing her as a sign of our own destiny as the Bride of Christ [00:44:01]

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Delving into the triumphal entry and Palm Sunday, our episode draws out fascinating connections including:

• Why the Church reads both the triumphal entry and the Passion on Palm Sunday, and the logic behind sometimes pausing Lenten fasting for a solemnity like the Annunciation [00:01:08]
• How Jesus’s entrance into Jerusalem on a donkey mirrors Solomon’s royal procession and the secretive preservation of the Davidic bloodline after the exile [00:10:56]
• The prophetic importance of the Mount of Olives in Zechariah and how Jesus’s route signaled the beginning of a cosmic battle for the people who witnessed it [00:19:28]
• Surprising Old Testament echoes, such as David fleeing Jerusalem in sorrow via the Mount of Olives, only for the ultimate Son of David to return by the same road in victory [00:28:49]
• What we know about the donkey and colt, including why both were present, what they symbolized, and how kings requisitioned royal transport in Biblical times [00:37:13]
• The extraordinary power of palm branches and garment-spreading, linking the Maccabees’ revolt and temple cleansing to Jesus’s actions—plus subtle nods to Melchizedek, Jehu, and the tribe of Judah [00:43:07]
• The crowd’s shout of "Hosanna!", its meaning in Hebrew, and why it is the perfect phrase for both ancient Israel and our own spiritual battles [00:50:58].

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Diving deep into the raising of Lazarus, we'll spend our episode looking closer at:

• How the seven signs in John's Gospel, especially the raising of Lazarus, echo and invert the plagues of Moses, shifting from death-dealing miracles to life-giving wonders [14:45]
• The archaeological discovery of a family tomb near Bethany with inscriptions for Martha, Mary, and Lazarus, and what this tantalizing detail could mean for Gospel history [21:08]
• The theory from biblical scholars that Lazarus may have already been dead when Jesus received word of his illness, and how ancient Jewish beliefs about the soul clarify the timing of the miracle [29:34]
• How first-century Jewish funeral and mourning customs shaped the actions of Martha and Mary, and why Jesus waited outside Bethany instead of visiting their home [35:00]
• The remarkable parallels between Jesus' public and private miracles—contrasting the discreet wedding at Cana with the public raising of Lazarus—and how both hinge on his "hour" and divine timing [43:02]
• The distinction between Lazarus’ resuscitation and Jesus’ resurrection, including why burial clothes tell us the difference and how these events promise Christians a new mode of existence [46:17]

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Diving deep into the story of the man born blind, we'll spend our episode looking closer at:

• The remarkable connection between Jesus’ miracle of restoring sight and the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles, including its dramatic rituals of water and light in the Jerusalem Temple [10:04]
• How Jesus’ method of healing echoes the creation account, as he mixes clay from spit and dust just like God forming Adam, and the significance of this act for sacramental theology [24:31]
• The subtle sacramental parallels in John’s Gospel, especially linking this miracle to baptism, and how the pouring of water in baptism is argued to be the primary purpose for water’s creation [34:09]
• The historical and archaeological details surrounding the Pool of Siloam—its massive size, steep steps, and its meaning as “sent” in Greek, tying directly to the baptismal vocation of every Christian [37:16]
• A surprising detail about the blind man’s age—potentially as young as thirteen—and its impact on the story’s depth and his bold defense of Jesus before skeptical Pharisees [44:37]
• The powerful spiritual lesson unpacked from Jesus’ answer to suffering and the theme that “seeing is for believing,” challenging us to recognize God’s faithfulness in the midst of suffering [46:17]

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Diving deep into our Gospel, we'll spend our episode looking closer at:

• Why John spotlights the detail that Jesus meets the Samaritan woman specifically at noon, a clue that reveals deep social dynamics and sets up the story’s dramatic stakes [00:01:16]
• The Old Testament tradition of men meeting their wives at wells and how these nuptial encounters foreshadow Jesus’ interaction with the woman at the well [00:02:31]
• How the term “living water” had a specific meaning in Jewish ritual and connects directly to practices like the mikveh and the Christian sacrament of baptism [00:32:27]
• The shocking historical background of Samaritans, including the exile by Assyria, the intermarriage with five different pagan peoples, and how that fact is mirrored in the woman’s five husbands [00:39:08]
• The cultural reality that ancient Jewish women, not men, drew water—and how Jesus breaks social conventions by addressing the woman one-on-one at the well [00:13:03]
• What nuptial covenants in Scripture reveal about God’s desire to be united to his people, including surprising meanings behind phrases like “your husband is your maker” [00:23:17]
• How the Samaritan woman’s story doesn’t just highlight her personal brokenness but parallels the spiritual history and struggles of her entire people [00:41:14]
• Why, despite the text saying Jesus “had to” pass through Samaria, geography and culture suggest he didn’t—he actually chose to, just to meet her [00:40:04]
• And a fresh look at why the woman had been divorced so many times, challenging traditional assumptions and suggesting she endured repeated rejection rather than initiating it [00:45:24]

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Diving deep into our Gospel we'll spend our episode looking closer at:

• How Mount Tabor's location and the unforgettable journey to its summit help unlock the experience of the Transfiguration (01:04)
• The subtle "after six days" cue Matthew uses to link the Transfiguration with Peter’s powerful declaration at Caesarea Philippi and the origins of papal authority (08:30)
• The striking parallels between Jesus' Transfiguration on Mount Tabor and Moses' ascent of Mount Sinai with Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu—right down to the bright cloud and the glowing faces (15:21)
• How Moses and Elijah’s presence with Jesus signals both the fulfillment of Law and Prophets and a hidden nod to the hope of resurrection according to ancient Jewish tradition and extra-biblical texts (27:35)
• The deliberate link between the Transfiguration and the crucifixion, showing how Jesus reveals his true identity in both glory and in humility (35:34)
• The connections between Peter’s proposal to build three tents and the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles, including the surprising significance of the Greek word "skēnē" and how feasts shaped Israelite identity (40:04)

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Diving deep into the First Sunday of Lent, this episode of Sunday Dive unpacks:

• The surprising threefold description of the tree of knowledge in Genesis and its direct tie to Jesus’ temptations, “lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, pride of life”—a theme that threads through Adam and Eve, Israel, Solomon, and us in Lent [00:05:03]
• The Old Testament echoes behind “40 days and 40 nights,” linking Jesus to Moses, Elijah, and even Abraham as figures who each undertook a transformative trial to draw nearer to God [00:17:15]
• Why Jesus’ refusal to turn stones into bread is more than just self-denial—it’s a rebuttal of overconsumption, a mirror of Adam and Eve’s failure, and a Christological key to understanding the Eucharist [00:28:13]
• Exactly what made the parapet of the Jerusalem Temple so spectacular for Satan’s second temptation, with details about possible locations and dramatic implications for public spectacle and the human need to prove oneself [00:34:03]
• The hidden battle behind Satan’s offer of all the world’s kingdoms, why it’s a true temptation for Jesus, and how it connects to Peter’s rebuke and Christ’s mission to conquer by the cross, not shortcuts [00:40:02]
• The direct parallels between the three failures of Israel in the desert—hunger, thirst, and the golden calf—and Jesus’ triumph through quoting Deuteronomy, as well as Solomon’s inability to keep the “threefold law” versus Christ’s perfect obedience [00:42:33]
• And how our Lenten practices of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving map directly onto these temptations, pointing to how we too can let Christ reproduce his victorious life in us this Lent [00:46:01]

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Diving deep into our Gospel we'll spend our episode looking closer at:

• The jaw-dropping significance of Jesus using an emphatic "I" in Greek, altering the tone and asserting divine authority as he gives the new law [26:23]
• The miraculous story of the thornless roses in Assisi, grown after St. Francis rolled in the bushes to combat lust, showing how saints took the Sermon on the Mount to heart [33:23]
• The shocking reality behind why Moses permitted divorce in ancient Israel—and how it originally served to prevent murder [34:43]
• A behind-the-scenes look at "equivalent retribution," the notorious "eye for an eye" concept, and how Jesus subverts it to command radical generosity and non-retaliation [39:03]
• Evidence from rabbinic literature on cheek-slapping, revealing that being backhanded on the right cheek was uniquely shameful—and why Jesus's command upends all expectations [41:49]
• The surprising Jewish distinctions between a tunic and a cloak, and why lending or losing either held profound legal and survival implications [43:44]
• How Roman law allowed soldiers to conscript civilians for forced labor—and the real-life humiliation Jews endured, transforming Jesus's call to "go the extra mile" into a radical act of discipleship [45:21]
• And finally, Rabbi Jacob Neusner's provocative conclusion after reading Jesus's words—why he, as a Jew, would not have followed the new law, highlighting just how revolutionary Jesus's teaching was [48:58]

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Diving deep into our Gospel we'll spend our episode looking closer at:

• How Matthew’s Gospel sets up a striking parallel between Jesus and Moses, with both seen as liberators passing through water and ascending a mountain to bring a new law, and how the phrase “going up the mountain” appears 24 times in the Greek Old Testament, usually about Moses [07:29]
• How the practice of sitting to teach, which Jesus adopts at the Sermon on the Mount, signaled authority in first-century Judaism and is still echoed today when the Pope sits to declare a saint [12:32]
• The hidden structure of the Beatitudes, with the first and second sets containing exactly 36 words each in Greek, and how this division underlines a profound spiritual symmetry [15:10]
• Why the Greek word “makarios,” used for “blessed” in the Beatitudes, actually refers to the blissful state of the gods—free from toil and suffering—and then is astonishingly used by Jesus to describe those enduring hardship and persecution [17:08]
• That salt in the Old Testament was so precious Roman soldiers were sometimes paid with it, how it symbolized loyalty, purity, and covenant, and what it means when Jesus says, “if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned?”—an actually absurd rhetorical question [40:01]
• The ancient Christian letter to Diognetus and its vivid claim that what the soul is to the body, the Christian is to the world, showing just how essential your everyday witness truly is [45:16]

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Diving deep into our Gospel we'll spend our episode looking closer at:

• The humble poverty of the Holy Family revealed in their choice of sacrifice—offering a pair of turtle doves or pigeons, the option specifically allowed for the poor under Jewish law [12:15]
• The surprising revelation that Jesus’ circumcision didn’t have to happen at the temple, and why his presentation marks his first visit there with major prophetic implications for Israel’s hopes [13:00]
• The rich Old Testament roots of the presentation ceremony, including the Exodus command that every firstborn be dedicated to God and the powerfully symbolic act of “buying back” the child from the Lord for five shekels [14:38]
• How Simeon’s prophecy over the infant Jesus closely echoes Isaiah 49:6, declaring Christ as “a light for revelation to the Gentiles,” and why that promise far exceeds ancient Israelite expectations of deliverance [19:00]
• The detail that Anna is from the lost northern tribe of Asher, and the subtle math and parallels that connect her to Judith, the Old Testament’s warrior widow, powerfully linking women and restoration in salvation history [26:08]
• The dramatic fulfillment of Malachi’s prophecy—“the Lord whom you seek will come suddenly to his temple”—as God returns not in a cloud, but in the flesh of the Christ child, initiating a new era of priesthood and sacrifice [35:01]
• The explicit connection between Jesus and Samuel, with echoes of “the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom,” suggesting Jesus may have been dedicated to God just as Samuel was [41:36]
• And finally, the fascinating hidden chronology in Luke’s Gospel that aligns perfectly with Gabriel’s “seventy weeks” prophecy in Daniel, showing that Jesus’ presentation fulfills centuries-old expectations for covenant restoration and redemption [44:05]

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Diving deep into our Gospel we'll spend our episode looking closer at:

• How the ancient Assyrian exile of the northern tribes and the mysterious “lost ten tribes of Israel” shadows Matthew’s prophecy fulfillment [00:22:01]
• Why Jesus’ relocation from Nazareth to the bustling trade hub of Capernaum was a brilliant strategic move for spreading his message, and how archaeological finds about fishing piers support the Gospel narrative [00:29:00]
• The fascinating connection between the “kingdom of heaven” in Matthew and Daniel’s four-kingdom prophecy, with the Romans as the final oppressor before the Messiah’s arrival [00:34:06]
• What fishing on the Sea of Galilee actually looked like, from cast nets to trammel nets, and how Peter, Andrew, James, and John’s careers put them solidly in the middle class (not peasant fishermen!) [00:36:41]
• The profound Old Testament roots of “fishers of men”—from Jeremiah and Amos prophesying fishers to undo exile, to the echo of Gideon’s vigilant soldiers lapping water in Judges as a type of apostolic readiness [00:42:08]

