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Hi everyone. 
Welcome back to the Daily gospel

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exegesis from The Logical, Bible
study Ministry. 

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Thank you for tuning in. 
This is the podcast where we 

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look at the mass reading for 
today, the Gospel reading from 

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today's Catholic mass and we 
want to pull it apart a bit. 

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What's the original author? 
Trying to communicate? 

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Kate to the original audience. 
So we start by looking at the 

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passage for Easter Friday. 
We're looking at John chapter 

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21, verses 1 to 14, Jesus showed
himself again to the disciples. 

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It was by the Sea of tiberias 
and it happened like this. 

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Simon Peter. 
Thomas called the twin Nathanael

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from Cana in Galilee the sons of
Zebedee and two more of his 

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disciples were together. 
Simon Peter said I'm going 

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fishing. 
They replied will come with you.

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They went out and got into the 
boat but caught nothing that 

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night, it was light by now. 
And there stood Jesus on the 

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shore though, the disciples did 
not realize that it was Jesus. 

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Jesus cold out, have you caught 
anything friends? 

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And when they answered, no, he 
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starboard and you'll find 
something. 

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So they dropped the net and 
there were so many fish that he 

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could not haul it in the 
disciple. 

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Jesus loved said to Peter, it is
the Lord at these words, it is 

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the Lord Simon Peter who had 
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his cloak around him and jumped 
into the water. 

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The other disciples came on in 
the boat, towing, the net and 

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the fish. 
They were only 100 yards from 

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land. 
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they saw that there was some 
bread there and a charcoal fire 

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with fish cooking on it. 
Jesus said, bring some of the 

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fish. 
You have just caught Simon Peter

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went aboard and dragged the net 
to the shore full of big fish 

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153 of them. 
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many, the net was not broken. 
Jesus said to them, come and 

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have breakfast. 
None of the disciples was bold 

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enough to ask, who are you? 
They knew it quite well, that it

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was the Lord. 
Jesus then stepped forward took 

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the bread and gave it to them 
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This was the third time that 
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disciples after rising from the 
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So that's our passage here 
today. 

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It's quite a well-known one, and
quite a beautiful one for many 

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people. 
So what's the context by now? 

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Jesus has risen on Easter Sunday
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Jerusalem. 
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Jesus told the apostles to go 
back to Galilee and he said 

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that, if you go back to Galilee,
that's where you'll see me 

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again. 
So after eight more days in 

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Jerusalem, the apostles make 
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that's a 60-mile journey. 
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probably a few days to get back 
to Galilee. 

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And that's where most of them 
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for a couple of them. 
So once they get to Galilee the 

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picture, we get, is the 
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They sit and wait for Jesus. 
They're just sitting and waiting

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for him to appear. 
They're following his 

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instructions. 
They know that he's going to 

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come but they don't know. 
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appear in Galilee that's where 
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early on and that's where he 
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And that's where he Ascended 
into heaven. 

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Now John the author here, 
doesn't tell us how long they've

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been waiting for in Galilee so 
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since they traveled from 
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A lot of Scholars would say it's
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days or maybe a week after they 
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What we're going to see here is 
the seventh appearance of Jesus 

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after his resurrection. 
So I've already had the 

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appearances to the women and the
appearances in the room in 

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Jerusalem. 
This is now appearance, number 

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seven, Now some, it's worth 
noting in terms of literary 

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criticism some Scholars think 
that this chapter was added 

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later because there's chapter 
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conclusion in it and now we have
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So some of thought that means 
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to the end later. 
I think the evidence for that is

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not particularly strong because 
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everything. 
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before that, but it's worth 
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That you might encounter that 
claim. 

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So verse 1 there by the Sea of 
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for the Sea of Galilee which is 
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most of his time doing Ministry.
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familiar with this area. 
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It says the John says it 
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So notice that John wants to 
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he's giving an accurate 
depiction of what actually 

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occurred. 
He says it happened like this. 

