Hi everyone. This is the logical Bible study podcast and our goal here in this podcast is to take a look at the literal sense of the gospel texts. What do they mean in their original context?

What was Jesus trying to get at in certain circumstances? So we're doing an exegesis of the text.

And as always, we'll start with the gospel reading from today's mass. So it's Luke chapter 17

verses 20 to 25. Asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was to come, Jesus gave them

this answer. The coming of the kingdom of God does not admit of observation, and there will be no one

to say, look here, look there. For you must know, the kingdom of God is among you. He said to the disciples,

A time will come when you will long to see one of the days of the son of man and will not see it.

They will say to you, look there or look here. Make no move, do not set off in pursuit.

For as the lightning flashing from one part of heaven lights up the other,

so will be the son of man when his day comes.

But first he must suffer grievously and be rejected by this generation.

So as we get into today's text, it's worth pointing out that this one in particular is one part

of the Gospels where scholars are divided and it's, you're going to encounter different views

depending on which commentary you read.

And that's certainly acceptable.

For a Catholic, you really just need to look at the text, do a bit of

research, and come to your own conclusions on what makes the most sense to you. Scholars are

divided on this. The church has no official interpretation on how to understand these texts,

and you'll particularly see with the second half of today's text when Jesus starts to do

predictions about what's going to happen on the days of judgment.

There's different views amongst Catholics about what exactly is Jesus talking about.

So we'll offer one view in this podcast, but you're not bound to accept it.

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