Hi everyone. Welcome back to Daily Gospel Exegesis podcast, where we're all about doing an

exegesis on the Gospels, so trying to get at the literal sense of the text. And the way we do that is we go

through verse by verse. So we do a verse by verse exegesis of the gospel reading from today's Mass.

And that's usually a really helpful way of working out what it meant in its original context.

And that's where we should start as Catholic. So this podcast is designed to help you

enter in more deeply into the gospel reading that you will hear at today's Mass. But we do it

a bit in a bit of a unique way because we're not looking for the spiritual sense or we're not

doing homily. We're looking at the literal sense of the text. What did it mean in its original

context? Today if you go to

Mass, you would hear from Luke chapter 17, verses 11 to 19. On the way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled

along the border between Sumeria and Galilee. As he entered one of the villages, 10 lepers

came out to meet him.

They stood some way off and called to him.

Jesus, master, take pity on us.

When he saw them, he said, go and show yourselves to the priests.

Now, as they were going away, they were cleansed.

Finding himself cured, one of them turned back. praising God at the top of his voice and threw himself at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. The man was a Samaritan.

This made Jesus say, were not all ten made clean? The other nine? Where are they?

It seems that no one has come back to give praise to God except this foreigner.

And he said to the man, stand up and go on your way. Your faith has saved you.

So as always, we want to start by thinking about the context. Whenever you sit down to study the Bible,

or to study a specific passage of the Bible, the first step is to work out what has happened

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