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Diving deep into our Gospel we'll spend our episode looking closer at:

• The unique way John's Gospel identifies Jesus as the "Lamb of God," and how rabbinic tradition puts Isaac near 33 years old and carrying the wood for his own sacrifice [00:12:03]
• The game-changing significance that God binds Himself by oath in Genesis 22, using a "grant-type covenant" where the obligation is on God—and how this shifts the whole logic of salvation history in the lead-up to Christ [00:19:08]
• How the Passover is described as a remembrance, a technical term indicating that the original act’s power is made present at every Jewish Passover—and how this reality is taken up and fulfilled when Jesus commands: “Do this in remembrance of me” in the Eucharist [00:29:07]
• The detail that the place of the near-sacrifice of Isaac—Mount Moriah—later becomes the site of the Jerusalem Temple and just yards from where Jesus is crucified, fulfilling Old Testament prophecy in the most concrete geographic way [00:35:22]
• Cutting-edge scholarship arguing that Jesus may have celebrated Passover with the Essenes, a sect that kept Passover without a lamb because they rejected the Temple sacrifices, raising the mind-blowing idea that Jesus Himself is the missing Lamb at the Last Supper [00:44:49]
• Why the lambs sacrificed at Passover in the Jerusalem Temple were roasted on a double-spitted cross, often called the "crucifixion of the lamb," and how this detail parallels Jesus' death on the cross, especially as the Passover lambs are being prepared at exactly the hour Jesus carries his cross to Golgotha [00:46:50]
• The interpretive tradition that the ram sacrificed instead of Isaac wore a “crown of thorns,” prefiguring Jesus crowned in thorns before his death [00:48:06]

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Exploring the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, our episode uncovers:

• The surprising links between Jesus’s baptism in Matthew 3:13–17 and the creation, flood, and new creation narratives of Genesis—including how the Spirit descending like a dove echoes the Spirit and the wind (ruah) over the waters [10:07]
• What ancient sources like Justin Martyr claim about a mysterious fire burning at the Jordan during Christ’s baptism, and the ways theologians see this paralleling the Exodus pillar of fire and the Shekinah glory cloud [22:04]
• Why the only person ever called “beloved son” in the Old Testament is Isaac, making Jesus’s baptism a bold echo of the near-sacrifice on Mount Moriah—with all the rabbinic details about wood, fire, and the crown of thorns richly invoked [26:07]
• How Solomon’s coronation at the waters of Gihon and the roles of Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet provide direct parallels to Jesus’s anointing as king in the Jordan, with John the Baptist acting as both priest and prophet [33:04]
• How Thomas Aquinas answers the puzzling question of why Jesus, sinless, submits to baptism by listing four reasons: approval of John’s baptism, consecration of all water, taking on the condition of sinners, and modeling radical humility through perfect obedience—even to those inferior [39:01]

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Diving deep into our Gospel we'll spend our episode looking closer at:

• The surprising debate among scholars over whether the Magi were Persian astrologers or noblemen from Arabia, and the scriptural and geographic clues that suggest they might have brought gifts native only to southern Arabia [00:07:04]
• How Old Testament prophecies from Isaiah and the story of the Queen of Sheba shape our understanding of the Magi's identity and the meaning of their gifts [00:09:40]
• The fascinating origins of calling the Magi "kings," including the Old Testament Psalm that connects this title to their journey and the tradition that gives us three Magi even though the Gospel never numbers them [00:15:54]
• The quest to identify the Star of Bethlehem, from Kepler’s supernova theory to possible comets and rare planetary conjunctions, and what ancient witnesses and NASA have to say about these awe-inspiring celestial events [00:22:21]
• The multilayered and surprising identity of King Herod—an Arab by birth, religiously Jewish by political force, culturally Greek, and a Roman puppet—and why his violent paranoia was so deeply triggered by the Magi and this mysterious new king [00:37:11]
• The stunning link between the Magi’s words to Herod and an ancient prophecy in Numbers, where a pagan prophet spoke of a star and the downfall of Edom—Herod’s own lineage—setting the stage for political and spiritual upheaval [00:45:07]
• The beautiful way the episode ties the Epiphany Gospel to the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, revealing how ancient royal customs and succession narratives enrich the scene of the Magi finding Jesus with Mary [00:32:10]
• And the compelling final challenge: if the Magi could journey across the desert to worship the Christ child, can we muster similar courage and openness to recognize and adore Jesus in the Eucharist today? [00:47:03]

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Diving deep into our Gospel we'll spend our episode looking closer at:

• How the phrase “the child and his mother” subtly signals royal overtones, linking Jesus and Mary to the Davidic king and queen mother tradition of the Old Testament [16:01]
• What made Egypt a traditional refuge for Jews, featuring both scriptural examples and the surprising fact that a third of Alexandria’s population may have been Jewish at the time [19:03]
• The striking parallel between Jesus’ flight to Egypt and the story of Moses set adrift on the Nile, including dramatic ancient prophecies from Josephus about a child who would humble the Egyptians [24:09]
• Why Herod’s massacre in Bethlehem might not have been recorded by historians, and what his other notorious crimes reveal about his infamy [40:41]
• The deep meaning behind the phrase “He shall be called a Nazarene,” its mysteriously elusive Old Testament origin, and how it points to Jesus as the “branch” prophesied to restore the Davidic kingdom [48:59]

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Diving deep into our Gospel we'll spend our episode looking closer at:

• Katie’s wild papal audience adventure in Rome—including elbowing through crowds, near heart attacks in St. Peter’s Square, and a moment of eye contact with the Holy Father himself [00:00:55]
• Why the Gospel account of Joseph is a “royal announcement” and the technical implications behind Christ’s title, delving into what it meant for Jesus to be called “the Son of David” [00:08:56]
• The two-step process of Jewish marriage in the first century and how it radically changes our understanding of Mary and Joseph’s betrothal, vows, and the context for divorce [00:11:07]
• Competing theological theories on why Joseph wished to “divorce her quietly,” including the reverential fear view from saints like Aquinas, Bernard, and Basil, and what it reveals about his character [00:17:45]
• The Old Testament parallels between St. Joseph and the original Joseph in Genesis, with dreams, creative courage, and God’s plan to bring good out of apparent disaster [00:31:27]
• The revelation that humble Joseph is actually the hidden heir to the Davidic throne, supported by archaeological insights into the Nazareans and their secret genealogical records [00:35:00]
• How God bestows true fatherhood and royal inheritance on Joseph by commanding him to name Jesus, connecting ancient adoption customs and the significance of the child’s name “Yeshua”—Joshua, the one who leads into the true Promised Land [00:39:00]
• The full prophetic drama behind Isaiah 7:14, the split kingdoms of Israel, and why “Emmanuel” means so much more than a Christmas carol lyric, revealing God’s ultimate promise to be “with us” always [00:47:06]

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Diving deep into the Gospel for the Third Sunday of Advent, we'll spend our episode looking closer at:

• Why Jesus relocates from Nazareth to Capernaum to launch his ministry—a strategic move connected to ancient trade routes that maximizes his message’s reach [15:10]
• The subtle Messianic title embedded in John the Baptist’s question “Are you the one who is to come?” and its roots in Psalm 118 and Jewish liturgy [09:30]
• How Aquinas interprets John the Baptist’s doubts—not as lost faith, but as a masterstroke to lead his own disciples toward Christ [13:15]
• The astonishing ways Jesus’ miracle list mirrors the prophecy of Isaiah 35, linking the healing of the blind, lame, and lepers to signs of the long-awaited Messiah [20:14]
• What it means that “the least in the kingdom of Heaven is greater than John the Baptist”—and how this dramatic shift marks the greatness of the New Covenant [40:17]
• Why Jesus calls John “Elijah” and how it signals Jesus’ identity not just as Messiah but as God himself, radically reshaping expectations for the kingdom [44:09]
• The truth that the kingdom of God is for those who “contend for it,” and how virtues like fortitude and patience become spiritual weapons for anyone seeking holiness [47:28]

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Diving deep into our Gospel we'll spend our episode looking closer at:

• Why Matthew goes out of his way to describe John the Baptist’s wardrobe—camel’s hair and a leather belt—and how this connects John to the Old Testament prophet Elijah, whose distinctive outfit signaled the return of prophecy before the Messiah [09:18]
• How John’s diet of locusts and wild honey points to a link with the Essene community at Qumran, and what ancient sources and Dead Sea Scrolls evidence reveal about why John might have lived apart from his peers, surviving on the edible wild environment due to community oaths [14:18]
• An eye-opening theory about John the Baptist’s possible expulsion from Qumran for insisting, based on Isaiah, that salvation was meant for all people—Jew and Gentile—and how redacted ancient manuscripts support the idea of controversy among these early communities [26:29]
• The direct Old Testament connection between Naaman the Gentile’s cleansing at the Jordan River and John’s own call for repentance at that very spot, plus the physical presence at Elijah’s cave and why John’s choice of location was so charged with prophetic meaning [32:05]
• The radical practice of “proselyte baptism” usually reserved for Gentile converts, and why John applies it to Jews themselves, suggesting everyone—regardless of heritage—must enter into something radically new in preparation for the Messiah [37:32]
• How ancient farming practices and the offensive “brood of vipers” insult paint a vivid picture of John’s challenge to the Pharisees and Sadducees, complete with snakes fleeing harvest fires as a metaphor for spiritual reckoning [40:25]
• Old Testament echoes in John’s warning that the axe lies at the root of the tree, drawing on the dreams and punishments of Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar as imagery of a coming judgment that would transform the meaning of holiness for everyone [44:42]

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Exploring the layers of Matthew’s Gospel, this episode uncovers:

• The surprising connection between Thanksgiving and the Hebrew word "todah," plus why Eucharist literally means “thanks” in Greek and is the only temple sacrifice forecast by the rabbis to endure after the Messiah’s arrival [00:02:03]
• How Jesus’s physical location during the prophecy—on the Mount of Olives—echoes Ezekiel’s vision of God’s glory leaving the temple and the prophet’s technical term for the "presence of God" [00:04:55]
• Why Jesus strategically uses the Old Testament image of a hen gathering her brood under her wings to express God’s longing for Jerusalem, cross-referencing Deuteronomy, Psalms, and Isaiah [00:10:13]
• The nuanced difference Pope Benedict XVI spots in Jesus’ lament over Jerusalem—shifting from "my house" in Jeremiah to "your house" in Matthew—and what this means for temple theology [00:19:27]
• The loaded meaning of the Greek word "parousia," how it signifies presence rather than absence, and its crucial role in understanding both Advent and Christ’s second coming [00:23:14]
• How the dimensions of Noah’s ark, according to the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible, equate to a modern naval battleship and why Noah’s neighbors might have been oblivious to salvation right in their backyard [00:26:27]
• A brief but insightful take on the Catholic view of the Rapture, referencing Old Testament exile and suffering, and what Craig Keener argues about being "taken" vs. "left" [00:29:09]
• The practical application of watching and staying awake—a theme supported by the Greek word "gregoreo"—how sloth, defined by Aquinas as sadness over spiritual good due to bodily labor, holds us back, and St. Benedict’s advice for overcoming it through lectio divina [00:44:16]
• Why Advent is not just about passive waiting but an invitation to deeper prayer, small acts of penance, and a joyful anticipation of Christ’s intimate presence, with resources and show notes provided for personal spiritual growth [00:47:41]

Practice meditation this Advent with Teach Us To Pray, a twelve-day audio course created by Katie Patrizio to lead you into meditation using the advice of St. Ignatius of Loyola, a master of prayer. This course is entirely free!

