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🗓️ 2 April 2025
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John 5: 31-47- 'You place your hopes on Moses, but Moses will be your accuser.'
Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:
- 719 (in 'John, precursor, prophet and baptist')- John the Baptist is "more than a prophet." In him, the Holy Spirit concludes his speaking through the prophets. John completes the cycle of prophets begun by Elijah. He proclaims the imminence of the consolation of Israel; he is the "voice" of the Consoler who is coming. As the Spirit of truth will also do, John "came to bear witness to the light." In John's sight, the Spirit thus brings to completion the careful search of the prophets and fulfills the longing of the angels. "He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit. and I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God.... Behold, the Lamb of God."
-548 (in 'The Signs of the Kingdom of God')- The signs worked by Jesus attest that the Father has sent him. They invite belief in him. To those who turn to him in faith, he grants what they ask. So miracles strengthen faith in the One who does his Father's works; they bear witness that he is the Son of God (abbreviated).
-582 (in 'Jesus and the Law')- In presenting with divine authority the definitive interpretation of the Law, Jesus found himself confronted by certain teachers of the Law who did not accept his interpretation of the Law, guaranteed though it was by the divine signs that accompanied it (abbreviated).
-702 (in 'God's Spirit and the Word in the Time of the Promises')- From the beginning until "the fullness of time," The joint mission of the Father's Word and Spirit remains hidden, but it is at work. God's Spirit prepares for the time of the Messiah. Neither is fully revealed but both are already promised, to be watched for and welcomed at their manifestation. So, for this reason, when the Church reads the Old Testament, she searches there for what the Spirit, "who has spoken through the prophets," wants to tell us about Christ.
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0:00.0 | Hi everyone. Thanks again for tuning in to the Daily Gospel Exegesis podcast. I hope you're getting a lot out of it. |
0:20.0 | It's always really good to dive into the Word |
0:22.5 | of God and see what God and Jesus are trying to communicate to us as Christians. And the best |
0:29.0 | way to do that is by starting with the literal sense. That's how the Catholic Church tells us we |
0:33.7 | need to start when we're studying the Bible. So the literal sense is what was the author |
0:38.7 | trying to convey to his original audience. Today we're looking at a really interesting passage, |
0:44.6 | which really requires being broken down into smaller chunks and being pulled apart a bit |
0:50.5 | because there's a lot going on here. So, John chapter 5, verse 31 to 47. |
0:58.3 | Jesus said to the Jews, were I to testify on my own behalf, my testimony would not be valid. |
1:06.6 | But there is another witness who can speak on my behalf, and I know that his testimony is valid. |
1:14.1 | You sent messages to John, and he gave his testimony to the truth. |
1:19.2 | Not that I depend on human testimony. |
1:22.1 | No, it is for your salvation that I speak of this. |
1:26.2 | John was a lamp, alight, and shining, and for a time you were |
1:30.6 | content to enjoy the light that he gave. But my testimony is greater than John's. The works my father |
1:38.9 | has given me to carry out, these same works of mine testify that the father has sent me. Besides, the father who sent me |
1:48.4 | bears witness to me himself. You have never heard his voice and have never seen his shape, |
1:56.0 | and his word finds no home in you, because you do not believe in the one he has sent you study the |
2:05.0 | scriptures believing that in them you have eternal life now these same scriptures testify to me |
2:12.5 | and yet you refuse to come to me for life. As for human approval, this means nothing to me. |
2:21.3 | Besides, I know you too well. |
2:23.3 | You have no love of God in you. |
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