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Daily Gospel Exegesis

Monday of Week 16 in Ordinary Time - Matt 12: 38-42

Daily Gospel Exegesis

Logical Bible Study

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Matthew 12: 38-42 - 'There is something greater than Solomon here.'


Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 994 (in 'The Progressive Nature of the Resurrection') - Already now in this present life he gives a sign and pledge of this by restoring some of the dead to life, announcing thereby his own Resurrection, though it was to be of another order. He speaks of this unique event as the "sign of Jonah," The sign of the temple: he announces that he will be put to death but rise thereafter on the third day (abbreviated).

- 627 (in 'You will not let your holy one see corruption') - Jesus' Resurrection "on the third day" was the sign of this, also because bodily decay was held to begin on the fourth day after death (abbreviated).

- 635 (in 'Christ Descended into Hell') - Christ went down into the depths of death so that "the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live." Jesus, "the Author of life", by dying destroyed "him who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and [delivered] all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong bondage. "Henceforth the risen Christ holds "the keys of Death and Hades", so that "at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth" (abbreviated).

- 590 (in 'Jesus and Israel's faith in the one God and Saviour') - Only the divine identity of Jesus' person can justify so absolute a claim as "He who is not with me is against me"; and his saying that there was in him "something greater than Jonah,. . . greater than Solomon", something "greater than the Temple"; his reminder that David had called the Messiah his Lord, and his affirmations, "Before Abraham was, I AM", and even "I and the Father are one."

- 678 (in 'To Judge the Living and the Dead') - Following in the steps of the prophets and John the Baptist, Jesus announced the judgement of the Last Day in his preaching (abbreviated).


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0:00.0

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Daily Gospel Exegesis, which is a podcast made by logical

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Bible study. If you've been listening for a while, you know what it's all about.

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It's about providing a logical, in-depth, scriptural exegesis of the text of the Bible,

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approaching it from a Catholic perspective, but giving you the tools to understand the literal sense of scripture.

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Today, if you go to Mass, you would hear from Matthew

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chapter 12, verses 38 to 42. So that is the passage we will look at today. Here's the text.

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Some of the scribes and Pharisees spoke up. Master, they said, we should like to see a sign from you.

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He replied, it is an evil and unfaithful generation that asks for a sign the only sign it will be given is the sign of the prophet jonah for as jonah was in the belly of the sea monster for three days and three nights so will the son of man be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights. So will the son of man be in the heart of the earth for three

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days and three nights. On Judgment Day, the men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation

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and condemn it, because when Jonah preached, they repented, and because there is something greater

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than Jonah here.

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On Judgment Day, the Queen of the South will rise up with this generation and condemn it,

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because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon,

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and there is something greater than Solomon here.

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So let's start, as we always do, by thinking about the context. So Jesus has just had quite a serious confrontation with the Pharisees, and they accused him of being possessed by

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the devil. And that led to the famous blasphemy against the Holy Spirit passage. And that's, we look at

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that text as a bonus episode of the podcast.

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So if you're interested in hearing an analysis of that unforgivable sin, part of Matthew,

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And the link for that is in the show notes.

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Today's passage continues with the theme of identity revelations. We're going to see more aspects of

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Jesus' identity here. Verse 38, some of the scribes and Pharisees spoke up. So we have here

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