What Is the Big Picture of Jesus' Ministry?
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
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🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever wonder how all the events of Jesus public ministry fit into an overarching mission? Dr. Sri explains how the Gospel of Matthew gives us the big picture of Jesus' public ministry, connecting the old testament to Jesus' Kingdom mission.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Ascension. To discover even more free Catholic podcasts, |
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| 0:12.0 | Hi, I'm Edwards 3, and welcome to all things Catholic, where real faith meets real life. |
| 0:28.7 | I think many Christians have what I like to call a humpty-dumpty approach to the life of Jesus Christ. |
| 0:29.9 | They may know the various stories of Christ's life from the Gospels, but they're not sure |
| 0:33.9 | how all those stories fit together. |
| 0:36.4 | How about you? |
| 0:55.2 | If you had to walk someone through a timeline of Christ's life, why Christ did this at this point and why he did this at this point, could you do it? I think many of us Christians, we know that Jesus called disciples, he called the storm, he taught in parables. We know he healed a leper, he chose the 12, he gave a sermon on the mount. We know that he taught the Our Father. He gave sight to the blind and he raised the dead. But how do all these individual |
| 1:00.5 | stories fit into the one overarching story of Christ's public ministry? How do each of these individual |
| 1:07.4 | scenes fit into Jesus' strategic plan to build the kingdom, to build |
| 1:13.3 | his church, and extend salvation to the ends of the earth. Well, there's one gospel that brings |
| 1:19.7 | together all these different aspects in a beautiful, highly structured, and easy to follow |
| 1:25.3 | way. And that gospel is the gospel of Matthew. |
| 1:29.3 | Matthew is sometimes called the gospel of the kingdom. It's also sometimes called the |
| 1:33.5 | Catechus Gospel. That's what St. John Paul II called it, the Catechus Gospel, because it's |
| 1:38.6 | really easy to teach from it. It's highly structured. You can understand what Jesus is doing |
| 1:43.3 | from section by section |
| 1:44.8 | and then also see so many roots of our Catholic faith in this gospel. I think of one New Testament |
| 1:50.6 | writer who said this about Matthew. He said Matthew writes his gospel with the precision of a Swiss watch. |
| 1:57.9 | I love that. And I love that this liturgical year, the Catholic Church, is focusing |
| 2:03.0 | on the Gospel of Matthew. So when we go to Mass on Sundays, we're often going to hear from |
| 2:08.4 | Matthew's gospel throughout this upcoming liturgical year. And that's what I'd like to do today. |
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