Thursday of Week 5 of Lent - John 8: 51-59

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John 8: 51-59- 'Your father Abraham saw my day and was glad.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 473 (in 'Christ's Soul and his human knowledge')- But at the same time, this truly human knowledge of God's Son expressed the divine life of his person. "The human nature of God's Son, not by itself but by its union with the Word, knew and showed forth in itself everything that pertains to God." Such is first of all the case with the intimate and immediate knowledge that the Son of God made man has of his Father (abbreviated).

-590 (in 'Jesus and Israel's faith in the one God and Saviour')- Only the divine identity of Jesus' person can justify so absolute a claim as "He who is not with me is against me"; and his saying that there was in him "something greater than Jonah,. . . greater than Solomon", something "greater than the Temple"; his reminder that David had called the Messiah his Lord, and his affirmations, "Before Abraham was, I AM", and even "I and the Father are one."

-574 (in 'Jesus and Israel')- From the beginning of Jesus' public ministry, certain Pharisees and partisans of Herod together with priests and scribes agreed together to destroy him. Because of certain acts of his expelling demons, forgiving sins, healing on the sabbath day, his novel interpretation of the precepts of the Law regarding purity, and his familiarity with tax collectors and public sinners --some ill-intentioned persons suspected Jesus of demonic possession. He is accused of blasphemy and false prophecy, religious crimes which the Law punished with death by stoning.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to the Daily Gospel Exegesis podcast. And this is a podcast where we take a look at the literal sense of the text,
0:21.1	and it's really important that we do this as Catholics who want to understand the Bible.
0:25.6	The church tells us that we have to start with the literal sense of the text,
0:29.6	as in what was the author trying to convey to his original audience
0:33.2	through the particular words that they used.
0:37.1	We're continuing in the Gospel of John today, John chapter 8, verses 51 to 59.
0:45.3	Here's the reading for today's Mass.
0:48.3	Jesus said to the Jews, I tell you most solemnly,
0:52.6	whoever keeps my word will never see death.
0:57.0	The Jews said, now we know for certain that you are possessed.
1:01.5	Abraham is dead and the prophets are dead.
1:04.2	And yet you say, whoever keeps my word will never know the taste of death.
1:09.1	Are you greater than our father Abraham, who is dead?
1:12.9	The prophets are dead too.
1:14.9	Who are you claiming to be?
1:17.3	Jesus answered,
1:18.7	If I were to seek my own glory, that would be no glory at all.
1:23.9	My glory is conferred by the Father, by the one of whom you say he is our god although you do not know him but i know him and if i were to say i do not know him i should be a liar as you are liars yourselves
1:41.0	but i do know him and I faithfully keep his word.
1:45.7	Your father Abraham rejoiced to think that he would see my day.
1:50.9	He saw it and was glad.
1:53.5	The Jews then said, you are not 50 yet and yet you have seen Abraham.
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