Hi everyone. Once again, welcome back to the Daily Gospel Exegesis podcast, where we look at the gospel

reading from today's Mass, and we do an exegesis on it,

meaning we look at what the original author was trying to convey to his original audience,

and that's called looking at the literal sense, which for us as Catholics is something we should

be doing. Whenever we start to look at a Bible passage, we always want to start with the literal sense,

that's the Catholic teaching.

But it's something that perhaps isn't talked about often enough, and that's the point of this podcast,

to help you understand the literal sense of these words that we hear at Mass every day.

Today's reading from the lectionary is from John, 5, verse 1 to 3 and verse 5 to 16.

There was a Jewish festival and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now at the sheep pool in Jerusalem,

there is a building called Beth Zatha in Hebrew, consisting of five

porticos, and under these were crowds of sick people. Blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the water

to move. One man there had an illness which had lasted 38 years and when jesus saw him lying there and knew he had been in this condition for a long time he said do you want to be well again

sir replied the sick man i have no one to put me into the pool when the water is disturbed, and while I'm still on the way,

someone else gets there before me. Jesus said, get up, pick up your sleeping mat, and walk.

The man was cured at once, and he picked up his mat and walked away.

Now, that day happened to be the Sabbath,

so the Jews said to the man who had been cured,

It is the Sabbath, you are not allowed to carry your sleeping mat.

He replied,

But the man who cured me, told me, pick up your mat and walk.

They asked, Who is the man who said to you, pick up your mat and walk. They asked, who is the man who said to you, pick up your

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