Hi everyone. Welcome back again to Daily Gospel Exegesis, which is a podcast made by the Logical

Bible Study Ministry. This is a ministry that's all about looking at the Bible

from a Catholic perspective and helping average Catholics understand their Bible better by looking

at the literal sense of the text. So not just doing an overview of the Bible, lots of ministries do

that, but we really dive into specific texts. So we go through verse by verse and look at what

the original meaning was. What did the original author try to convey, taking into account

all the various language and sociological aspects of that. So that's called doing an exegesis

of the text. And we do that every day on this podcast. We look at the gospel reading for today's

Mass and we try and work out what it means. Today we're looking at Matthew 18 versus 1 to 5

and verse 10. So it skips around a little bit, but basically we're at the start of Matthew

chapter 18. Here's the reading.

The disciples came to Jesus and said, who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?

So he called a little child to him and set the child in front of them. Then he said, I tell you

solemnly, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

And so, the one who makes himself as little as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Anyone who welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me.

See that you never despise any of these little ones, for I tell you that their angels in heaven

are continually in the presence of my father in heaven. So starting Matthew chapter 18 here, and this is the fourth big sermon in Matthew.

You'll probably remember when we talked about the, when we did an introduction to Matthew,

that there are five big sermons in Matthew.

So you've got, you know, the sermon on the mount, the discipleship sermon.

Now we're at the fourth large sermon, and it's often called something

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