12th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) - Luke 9: 18-24
Daily Gospel Exegesis
Logical Bible Study
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🗓️ 21 June 2025
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Luke 9: 18-24 - 'You are the Christ of God.'
Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:
- 2600 (in 'Jesus prays') - The Gospel according to St. Luke emphasizes the action of the Holy Spirit and the meaning of prayer in Christ's ministry. Jesus prays before the decisive moments of his mission: before his Father's witness to him during his baptism and Transfiguration, and before his own fulfillment of the Father's plan of love by his Passion. He also prays before the decisive moments involving the mission of his apostles: at his election and call of the Twelve, before Peter's confession of him as "the Christ of God," and again that the faith of the chief of the Apostles may not fail when tempted. Jesus' prayer before the events of salvation that the Father has asked him to fulfill is a humble and trusting commitment of his human will to the loving will of the Father.
- 1435 (in 'The Many Forms of Penance in the Christian Life') - Conversion is accomplished in daily life by gestures of reconciliation, concern for the poor, the exercise and defense of justice and right, by the admission of faults to one's brethren, fraternal correction, revision of life, examination of conscience, spiritual direction, acceptance of suffering, endurance of persecution for the sake of righteousness. Taking up one's cross each day and following Jesus is the surest way of penance.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone. Welcome again to Logical Bible Study. This is the Catholic podcast where every day we do a verse-by-verse exegesis of the Gospels. And today we're going |
| 0:22.8 | to continue in the Gospel of Luke. So we're looking at Luke chapter 9 verses 18 to 24. One day when |
| 0:30.4 | Jesus was praying alone in the presence of his disciples, he put this question to them. |
| 0:36.8 | Who did the crowds say that I am? |
| 0:39.3 | And they answered, John the Baptist, others Elijah, and others say one of the ancient prophets come back to life. |
| 0:47.3 | But you, he said, who do you say I am? |
| 0:51.3 | It was Peter who spoke up, the Christ of God, he said. But Jesus gave them strict |
| 0:58.4 | orders not to tell anyone about this. The son of man, he said, is destined to suffer |
| 1:04.7 | grievously, to be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and to be put to death, and to be raised up on the |
| 1:13.1 | third day. |
| 1:15.1 | Then to all, he said, if anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself |
| 1:21.8 | and take up his cross every day and follow me. |
| 1:26.7 | For anyone who wants to save his life will lose it, but anyone who loses his life for my sake, |
| 1:33.5 | that man will save it. |
| 1:36.2 | So that's our passage for today, and those words are probably fairly familiar to many of you, |
| 1:40.9 | because this is Luke's version of the famous Peter's confession where Jesus then goes |
| 1:46.9 | on to make him the holder of the keys of the kingdom of God. This is Luke's version though, which is a little |
| 1:52.9 | more brief. So what's the context here? Jesus has been doing healings and miracles all across Galilee, |
| 1:59.9 | and the thing that happened just before |
| 2:02.6 | this in Luke's Gospel is the feeding of the 5,000. So it would appear that we're perhaps in |
| 2:07.2 | the middle of Jesus' ministry, somewhere in the middle chronologically. Verse 18, one day when |
| 2:13.1 | Jesus was praying alone in the presence of his disciples. Notice this, he's praying alone but with his disciples. |
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