Holy Week through the eyes of the Apostles, Rod Bennett is next.

Hello, and welcome to Focus the Catholic Answers Podcast for living, understanding,

and defending your Catholic faith. I'm Si Killett, your host, and for Holy Week,

a special conversation with Rod Bennett. Many people know Rod Bennett as the author of the very,

very popular and very helpful book for witnesses, the early church in her own words. He's the author

of many other books as well. And his newest is these 12, the gospel through the Apostles eyes.

So we asked if Rod would come in and just talk to us about Holy Week through the eyes of the

Apostles, and here's what he had to say. Rod Bennett's author of four witnesses, the early church

in her own words, and many other fine books, including this brand new one, these 12, the gospel

through the Apostles eyes. Thanks for being with us here. Excellent. Good to be here. I always

enjoy speaking with you. Well, and congratulations on the book. It being Holy Week this week,

I wanted to ask you about the experience of the 12 Apostles, what their experience of Holy Week

was like. This whole project of yours in the book, these 12, we've spoken to about this a little

bit before, but it seems to me that it's like getting a fresh look at Jesus when you look at him

through the eyes of the Apostles. Well, that was the idea anyway. It's Jesus, especially in his role

as a teacher. That's what's most central when you look at it from this perspective. And that

teaching continued right up into to the moment of his departure from among us. And that, so that

definitely has a bearing on our Holy Week experience. But what a horrible week of education for

the Apostles. I mean, the school of hard knocks. Boy, yes, right. And you talk a bit in the book

about how you connect this Holy Week and all the events of Holy Week back to the

transfiguration to some degree. And you talk about, why did the Lord only bring three of the

Apostles with him up to the top of the mount of transfiguration? Why does he tell them, don't tell

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