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Hi everyone. 
Welcome again to the Daily 

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gospel exegesis podcast. 
We're looking at the Gospel 

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reading for today's mass for 
Easter Saturday. 

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The reading at Mass is from Mark
chapter 16, verses 9 to 15. 

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So we'll start by reading the 
passage and then we want to dive

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into the text a bit and see what
we can. 

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Uncover that will help us 
understand what the author was 

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trying to convey. 
So Mark 16:9-20, 15. 

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Having risen in the morning on 
the first day of the week, Jesus

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appeared first to Mary of 
magdala from whom, he had cast 

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out Seven Devils. 
She then went to those who had 

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been his companions and who were
mourning and in tears and told 

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them, but they did not believe 
her when they heard her say that

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he was alive and that she had 
seen him After this, he showed 

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himself under another form, to 
two of them as they were on 

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their way into the country. 
These went back and told the 

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others who did not believe them 
either. 

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Lastly, he showed himself to the
11 themselves while they were at

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table, he reproached them for 
their incredulity and obstinate 

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see because they had refused to 
believe those who had seen him 

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after he had risen. 
And he said to them, go out to 

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the whole world proclaim, the 
good news to all creation. 

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So this is the last chapter of 
the Gospel of Mark and there's a

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lot of controversy about this 
last chapter of the Gospel of 

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Mark in the Bible scholar 
Community because verse 9 to 20 

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of the Gospel of the last 
chapter of the Gospel that it 

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doesn't appear in the earliest 
manuscripts of Mark or at least 

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some of them. 
So, as a result, some Scholars 

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have come to believe that 
because some of the earliest 

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manuscripts don't have this 
verse 9 to 20 the maybe these 

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verses were I added later, not 
by Mark himself but by someone 

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in subsequent decades, maybe a 
later disciple of Mark, but the 

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evidence for that is not 
conclusive because a lot of the 

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early manuscripts do have this 
ending. 

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So we really can't be sure at 
this stage, whether it was in 

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the original or not. 
But in either case, certainly 

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the church has always understood
these verses to be inspired. 

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They are the word of God, just 
as much of the rest of the 

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Gospel of Mark is so, what's the
context? 

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So Easter Sunday, the women went
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body, and they found an angel 
there instead saying that Jesus 

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was risen. 
So, Mark now gives a short 

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summary of the, major 
appearances of Jesus. 

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So this is a very condensed 
summary that we're going to hear

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from Mark. 
A lot of what we hear gets 

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unpacked more in the other 
gospels verse 9, having risen in

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the morning on the first day of 
the week. 

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So this is early on Sunday 
morning Easter Sunday, and if we

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have our dates, right? 
That's April if 33 ad, he 

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appeared first to Mary of 
magdala, And you probably know 

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the story. 
This is in John chapter 20, and 

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she thinks he's the gardener. 
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appearance of Jesus. 
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Tells us about it though. 
He then says, from whom he had 

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cast out Seven Devils. 
Now the similar phrases used in 

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Luke chapter 8, verse to Mary. 
Magdalene has Seven Devils, who 

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is Mary Magdalene? 
Exactly. 

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Well, there's been lots of 
controversy over the centuries 

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and lots of debate because some 
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Mary of Magdalene with, Other 
Mary's such as Mary of Bethany, 

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the sister of Lazarus and also 
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with her tears but that's not 
what the gospel say. 

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And so we don't know whether she
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really know much about her 
except that she was from 

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magdala. 
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she becomes a follower of Jesus 
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but that's all we know. 
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Don't identify her with any of 
the other Mary's verse 10. 

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She then went back to those who 
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and who were mourning and in 
tears. 

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So Mary and the other women as, 
you know, from the other 

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gospels, they see the Angels, 
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apostles and the disciples, what
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Verse 11, but they did not 
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When they heard her say that, 
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that she had seen him and we get
the full version of this in Luke

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When the women try to tell the 

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disciples on Easter Sunday 
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And we, his risen from the dead.
They don't believe the women and

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that makes sense. 
Because in that culture, woman's

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testimony was not really 
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Women were not considered to be 
reliable, so that might be why 

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they're not believing the women 
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Later in the day. 
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to Peter and that's when things 
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Verse 12 after this, Jesus 
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form to two of them as they were
on their way into the country. 

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So later on Easter Sunday, Mark 
tells us there's another 

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appearance of Jesus and that is 
the appearance that we know, is 

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the Emmaus Road to Emmaus story 
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And so, if you read, Luke 24, 
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another unnamed disciple, and he
gives him an extended Bible 

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study and Luke says, sorry. 
Mark says here, that In that 

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appearance, Jesus appears under 
another form. 

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Now, that's interesting language
because in Luke in Luke 24, it's

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clear that clear pass and the 
other disciple, don't recognize 

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Jesus, but it's not entirely 
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him and Mark here. 
Clarifiers that the reason they 

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don't recognize Jesus on the 
road to Emmaus is because he's 

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in a different form. 
His post, Resurrection body has 

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taken on a different form and 
certainly his body is able to do

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that. 
Verse 13, they went back and 

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told the rest so. 
Clear. 

