Saturday of Week 18 in Ordinary Time - Matt 17: 14-20
Daily Gospel Exegesis
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🗓️ 8 August 2025
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Matthew 17: 14-20 - 'If your faith were the size of a mustard seed, the mountain would move.'
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone. If you're new to this podcast, this podcast is all about looking at the literal sense of scripture. |
| 0:18.9 | What did God intend in the most fundamental literal way? |
| 0:22.4 | What do the words mean in their original context? That's what we do in this podcast. |
| 0:26.8 | We look at the mass reading for today, particularly the gospel reading, and we really dive into |
| 0:31.9 | the text and see what it means. What do the particular words mean? How should we understand |
| 0:36.7 | it on the literal level? And as Catholics, we believe that's where we should start. And lots of people have benefited from this approach that we provide in this podcast. I've heard from so many of you about how it's blessed your walk with God and helped you understand Jesus more profoundly and more deeply. |
| 0:57.8 | And so I pray that that will happen for you as well if you're listening today. |
| 1:04.1 | Today if you go to Mass, you would hear from Matthew chapter 17 versus 14 to 20. |
| 1:09.0 | We're going to see one of Jesus' miracles here that's a bit lesser known. |
| 1:14.2 | So here's the text. A man came up to Jesus and went down on his knees before him. Lord, he said, take pity on my son. He is a lunatic and in a wretched state. |
| 1:23.1 | He is always falling into the fire or into the water. I took him to your disciples and they were unable to cure him. |
| 1:32.3 | Faithless and perverse generation, Jesus said in reply. |
| 1:35.8 | How much longer must I be with you? |
| 1:38.2 | How much longer must I put up with you? |
| 1:40.6 | Bring him here to me. |
| 1:43.0 | And when Jesus rebuked it, the devil came out of the boy who was |
| 1:46.6 | cured from that moment. Then the disciples came privately to Jesus. Why were we unable to cast it out? |
| 1:54.0 | They asked. He answered, because you have little faith. I tell you solemnly, if your faith were the size of a mustard |
| 2:03.1 | seed, you could say to this mountain, move from here to there. And it would move. Nothing would be |
| 2:09.7 | impossible for you. So what's the context here? Well, the transfiguration has just happened. So they went up the |
| 2:18.5 | mountain and Jesus was transfigured. So Jesus and the inner group of disciples now come down the |
| 2:23.7 | mountain and they rejoin the larger group. There's quite a crowd at the bottom of the mountain. |
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