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Daily Gospel Exegesis

Feast of Saint James, Apostle - Matt 20: 20-28

Daily Gospel Exegesis

Logical Bible Study

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Matthew 10: 20-28 - 'Can you drink the cup that I am going to drink?'


Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 2235 (in 'Duties of Civil Authorities') - Those who exercise authority should do so as a service. "Whoever would be great among you must be your servant." The exercise of authority is measured morally in terms of its divine origin, its reasonable nature and its specific object. No one can command or establish what is contrary to the dignity of persons and the natural law.

- 440 (in 'Christ') - He unveiled the authentic content of his messianic kingship both in the transcendent identity of the Son of Man "who came down from heaven", and in his redemptive mission as the suffering Servant: "The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many" (abbreviated)

- 601 (in 'He died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures') - The Scriptures had foretold this divine plan of salvation through the putting to death of "the righteous one, my Servant" as a mystery of universal redemption, that is, as the ransom that would free men from the slavery of sin. (abbreviated)

- 605 (in 'He died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures') - He affirms that he came "to give his life as a ransom for many"; this last term is not restrictive, but contrasts the whole of humanity with the unique person of the redeemer who hands himself over to save us.

- 622 (in 'Christ offered himself to his Father for our sins') - The redemption won by Christ consists in this, that he came "to give his life as a ransom for many" (Mt 20:28), that is, he "loved [his own] to the end" (Jn 13:1), so that they might be "ransomed from the futile ways inherited from [their] fathers" (I Pt 1:18).

- 786 (in 'A Priestly, prophetic and royal people') - Finally, the People of God shares in the royal office of Christ. He exercises his kingship by drawing all men to himself through his death and Resurrection. Christ, King and Lord of the universe, made himself the servant of all, for he came "not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." For the Christian, "to reign is to serve him," particularly when serving "the poor and the suffering, in whom the Church recognizes the image of her poor and suffering founder." The People of God fulfills its royal dignity by a life in keeping with its vocation to serve with Christ.


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Hi everyone. Welcome back to our podcast. Thanks again for tuning in as we look at the gospel reading from

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today's mass. And as always, we'll start with the

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reading. And then we want to try and provide an analysis, an exegesis, of the literal sense of

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the text, the face value of the text. So our reading for today comes from Matthew chapter 20

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versus 20 to 28. The mother of Zebedee's sons came with her sons to make a

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request of him and bowed low and he said to her, what is it you want? She said to him, promise that these two

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sons of mine may sit one at your right hand and the other at your left in your kingdom.

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You do not know what you are asking, Jesus answered. Can you drink the cup that I am going to drink?

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They replied, we can. Very well, he said, you shall drink my cup, but as for seats at my right hand and my left,

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these are not mine to grant.

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They belong to those to whom they have been allotted by my father.

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When the other ten heard this, they were indignant with the two brothers,

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but Jesus called them to him and said, you know that among the pagans, the rulers

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lorded over them. And their great men make their authority felt. This is not to happen among you.

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No, anyone who wants to be great among you must be your servant. And anyone who wants to be first among you must be your servant, and anyone who wants to be first

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among you must be your slave.

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Just as the son of man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom

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for many.

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Verse 20, the scene changes.

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The mother of Zebedee's sons.

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So we're talking here about James and John.

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These are Zebedee's sons and they come here with their mother.

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