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Diving deep into Luke’s Passion narrative, we’ll spend our episode looking closer at:

• The historical roots and motivations behind the establishment of the Feast of Christ the King, including its 100th anniversary and ties to World War I [00:03:31]
• The logistical reason behind the division of “the people” and “the rulers” at the crucifixion and why pilgrims from Galilee arrived late to the events in Jerusalem [00:11:02]
• How offering Jesus vinegar (oxos) on the cross fulfills prophecy from Psalm 69, and the mocking political weight of the inscription “King of the Jews” traced back to Herod the Great’s royal title [00:24:00]
• The remarkable parallel between the two criminals crucified with Jesus and the request of the sons of Zebedee to sit at his right and left, revealing who truly joins Jesus on his throne [00:30:39]
• The breathtaking connections between Jesus, Adam, and David—including the meaning of “paradise,” why Adam was a priest and king, and how Christ’s seamless garment, pierced side, and crown reveal his role as high priest, universal bridegroom, and new David [00:35:17]

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Journeying through this episode, we’ll dive into riveting details such as:

• The astonishing scale of Herod’s Temple Mount expansion—including the “Western Stone,” a single block weighing 660,000 pounds, rivaling the weight of two blue whales [18:00]
• The dazzling description of the Temple’s sanctuary, adorned in gold so brilliant that looking at it at sunrise risked blinding pilgrims, and decorated with golden grape clusters as tall as a man [22:05]
• Eyewitness reports from Josephus about eerie omens in the Temple before its destruction—like a bright light at midnight, a heifer giving birth to a lamb on the altar, and the massive eastern gate swinging open on its own [37:03]
• The haunting account of false prophets leading thousands to their deaths during the siege, and the terrifying scene of chariots and armored soldiers seen racing among the clouds above Jerusalem [30:01] & [41:04]
• The remarkable fact that, according to early Christian historian Eusebius, not a single Christian died during the siege of Jerusalem, because they heeded Jesus’s prophetic warnings and left the city in time [43:54]

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In this episode, we’ll explore:

• The surprising history behind the Lateran Basilica’s “Mother and Head of all Churches” title, why it bumps the usual readings, and how its full name honors both John the Baptist and John the Evangelist [00:03:13]
• How church architecture and papal residence shifted from the Lateran to the Vatican, plus the tumultuous centuries when popes lived in Avignon and St. John Lateran fell into disrepair [00:06:30]
• First-century Passover logistics: what it took for pilgrims to buy animals, the sheer density of Jerusalem, and why money changers kept their coins at “stick-length” due to graven images [00:17:01]
• The deep Old Testament roots of Jesus cleansing the temple, including the prophetic lens of Zechariah 14 and its radical vision of Gentiles being incorporated into Israel’s worship [00:23:42]
• The architectural symbolism of the Court of Gentiles and how merchants set up shop precisely where non-Jews were meant to pray, reflecting Jesus’ intent to open temple worship to all nations [00:29:54]
• How Herod the Great’s “Second Temple” expansion was an act of royal self-promotion and why only the true Son of David, Jesus, can truly build God’s lasting house [00:36:10]
• The striking image from Ezekiel 47, the prophecy of life-giving water flowing from the side of the temple, its fulfillment in Christ’s crucifixion, and why it means hope and renewal for every listener [00:44:29]

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Diving deep into our Gospel we'll spend our episode looking closer at:

• The unusual abundance of reading options in the lectionary for All Souls Day—pages and pages including twelve Gospel choices and the freedom to choose from any Masses for the Dead, making this Sunday’s Gospel at your parish nearly impossible to predict [00:01:00]
• Why the city of Nain, the southernmost city in Galilee with a city wall and proximity to Nazareth and Mount Tabor, sets the scene for Jesus’s remarkable encounter [00:04:02]
• The cultural and theological weight of the Greek term "monogeneous" for "only son," often reserved for Jesus and linking our reading to deep Old Testament roots and John 3:16 [00:06:56]
• The precarious, often destitute status of a widow who loses her only son in first century Jewish society and the rare levirate marriage as one of her few hopes [00:10:03]
• How professional mourners, gender-based funeral processions, and suspension of Torah study reveal the magnitude of communal mourning customs in ancient Jewish funerals [00:13:18]
• What the Greek word "splanknon" means in describing Jesus’s gut-wrenching compassion, and how Catholic philosophy claims Christ, with unfallen nature, felt emotion more deeply than we do [00:16:35]
• The fascinating theology of the "preternatural gifts" Adam and Eve received—especially immortality and integrity—and how these shed light on the tragedy and hope embedded in death [00:21:04]
• Why Jewish law (Numbers 19) warns against touching the dead, and how Christ flips ritual impurity on its head by making the unclean clean, using only the power of his spoken word to raise the widow’s son [00:27:08]
• The subtle echoes between Jesus giving the widow her son and his own gift of spiritual life to his mother, Mary, at the cross, along with Old Testament and Canticle of Zechariah references to God "visiting" his people [00:31:59]
• The delayed resurrection of the body, explained through the catechism and the Eucharist as a "foretaste," and why Paul’s mocking of death signals our ultimate hope in Christ’s victory [00:39:50]

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Diving deep into our Gospel we'll spend our episode looking closer at:

• Why the Pharisees were so zealous for extra rules and how their movement sprang from a desperate hope for the return of the Messiah and restoration of Israel [00:07:15]
• The real reason both the Pharisee and the tax collector find themselves in the Temple—and how it connects to the daily Tamid sacrifice, the heartbeat of Jewish worship, which surprisingly links to scenes later in Scripture [00:03:24]
• How an ancient Jewish historian, Josephus, helps us understand why the Pharisees thought themselves the most rigorous and godly—and how that attitude gets flipped on its head by Jesus’ words [00:08:30]
• That Pharisaic practices like fasting twice a week and tithing everything weren’t actually required by Jewish law but were extreme measures they adopted in hopes of saving their nation [00:30:25]
• The surprisingly scandalous history of tax collectors in first-century Israel, including that their alms were rejected by the poor and they were barred from court, plus the costly process of repentance that could leave them destitute [00:38:22]
• How the tax collector’s prayer uses a rare Greek verb, echoing only the high priest on Yom Kippur, so Jesus daringly places the words of Israel’s holiest prayer for atonement in the mouth of a despised sinner [00:44:44]
• And finally, how Jesus overturns the entire religious expectation of the time—showing that it’s not effort or perfection that justifies, but humble poverty of spirit, inviting us all to love our spiritual fragility [00:48:29].

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Diving deep into our Gospel, we'll spend our episode looking closer at:

The curious parallel between the judge in Jesus's parable and the wicked King Jehoiakim, including how Josephus and rabbinic literature paint Jehoiakim as a tattooed, law-breaking monarch who forced his own Jewish people into labor and even reversed his circumcision to fit in with pagans [00:03:21]

How Ezekiel's original Hebrew tells us the princes "devoured men and knew their women," connecting to the tradition that Jehoiakim murdered husbands, raped wives, and stole inheritances, filling out the judge's characterization in the parable [00:22:50]

Cultural insights from scholar Joachim Jeremias about why the widow likely brings a money-related case alone, what this signals about her age and isolation, and how widows were often forbidden from representing themselves in court—meaning her perseverance is even more remarkable [00:23:59]

The surprising use of an ancient boxing term—hupo piaze—meaning "to give a black eye," borrowed by Jesus to describe the judge's fear of public shame from the widow's persistent appeals at open hearings [00:32:37]

Luke's emphatic Greek which underscores that God will absolutely bring about justice for his chosen ones, and the only instance in Luke-Acts where "the elect" appears [00:39:47]

The connection between relentless prayer and faith, featuring St. Augustine's insight, the Catechism’s wisdom on mental prayer, and the challenge to practice daily Lectio Divina, especially on the feast of St. Teresa of Avila, master of contemplative prayer [00:42:31]

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Journeying through Luke’s story of the cleansing of ten lepers, we’ll uncover:

The geographic, historical, and tribal context behind the fierce Jewish-Samaritan animosity, including shocking incidents like the desecration of the Jerusalem Temple with human bones and the destruction of the Samaritan Temple at Mount Gerizim [00:05:00]

Why Jews traveling from Galilee to Jerusalem would go far out of their way to avoid Samaria, and how Jesus’ route along the Decapolis reveals deeper tensions that shape this Gospel moment [00:11:20]

Luke’s subtle but powerful way of preserving the dignity of the lepers by calling them “ten men with leprosy” rather than simply lepers, and what this means for our own way of seeing others [00:14:55]

The real meaning and rare usage of the Greek title “Epistada"—Master—on the lips of the lepers, a word typically reserved for Jesus’ closest disciples [00:22:05]

How the order for the Samaritan to show himself to the priest could have been a literal death sentence, given the temple’s inner barriers and the chilling warning inscribed in Greek on its latticed screen [00:45:15]

Why the word for thanksgiving in this Gospel passage, “Eucharistone,” is directly connected to our celebration of the Eucharist, inviting us to respond to divine blessings with gratitude that echoes the heart of the Mass [01:00:22].

(Mass Readings for October 12, 2025)

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Diving deep into our Gospel, we'll spend our episode looking closer at:

• The fascinating rabbinic tradition that forbade planting a sycamore tree within 37 feet of a cistern because of its enormous root system, and how Jesus upends this cultural fact in his teaching on faith [00:17:45]
• The striking comparison between mustard seed-sized faith moving mountains in Matthew’s Gospel and, uniquely in Luke, uprooting a tree that can live 500 years, illuminating just how bold and impossible the acts of faith Jesus describes really are [00:19:05]
• The deeper meaning behind Jesus' answer that faith isn't about getting what we want, but about uniting our will to God's even after “a long day of plowing,” challenging any notion of faith as a spiritual insurance policy for answered prayers [00:40:17]
• The compelling Old Testament backdrop from the Book of Habakkuk, where the prophet demands to know why God seems to simply gaze at evil rather than act, and God’s unexpected answer about faith and hope [00:46:53]
• How the Psalm selection for the Sunday connects Israel’s exile longing with our spiritual waiting, urging us not to “harden your hearts” as the Israelites did at Meribah in the desert, and instead to nurture hope in God’s future deliverance [00:56:37]

(Mass Readings for Oct 5, 2025)

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Diving deep into our Gospel we'll spend our episode looking closer at:

- What, according to St. Thomas Aquinas, we must do in order to keep God's commandments [8:49]

- The Greek etymology of the word "friend" and what it can tell us about being friends of God [18:48]

- The two Old Testament figures that were said to be friends of God [31:20]

- Greco-Roman and Jewish conceptions of friendship that likely inform our Gospel [41:52]

- Jewish inheritance law and what it has to say about friendship and servitude [45:04]

- Some priestly overtones subtly present in the latter part of Jesus' exhortation to the Twelve [51:35]

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Brown, Raymond E. The Gospel according to John (XIII-XXI): Introduction, Translation, and Notes. Vol. 29A. Anchor Yale Bible. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2008.

Keener, Craig S. The Gospel of John: A Commentary, Vol. 1. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2012.

Martin, Francis, and William M. Wright IV. The Gospel of John. Edited by Peter S. Williamson and Mary Healy. Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2015.

REFERENCES

Exodus 33:11 - "Thus the LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend."

Isaiah 41:8 - "But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend"

2 Chronicles 20:7 - "Was it not you, our God, who dispossessed the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and gave it forever to the descendants of Abraham, your friend?"

John 1:18 - "No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known."

Numbers 8:10-11 - "When you present the Levites before the LORD, the people of Israel shall lay their hands upon the Levites, 11 and Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the people of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of the LORD."

Numbers 27:18-19 - "And the LORD said to Moses, 'Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay your hand upon him; 19 cause him to stand before Eleazar the priest and all the congregation, and you shall commission him in their sight.'"

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Diving deep into our Gospel we'll spend our episode looking closer at:

- The seven "I am" statements in John, the last of which forms our Gospel

- The image of the vine in the Old Testament and how it helps us interpret Our Lord's analogy

- How our Gospel both demands and promises radical faithfulness

- The ancient heresy that our Gospel was employed to refute

- What it means to abide in Christ and a tangible way to practice that abiding

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Brown, Raymond E. The Gospel according to John (XIII-XXI): Introduction, Translation, and Notes. Vol. 29A. Anchor Yale Bible. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2008.

Keener, Craig S. The Gospel of John: A Commentary, Vol. 1. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2012.

Martin, Francis, and William M. Wright IV. The Gospel of John. Edited by Peter S. Williamson and Mary Healy. Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2015.

REFERENCES

Psalm 80:8-18 - "You brought a vine out of Egypt;

you drove out the nations and planted it.

9 You cleared the ground for it;

it took deep root and filled the land.

