Monday of Week 20 in Ordinary Time - Matt 19: 16-22

Daily Gospel Exegesis

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🗓️ 17 August 2025

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Matthew 19: 16-22 - 'If you wish to be perfect, go and sell what you own.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 2052-2053 (in 'Teacher, what must I do?') - "Teacher, what good deed must I do, to have eternal life?" To the young man who asked this question, Jesus answers first by invoking the necessity to recognize God as the "One there is who is good," as the supreme Good and the source of all good. Then Jesus tells him: "If you would enter life, keep the commandments." and he cites for his questioner the precepts that concern love of neighbor: "You shall not kill, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother." Finally Jesus sums up these commandments positively: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself. To this first reply Jesus adds a second: "If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me." This reply does not do away with the first: following Jesus Christ involves keeping the Commandments. the Law has not been abolished, but rather man is invited to rediscover it in the person of his Master who is its perfect fulfillment. In the three synoptic Gospels, Jesus' call to the rich young man to follow him, in the obedience of a disciple and in the observance of the Commandments, is joined to the call to poverty and chastity. The evangelical counsels are inseparable from the Commandments.

- 2075 (in 'The Ten Commandments') - "What good deed must I do, to have eternal life?" - "If you would enter into life, keep the commandments."

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back again to the podcast where we look at the gospel texts and really dive
0:17.5	into the words of the text. We want to try and understand the literal sense of the Bible.
0:22.6	That's what we're all about in this podcast.
0:24.9	Every day, really diving into the text to help you understand what Jesus meant, and that's where we need to start.
0:32.1	This is one of these texts that's another really interesting one, and the meaning when you do a proper exegesis on it
0:38.0	it may not be the same meaning that you have commonly heard it explained and that was certainly
0:44.6	the case for me going into doing this podcast I had one view of what it had meant but after doing
0:51.2	a bit of research and I'm really diving into it my view has changed and and that's actually a good thing. That's what should happen. We should be open to changing our views. And that's a good sign. If you dive into the text and you really are open to what it's saying and you do a proper exegesis on it and you come out having revised your views a bit, it probably means you've done a decent job of it.
1:12.2	And so let's see if you find the same today when we dive into this text.
1:16.7	Matthew chapter 19 verses 16 to 22.
1:21.9	There was a man who came to Jesus and asked,
1:25.6	Master, what good deed must I do to possess eternal life?
1:30.7	Jesus said to him, why do you ask me what is good? There is one alone who is good.
1:36.8	But if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments. He said, which? These, Jesus replied, you must not kill, you must not commit
1:49.0	adultery, you must not bring false witness, honour your father and mother, and you must love
1:55.9	your neighbour as yourself. The young man said to him, I have kept all these. What more do I need to do?
2:05.7	Jesus said, if you wish to be perfect, go and sell what you own and give the money to the
2:12.0	poor and you will have a great treasure in heaven, then come follow me.
2:24.1	But when the young man heard these words, he went away sad, for he was a man of great wealth.
2:32.9	So we're looking today at this fascinating encounter between Jesus and what's often called the rich young ruler.
2:34.5	And it's quite unique in terms of some of the things that are said here.
2:38.0	It's one that I think is commonly mishandled.
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