Feast of Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist - John 20: 2-8

Daily Gospel Exegesis

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🗓️ 26 December 2024

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John 20: 2-8 - 'The other disciple saw, and he believed.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 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 Daily Gospel Exegesis podcast.
0:15.4	As always, we're going to try and analyze the text of today's gospel.
0:19.3	We want to try and do a verse-by-verse exegesis of scripture to try and get the text of today's gospel. We want to try and do a verse-by-verse
0:21.2	exegesis of scripture to try and get at the literal sense of the text. What did it mean
0:26.3	in its original context? Today's reading is from John chapter 20 verses 2 to 8.
0:34.3	On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved.
0:43.7	They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, she said, and we don't know where they have put him.
0:50.2	So Peter set out with the other disciple to go to the tomb.
1:02.0	They ran together, but the other disciple, running faster than Peter, reached the tomb first. He bent down and saw the linen cloths lying on the ground, but did not go in.
1:09.0	Simon Peter, who was following, now came up, went right into the tomb,
1:15.9	saw the linen cloths on the ground, and also the cloth that had been over his head. This was not
1:22.5	with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple who had reached to the tomb first
1:30.6	also went in. He saw and he believed. So that's our passage for today. Now let's have a go at doing
1:38.4	an exegesis of the text. The first thing you always want to ask yourself when you're doing
1:43.1	an exegesis is what's the context?
1:45.5	What has happened just before this?
1:48.0	Well, the main thing that's happened just before John chapter 20 is Jesus has died on the cross in John chapter 19.
1:54.9	And they have laid him in the tomb.
1:57.6	So now we get to verse one and it's the first day of the week.
2:01.5	Now in Jewish reckoning, that's Sunday.
2:03.3	So we're talking about Sunday two days after Jesus dies.
2:07.3	So very early in the morning while it's still dark.
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