10 The mountains were covered with its shade,

the mighty cedars with its branches;

11 it sent out its branches to the sea,

and its shoots to the River.

12 Why then have you broken down its walls,

so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit? [...]

Ezekiel 19:10-14 - "Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard

transplanted by the water,

fruitful and full of branches

by reason of abundant water.

11 Its strongest stem became

a ruler’s scepter;

it towered aloft

among the thick boughs;

it was seen in its height

with the mass of its branches.

12 But the vine was plucked up in fury,

cast down to the ground [...]"

Isaiah 5:1-7 - "Let me sing for my beloved

a love song concerning his vineyard:

My beloved had a vineyard

on a very fertile hill.

2 He digged it and cleared it of stones,

and planted it with choice vines;

he built a watchtower in the midst of it,

and hewed out a wine vat in it;

and he looked for it to yield grapes,

but it yielded wild grapes [...]"

Mark 12:1-9 - (Parable of the Vineyard)

Matthew 21:43 - "Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation producing the fruits of it."

John 13:10 - "Jesus said to him, 'He who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but he is clean all over; and you are clean, but not every one of you.'"

"All that the LORD has spoken we will do.” Cf. Exodus 19:8; Exodus 24:3, 7;)

Luke 1:38 - “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.”

Mark 14:36 - "Abba, Father, all things are possible to thee; remove this cup from me; yet not what I will, but what thou wilt.”

Matthew 6:10 - "Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done,

On earth as it is in heaven."

John 5:19 - "“Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, that the Son does likewise."

John 8:28 - "So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority but speak thus as the Father taught me."

John 1:3 - "All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made."

“Short of a miracle, a man who does not practice mental prayer will end up in mortal sin.” - St. Alphonsus

“A man without mental prayer is not good for anything; he cannot even renounce the slightest thing.” - St. Vincent de Paul

“If you do not practice mental prayer, you don’t need any devil to throw you into hell, you throw yourself in there of your own accord. On the contrary, give me the greatest of all sinners; if he practices mental prayer, be it only for fifteen minutes every day, he will be converted. If he perseveres in it, his eternal salvation is assured.” 
- St. Teresa of Avila

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Diving deep into our Gospel we'll spend our episode looking closer at:

- The analogy of sheep and shepherd and how it fittingly describes the relationship between God and man [10:22]

- A more precise translation of the title "Good Shepherd" [16:50]

- The true identity of the wolf according to ancient Christian tradition [21:56]

- The allusions to Trinitarian theology contained in our Gospel and the manner in which they point to our Christian vocation and destiny [32:19]

- The Jewish liturgical feast that contextualizes our reading and that points to a cleansing of the corrupt Jerusalem priesthood [44:58]

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Brown, Raymond E. The Gospel according to John (I–XII): Introduction, Translation, and Notes. Vol. 29. Anchor Yale Bible. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2008.

Keener, Craig S. The Gospel of John: A Commentary, Vol. 1. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2012.

Martin, Francis, and William M. Wright IV. The Gospel of John. Edited by Peter S. Williamson and Mary Healy. Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2015.

REFERENCES

Genesis 31:38-40 - "These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your she-goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks. 39 That which was torn by wild beasts I did not bring to you; I bore the loss of it myself; of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. 40 Thus I was; by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes."

1 Samuel 17:34-35 - "But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep sheep for his father; and when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb from the flock, 35 I went after him and smote him and delivered it out of his mouth."

Ezekiel 34:1-10 - "The word of the LORD came to me: 2 “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord GOD: Ho, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep? 3 You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fatlings; but you do not feed the sheep. 4 The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the crippled you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them. 5 So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food for all the wild beasts. 6 My sheep were scattered, they wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill; my sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, with none to search or seek for them. 7 “Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD: 8 As I live, says the Lord GOD, because my sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild beasts, since there was no shepherd; and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep; 9 therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD: 10 Thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hand, and put a stop to their feeding the sheep; no longer shall the shepherds feed themselves. I will rescue my sheep from their mouths, that they may not be food for them."

Jeremiah 23:1-5 - “Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says the LORD. 2 Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who care for my people: “You have scattered my flock, and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for your evil doings, says the LORD. 3 Then I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, and they shall be fruitful and multiply. 4 I will set shepherds over them who will care for them, and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be missing, says the LORD. 5 “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king."

Zechariah 11:15-17 - "Then the LORD said to me, “Take once more the implements of a worthless shepherd. 16 For lo, I am raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for the perishing, or seek the wandering, or heal the maimed, or nourish the sound, but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs. 17 Woe to my worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword smite his arm and his right eye! Let his arm be wholly withered, his right eye utterly blinded!”

Micah 2:12 - "I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob, I will gather the remnant of Israel; I will set them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in its pasture"

Numbers 27:15-17 - Moses said to the LORD, 16 “Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation, 17 who shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD may not be as sheep which have no shepherd.”

Hebrews 13:20-21 - Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, 21 equip you with everything good that you may do his will.

John 18:7-9 - Again he asked them, “Whom do you seek?” And they said, “Jesus of Nazareth.” 8 Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he; so, if you seek me, let these men go.” 9 This was to fulfil the word which he had spoken, “Of those whom thou gavest me I lost not one.”

John 17:12 - While I was with them, I kept them in thy name, which thou hast given me; I have guarded them, and none of them is lost.

John 1:29 - "Behold the Lamb of God"

John 12:20-23 - Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks. 21 So these came to Philip, who was from Beth-saida in Galilee, and said to him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” 22 Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew went with Philip and they told Jesus. 23 And Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of man to be glorified."

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Diving deep into our Gospel we'll spend our episode looking closer at:

- The parallels between our Gospel and the road to Emmaus story [5:09]

- The spiritual significance of Jesus bestowing peace and why peace is the fundamental key to growth in holiness [11:05]

- Why Jesus asks for food in our episode [31:42]

- The subtle manner in which Jesus introduces himself as the new law [37:57]

- Jesus' proclamation of repentance and forgiveness of sins and its link to the beginning of Luke's Gospel, the Book of Isaiah, and the Jewish Jubilee Year [42:15]

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Edwards, James R. The Gospel according to Luke. Edited by D. A. Carson. The Pillar New Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge, U.K.; Nottingham, England: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; Apollos, 2015.

Fitzmyer, Joseph A., S.J. The Gospel according to Luke X–XXIV: Introduction, Translation, and Notes. Vol. 28A. Anchor Yale Bible. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2008.

Gadenz, Pablo T. The Gospel of Luke. Edited by Peter S. Williamson and Mary Healy. Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2018.

Hahn, Scott, ed. Catholic Bible Dictionary. New York; London; Toronto; Sydney; Auckland: Doubleday, 2009.

Philippe, Jacques. Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart. New York: Alba House, 2002.

REFERENCES

Matthew 14:26 - "But when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified, saying, “It is a ghost!” And they cried out for fear."

Luke 1:12 - "And Zechariah was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him."

Luke 1:29 - "But she [Mary] was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered in her mind what sort of greeting this might be."

Exodus 19:6 - "These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."

Deuteronomy 1:1 - "These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness"

Luke 4:18-19 - "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, 19 to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."

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Diving deep into our Gospel we'll spend our episode looking closer at:

- The village of Bethphage, its location, and the significance of its geographic setting [5:29]

- The debate over whether Jesus rode a horse or a donkey into Jerusalem and the allusions invoked by his chosen mode of transportation [8:00]

- What "Hosanna" actually translates as and the Psalm that it is decidedly linked to [19:00]

- The nuptial overtones of the anointing at Bethany and the powerful message that the broken alabaster jar sends [25:04]

- A tiny detail in Jesus' instructions for the preparation of the Passover that unlocks a floodgate of information regarding the Last Supper [36:14]

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bergsma, John. Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Revealing the Jewish Roots of Christianity. New York: Image, 2019.

Donahue, John R., and Daniel J. Harrington. The Gospel of Mark. Edited by Daniel J. Harrington. Vol. 2. Sacra Pagina Series. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2002.

Marcus, Joel. Mark 1–8: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. Vol. 27. Anchor Yale Bible. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2008.

Pitre, Brant. Jesus the Bridegroom: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told. New York: Image, 2017.

REFERENCES

Zechariah 9:9 - Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on an ass, on a colt the foal of an ass.

Genesis 49:8-11 - "Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down before you. Judah is a lion’s whelp; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as a lioness; who dares rouse him up? The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples. Binding his foal to the vine and his ass’s colt to the choice vine"

1 Kings 1:33 - "And the king said to them, 'Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule'"

2 Kings 9:13 - "Then in haste every man of them took his garment, and put it under him on the bare steps, and they blew the trumpet, and proclaimed, 'Jehu is king.'"

1 Maccabees 13:51 - "On the twenty-third day of the second month, in the one hundred and seventy-first year, the Jews entered it with praise and palm branches, and with harps and cymbals and stringed instruments, and with hymns and songs, because a great enemy had been crushed and removed from Israel."

Psalm 118:25-27 - "Save us, we beseech thee, O LORD! O LORD, we beseech thee, give us success! Blessed be he who enters in the name of the LORD! We bless you from the house of the LORD. The LORD is God, and he has given us light. Bind the festal procession with branches, up to the horns of the altar!"

Song of Solomon 1:12 - "While the king was on his couch, my nard gave forth its fragrance."

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Diving deep into our Gospel we'll spend our episode looking closer at:

- The significance of Christ connecting his passion to the bronze serpent in Numbers [8:20]

- The Israelites' near rejection of salvation and the way it illustrates for us how exactly one could be condemned in the next life [10:23]

- Suffering as an act of tremendous mercy on the part of God [19:35]

- Jesus' subtle allusion to an important curse in Deuteronomy and the way that he will abolish that curse [26:09]

- The dual meaning of "lifted up" that refers both to Christ's passion but also to his resurrection [30:56]

- A better translation of the famous John 3:16 [37:55]

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Keener, Craig S. The Gospel of John: A Commentary. Vol. 1 & 2. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2012.

Martin, Francis, and William M. Wright IV. The Gospel of John. Edited by Peter S. Williamson and Mary Healy. Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2015.

REFERENCES

2 Corinthians 5:21 - "For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."

Deuteronomy 21:22-23 - "And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, 23 his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is accursed by God"

Wisdom 16:5-7 - "For when the terrible rage of wild beasts came upon thy people and they were being destroyed by the bites of writhing serpents, thy wrath did not continue to the end; 6 they were troubled for a little while as a warning, and received a token of deliverance to remind them of thy law’s command. 7 For he who turned toward it was saved, not by what he saw, but by thee, the Savior of all."

Isaiah 52:13 - "Behold, my servant shall prosper, he shall be exalted and lifted up"

John 7:50 - Nicodemus defends Jesus

John 19:39 - Nicodemus brings ointment to anoint Jesus' body

John 1:1-5 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God; 3 all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."

"When an Israelite gazed at the symbolic portrayal of the effects of his sin, the bronze serpent, he was granted healing and life.  Similarly, whoever gazes in faith at the ultimate effect of human sin, the crucifixion of the Son of God, is changed and given eternal life." (Martin and Wright 74)

"Nowhere in this Gospel does God say 'I love you'; rather, he demonstrates his love for humanity be self-sacrifice and demands the same practical demonstration of love from his followers." (Keener 566-567)

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Diving deep into our Gospel we'll spend our episode looking closer at:

- Why there were animals and money changers in the Temple [10:16]

- The Old Testament text that foretells a day when there will no longer be trading in the Temple [22:36]

- How the previous scene in Cana provides an interpretive key to the cleansing of the Temple [31:19]

- The forty-six year Temple building project undertaken by Herod that Jesus plans to usurp and how it points to Christ as true Messiah [37:28]

- The very forward tone Jesus takes when responding to the Jews who ask for a sign [41:07]

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Keener, Craig S. The Gospel of John: A Commentary. Vol. 1 & 2. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2012.

Martin, Francis, and William M. Wright IV. The Gospel of John. Edited by Peter S. Williamson and Mary Healy. Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2015.

Mass Readings Explained with Dr. Brant Pitre

Saint John’s Gospel. The Navarre Bible. Dublin; New York: Four Courts Press; Scepter Publishers, 2005.

REFERENCES

Three Passovers in John's Gospel: John 2:13; 6:4; 13:1

Deuteronomy 16:16-17 - "Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God at the place which he will choose: at the feast of unleavened bread, at the feast of weeks, and at the feast of booths. They shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed; 17 every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given you."

