Friday of Week 13 in Ordinary Time - Matt 9: 9-13

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🗓️ 3 July 2025

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Matt 9: 9-13 - 'It is not the healthy who need the doctor, but the sick.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 581 (in 'Jesus and the Law') - The Jewish people and their spiritual leaders viewed Jesus as a rabbi. He often argued within the framework of rabbinical interpretation of the Law. Yet Jesus could not help but offend the teachers of the Law, for he was not content to propose his interpretation alongside theirs but taught the people "as one who had authority, and not as their scribes" In Jesus, the same Word of God that had resounded on Mount Sinai to give the written Law to Moses, made itself heard anew on the Mount of the Beatitudes. Jesus did not abolish the Law but fulfilled it by giving its ultimate interpretation in a divine way: "You have heard that it was said to the men of old. . . But I say to you. . ."With this same divine authority, he disavowed certain human traditions of the Pharisees that were "making void the word of God"

- 589 (in 'Jesus and Israel's faith in the one God and Saviour') - Jesus gave scandal above all when he identified his merciful conduct toward sinners with God's own attitude toward them. He went so far as to hint that by sharing the table of sinners he was admitting them to the messianic banquet (abbreviated).

- 2100 (in 'Sacrifice') - Outward sacrifice, to be genuine, must be the expression of spiritual sacrifice: "The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit...." The prophets of the Old Covenant often denounced sacrifices that were not from the heart or not coupled with love of neighbor. Jesus recalls the words of the prophet Hosea: "I desire mercy, and not sacrifice" (abbreviated).

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. Welcome to Logical Bible Study, and this is the podcast where we do an exegesis of
0:18.0	scripture. We really dive into the text to try and understand what it means on the literal level.
0:23.2	What's the text saying?
0:24.4	What did Jesus mean when he chose certain words?
0:27.2	Today we're going to look at Matthew chapter 9 verses 9 to 13.
0:32.4	As Jesus was walking on, he saw a man named Matthew sitting by the customs house, and he said to him,
0:40.0	follow me. And he got up and followed him. While he was at dinner in the house, it happened that a number
0:47.8	of tax collectors and sinners came to sit at the table with Jesus and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his
0:56.3	disciples, why does your master eat with tax collectors and sinners? When he heard this, he replied,
1:03.0	it is not the healthy who need the doctor, but the sick. Go and learn the meaning of the words.
1:09.4	What I want is mercy, not sacrifice.
1:13.3	And indeed, I did not come to call the virtuous, but sinners.
1:19.3	So what's the context here?
1:21.5	Jesus has just begun to do various healings in the Galilee region, in the north part of Israel.
1:27.3	He's just healed the paralyzed man
1:29.2	in Copernum. And you can read that story on Thursday of week 13 in ordinary time. So verse nine,
1:36.4	as Jesus was walking on or passed on from there, so he's walking out of Copernum now, out of the
1:41.8	town that he was just in. And Matthew's version of
1:44.6	this event tells us that he goes to walk along the lake shore. So he's walking along the lake and
1:50.0	he sees a man named Matthew. Now in some other places he's called Levi, son of Elfius, but it's
1:56.6	the same person, Matthew, the apostle and the writer of the Gospel of Matthew. And this particular
2:02.0	reading we have today is read on the Feast of St Matthew because it's the moment when Matthew first
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