Hi everyone. Welcome back to Logical Bible Study, the podcast where we take an in-depth look at the scriptures,

and in particular we do a verse-by-verse exegesis, an analysis of the text of the gospel from

today's Mass. So we look at Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, we go through verse by verse

and following the church's liturgical calendar. So today if you go to Mass, you would hear

from Luke chapter 9 verses 43B to 45 so just a short reading today here's the text

for today's reading at a time when everyone was full of admiration for all he did jesus said to

his disciples for your part you must have these words constantly in your mind. The son of man is going to be

handed over into the power of men. But they did not understand when he said this. It was hidden from

them so that they should not see the meaning of it. And they were afraid to ask him about what he had just said.

So a short, interesting reading here today.

Let's start by thinking about the context.

What has happened just prior to this?

So Jesus earlier in Luke chapter 9 had started telling his disciples that the son of man

must be persecuted and killed.

He's already said that once. He's predicted his own crucifixion. He has just been transfigured, so the transfiguration has happened just before this,

and then he cast the demon out of the boy. So that all happened sort of in the section of text just before this one.

Now it's probably a few days later at this point,

and they're walking through Galilee, but all of that has just happened. And so, and we're

getting right towards the end of the Galilee ministry here. So it's not too long now before

Jesus turns his attention towards Jerusalem. So we're getting towards his, the end of his

journey around Galilee. Verse 43,

and we're actually looking at the second half of verse 43 today. The first half of verse 43 is read

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