Zechariah 14:20-21 - "And the pots in the house of the LORD shall be as the bowls before the altar; 21 and every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be sacred to the LORD of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and take of them and boil the flesh of the sacrifice in them. And there shall no longer be a trader in the house of the LORD of hosts on that day."

John 4:21 - "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father"

Psalm 69:9 - "For zeal for thy house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult thee have fallen on me."

St. John Chrysostom, Homily XXIV on the Gospel of John - "And many such now there are, who have indeed the name of faith, but are unstable, and easily led away"

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Diving deep into our Gospel we'll spend our episode looking closer at:

- The precision time reference Mark uses to introduce his Gospel and the link it has to both creation and the temple [15:23]

- The origin of the term "transfiguration" and its Greek equivalent [21:13]

- What extra-Biblical literature can reveal about the significance of Moses and Elijah's appearance with Christ [28:05]

- The connection between Peter's suggestion to erect tents and the Jewish feast of Tabernacles [34:42]

- The incredible parallels between Christ's transfiguration and his passion [45:58]

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Donahue, John R., and Daniel J. Harrington. The Gospel of Mark. Edited by Daniel J. Harrington. Vol. 2. Sacra Pagina Series. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2002.

Healy, Mary. The Gospel of Mark. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2008.

Marcus, Joel. Mark 1–8: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. Vol. 27. Anchor Yale Bible. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2008.

REFERENCES

Mark 8:29 - "You are the Christ"

2 Peter 1:17-18 - "He received honor and glory from God the Father and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, 'This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,' 18 we heard this voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain."

Exodus 24:15-16, 25:8-9 - "Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. 16 The glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days [...] And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst. 9 According to all that I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, and of all its furniture, so you shall make it."

Mark 14:58 - "I will destroy this Temple that is made with hands and in three days I will build another, not made with hands."

Philippians 2:5-8 - "Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross."

Malachi 4:5 - "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes."

Deut. Rab. 3.17 (Talmud) - "Moses, I swear to you... in the time to come when I bring Elijah, the prophet unto them, the two of you shall come together"

2 Kings 2:11 - Elijah "ascended in a whirlwind into heaven"

Deuteronomy 34:16 - "No man knows the place of his [Moses'] burial to this day"

Exodus 40:34 - "Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle."

1 Kings 8:10 - "And when the priests came out of the holy place, a cloud filled the house of the LORD"

2 Maccabees 2:8 - "And then the Lord will disclose these things, and the glory of the Lord and the cloud will appear, as they were shown in the case of Moses, and as Solomon asked that the place should be specially consecrated."

Mark 15:36 - "Wait, let us see if Elijah will come to take him down"

Transfiguration // Passion

Unearthly Light // Supernatural Darkness (Mk 15:33)

Glorious/Luminous Clothes // Clothes Stripped (Mk 15:24)

Joined by two Old Testament saints // Joined by two criminals

Peter desires to stay ("It is good that we are here" // Peter flees

The Father's voice is heard // The Father is silent ("Let this cup pass" and "Why have you abandoned me?")

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Diving deep into our Gospel we'll spend our episode looking closer at:

- How Jesus' forty days in the desert parallel not only the Israelites forty years in the desert but also Moses' forty day fast before he destroyed the Golden Calf [22:01]

- The Jewish legend that Adam also fasted for forty days after the fall and did penance by washing in a familiar river [26:19]

- The uncanny connections between Jesus' baptism and the flood narrative in Genesis (our first reading) [32:00]

- How the presence of the wild beasts in the wilderness point to the beginning of a new creation [37:14]

- The Rabbinic literature that claims Adam and Eve were also ministered to by angels in the Garden of Eden before the fall [49:12]

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Donahue, John R., and Daniel J. Harrington. The Gospel of Mark. Edited by Daniel J. Harrington. Vol. 2. Sacra Pagina Series. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2002.

Healy, Mary. The Gospel of Mark. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2008.

Marcus, Joel. Mark 1–8: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. Vol. 27. Anchor Yale Bible. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2008.

REFERENCES

Deuteronomy 8:2 - "And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not."

Exodus 25:18 - "And Moses entered the cloud, and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights."

Deuteronomy 9:18 - "Then I lay prostrate before the LORD as before, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin which you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD"

Life of Adam and Eve 6.1-2 - "And Adam said to Eve: ‘Thou canst not do so much as I, but do only so much as thou hast strength for. For I will spend forty days fasting, but do thou arise and go to the river Tigris and lift up a stone and stand on it in the water up to thy neck in the deep of the river. And let no speech proceed out of thy mouth, since we are unworthy to address the Lord, for our lips are unclean from the unlawful and forbidden tree. 2 And do thou stand in the water of the river thirty-seven days. But I will spend forty days in the water of Jordan, perchance the Lord God will take pity upon us.’"

Genesis 1:28 - "Have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."

Life of Adam and Eve 4.2 - "And Adam said to Eve: ‘This hath the Lord provided for animals and brutes to eat; but we used to have angels’ food."

Sanhedrin 59b.22 (Talmud) - "Adam, the first man, would dine in the Garden of Eden, and the ministering angels would roast meat for him and strain wine for him." https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.59b.22?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en

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We'll spend our episode looking closer at:

- A literal translation of our scene that unveils Mark's unique and vivid storytelling style [4:57]

- The Greek roots of the phrase "moved with pity" and the raw, physiological emotion they assign to Jesus [25:36]

- Some textual perplexities that have led scholars to believe Jesus also performed an exorcism when he healed the leper [33:45]

- The notion of the "Messianic Secret" and why Jesus didn't always want people to know his identity [38:40]

- Levitical requirements for the ritual offering for leprosy and how they image and prefigure Jesus' redemption on the Cross [45:40]

- The fascinating way that Jesus quite literally switches roles with the leper by the end of our story [49:00]

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Donahue, John R., and Daniel J. Harrington. The Gospel of Mark. Edited by Daniel J. Harrington. Vol. 2. Sacra Pagina Series. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2002.

Healy, Mary. The Gospel of Mark. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2008.

Marcus, Joel. Mark 1–8: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. Vol. 27. Anchor Yale Bible. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2008.

REFERENCES

Numbers 12:11-12 - "And Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, do not punish us because we have done foolishly and have sinned. 12 Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed"

2 Kings 5:7 - "And when the king of Israel read the letter, he rent his clothes and said, 'Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy?'"

"Cast out" (Grk: ekballo) is used in reference to an exorcism at Mk 1:39; 3:15, 22ff; 6:13; 7:26; 9:18, 28 and is used in a negative context at Mk 5:40; 11:15; and 12:8.

The offering for leprosy is described at Leviticus 14:3-7

Sanhedrin 47a:10 (Talmud) - "The Gemara asks: But if so, with regard to the verse: 'I pray you, let a double portion of your spirit be upon me,' where do you find that Elisha resurrected a second person? Rabbi Yoḥanan said to him: That request was fulfilled when he cured Naaman’s leprosy (see II Kings, chapter 5), an affliction that is considered to be equivalent to death, as it is written with regard to Miriam’s leprosy: 'Let her not be as one dead' (Numbers 12:12)."

Ketubot 61b:1 (Talmud) - "The chief butler said to him: You have spoiled the king’s meal, as now he will not eat from it. The king’s soldiers who were there said to him: Why did you do this? He said to them: The one who makes such awful dishes is the one who actually spoiled the king’s food. They said to him: Why do you say this? He said to them: I saw something else, i.e., a leprous infection, in this meat. They checked and didn’t find anything. He took his finger and placed it on the food and said to them: Did you check here? They then checked that spot and found the infection. The Sages said to Rav Ashi: What is the reason that you relied on a miracle and assumed that leprosy would in fact be found there? He said to them: I saw a leprous spirit hovering over the food and realized that it had this defect."

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Donahue, John R., and Daniel J. Harrington. The Gospel of Mark. Edited by Daniel J. Harrington. Vol. 2. Sacra Pagina Series. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2002.

Donin, Hayim. "HAVDALAH: The Ritual and the Concept." Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought 3, no. 1 (1960): 60-72. Accessed January 8, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23255448.

Healy, Mary. The Gospel of Mark. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2008.

Marcus, Joel. Mark 1–8: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. Vol. 27. Anchor Yale Bible. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2008.

REFERENCES

For a broader discussion of the city of Capernaum see Episode 015: Capernaum by the Sea 

1 Corinthians 15:13 - "But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised [egeiro]"

Galatians 1:1 - "Paul an apostle—not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised [egeiro] him from the dead"

Romans 4:24 - "It will be reckoned to us who believe in him that raised [egeiro] from the dead Jesus our Lord"

Acts 3:14-15 - "But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, 15 and killed the Author of life, whom God raised [egeiro] from the dead."

Acts 4:10 - "Be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised [egeiro] from the dead, by him this man is standing before you well."

Luke 4:39 - "And he stood over her and rebuked the fever"

Mark 1:13 - "And he was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered [diakoneo] to him."

Mark 15:40-41 - "There were also women looking on from afar, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome, 41 who, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered [diakoneo] to him"

Mark 10:43-45 - "But it shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant [diakonos], 44 and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. 45 For the Son of man also came not to be served [diakoneo] but to serve [diakoneo], and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Chiastic Structure:
A - Exorcism
B - Healing
B1 - Healings
A1 - Exorcisms

Mark 1:28 - "And at once his fame spread everywhere throughout all the surrounding region of Galilee."

Mark 16:1-6 - "And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. 2 And very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb when the sun had risen. 3 And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?” 4 And looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back;—it was very large. 5 And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe; and they were amazed. 6 And he said to them, “Do not be amazed; you seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen, he is not here"

Mark 1:24 - "'What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God.'"

"The end-of-Sabbath context is also important because this period was marked in Jewish homes by the Havdālāh service, in which God’s creation of the world was celebrated; this custom seems to go back to Second Temple times [...] In some rabbinic and Jewish magical texts and formulae, the Havdālāh period is associated with the fight against demonic powers and other magical procedures [....] These associations of the Havdālāh period perhaps provide part of the background for Mark’s picture of the divine act of eschatological re-creation whereby Jesus heals and casts out demons in Peter’s house at the conclusion of the Sabbath." (Marcus 200)

John 13:3 - "Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God"

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Davies, W. D., and Dale C. Allison Jr. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew. Vol. 3. International Critical Commentary. London; New York: T&T Clark International, 2004.

Keener, Craig S. The Gospel of Matthew: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary. Grand Rapids, MI;  Cambridge, U.K.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2009.

Mitch, Curtis, and Edward Sri. The Gospel of Matthew. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2010.

Mass Readings Explained with Dr. Brant Pitre

REFERENCES

Matthew 22:17 - "'Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?'"

Isaiah 5:7 - "For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel"

Exodus 4:22 - "‘Thus says the LORD, Israel is my first-born son'"

Exodus 24:6-7 - "Then he took the book of the covenant, and read it in the hearing of the people; and they said, 'All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.'"

Matthew 9:2 - "'Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven.'"

Matthew 7:21 - "'Not every one who says to me, "Lord, Lord," shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.'"

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Davies, W. D., and Dale C. Allison Jr. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew. Vol. 3. International Critical Commentary. London; New York: T&T Clark International, 2004.

Keener, Craig S. The Gospel of Matthew: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary. Grand Rapids, MI;  Cambridge, U.K.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2009.

Mitch, Curtis, and Edward Sri. The Gospel of Matthew. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2010.

Mass Readings Explained with Dr. Brant Pitre

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Davies, W. D., and Dale C. Allison Jr. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew. Vol. 2. International Critical Commentary. London; New York: T&T Clark International, 2004.

Keener, Craig S. The Gospel of Matthew: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary. Grand Rapids, MI;  Cambridge, U.K.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2009.

Mitch, Curtis, and Edward Sri. The Gospel of Matthew. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2010.

REFERENCES

Leviticus 19:17-18 - "You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason with your neighbor, lest you bear sin because of him. 18 You shall not take vengeance or bear any grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself."

Genesis 4:24 - "If Cain is avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”

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Davies, W. D., and Dale C. Allison Jr. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew. Vol. 2. International Critical Commentary. London; New York: T&T Clark International, 2004.

