Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica - John 2: 13-22

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🗓️ 8 November 2024

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John 2: 13-22 - 'Destroy this Sanctuary and in three days I will raise it up.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 583-584 (In 'Jesus and The Temple) - Like the prophets before him Jesus expressed the deepest respect for the Temple in Jerusalem...Jesus went up to the Temple as the privileged place of encounter with God. For him, the Temple was the dwelling of his Father, a house of prayer, and he was angered that its outer court had become a place of commerce. He drove merchants out of it because of jealous love for his Father: “You shall not make my Father’s house a house of trade. His disciples remembered that it was written, ‘Zeal for your house will consume me.’” (abbreviated)

- 586 (in 'Jesus and the Temple') - Far from having been hostile to the Temple...He even identified himself with the Temple by presenting himself as God’s definitive dwelling-place among men. Therefore his being put to bodily death presaged the destruction of the Temple, which would manifest the dawning of a new age in the history of salvation: “The hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.” (abbreviated).

- 575 (in 'Jesus and Israel') - Many of Jesus' deeds and words constituted a "sign of contradiction", but more so for the religious authorities in Jerusalem, whom the Gospel according to John often calls simply "the Jews", than for the ordinary People of God (abbreviated).

- 994 (in 'The Progressive Revelation of the Resurrection') - But there is more. Jesus links faith in the resurrection to his own person: "I am the Resurrection and the life." It is Jesus himself who on the last day will raise up those who have believed in him, who have eaten his body and drunk his blood. Already now in this present life he gives a sign and pledge of this by restoring some of the dead to life, announcing thereby his own Resurrection, though it was to be of another order. He speaks of this unique event as the "sign of Jonah," The sign of the temple: he announces that he will be put to death but rise thereafter on the third day.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. We're continuing to move through the Gospels, looking at the gospel reading from
0:15.4	the Daily Mass, and we're doing a verse-by-verse exegesis of the scriptures, really diving in and seeing,
0:21.8	seeing if we can work out what the original meaning intended by the author was.
0:26.4	Today we're looking at John chapter 2 verses 13 to 22.
0:31.8	Just before the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem and in the temple he found
0:37.1	people selling cattle and sheep and
0:39.5	pigeons, and the money changers sitting at their counters there. Making a whip out of some cord,
0:46.2	he drove them all out of the temple, cattle and sheep as well, scattered the money changes coins,
0:52.5	knocked their tables over, and said to the pigeon sellers,
0:56.0	Take all this out of here and stop turning my father's house into a market.
1:02.0	Then his disciples remembered the words of scripture.
1:06.0	Zeal for your house will devour me.
1:09.0	The Jews intervened and said,
1:11.6	What sign can you show us to justify what you have done? Jesus answered,
1:17.2	Destroy this sanctuary and in three days I will raise it up. The Jews replied, it has taken
1:24.9	46 years to build this sanctuary. Are you going to raise it up in three days?
1:30.7	But he was speaking of the sanctuary that was his body. And when Jesus rose from the dead,
1:36.1	his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed to the scripture and the words
1:41.7	he had said.
1:49.8	So a fairly famous passage, most of us are pretty familiar with Jesus cleansing the temple,
1:52.9	but this is John's version of it, and it has a few differences.
1:57.0	So as always, we want to start by thinking about the context.
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