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Verse to Simon Peter Thomas 
called the twin Nathanael from 

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Cana in Galilee the sons of 
Zebedee and two more of his 

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disciples. 
So John here lists the people 

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that are present at this scene. 
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It's not all of the Apostles. 
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here plus two more of the other 
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Some Scholars have thought it's 
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because sometimes you who 
represented this way, some 

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schools of thought that the 
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Galilee to go back to their old 
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They've kind of given up on 
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and they weren't expecting Jesus
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That doesn't really make sense, 
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what's going on in this scene of
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here, Simon Peter Thomas called 
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sons of Zebedee. 
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Simon, James and John are 
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The others are not fishermen, so
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they're all just gone back to 
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ways because some of them didn't
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them certainly won't fisherman. 
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on here is they've gone back to 
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just sitting around waiting for 
Jesus. 

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And some of them happen to be 
fishermen. 

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Verse 3. 
Simon, Peter says I'm going 

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fishing, which makes sense 
because he's a fisherman and 

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they reply will come with you. 
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probably just bored and they're 
looking for something to do 

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while they wait for Jesus. 
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going to be. 
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the boat but caught nothing that
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And not time, was the usual time
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Galilee verse for John says, it 
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So, it's early morning. 
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Stood Jesus, on the shore. 
So Jesus, apparently pops up out

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of nowhere here. 
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that it was Jesus. 
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why that might not recognize 
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We've talked about this in the 
podcast a bit often in Jesus 

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post-resurrection appearances. 
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initially. 
And there's two possible 

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explanations. 
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in a different form and there's 
some passages which indicate 

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that or it could be that God is 
super naturally blinded them so 

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they don't recognize him or a 
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It's certainly not because of 
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too far away and they can't 
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There's something different 
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put their finger on verse 5. 
Have you caught anything 

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friends? 
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different there. 
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says, you haven't caught 
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maybe, because he wants the 
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can't do anything without him, 
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rely on him, he'll provide the 
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When there is a lack and all 
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today's text, there's perhaps 
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What are the fish mean? 
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terms of Jesus supplying the 
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So they answer. 
No, we haven't caught anything. 

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So he says throw the net out to 
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something. 
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of the boat. 
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mean that all night, they had it
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they hadn't thought of going to 
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That's probably not correct. 
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right side. 
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What's happened now is Jesus, 
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the fish to come up to the right
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drop the net. 
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they could not haul it in. 
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Jesus controls the movement 
patterns of fish here, which is 

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pretty incredible. 
What's has been written about 

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the theological implications of 
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So some Scholars say that what 
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his audiences. 
That if Disciples of Jesus try 

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to do things in their own 
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But when they rely on the Lord, 
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instructions, then there's a 
large Harvest and God provides 

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the result. 
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a spiritual reading of. 
The text does John intend that 

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to be the meaning, maybe, but we
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podcast. 
We just want to stick with. 

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What's the literal? 
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trying to get across and he's 
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actually happened. 
Not to rule out, there's other 

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interpretations but we just 
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spiritual interpretations verse 
7, the disciple Jesus loved said

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to Peter, it is the Lord. 
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know that? 
It's the Lord, probably, because

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the Beloved disciple remembers 
that this exact same thing has 

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happened earlier. 
When they first met Jesus in 

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Luke chapter 5, verses 1 to 11 
or at least when their Ministry 

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on the Sea of Galilee started. 
So in the very same place, in 

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Luke Chapter 5, Jesus gets the 
apostles to cast their net again

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and they get a massive haul of 
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The upon the Beloved disciple 
was probably John remembers 

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that. 
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Lord. 
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the Lord Simon Peter who had 
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his cloak around him and jumped 
into the water. 

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So Peter would have been wearing
a thin outer garment for his 

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manual labor as a fisherman and 
he feels so he's a bit ashamed. 

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He feels that that's not 
presentable if he's going to 

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meet Cheese's. 
So he wraps an extra cloak 

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around himself and he jumps into
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Jesus. 
He's so enthusiastic to get to 

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Jesus. 
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John as the It includes here 
that indicates that it's an 

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eyewitness that we get this 
information from it. 