Keener, Craig S. The Gospel of Matthew: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary. Grand Rapids, MI;  Cambridge, U.K.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2009.

Mitch, Curtis, and Edward Sri. The Gospel of Matthew. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2010.

Mass Readings Explained by Dr. Brant Pitre

REFERENCES

Matthew's Discourses: Sermon on the Mount (Mt 5-7); Missionary Discourse (Mt 10); Parables Discourse (Mt 13); Ecclesiastical Discourse (Mt. 18)

Deuteronomy 19:15 - "Only on the evidence of two witnesses, or of three witnesses, shall a charge be sustained"

Catechism of the Catholic Church 1445: "The words bind and loose mean: whomever you exclude from your communion, will be excluded from communion with God; whomever you receive anew into your communion, God will welcome back into his. Reconciliation with the Church is inseparable from reconciliation with God."

Letter 98 to Pope Leo the Great (Paragraph 1): "For if 'where two or three are gathered together in His name,' He has said that 'there He is in the midst of them,' must He not have been much more particularly present with 520 priests, who preferred the spread of knowledge concerning Him to their country and their ease?"

Ignatius of Antioch's Letter to the Ephesians (5.2): "Let no man be deceived: unless a man be within the sanctuary he lacks the bread of God, for if the prayer of one or two has such might, how much more has that of the bishop and of the whole Church?"

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Davies, W. D., and Dale C. Allison Jr. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew. Vol. 2. International Critical Commentary. London; New York: T&T Clark International, 2004.

Keener, Craig S. The Gospel of Matthew: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary. Grand Rapids, MI;  Cambridge, U.K.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2009.

Mitch, Curtis, and Edward Sri. The Gospel of Matthew. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2010.

Mass Readings Explained by Dr. Brant Pitre

REFERENCES

Matthew 4:17 - "From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, 'Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.'”

Matthew 4:8-10 - "Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them; and he said to him, 'All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.' Then Jesus said to him, 'Begone, Satan!'"

1 Chronicles 11:19 - “Far be it from me before my God that I should do this."

Galatians 5:11 - "The stumbling block of the cross has been removed."

1 Corinthians 1:22-23 - "For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles."

Philippians 2:5-8 - "Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross."

1 Corinthians 11:1 - "Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ."

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Davies, W. D., and Dale C. Allison Jr. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew. Vol. 2. International Critical Commentary. London; New York: T&T Clark International, 2004.

Keener, Craig S. The Gospel of Matthew: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary. Grand Rapids, MI;  Cambridge, U.K.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2009.

Mitch, Curtis, and Edward Sri. The Gospel of Matthew. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2010.

Schaff, Philip, and Henry Wace, eds. Eusebius: Church History, Life of Constantine the Great, and Oration in Praise of Constantine. Vol. 1. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, Second Series. New York: Christian Literature Company, 1890.

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Matthew 23:4 - "They bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger."

Matthew 16:18 and 18:17 - The only two places in the Gospels where the term ekklesia occurs

Plutarch, De Defectu Oraculorum 17 - "A voice was heard by most of the passengers (who were then awake, and taking a cup after supper) calling unto one Thamus, and that with so loud a voice as made all the company amazed; which Thamus was a mariner of Egypt, whose name was scarcely known in the ship. He returned no answer to the first calls; but at the third he replied, Here ! here! I am the man. Then the voice said aloud to him, When you are arrived at Palodes, take care to make it known that the great God Pan is dead."

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Keener, Craig S. The Gospel of Matthew: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary. Grand Rapids, MI;  Cambridge, U.K.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2009.

Mitch, Curtis, and Edward Sri. The Gospel of Matthew. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2010.

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Matthew 11:21 - "'Woe to you, Chorazin! woe to you, Beth-saida! for if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.'"

Matthew 3:7-8 - "Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed; also from Judea and Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from about Tyre and Sidon a great multitude, hearing all that he did, came to him."

Wisdom 12 - Lists sins of Canaanites

Romans 1:16 - "For I am not ashamed of the gospel: it is the power of God for salvation to every one who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek."

Matthew 1:3, 5 - Lists Tamar and Rahab in Jesus' geneology, two Canaanite women

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Keener, Craig S. The Gospel of Matthew: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary. Grand Rapids, MI;  Cambridge, U.K.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2009.

Mitch, Curtis, and Edward Sri. The Gospel of Matthew. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2010.

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Exodus 24:14-15 - "And in the morning watch the LORD in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down upon the host of the Egyptians, and discomfited the host of the Egyptians, clogging their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily; and the Egyptians said, 'Let us flee from before Israel; for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians.'"

Matthew 28:1 - "...toward the dawn of the first day of the week..."

John 21:4 - "Just as the day was breaking, Jesus stood on the beach..."

Mark 6:48 - "He meant to pass by them"

Exodus 33:22 - God passes by Moses

Job 9:8 - "who alone stretched out the heavens, and trampled the waves of the sea"

Psalm 77:19 - "Your way was through the sea, your path, through the mighty waters; yet your footprints were unseen."

Habakkuk 3:15 - "You trampled the sea with your horses, churning the mighty waters."

Isaiah 43:16 - "Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters"

Psalm 18:15 - "Then the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were laid bare, at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils."

Psalm 144:6-7 - "Make the lightning flash and scatter them; send out your arrows and rout them. Stretch out your hand from on high; set me free and rescue me from the mighty waters, from the hand of aliens"

Job 26:11-12 - "The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astounded at his rebuke. By his power he stilled the sea"

Psalm 65:7 - "You silence the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, the tumult of the peoples."

Psalm 89:9 - "You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, you still them."

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Hahn, Scott, et al. Isaiah. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2019.

Kurz, William S. Acts of the Apostles. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2013.

Mitch, Curtis, and Edward Sri. The Gospel of Matthew. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2010.

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1 Kings 17:8-16 - Elijah multiplies the flour and oil for the widow of Zarephath

2 Kings 4:42-44 - "A man came from Baal-shalishah, bringing the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And Elisha said, 'Give to the men, that they may eat.' But his servant said, 'How am I to set this before a hundred men?' So he repeated, 'Give them to the men, that they may eat, for thus says the LORD, "They shall eat and have some left."' So he set it before them. And they ate, and had some left, according to the word of the LORD."

Matthew 26:20 - "When it was evening, he reclined at table with the twelve disciples"

1 Kings 4:7 - "Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household"

Leviticus 24:8 - "Every sabbath day Aaron shall set it in order before the LORD continually on behalf of the people of Israel as a covenant for ever."

Acts 13:34 - "And as for the fact that he raised him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he spoke in this way, ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’"

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Davies, W. D., and Dale C. Allison Jr. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew. Vol. 2. International Critical Commentary. London; New York: T&T Clark International, 2004.

Hahn, Scott, ed. Catholic Bible Dictionary. New York; London; Toronto; Sydney; Auckland: Doubleday, 2009.

Keener, Craig S. The Gospel of Matthew: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary. Grand Rapids, MI;  Cambridge, U.K.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2009.

Mitch, Curtis, and Edward Sri. The Gospel of Matthew. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2010.

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Psalm 78:2 - "I will open my mouth in parables"

1 Kings 4:32 - "He [Solomon] also uttered three thousand proverbs [LXX: παραβολάς, parabolas]."

Sirach 39:1-3 - "On the other hand he [a scribe] who devotes himself to the study of the law of the Most High will seek out the wisdom of all the ancients, and will be concerned with prophecies; he will preserve the discourse of notable men and penetrate the subtleties of parables; he will seek out the hidden meanings of proverbs and be at home with the obscurities of parables."

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Davies, W. D., and Dale C. Allison Jr. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew. Vol. 2. International Critical Commentary. London; New York: T&T Clark International, 2004.

Hahn, Scott, ed. Catholic Bible Dictionary. New York; London; Toronto; Sydney; Auckland: Doubleday, 2009.

Keener, Craig S. The Gospel of Matthew: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary. Grand Rapids, MI;  Cambridge, U.K.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2009.

Mitch, Curtis, and Edward Sri. The Gospel of Matthew. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2010.

Roberts, Alexander, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe, eds. “The Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus.” In The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus, Vol. 1. The Ante-Nicene Fathers. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Company, 1885.

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Daniel 3:88 - "Bless the Lord, Hananiah, Azariah, and Mishael, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever; for he has rescued us from Hades and saved us from the hand of death, and delivered us from the midst of the burning fiery furnace."

Daniel 4:10-12, 17 - "The visions of my head as I lay in bed were these: I saw, and behold, a tree in the midst of the earth; and its height was great. The tree grew and became strong, and its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth. Its leaves were fair and its fruit abundant, and in it was food for all. The beasts of the field found shade under it, and the birds of the air dwelt in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it. 17 The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men, and gives it to whom he will, and sets over it the lowliest of men."

Ezekiel 18:22-24 - "Thus says the Lord GOD: 'I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar, and will set it out; I will break off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I myself will plant it upon a high and lofty mountain; on the mountain height of Israel will I plant it, that it may bring forth boughs and bear fruit, and become a noble cedar; and under it will dwell all kinds of beasts; in the shade of its branches birds of every sort will nest. And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD bring low the high tree, and make high the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it.'”

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Davies, W. D., and Dale C. Allison Jr. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew. Vol. 2. International Critical Commentary. London; New York: T&T Clark International, 2004.

Hahn, Scott, et al. Isaiah. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2019.

Mitch, Curtis, and Edward Sri. The Gospel of Matthew. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2010.

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1 Kings 4:32 - "He [Solomon] also uttered three thousand proverbs [LXX: παραβολάς, parabolas]."

Isaiah 6:9-10 - "And he said, 'Go, and say to this people: "Hear and hear, but do not understand; see and see, but do not perceive." Make the heart of this people fat, and their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.'”

John 12:28-30, 36-37 - "'Father, glorify thy name.' Then a voice came from heaven, 'I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.' The crowd standing by heard it and said that it had thundered. Others said, 'An angel has spoken to him.' Jesus answered, 'This voice has come for your sake, not for mine.' 36 He departed and hid himself from them. Though he had done so many signs before them, yet they did not believe in him."

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Davies, W. D., and Dale C. Allison Jr. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew. Vol. 2. International Critical Commentary. London; New York: T&T Clark International, 2004.

Mitch, Curtis, and Edward Sri. The Gospel of Matthew. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2010.

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Psalm 116:6 - "The LORD preserves the simple [nepiois]; when I was brought low, he saved me."

Psalm 119:130 - "The unfolding of thy words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple [nepiois]."

Jeremiah 31:34 - "And no longer shall each man teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest."

Exodus 33:14 - “'My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.'"

Numbers 12:3 - "Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all men that were on the face of the earth."

1 Corinthians 11:2 - "I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I have delivered [paradidomi] them to you."

1 Corinthians 11:23-24 - "'For I received from the Lord what I also delivered [paradidomi] to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.'”

1 Kings 12:3-4, 13-15 - "And they sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came and said to Rehoboam, 'Your father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke upon us, and we will serve you.' [13] And the king answered the people harshly, and forsaking the counsel which the old men had given him, he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, 'My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.' So the king did not hearken to the people."

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Davies, W. D., and Dale C. Allison Jr. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew. Vol. 2. International Critical Commentary. London; New York: T&T Clark International, 2004.

Mitch, Curtis, and Edward Sri. The Gospel of Matthew. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2010.

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Micah 7:6 - "For the son treats the father with contempt, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house."

Irenaeus,  Against Heresies 4.5.4 - "Righteously also the apostles, being of the race of Abraham, left the ship and their father, and followed the Word. Righteously also do we, possessing the same faith as Abraham, and taking up the cross as Isaac did the wood, follow Him."

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Davies, W. D., and Dale C. Allison Jr. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew. Vol. 2. International Critical Commentary. London; New York: T&T Clark International, 2004.

Faithlife Corporation. “Denarius.” Verbum, Computer software. Verbum Factbook. Bellingham, WA: Faithlife Corporation, June 15, 2020. https://ref.ly/logos4/Factbook?ref=bk.%24denarius.

Louw, Johannes P., and Eugene Albert Nida. "ἀσσάριον." Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament: Based on Semantic Domains. New York: United Bible Societies, 1996.

Mitch, Curtis, and Edward Sri. The Gospel of Matthew. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2010.

