Friday of Week 9 in Ordinary Time - Mark 12: 35-37

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🗓️ 3 March 2025

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Mark 12: 35-37 - 'David himself calls him Lord.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 202 (in 'I Believe in One God') - Jesus himself affirms that God is "the one Lord" whom you must love "with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength." At the same time Jesus gives us to understand that he himself is "the Lord." To confess that Jesus is Lord is distinctive of Christian faith. This is not contrary to belief in the One God (abbreviated).

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to the logical Bible study. The mass reading today is from Mark
0:17.6	chapter 12 versus 35 to 37. So as we always do in this podcast, we'll start by reading out that gospel passage.
0:25.7	And then we'll have a go at looking at the literal sense of the text.
0:29.0	And that's what we want to do in this podcast, is work out what the original author was trying
0:35.1	to convey to his original audience.
0:38.1	And that's always where we should start as Catholics,
0:40.6	when we want to understand what God is trying to communicate to us in his word.
0:46.7	So Mark chapter 12, verses 35 to 37.
0:51.6	At that time, while teaching in the temple, Jesus said,
0:56.8	How can the scribes maintain that the Christ is the son of David?
1:01.6	David himself, moved by the Holy Spirit, said,
1:05.5	The Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand, and I will put your enemies under your feet.
1:13.7	David himself calls him Lord.
1:16.4	In what way then can he be his son?
1:20.2	And the great majority of the people heard this with delight.
1:27.0	So a really interesting passage, and a short one, it's only three verses long, but from
1:32.3	this we learn a lot about Jesus' view of scripture, about the Jewish view of scripture,
1:37.7	and about David as well. So there's a lot of really interesting things going on here.
1:42.9	But as always, we want to start by asking ourselves,
1:46.2	what's the context? So Jesus has been arguing with the Pharisees, the Sadducees and the scribes in the
1:52.6	temple earlier in Mark chapter 12, and they have all been trying to trap him. And we know that
1:58.2	there's a large crowd of people watching.
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