Hi again, everyone.

As always, our goal in this podcast is to help you understand the literal sense of scripture.

So, as we do every day in this podcast, we go through the gospel reading verse by verse

and help you try to understand what it meant in its original context.

It's the only podcast like this out there every single day.

We look at the gospel readings from a Catholic academic perspective,

and our goal is to help you fall more in love with the Word of God

by understanding what it means on the most fundamental level. So this is the reading you fall more in love with the Word of God by understanding what it means on the

most fundamental level.

So this is the reading you would hear today at Mass, Matthew chapter 11 versus 16 to 19.

Jesus spoke to the crowds.

What description can I find for this generation?

It is like children shouting to each other as they sit in the marketplace.

We played the pipes for you and you wouldn't dance. We sang dirges and you wouldn't be mourners.

For John came neither eating nor drinking and they say he is possessed. The son of man came

eating and drinking and they say, look, a glutton and a drunkard,

a friend of tax collectors and sinners. Yet wisdom has been proved right by her actions. It's an

interesting reading today. It has some kind of strange language. So let's start by thinking about the context.

Now, what Jesus says here follows directly on from what he said yesterday. So it would be a good idea to listen to yesterday's episode first, which was earlier in Matthew chapter 11.

And in that part of the text, Jesus has been talking about how great John the Baptist is, and he says

there to the crowds about how everything has been leading up to the revelation of the kingdom

of God, which is what John perceives.

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