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Matthew 9:33-34 - "The crowds were amazed and said, 'Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel.' But the Pharisees said, 'He drives out demons by the prince of demons.'"

Matthew 4:23, 9:35 - These verses form an "inclusio" demarcating the first "book" of the Gospel of Matthew

Ezekiel 34:23, 30-31 - "'And I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd [...] And they shall know that I, the LORD their God, am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord GOD. And you are my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, and I am your God, says the Lord GOD.'”

Matthew 10:1-2 - "And he called to him his twelve disciples [δώδεκα μαθητὰς / dodeka mathetas] and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every infirmity. The names of the twelve apostles [δώδεκα ἀποστόλων / dodeka apostolon] are these [...]"

Jeremiah 20:7-9 - "You seduced me, LORD, and I let myself be seduced; you were too strong for me, and you prevailed. All day long I am an object of laughter; everyone mocks me. Whenever I speak, I must cry out, violence and outrage I proclaim; The word of the LORD has brought me reproach and derision all day long. I say I will not mention him, I will no longer speak in his name. But then it is as if fire is burning in my heart, imprisoned in my bones; I grow weary holding back, I cannot!"

Philippians 2:10-12 - "At the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling."

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Martin, Francis, and William M. Wright M. Wright. The Gospel of John. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2015.

Pitre, Brant. Jesus and the Last Supper. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2015.

Pitre, Brant. Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper. New York: Doubleday, 2011.

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John 6:14-15 - When the people saw the sign which he had done, they said, “This is indeed the prophet who is to come into the world!” Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

Exodus 16:1-3 - "On the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt [...] the whole congregation of the people of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, and said to them, 'Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.'"

Ecclesiastes Rabbah 1:9 (quoted in Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist, 90) - "As the first redeemer caused manna to descend, as it is stated, 'Because I shall cause to rain bread from heave for you' (Exodus 16:4), so will the latter redeemer cause manna to descend."

Mekilta on Exodus 16:25 (quoted in Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist, 90) - "You will not find it [the manna] in this age, but you shall find it in the Age to Come."

2 Baruch 29:3, 6-8 (quoted in Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist, 90-91) - "It will happen that when all that which should come to pass in these parts is accomplished, the Messiah will begin to be revealed... And those who are hungry will enjoy themselves and they will, moreover, see marvels every day... And it will happen at that time that the treasury of manna will come down again from on high and they will eat of it in those years because these are they who will have arrived at the consummation of time."

Leviticus 17:10-11 - "'If any man of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood'"

Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist, 115 - "I suggest that the very reason God forbids blood in the Old Covenant is the same reason Jesus commands his disciples to drink his blood."

Genesis 3:22-23 - "Then the LORD God said, 'Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever'— therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken."

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Catechism of the Catholic Church. Strathfield, N.S.W: St. Pauls, 2000.

Mershman, Francis. "Trinity Sunday." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 1 Jun. 2020 .

Aquinas, T., n.d. Commentary On The Gospel Of John. [online] Isidore.co. Available at: [Accessed 1 June 2020].

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Catechism of the Catholic Church §1 - God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength. He calls together all men, scattered and divided by sin, into the unity of his family, the Church. To accomplish this, when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son as Redeemer and Savior. In his Son and through him, he invites men to become, in the Holy Spirit, his adopted children and thus heirs of his blessed life.

Ibid. §252 - The Church uses (I) the term “substance” (rendered also at times by “essence” or “nature”) to designate the divine being in its unity, (II) the term “person” or “hypostasis” to designate the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in the real distinction among them, and (III) the term “relation” to designate the fact that their distinction lies in the relationship of each to the others.

Ibid. §257 - God freely wills to communicate the glory of his blessed life. Such is the “plan of his loving kindness,” conceived by the Father before the foundation of the world, in his beloved Son: “He destined us in love to be his sons” and “to be conformed to the image of his Son,” through “the spirit of sonship.” This plan is a “grace [which] was given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,” stemming immediately from Trinitarian love. It unfolds in the work of creation, the whole history of salvation after the fall, and the missions of the Son and the Spirit, which are continued in the mission of the Church.

Commentary on the Gospel of John (Aquinas) §477 - The cause of all our good is the Lord and divine love. For to love is, properly speaking, to will good to someone. Therefore, since the will of God is the cause of things, good comes to us because God loves us

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Kurz, William S. Acts of the Apostles. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2013.

Pimentel, Stephen. Witnesses of the Messiah: On Acts of the Apostles, 1-15. Steubenville, Ohio: Emmaus Road, 2002.

"The Mystery of the Feast of Unleavened Bread" - Talk by Dr. Brant Pitre

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Exodus 19:16 - On the morning of the third day there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled.

Exodux 24:8 - And Moses took the blood and threw it upon the people, and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant which the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

Exodus 32:26-28 - Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, “Who is on the LORD’s side? Come to me.” And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him. 27 And he said to them, “Thus says the LORD God of Israel, ‘Put every man his sword on his side, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.’ ” 28 And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

Acts 2:37-38, 41 - Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brethren, what shall we do?” 38 And Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 41 So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.

1 Corinthians 15:20 - Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.

James 1:18 - Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

Ezekiel 36:26-27 - A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will take out of your flesh the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances.

Mark 2:22 - And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the skins; but new wine is for fresh skins.”

John 2:9-10 - When the steward of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the steward of the feast called the bridegroom and said to him, “Every man serves the good wine first; and when men have drunk freely, then the poor wine; but you have kept the good wine until now.”

Joel 4:18 - On that day the mountains will drip new wine, and the hills flow with milk, All the streams of Judah will flow with water. A spring will rise from the house of the LORD, watering the Valley of Shittim.

Amos 9:13 - Yes, days are coming— oracle of the LORD— When the one who plows shall overtake the one who reaps and the vintager, the sower of the seed; The mountains shall drip with sweet wine, and all the hills shall run with it.

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Hahn, Scott, Curtis Mitch Mitch, and R D. Walters. Daniel. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2013.

Kurz, William S. Acts of the Apostles. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2013.

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Isaiah 49:6 - “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved of Israel; I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”

Promises of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit: Matthew 3:11; Mark 1:8; Luke 3:16; John 1:33; Acts 1:5; Acts 11:16; John 14:15-17, 25-26; 15:26; 16:7-15

2 Kings 2:9-10 - When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you.” And Elisha said, “I pray you, let me inherit a double share of your spirit.” 10 And he said, “You have asked a hard thing; yet, if you see me as I am being taken from you, it shall be so for you; but if you do not see me, it shall not be so.”

Deuteronomy 34:9 - And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands upon him

Daniel 7:13-14 - And behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. And to him was given dominion and glory and kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.

4 Ezra 13:32-36 (extrabiblical Jewish text) -  And the time shall be when these things shall come to pass, and the signs shall happen which I showed you before, and then shall MY Son be revealed, whom you saw as a Man ascending. And when all the people hear His voice, every man shall in their own land leave the warfare they have against one another. And an innumerable multitude shall be gathered together, as you saw, desiring to come and conquer Him by fighting. But He shall stand on top of the mount Zion. And Zion shall come, and shall be shown to all men, being prepared and built, like as you saw the mountain carved without hands.

Leviticus 16:11-14 - “Aaron shall present the bull as a sin offering for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house; he shall kill the bull as a sin offering for himself. 12 And he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small; and he shall bring it within the veil 13 and put the incense on the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat which is upon the testimony, lest he die; 14 and he shall take some of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger on the front of the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle the blood with his finger seven times."

Hebrews 9:24-26 - For Christ has entered, not into a sanctuary made with hands, a copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. 25 Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the Holy Place yearly with blood not his own; 26 for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Catechism of the Catholic Church §662 - “And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself.” The lifting up of Jesus on the cross signifies and announces his lifting up by his Ascension into heaven, and indeed begins it. Jesus Christ, the one priest of the new and eternal Covenant, “entered, not into a sanctuary made by human hands … but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.” There Christ permanently exercises his priesthood, for he “always lives to make intercession” for “those who draw near to God through him.” As “high priest of the good things to come” he is the center and the principal actor of the liturgy that honors the Father in heaven.

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Martin, Francis, and William M. Wright. The Gospel of John. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2015.

Catechism of the Catholic Church

REFERENCES

Jeremiah 31:31-33 - “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant which they broke, though I was their husband, says the LORD. 33 But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it upon their hearts.

1 John 2:1 - "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous"

Zechariah 3:1-2 - Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him. 2 And the LORD said to Satan, “The LORD rebuke you, O Satan! The LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this a brand plucked from the fire?”

Catechism of the Catholic Church §1963 - According to Christian tradition, the Law is holy, spiritual, and good, yet still imperfect. Like a tutor it shows what must be done, but does not of itself give the strength, the grace of the Spirit, to fulfill it. Because of sin, which it cannot remove, it remains a law of bondage. According to St. Paul, its special function is to denounce and disclose sin, which constitutes a “law of concupiscence” in the human heart."

Catechism of the Catholic Church §1972 - The New Law is called a law of love because it makes us act out of the love infused by the Holy Spirit, rather than from fear; a law of grace, because it confers the strength of grace to act, by means of faith and the sacraments; a law of freedom, because it sets us free from the ritual and juridical observances of the Old Law, inclines us to act spontaneously by the prompting of charity and, finally, lets us pass from the condition of a servant who “does not know what his master is doing” to that of a friend of Christ.

Catechism of the Catholic Church §1265 - Baptism not only purifies from all sins, but also makes the neophyte “a new creature,” an adopted son of God, who has become a “partaker of the divine nature.”

Catechism of the Catholic Church §1303- Confirmation brings an increase and deepening of baptismal grace: it roots us more deeply in the divine filiation which makes us cry, “Abba! Father!”

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Martin, Francis, and William M. Wright. The Gospel of John. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2015.

Emery, Gilles. The Trinitarian Theology of Saint Thomas Aquinas. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Commentary on the Gospel of John by St. Thomas Aquinas

Mass Readings Explained with Brant Pitre

Verbum Bible Software - www.verbum.com

REFERENCES

Matthew 5:8 - “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."

Exodus 33:18 - "Then Moses said, 'Please let me see your glory!'"

John 1:1 - "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

Catechism of the Catholic Church §1994  - "Justification is the most excellent work of God’s love made manifest in Christ Jesus and granted by the Holy Spirit. It is the opinion of St. Augustine that 'the justification of the wicked is a greater work than the creation of heaven and earth,' because 'heaven and earth will pass away but the salvation and justification of the elect … will not pass away.' He holds also that the justification of sinners surpasses the creation of the angels in justice, in that it bears witness to a greater mercy."

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The Gospel of John (Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture Series)

A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23 by Phillip Keller

Verbum Bible Software - www.verbum.com

References

Ezekiel 34 - "1 The word of the LORD came to me: 2 “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord GOD: Ho, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep? 3 You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fatlings; but you do not feed the sheep. 4 The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the crippled you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them. 5 So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food for all the wild beasts. [etc, etc]"

Psalm 42:11 - "Why are you downcast, O my soul?"

1 Peter 2:25 - "For you were going astray like sheep, but now you have returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls."

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The Gospel of Luke (Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture Series)

Shanks, Hershel. “Emmaus: Where Christ Appeared,” Biblical Archaeology Review 34.2 (2008): 40–42, 44–51.

Verbum Bible Software - www.verbum.com

References

Mark 16:12 - "After this he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country."

John 19:25 - "Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene."

Eusebius, Church History  3.11 - "After the martyrdom of James and the conquest of Jerusalem which immediately followed, it is said that those of the apostles and disciples of the Lord that were still living came together from all directions with those that were related to the Lord according to the flesh (for the majority of them also were still alive) to take counsel as to who was worthy to succeed James. They all with one consent pronounced Symeon, the son of Clopas, of whom the Gospel also makes mention; to be worthy of the episcopal throne of that parish. He was a cousin, as they say, of the Saviour. For Hegesippus records that Clopas was a brother of Joseph."

Ibid., 4.22.4 - "And after James the Just had suffered martyrdom, as the Lord had also on the same account, Symeon, the son of the Lord's uncle, Clopas, was appointed the next bishop. All proposed him as second bishop because he was a cousin of the Lord."

Jerome, Letter 108, Par. 8  - "Again resuming her journey, she came to Nicopolis, once called Emmaus, where the Lord became known in the breaking of bread; an action by which He dedicated the house of Cleopas as a church."