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The writer John knows that the 
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the Beloved disciple that it's 
the Lord and they know what 

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Peter was wearing and that he 
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So certainly it does seem like 
the Beloved disciple is John the

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author himself. 
The other disciples came on in 

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the boat to work, Towing the net
in the fish, they were only 

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about a hundred yards from land,
so they want to bring the fish 

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into Shore. 
So they come into sure they're 

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not that far out. 
So it wouldn't have taken them 

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too long to bring it in, 
although it's a very heavy 

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catch. 
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they saw that there was some 
bread there and a charcoal fire 

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with fish cooking on it. 
So Jesus has prepared breakfast 

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for them. 
Why while these are his closest 

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Companions and he knows they've 
been working. 

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Working all night. 
So the least he can do is give 

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them some breakfast. 
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He's cooking his cooking bread 
and fish. 

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Now, these were pretty common 
foods at the time, so there 

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might not be any significance 
there, but on the other hand, 

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Jesus might have deliberately 
chosen to cook bread and fish 

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because he wants the disciples 
to recall the multiplication 

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Miracles. 
He performed with bread and fish

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earlier on the feeding of the 
4000 and the feeding of the 5000

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which involved bread and fish. 
Verse 10. 

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Jesus said, bring some of the 
fish, you have just caught. 

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So Jesus wants him to add some 
of the fish they've caught and 

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add it to the fire so that 
there's enough breakfast for 

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everyone. 
And again a spiritual reading of

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this might suggest that Jesus 
wants us to add our efforts into

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his to partner with him. 
In order to expand the kingdom. 

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Simon Peter went aboard and 
dragged the net to the shore 

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full of big fish. 
So, Simon jumps into the boat 

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and he unhooks unhooks than 
that, and drags in into short. 

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Now, that's not easy. 
Considering the disciples 

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struggled to pull it up earlier.
But somehow, Peter manages to 

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pull it in by himself and there 
was 153 fish in the net. 

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Clearly, again we have evidence 
of an eyewitness, only a no 

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eyewitness wouldn't know how 
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counted them. 
What's the significance of the 

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number 153? 
Why does John fuel necessary to 

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count them and include the 
number here, there's lots of 

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different suggestions. 
Some have thought it has 

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something to do with the number 
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The apostles are going to preach
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I think the most likely 
explanation on the literal sense

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is that John is just including 
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to his readers just Any fish. 
There was to communicate that it

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really was a miraculous. 
There's 153 fish. 

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And also to highlight John, 
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I saw the fish, so I don't know 
if there's any particular 

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significance to the number and 
in spite of there being so many,

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the net was not broken. 
Now, this is interesting because

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in Luke, in Luke Chapter 5, the 
first time they pulled the net 

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in of fish, that Jesus gave them
in that case, the net did break.

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But here, the net does not 
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Maybe there's some significance 
to that to the fact that the 

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neck doesn't break some have 
suggested and this probably 

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could be right, the fact that 
Peter holes in an unbroken net 

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all by himself symbolizes the 
unity of the Apostles under the 

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headship of Peter. 
So, Peter is the one who's in 

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charge of ensuring, the net 
doesn't break and that the 

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church remains unified. 
I like that explanation. 

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I think that maybe John was 
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When he included it. 
Verse 12, Jesus said to them 

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come and have breakfast. 
So they all sit down together 

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around the fire. 
None of the disciples was bold 

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enough to ask, who are you? 
They knew quite well that it was

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the Lord. 
Now that's an interesting verse.

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If they know it's the Lord, why 
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What's the concern here? 
Why are they sort of wondering 

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whether they should ask him if 
they know it's him? 

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I think that suggests that he 
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Look different. 
There are little bit confused, 

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it's like they know deep down 
inside that it must be the Lord,

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but there's something when they 
look at him that makes them a 

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bit unsure. 
Maybe he looks different. 

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Aunt. 
The second question that arises 

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from this strange versus, why 
the disciples not bold enough to

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ask Jesus, why not just say, are
you Jesus. 

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Maybe they don't want to be seen
as being weak in faith. 

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They don't want to be the one 
that asks the question, maybe 

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but it's just speculation. 
Now, is your single earlier in 

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John chapter 16 verse 23, Jesus 
predicts this day, he predicts 

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that he's going to appear to the
apostles and he says, to the 

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apostles on that day, you will 
not question me about anything. 