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Passing the other disciple late 
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Go back to Jerusalem to tell the
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But the apostles did not believe
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Now, here, we need to be careful
because some of accused, or some

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would say that there's a 
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because in Luke's text. 
It says, when they get back the 

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people in the room, say yes, we 
believe Jesus has risen, but 

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here Mark says that when the 
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the apostles, don't believe 
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The solution is if you closely. 
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verse 33. 
Says the other disciples who 

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were in the room said yes, he is
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So it's Those other extended 
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Hey, Luke and 2024 doesn't say 
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apostles themselves believe, and
from here in Mark, we learn that

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in fact, although the other 
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believed the story of the Emmaus
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women might have been in there 
and they certainly would have 

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believed them. 
Mark tells us that actually the 

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apostles themselves still did 
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They only believed later that 
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himself to the 11 themselves 
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Now, which appearance is Mark 
thinking about here, there's a 

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couple of times when Jesus shows
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table, it could be that very 
same appearance on Easter Sunday

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after the to amaze disciples 
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disciples, don't believe them. 
And then, Jesus shows up, that's

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in Luke 24, verse 36. 
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That would be the The best fit 
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here. 
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of Jesus when Jesus appears in 
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the appearance. 7 days later on 
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have even suggested that he's 
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place later in Galilee 40 days 
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says next, Mark, he mentions the
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Judas has died although much, 
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erase what? 
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term, the 11. 
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his committed suicide Mark says 
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their in credulity and obstinate
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words there. 
So a more literal translation is

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Jesus reproach them for their 
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So it's kind of like 
stubbornness and that's a pretty

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common theme. 
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Mark, the disciples just don't 
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And Jesus has to keep ya, 
telling them off and not getting

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it because they had refused to 
believe those who had seen him 

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after he, He had risen. 
So Jesus in this in these 

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appearances to the disciples and
that probably is talking about 

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that first appearance to them 
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Jesus says, they should have 
believed, especially since Jesus

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has been telling them the entire
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So he expected them to believe, 
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And so he says their hearts are 
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They did not believe when they 
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Now, Mark presents at this point
of very compact account. 

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He now goes on to describe a 
speech of Jesus, which we know 

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from the other gospels took 
place much later on 40 days 

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later in the Galilean Ministry. 
Jesus says, these words and Mark

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gives us an abbreviated version.
In today's reading, we only have

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verse 15, but it basically goes 
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Jesus speech, but we just have 
verse 15 today, which says go 

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out to the world. 
God, go out to the whole World 

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proclaim, the good news to all 
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So go out to the whole world 
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apostles to travel throughout 
the entire known world, not just

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Israel. 
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They didn't expect that they 
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world. 
He says to them proclaim, the 

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good news. 
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we've discussed in this podcast,
the good news or the gospel, is 

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the message of the kingdom of 
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Everything Jesus has been saying
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what he wants them to now, go 
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So the message that he wants the
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reign of Satan is over and the 
long-awaited rain of God has now

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begun. 
That's the good news and he says

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to Proclaim that to all creation
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creature. 
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He doesn't mean to preach to 
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He means to every man of every 
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This is the command they're 
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The gospel is now available to 
all due to Gentiles not just use

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and that is the beginning of a 
new era that's the command he 

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gives them before his Ascension 
preach the gospel to all men of 

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all Nations. 
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that in the book of Acts. 
Now, there is more to this 

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speech in Mark, and we've just 
done the very first verse of 

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Jesus speech here. 
He's kind of his farewell 

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speech, but that's where the 
reading ends in today's election

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area. 
The rest of the speech we get to

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here in the Feast of the 
Ascension in here. 

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Be so we'll look at that. 
When we get to that in the 

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lectionary, So where does this 
appear in the catechism? 

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There's two main places? 
Where Mark 16 clearly shows up. 

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So paragraph 643 is one we've 
heard a few times, so that's 

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about Jesus body. 
After the resurrection, it says,

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given all these testimonies 
Christ's Resurrection cannot be 

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interpreted as something outside
the physical order and it is 

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impossible not to acknowledge it
as an historical fact, it is 

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clear from the facts that the 
disciples Faith was drastically.

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Put to the test. 
East by their masters passion 

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and Death on the cross, which he
had foretold the shock provoked 

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by the passion with so great 
that at least some of the 

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disciples did not at once. 
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Resurrection far from showing us
a community sees, by mystical 

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exaltation, the gospels 
presented with presenters, with 

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disciples demoralized and 
frightened for. 

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They had not believe the holy 
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and had regarded their words as 
an idle Tale. 

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When Jesus reveals himself to 
the Eleven on Eastern evening, 

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he upbraided them for their 
unbelief and Hardness of Heart 

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because they had not believed 
those who saw him after he had 

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risen. 
So that paragraph coat quotes a 

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lot of Mark summary from chapter
16 and notice that at the end in

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particular, the catechism 
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Jesus in Mark 16 where Jesus up 
raids and for their Hardness of 

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Heart. 
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happen as part of the 
appearance. 

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In the evening on Easter Sunday.
So that first big appearance of 

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the Apostles and then in 
paragraph 8 88, which is about 

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the teaching office of Bishops. 
Commenting on the words. 

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Jesus gives them in the 
commission here to go and preach

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the gospel to All Nations. 
It says Bishops with priests as 

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co-workers have as their first 
task quotes to preach the gospel

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of God to all men. 
In keeping with the Lord's 

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command. 
They are Heralds of Faith who 

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draw new Disciples of Christ. 
They are authentic teachers of 

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the apostolic faith endowed with
the authority of Christ. 

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So that's a nice link there to 
water our role of the Bishops. 

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And Priests is today is to 
continue the mission that Jesus 

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gave the apostles to preach the 
gospel, the kingdom of God, to 

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All Nations. 
So we'll leave it there for 

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today's podcast. 
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