Monday of Week 34 in Ordinary Time - Luke 21: 1-4
Daily Gospel Exegesis
Logical Bible Study
5 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
To support the ministry and access exclusive content, go to: http://patreon.com/logicalbiblestudy
For complete verse-by-verse audio commentaries from Logical Bible Study, go to: https://mysoundwise.com/publishers/1677296682850p
Luke 21: 1-4 - 'The widow's mite.'
Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:
- 2544 (In 'Poverty of Heart') - Jesus enjoins his disciples to prefer him to everything and everyone, and bids them “renounce all that [they have]” for his sake and that of the Gospel. Shortly before his passion he gave them the example of the poor widow of Jerusalem who, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on. The precept of detachment from riches is obligatory for entrance into the Kingdom of heaven.
Got a Bible question? Send an email to [email protected], and it will be answered in an upcoming episode!
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone. Welcome to Logical Bible Study, in particular welcome if you're new to the podcast. In this |
| 0:17.1 | podcast, we're all about helping you understand the Bible. So we do a verse by verse |
| 0:22.0 | exegesis of the gospel reading from today's Mass. So we're all about doing a really deep |
| 0:27.0 | dive into the readings to see what they meant in their original context. That's our goal in |
| 0:32.0 | this podcast to look at the literal sense of the text. We want to help Catholics and Christians |
| 0:37.3 | and everyone understand the |
| 0:39.1 | Bible better and the Catholic Church tells us that's what we should be doing. We should be |
| 0:42.7 | doing more on the literal sense of the text, helping people understand this a little more. |
| 0:48.6 | Today's reading at Mass is Luke chapter 21 versus 1 to 4. Jesus looked up he saw rich people putting their |
| 0:57.6 | offerings into the treasury then he happened to notice a poverty-stricken widow putting in two |
| 1:03.5 | small coins and he said I tell you truly this poor widow has put in more than any of them. |
| 1:12.0 | For these have all contributed money they had over, but she, from the little she had, |
| 1:18.4 | has put in all she had to live on. |
| 1:22.9 | So that's the reading for today. |
| 1:24.4 | It's a shorter one. |
| 1:25.9 | And this episode is only found in Luke. |
| 1:28.5 | You won't hear about this widow in any of the other gospel. So let's dive into it. |
| 1:34.7 | What's the context here? So Jesus has arrived in Jerusalem for the last week of his life. |
| 1:39.4 | He's already cleansed the temple and now he's teaching in the temple for the last few days of his life. |
| 1:45.1 | Just prior to this, so at the end of chapter 20, he has denounced the scribes, and he particularly |
| 1:50.8 | said of the scribes that they devour widows' houses. So he has just said that. What we see here |
| 1:56.9 | occurs straight after that, so he's just been denouncing the scribes. And then Luke here says, then Jesus looked up. So it occurs straight after that. So he's just been denouncing the scribes. And then Luke here says, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Logical Bible Study, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Logical Bible Study and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.