Hi everyone. Welcome back to logical Bible study.

Our approach in this podcast is to go through the gospel reading from today's mass in a verse by verse way.

So we're doing an exegesis of the text

to try and get at the literal sense of the text. The Catholic Church says that if we want to

understand the Bible, we have to start with the literal sense. What did it mean in its original context?

What was the original author trying to say? Who is the audience, why did they choose certain words,

what was Jesus trying to teach his disciples? If we can start by doing a proper study of the original

context, which is called doing a study of the literal sense of the text, that will help us

understand what God meant when he inspired the Bible in certain passages. So we should

start here. This podcast is all about helping you start at the literal sense, helping you

understand what that literal sense might be so that when you go to Mass today and you hear

this gospel reading, you have a firm foundation in what the gospel reading is all about. Today we're looking

at Luke chapter 17 verses 7 to 10. Jesus said to his disciples, which of you with the servant

plowing or minding sheep would say to him when he returned from the fields come and have your meal immediately

would he not be more likely to say get my supper laid make yourself tidy and wait on me

while i eat and drink you can eat and drink yourself afterwards must he be grateful to the servant for doing what he was told? So with you,

when you have done all you have been told to do, say, we are merely servants. We have done no more

than our duty. It's an interesting teaching here, and you may not have heard this one before, because it only

appears in the Gospel of Luke.

Let's start by thinking about the context.

So at this stage, in the middle of the Gospel of Luke, Jesus is moving from Galilee to Judea

for the final phase of his ministry, so he's getting ready to go to Jerusalem.

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