Friday of Week 17 in Ordinary Time - Matt 13: 54-58

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Matthew 13: 54-58 - 'A prophet is only despised in his own country.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 495 (in 'Mary's divine Motherhood') - Called in the Gospels "the mother of Jesus", Mary is acclaimed by Elizabeth, at the prompting of the Spirit and even before the birth of her son, as "the mother of my Lord" (abbreviated).

- 500 (in Mary 'Ever-Virgin') - Against this doctrine the objection is sometimes raised that the Bible mentions brothers and sisters of Jesus. The Church has always understood these passages as not referring to other children of the Virgin Mary. In fact James and Joseph, “brothers of Jesus,” are the sons of another Mary, a disciple of Christ, whom St. Matthew significantly calls “the other Mary.” They are close relations of Jesus, according to an Old Testament expression.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to logical Bible study.
0:15.7	The Catholic podcast, where we take a look at the scriptures from today's Mass,
0:20.7	and we try and have a look at the literal
0:22.3	sense of the text. What's going on on the most fundamental textual level? What is the author
0:28.1	trying to convey to their audience? That's what we're all about in this podcast, helping you
0:32.3	understand what the word of God really means. And today we're looking at the last part of Matthew
0:37.3	Chapter 13. So Matthew chapter 13. So
0:38.4	Matthew chapter 13 verses 54 to 58. Coming to his hometown, Jesus taught the people in their
0:48.8	synagogue in such a way that they were astonished and said, Where did the man get this wisdom and these miraculous
0:55.5	power? This is the carpenter's son, surely. Is not his mother the woman called Mary, and his
1:03.5	brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Jude? His sisters too, are they not all here with us?
1:12.1	So where did the man get it all?
1:14.1	And they would not accept him.
1:16.3	But Jesus said to them, a prophet is only despised in his own country and in his own house.
1:23.0	And he did not work many miracles there because of their lack of faith.
1:30.3	So, having finished the previous parable section in Matthew chapter 13, Matthew now begins
1:36.6	a new section of the narrative.
1:38.4	So we're going to have a few chapters here of Jesus doing things, of narratives.
1:43.5	Verse 54, coming to his own country.
1:46.8	So Jesus is coming from Copernum and he's going to Nazareth, his own country where he grew up.
1:52.4	Everyone knows him in Nazareth.
1:54.2	This is the first time he's been to Nazareth since the arrest of John the Baptist, which was
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