Hi everyone. Welcome back to the Daily Gospel Exegesis podcast produced by Logical Bible Study.

Our goal in this podcast is to help you understand the literal sense of scripture.

What did these words mean in their original context?

What was the author trying to get at?

And the teaching of the Catholic Church is that we always have to start with the literal

sense before we jump to any spiritual sense.

So that's what we're trying to help you do in this podcast.

Every single day, we give you an

exegesis, an analysis of the literal sense. We have a shorter reading today, Mark

Chapter 9, verses 38 to 40. John said to Jesus, Master, we saw a man who is not one of us

casting out devils in your name. And because he was not one of us, we saw a man who is not one of us casting out devils in your name, and because he was not one of us, we tried to stop him.

But Jesus said, you must not stop him. No one who works a miracle in my name is likely to speak evil of me.

Anyone who is not against us is for us. So that's a reading today from

Mark and what's interesting about this is we have a whole lot of interesting teachings in and of

themselves that have been put together here by Mark and Matthew includes basically all of these same

teachings but he puts them in different places. So it's not entirely clear if Jesus said all of these same teachings, but he puts them in different places.

So it's not entirely clear if Jesus said all of these things on the same occasion or whether

Mark has rearranged them to make an overall point here. So there's quite a few different bits

to analyze here. What's the context? So Jesus is moving through Galilee with his disciples and they've reached

Copernum. This particular scene, if you've followed what happened earlier in Mark

chapter 9, this scene takes place in Jesus' own house in Copernum. This is a private briefing with

his disciples. So they're in Jesus' house in Copernum and they've been arguing

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