Daily Gospel Exegesis

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John 8: 51-59- 'Your father Abraham saw my day and was glad.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:
- 473 (in 'Christ's Soul and his human knowledge')- But at the same time, this truly human knowledge of God's Son expressed the divine life of his person. "The human nature of God's Son, not by itself but by its union with the Word, knew and showed forth in itself everything that pertains to God." Such is first of all the case with the intimate and immediate knowledge that the Son of God made man has of his Father (abbreviated).
-590 (in 'Jesus and Israel's faith in the one God and Saviour')- Only the divine identity of Jesus' person can justify so absolute a claim as "He who is not with me is against me"; and his saying that there was in him "something greater than Jonah,. . . greater than Solomon", something "greater than the Temple"; his reminder that David had called the Messiah his Lord, and his affirmations, "Before Abraham was, I AM", and even "I and the Father are one."
-574 (in 'Jesus and Israel')- From the beginning of Jesus' public ministry, certain Pharisees and partisans of Herod together with priests and scribes agreed together to destroy him. Because of certain acts of his expelling demons, forgiving sins, healing on the sabbath day, his novel interpretation of the precepts of the Law regarding purity, and his familiarity with tax collectors and public sinners --some ill-intentioned persons suspected Jesus of demonic possession. He is accused of blasphemy and false prophecy, religious crimes which the Law punished with death by stoning.

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Luke 1: 26-38 - 'I am the handmaid of the Lord.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:
- 64 (in 'God forms his people Israel')
- 148 (in 'Blessed is she who believed')
- 269 (in 'He does whatever he pleases')
- 273 (in 'The Mystery of God's apparent powerlessness')
- 276 (in 'The Almighty')
- 332 (in 'Christ with all his angels')
- 430 (in 'Jesus')
- 437 (in 'Christ')
- 484 (in 'Who was Conceived by the Holy Spirit')
- 486 (in 'Who was Conceived by the Holy Spirit')
- 488 (in 'Mary's Predestination')
- 490-491 (in 'The Immaculate Conception')
- 494 (in 'Let it be done to me according to your word')
- 497 (in 'Mary's Virginity')
- 505 (Mary's virginal motherhood in God's plan)
- 510 (in 'Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary')
- 559 (in 'Jesus' Messianic Entrance into Jerusalem')
- 697 (in 'Symbols of the Holy Spirit')
- 706 (in 'The Spirit of the Promise')
- 709 (in 'The Kingdom in the Exile')
- 723 (in 'Rejoice, you who are full of Grace')
- 2571 (in 'God's Promise & the Prayer of Faith')
- 2617 (in 'The Prayer of the Virgin Mary')
- 2677 (in 'Communion with the Holy Mother of God')
- 2812 (in 'Hallowed be thy name')
- 2827 (in 'Thy Will be Done on earth as it is in Heaven')
- 2856 (in 'The Final Doxology')

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John 8: 21-30- 'When you have lifted up the Son of Man then you will know what I am He.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:
- 211 (in 'a God merciful and gracious')- By giving his life to free us from sin, Jesus reveals that he himself bears the divine name: "When you have lifted up the Son of man, then you will realize that "I AM"." (abbreviated)
-653 (in 'The Meaning and Saving Significance of the Resurrection')- The truth of Jesus' divinity is confirmed by his Resurrection. He had said: "When you have lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am he." The Resurrection of the crucified one shows that he was truly "I AM", the Son of God and God himself (abbreviated).
-1693 (in 'Life in Christ')- Christ Jesus always did what was pleasing to the Father, and always lived in perfect communion with him. Likewise Christ's disciples are invited to live in the sight of the Father "who sees in secret," in order to become "perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect."
-2824 (in 'Thy Will be done on earth as it is in heaven')- In Christ, and through his human will, the will of the Father has been perfectly fulfilled once for all. Jesus said on entering into this world: "Lo, I have come to do your will, O God." Only Jesus can say: "I always do what is pleasing to him." In the prayer of his agony, he consents totally to this will: "not my will, but yours be done" (abbreviated).
-2825 (in 'Thy Will be done on earth as it is in heaven')- Although he was a Son, [Jesus] learned obedience through what he suffered." How much more reason have we sinful creatures to learn obedience - we who in him have become children of adoption. We ask our Father to unite our will to his Son's, in order to fulfill his will, his plan of salvation for the life of the world. We are radically incapable of this, but united with Jesus and with the power of his Holy Spirit, we can surrender our will to him and decide to choose what his Son has always chosen: to do what is pleasing to the Father.

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John 8: 1-11 - 'Let the one among you who has not sinned be the first to throw a stone.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:
- 583 (in 'Jesus and the Temple') - Like the prophets before him Jesus expressed the deepest respect for the Temple in Jerusalem. It was in the Temple that Joseph and Mary presented him forty days after his birth. At the age of twelve he decided to remain in the Temple to remind his parents that he must be about his Father's business. He went there each year during his hidden life at least for Passover. His public ministry itself was patterned by his pilgrimages to Jerusalem for the great Jewish feasts..

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