Acts 7:22 - "Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds."

Deuteronomy 18:15 - "The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you"

Luke 9:22 - "“The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.”

Luke 17:25 - "But first he [the Son of Man] must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation."

Acts 3:18 - "What God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled."

Genesis 3:6-7 - "So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both were opened"

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• The Gospel of John (Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture Series)
• Mass Readings Explained with Dr. Brant Pitre - www.catholicproductions.com
• Verbum Bible Software - www.verbum.com

References

• Genesis 2:7 - "Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being."
• Ezekiel 37:9-10 - "Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.” 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived"
• John 17:20 - "I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word"

The Litany of Trust - https://sistersoflife.org/litany-of-trust/

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• The Gospel of John (Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture Series)
• Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week by Pope Benedict XVI
• Mass Readings Explained by Brant Pitre
• Verbum Bible Software - www.verbum.com

References

• Mark 16:1 - "And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him."
• Jesus predicts his resurrection six times in the Gospel of Matthew: Mt 12:40; 16:21; 17:9; 17:23; 20:19
• Psalm 22:22 - "I will tell of thy name to my brethren"
• Hebrews 2:11-12 - "That is why he is not ashamed to call them brethren, 12 saying, “I will proclaim thy name to my brethren, in the midst of the congregation I will praise thee.”
• 1 Corinthians 15:14 - "If Christ had not been raised [...] then your faith is in vain."

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• The Gospel of John (Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture Series)
• Verbum Bible Software - www.verbum.com

Chiastic Structure of Trial Before Pilate
A - Pilate speaks to Jewish authorities outside
B - Pilate speaks to Jesus inside
C - Pilate speaks to Jewish authorities outside
D - Jesus hailed King (John 19:1-3)
C1 - Pilate speaks to Jewish authorities outside
B1 - Pilate speaks to Jesus inside
A1 - Pilate speaks to Jewish authorities outside (delivers verdict)

References

• Leviticus 24:16 - "He who blasphemes the name of the LORD shall be put to death"
• Antiquities of the Jews by Josephus (3.159) - "Now this vesture was not composed of two pieces, nor was it sewed together upon the shoulders and the sides, but it was one long vestment so woven as to have an aperture for the neck"
• Exodus 28:32 - "It shall have in it an opening for the head, with a woven binding around the opening, like the opening in a garment, that it may not be torn."
• Psalm 22:18 - "They divide my garments among them, and for my raiment they cast lots."
• Psalm 69:21 - "For my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink"
• Zechariah 12:10, 13:1 - "And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of compassion and supplication, so that, when they look on him whom they have pierced [...] On that day there shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness."
• Ezekiel 47:1-2 - "Then he brought me back to the door of the temple; and behold, water was issuing from below the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east); and the water was flowing down from below the south end of the threshold of the temple, south of the altar. 2 Then he brought me out by way of the north gate, and led me round on the outside to the outer gate, that faces toward the east; and the water was coming out on the south side."

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• The Gospel of John (Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture Series)
• The Temple: Its Ministry and Services by Alfred Edersheim
• Verbum Bible Software - www.verbum.com

References

• Exodus 29:4, 9 - "You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting, and wash them with water [...] Thus you shall ordain Aaron and his sons."
• Exodus 30:18-20 - “You shall also make a laver of bronze, with its base of bronze, for washing. And you shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it, 19 with which Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet. 20 When they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister, to burn an offering by fire to the LORD, they shall wash with water, lest they die."
• Exodus 19:6 - "You shall be to me a kingdom of priests"
• Deuteronomy 10:9 - "Therefore Levi has no portion or inheritance with his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance"
• Jeremiah 31:31-33 - "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant which they broke, though I was their husband, says the LORD. 33 But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people."
• Exodus 24:8 - "And Moses took the blood and threw it upon the people, and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant which the LORD has made with you"

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• The  Gospel of Matthew (Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture)
• Verbum Bible Software - www.verbum.com

References

• 1 Kings 1:32-40 - Solomon rides triumphantly into Jerusalem after his royal anointing
• Zechariah 14: 3-4, 9 - "Then the LORD will go forth and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives which lies before Jerusalem on the east. [...] And the LORD will become king over all the earth; on that day the LORD will be one and his name one."
• 2 Samuel 15: 30 - "David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went, barefoot and with his head covered; and all the people who were with him covered their heads, and they went up, weeping as they went."
• 2 Samuel 16:1 - "When David had passed a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled"
• Zechariah 9:9 - "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on an ass, on a colt the foal of an ass."
• Genesis 49:10 - "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples. Binding his foal to the vine and his ass’s colt to the choice vine."
• Mark 11:2 - "'Go into the village opposite you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat; untie it and bring it.'"
• 2 Kings 9:13 - "Then in haste every man of them took his garment, and put it under him on the bare steps, and they blew the trumpet, and proclaimed, 'Jehu is king.'"
• Psalm 118:27 - "Bind the festal procession with branches"
• 1 Maccabees 13:51 - "On the twenty-third day of the second month, in the one hundred and seventy-first year, the Jews entered it [the city] with praise and palm branches"
• 2 Maccabees 10:7 - "Bearing ivy-wreathed wands and beautiful branches and also fronds of palm, they offered hymns of thanksgiving to him who had given success to the purifying of his own holy place."

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• The Gospel of John (Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture)
• Mass Readings Explained with Dr. Brant Pitre - www.catholicproductions.com
• Verbum Bible Software - www.verbum.com

References

• Jesus is described as "disturbed" in John 11:33, John 11:38, John 12:27, John 13:21
• Mishnah Yevamot 16:3 - "They are allowed to testify only when his soul has departed, even though they have seen him cut up or crucified or being devoured by a wild beast. They are allowed to testify only [if they saw the body] within three days [of death]."

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• The Gospel of John (Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture Series)
• Shanks, Hershel. “The Siloam Pool,” Biblical Archaeology Review 31, no. 5 (2005): 16, 18–23.
• Verbum Bible Software - www.verbum.com

References

• Making clay fell into the category of "kneading" which was forbidden on the Sabbath (cf. Mishnah Shabbat 7.2; The Gospel of John [Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture], 176)
• Genesis 2:7 - "Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being."

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• The Gospel of John (Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture)
• The Ignatius Catholic Study Bible
• Catholic Bible Dictionary (Scott Hahn, Editor)
• "The Woman at the Well and the Love of God" (Talk by Dr. Brant Pitre)
• Verbum Bible Software - www.verbum.com

References

• Exodus 2:15-21 - Moses meets his wife Zipporah at a well
• Genesis 24:14-19 - Abraham's servant meets Rebekah for Isaac at a well
• Genesis 29:1-9 - Jacob meets Rachel at a well
• Isaiah 54:5 - "For your husband is your maker"
• 2 Kings 17:24ff - In this passage the author of Second Kings lists the five peoples and their gods that were resettled in the land of Israel after the Assyrian conquest.
• Targum Pseudo-Jonathan  on Genesis 29:10-11 - In this ancient Jewish commentary on Genesis we are told that Jacob rolled the stone back from the mouth of the well with one arm.
• 2 Samuel 5:1 - "Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and said, “Behold, we are your bone and flesh."

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• The Gospel of Matthew (Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture Series)
• The Ignatius Catholic Study Bible
• Jesus of Nazareth (Volume I) by Pope Benedict XVI
• A Rabbi Talks With Jesus by Jacob Neusner
• The Temple: Its Ministry and Services by Alfred Ederscheim
• Mass Readings Explained by Brant Pitre

References

• Exodus 24 - Moses climbs Mt. Sinai with Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu
• Exodus 34:29ff - Moses' face is said to shine after conversing with God
• Matthew 3:17 - At the Baptism by John, God the Father speaks almost the exact words that he does at the Transfiguration
• Jude 1:9 - "But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, 'The Lord rebuke you.'"
• Deuteronomy 34:5-6 - "So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD, and he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor; but no man knows the place of his burial to this day."
• 2 Kings 2:11 - "And as they still went on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven."
• John 2:18-21 - "The Jews then said to him, “What sign have you to show us for doing this?” Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” But he spoke of the temple of his body."

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• The Gospel of Matthew (Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture Series)
• Archaeology Study Bible (Crossway)
• Virtual New Testament on www.VirtualScriptures.org
• Verbum Bible Software - www.verbum.com

References

• Lust of the Flesh; Lust of the Eyes; Pride of Life - 1 John 2:16
• Threefold Concupiscence (Good for Food; Delight to the Eyes; Desirable to Make One Wise) - Genesis 3:6
• Israel's Threefold Sin - Exodus 16:3; Exodus 17:7; Exodus 32:1-6
• Mosaic Law for King of Israel (Do not multiply wives, horses, or gold) - Deuteronomy 17:16-17
• Jesus' three Scripture quotes during temptation - Deuteronomy 8:3; Deuteronomy 6:16; Deuteronomy 6:13
• Satan's Scripture Quotation - Psalm 91: 11-12
• Jesus to Peter: "Get behind me, Satan" - Matthew 16:21-23

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• The Gospel of Matthew (Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture Series)
• Verbum Bible Software - www.verbum.com

References

• Tobit 12:8 - "Prayer is good when accompanied by fasting, almsgiving, and righteousness."
• 1 John 2:16 - "For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life"
• Genesis 3:16 - "So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, and he ate."

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• The Catechism of the Catholic Church
• The Gospel of Matthew (Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture Series)
• A Catholic Introduction to the Bible: The Old Testament
• Archaeology Study Bible (Crossway)
• A Rabbi Talks With Jesus by Jacob Neusner
• Verbum Bible Software - https://verbum.com/

References

• "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" (Ex 21:24; Lev 24:20; Dt 19:21)
• "If a man slapped his fellow, he gives him 200 zuz; if with the back of his hand, 400 zuz." (Mishnah, Baba Qamma 8.6)
• The Old Testament forbade someone from keeping one's cloak overnight (cf. Ex 22:29; Dt 24:9)
• Ez 36:26 - "A new heart I will give you and a new spirit I will put within you..."
• CCC 1966, 1968: "The New Law is the grace of the Holy Spirit"

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• The prophecy in the Book of Numbers that made the star so troubling to Herod
• Who the magi were and what their presence means for Salvation History
• Historical explanations for the Star of Bethlehem
• Why the magi gave Jesus gold, frankincense, and myrrh

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• The interesting similarities between Joseph of the Old Testament and St. Joseph, the foster father of Jesus
• Why the slaughter of the Holy Innocents likely occurred even though it's not recorded in the annals of history
• How crazy Herod the Great and his son Archelaus were and why Joseph preferred to be under the jurisdiction of Herod Antipas in Galilee
• The prophetic significance of Jesus being from Nazareth

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• The historical context of the famous prophecy from Isaiah that  "a virgin shall conceive"
• How that prophecy is initially fulfilled in King Hezekiah
• What the punishment  for adultery was under the Mosaic law and how Mary would have been affected
• Why St. Joseph chose to divorce Mary "quietly" and what it tells us about his character

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• How Jesus fulfills the prophecies from the Book of Isaiah
• What it means for John the Baptist to be the greatest prophet
• What patience really is and why, more than any other virtue, it conforms us to Christ

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• Why we read about John the Baptist during Advent
• The significance of John the Baptist's wardrobe
• How John the Baptist fulfills the role of Elijah
• Why the predominant Protestant view of baptism is inconsistent with Jesus' baptism

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• The rapture and why it's inconsistent with Catholic teaching
• What it means to be "left behind" in the Biblical context
• How the new Jerusalem will be a new Eden
• Paul's prescription to be ready for the coming of Christ

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• The covenant made between David and Israel and fulfilled by Jesus
• The nuptial overtones of Jesus' passion and resurrection
• Solomon's coronation and how it relates to Jesus' accession to the throne
• How drinking the vinegar on the cross signaled the Kingdom of God

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• The history of the Temple and its impressive size in the 1st century
• The siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD by the Roman general Titus
• The destruction of the first Temple and what it can tell us about our current times
• Why the world will end one day

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• Who the Sadducees were and why they were so different from other Jews at the time of Jesus
• What death actually is
• The evil Greek king who is the antagonist in our first reading
• How the seven brothers in Maccabees do what Adam and Eve failed to in the Garden of Eden

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