Easter Sunday - John 20: 1-9

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🗓️ 19 April 2025

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John 20: 1-9 - 'He must rise from the dead.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 2174 (in 'The Day of the Resurrection, the new Creation') - Jesus rose from the dead "on the first day of the week." Because it is the "first day," the day of Christ's Resurrection recalls the first creation. Because it is the "eighth day" following the sabbath, it symbolizes the new creation ushered in by Christ's Resurrection. For Christians it has become the first of all days, the first of all feasts, the Lord's Day (he kuriake hemera, dies dominica) Sunday:

We all gather on the day of the sun, for it is the first day [after the Jewish sabbath, but also the first day] when God, separating matter from darkness, made the world; and on this same day Jesus Christ our Savior rose from the dead.

- 640 (in 'The Empty Tomb') - “Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen.” The first element we encounter in the framework of the Easter events is the empty tomb. In itself it is not a direct proof of Resurrection; the absence of Christ’s body from the tomb could be explained otherwise. Nonetheless the empty tomb was still an essential sign for all. Its discovery by the disciples was the first step toward recognizing the very fact of the Resurrection. This was the case, first with the holy women, and then with Peter. The disciple “whom Jesus loved” affirmed that when he entered the empty tomb and discovered “the linen cloths lying there,” “he saw and believed.” This suggests that he realized from the empty tomb’s condition that the absence of Jesus’ body could not have been of human doing and that Jesus had not simply returned to earthly life as had been the case with Lazarus.

- 515 (in 'Christ's Whole Life is Mystery') - From the swaddling clothes of his birth to the vinegar of his Passion and the shroud of his Resurrection, everything in Jesus’ life was a sign of his mystery. His deeds, miracles, and words all revealed that “in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily" (abbreviated)

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to the podcast and today it's Easter Sunday. So happy Easter to all of you who are listening.
0:21.1	This is the podcast where we look at the gospel reading that is read at today's Catholic Mass.
0:26.9	And we really dive into the text.
0:28.5	What is the text trying to communicate to its original audience?
0:32.5	So we do an exegesis of it.
0:34.9	And today for Easter Sunday, we are looking at John chapter 20, verse 1 to 9.
0:42.1	It was very early on the first day of the week and still dark when Mary of Magdalah came to the tomb.
0:50.1	She saw that the stone had been moved away from the tomb and came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved.
0:59.2	They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, she said, and we don't know where they have put him.
1:05.7	So Peter set out with the other disciple to go to the tomb.
1:09.8	They ran together, but the other disciple,
1:13.1	running faster than Peter, reached the tomb first. He went down, he bent down and saw the linen
1:20.7	cloths lying on the ground, but did not go in. Simon Peter, who was following, now came up, went right into the tomb, saw the linen cloths
1:32.5	on the ground, and also the cloth that had been over his head.
1:37.3	This was not with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself.
1:42.5	Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in.
1:48.1	He saw and he believed. Till this moment they had failed to understand the teaching of scripture
1:55.2	that he must rise from the dead. So that's our passage for today.
2:02.0	Now let's have a go at doing an exegesis of the text.
2:05.3	The first thing you always want to ask yourself when you're doing an exegesis is what's
2:09.3	the context?
2:10.3	What has happened just before this?
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