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And that's essentially what 
happens here is they don't want 

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to ask him anything. 
Verse 13. 

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Jesus then stepped forward took 
the bread, and gave it to them 

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and the same with the fish. 
So, Jesus is the host of the 

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meal again, this was the third 
time that Jesus showed himself 

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to the disciples after raising 
from the dead. 

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Now, John says, it's the third 
time, although we need to pull 

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this apart of it because John 
has actually narrated for 

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appearances because there's the 
appearance to Mary Magdalene as 

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well. 
So by now this would be the 

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fourth appearance and in Fact, 
if we add all the gospels 

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together adding in some 
information from Matthew and 

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Luke, this is actually the 
seventh appearance of Jesus. 

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So, why does John says for third
appearance, will notice what the

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text says, and this is why it's 
important to look at the text 

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itself. 
This was the third time that 

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Jesus showed himself to the 
disciples. 

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This is actually the third time 
that Jesus shows himself to the 

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collective group of disciples 
and that's what John is talking 

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about. 
The first time was late on 

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Easter Sunday, when he appears 
in the room and then the second 

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time was the following Sunday 
when Thomas was present. 

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Now, this is the third time when
he appears to the disciples 

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collectively, Many scholars. 
Believe that what we've just 

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seen here is this miraculous 
catch of fish is in some way 

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symbolic of the Apostles mission
to be Fishers of Men in the 

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world and maybe there's all this
symbolism going on between Jesus

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and the apostles, potentially, 
although I don't think that's 

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entirely clear. 
I think it might just be that 

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John is recounting this story 
because he was there and he saw 

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it happen. 
Now after this, if you continue 

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reading, John chapter 21, 
there's that conversation 

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between Jesus and Peter about 
feed my sheep, feed my Lambs, 

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but that comes in later in the 
liturgical year. 

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So, we'll look at it a bit later
on, in this podcast. 

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Now, that's the end of our 
passage and we just want to look

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briefly at where does the 
catechism talk about this 

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passage? 
What is the Catholic Church? 

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Believe about it. 
Well, in paragraph 6, 45 in the 

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condition of Christ's reason 
Humanity. 

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There's a discussion about Jesus
body after his risen, it says by

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means of touch and the sharing 
of a meal. 

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The Risen Jesus establishes, 
direct contact with his 

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disciples. 
He invites them in this way to 

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recognize that he is not a 
ghost. 

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And above all to verify that the
Risen body in which he appears 

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to them, is the same body that 
had been tortured and crucified 

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for it, still Bears the traces 
of his passion. 

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Yet, at the same time, this 
authentic real body. 

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Possesses the new properties of 
a glorious body. 

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Not limited by space and time, 
but able to be present how, and 

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when he Wills for Christ's 
Humanity can no longer be 

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confined to Earth and belongs, 
henceforth only to the father's 

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Divine realm for this reason to 
the Risen Jesus enjoys, the 

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Sovereign freedom of appearing 
as he wishes in the guise of a 

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gardener or in other forms 
familiar to his. 

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Disciples. 
Precisely to awaken their faith.

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And it references there, the 
passage of scene from John 

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chapter 21 perhaps because in 
John chapter 21, Jesus appears 

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to be showing up in this form 
that the disciple was don't 

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fully recognize. 
And then in paragraph, 4 48, 

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there's a discussion about the 
word, Lord, and what the word 

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Lord means, it says very often 
in the gospels. 

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People are dressed Jesus as 
Lord. 

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This title, testifies to the 
respect and Trust of those who 

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approached him for help and 
healing at the prompting of the 

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Holy Lord, expresses, the 
recognition of the Divine 

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mystery of Jesus. 
In the encounter with the Risen 

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Jesus the title becomes 
adoration, my Lord and my God it

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does takes on or connotation of 
love and affection that remains 

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proper to the Christian 
tradition quote it is the Lord. 

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And so that last phrase, there 
it is. 

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The Lord come straight out of 
John chapter 21 and that is 

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something that all Christians 
can reflect on and think about 

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do we believe that Jesus is 
Lord. 

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today. 

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As we continue to explore. 

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Jesus post-resurrection 
appearances.