Monday of Week 25 in Ordinary Time - Luke 8: 16-18
Daily Gospel Exegesis
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🗓️ 21 September 2025
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Luke 8: 16-18 - 'Anyone who has will be given more.'
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone. Welcome back to the Daily Gospel Exegesis podcast produced by Logical Bible Study. |
| 0:18.3 | This is the only podcast like this out there. Every day, from a Catholic |
| 0:22.7 | perspective, we engage with the best Catholic scholarship on how to understand the literal |
| 0:27.6 | sense of the text. What did these words mean in their original context? How can we understand them? |
| 0:32.8 | What was Jesus trying to get at? And as Catholics, we have to start with the literal sense. And the point of this |
| 0:38.3 | podcast is to help you understand probably what the literal sense is. We always need to start with that. |
| 0:45.4 | And we're looking at the gospel reading that you would hear at today's Mass. So if you go to Mass |
| 0:49.9 | today, you would hear this short reading from Luke chapter 8 verses 16 to 18. Jesus said to the crowds, |
| 0:58.8 | no one lights a lamp to cover it with a bowl or to put it under a bed. No, he puts it on a lamp |
| 1:05.4 | stand so that people may see the light when they come in. For nothing is hidden, but it will be made clear. Nothing's |
| 1:14.0 | secret, but it will be known and brought to light. So take care how you hear, for anyone who has will be given |
| 1:22.1 | more, from anyone who has not, even what he thinks he has, will be taken away. |
| 1:30.7 | So that's our shorter reading today. What's the context here? So it's early in Jesus' ministry. |
| 1:36.0 | Jesus is speaking to the crowds in Galilee. He's been giving parables and he's just finished explaining |
| 1:41.3 | one of the parables to the disciples. So at the start of our passage today, |
| 1:46.6 | the lectionary says Jesus said to the crowds. Now actually, that's not in the original text. If you |
| 1:52.0 | open up your Bible to Luke chapter 8 verse 16, it doesn't say that. Just Jesus keeps talking. And in |
| 1:57.5 | the last section, he was actually speaking only to the disciples. So it's possible, |
| 2:02.2 | it's not certain, but it's possible that at this point, Jesus is only speaking to his |
| 2:06.8 | disciples as the inner circle and not the crowds as a whole. But it's sort of hard to tell. |
| 2:12.1 | He says, no one lights a lamp. Now, we need to picture this not as a modern lamp. In those days, a lamp was kind of a small |
| 2:21.0 | stone pot thing, and it looks like the lamp from Aladdin. So try and picture that whenever Jesus |
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