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00:27First and Second Multiplication of the Loaves
00:30Matthew, like Mark, will present us with two multiplications of loaves.
00:37The motive in both cases is the compassion that Jesus feels for the people who follow him on his journeys,
00:46but without taking time to eat or lacking the means to buy bread in those places
00:53where the preaching of the Lord takes place.
00:56Likewise, brothers, in both cases the narrative of the multiplications has the Eucharist as its backdrop,
01:06Since Matthew says that Jesus took the bread, gave thanks, broke it, and gave it to the disciples, verbs,
01:16all of them very closely related to the Eucharist,
01:22so that the multiplications of loaves are forged with the Eucharistic celebration in mind,
01:31the place and time in which the bread of God is broken and shared for all participants.
01:40In addition to this Eucharistic thought, Matthew insists that Jesus wants his disciples to feed the people.
01:50It is not enough for the church to offer the Eucharist; it is necessary to look after all the needs of those who belong to it.
02:00Jesus and Peter walk on water
02:03Unlike Mark, Matthew shows us Peter walking on the water towards Jesus who has invited him
02:12to walk with him.
02:14This narrative foreshadows Peter's profession of faith, since he is the only one who is
02:22saved and rescued directly by the hand of Jesus.
02:27Peter has a very important role in the Christian community, but his value lies in his love and faithfulness to
02:37Jesus.
02:38Jesus dismisses his disciples, says goodbye to the people, and dedicates some hours to prayer.
02:45Since Mateo says it's between 3 and 6 in the morning when he's walking on the
02:52water heading towards the boat that brings the disciples.
02:55Jesus, they are afraid, because they do not know what they see.
03:00When Peter heard Jesus speaking, he wanted to go to him because he was calling him.
03:06Pedro is confident, but he is also afraid of the force of the wind and the waves.
03:11When he begins to sink, Jesus takes him by the hand and rescues him.
03:18Matthew thus foreshadows Peter's fate, as he is constantly saved by the hand of Jesus, who prevents him from
03:27may he and his faith in Jesus sink.
03:31Purity and healing of the daughter of a Syrophoenician woman
03:37To introduce the topic of the woman who, through her faith, achieves the liberation of her possessed daughter,
03:45Matthew presents Jesus arguing with the Pharisees about purity and food.
03:52One of the fundamental concerns of the Pharisees and the Christians of the first decades,
04:00when the group wondered how far they were obligated to obey the precepts of the law of Moses.
04:09Jesus rebukes them for focusing their attention on traditions that neglect faithfulness to God and mercy towards others.
04:19the brother.
04:19Moreover, Jesus rebukes them for setting aside God's commandment to willingly submit to
04:29merely human precepts.
04:32While the Pharisees are concerned about what goes into their hearts,
04:38Jesus tells them that what comes out of a man is what makes him unclean before God.
04:45And when Jesus and his disciples passed through the lands of Tyre and Sidon,
04:51A pagan woman, without approaching him, begs him for the health of her daughter.
04:57Jesus does not believe it is appropriate to divert the gifts of God intended for the Jews,
05:03to give them to the pagans, whom the Jews considered to be dogs.
05:09But the woman does not want all the possessions of the children of Israel,
05:14just the crumbs that fall from the table without the owners noticing.
05:20Jesus is amazed at his humble faith and grants him what he so desperately needed and what caused him so much suffering.
05:28Matthew continues to treat as a theme the Pharisees who ask Jesus for a sign,
05:34and that they can contaminate the faith of their churches through their doctrine which Jesus calls leaven.
05:43Peter's profession of faith and announcement of the passion
05:48Mark has literally placed Peter's profession of faith at the center of his work, and Matthew does the same.
05:56same,
05:57but to narrate what we call the primacy of Peter.
06:01Jesus and his disciples are in the territory of Philip, brother of Herod Antipas.
06:08And then Jesus asks them what people outside the group think about him.
06:15The responses are varied and in accordance with the hopes of the Jews.
06:22But Jesus, brothers, wants to know who he is to his disciples,
06:28And it is Peter who confesses him as Messiah and son of God.
06:33The title Messiah encompassed Israel's hope in the promise God made to David,
06:41But no one ever expected the Son of God to become man,
06:45which the church discovered in the light of Pentecost and after much meditation and reflection.
06:54Peter's response generates a response of the same magnitude from Jesus.
07:02Peter is the rock on which Jesus firmly establishes his church.
07:08This fact is extremely important because all the gospels explain that this disciple was named Simeon,
07:17the long form of Simon, and that it was Jesus who gave him the name Peter or Cephas,
07:23which means stone, according to the fourth gospel in its chapter 1, verse 42.
07:31Therefore, the name by which Peter was always known and addressed was precisely the one he gave himself
07:40Jesus,
07:41and not his first name.
07:44So, brothers, this passage from Matthew, unique among the Gospels,
07:49This gives us the reason why Jesus gave him that name,
08:01It is within this context that Jesus' warning of his destiny on the cross is now presented, and
08:09destiny of those who follow him.
08:11Everyone's life will always be at risk if the disciples follow and are faithful to Jesus.
08:20But all pain and death will be rewarded with eternal life and boundless happiness.
08:30The Transfiguration and the Coming of Elijah
08:34Both Mark and Matthew link the first announcement of the passion and the event of the transfiguration of Jesus.
08:44Some believe that Jesus' intention was to give hope to the disciples.
08:49Faced with the announcement of Jesus' passion and the demands He imposes on them,
08:55If they want to follow him, that means persecution and death.
09:01Peter, James, and John have the grace of seeing Jesus in all his glory,
09:07the one she shares with the Father.
09:10This gives them hope in the face of any pain or suffering they may experience.
09:18The narrative places Jesus at the center between Moses, the quintessential Jewish lawgiver,
09:27and Elijah, the prophet faithful to God par excellence.
09:32In this way, the author presents Jesus as superior to these great men.
09:38Jesus is at the center, while the law and prophecy are at his feet and at his service.
09:47Peter wants to stay there, at Jesus' feet, contemplating his glory.
09:53But that will only be possible when Jesus has died and entered into the glory of the Heavenly Father.
10:01This vision awakens in the disciples the memory of the divine promises.
10:07that the prophet Elijah would return before the end times,
10:13when the hopes of Israel were fulfilled as God fulfilled his prophecies.
10:20Jesus tells them that he has already come and that he exercised his ministry through the Baptist.
10:27The epileptic demon-possessed man and the tribute for the temple
10:33In Jesus' time, people thought that epileptics were affected by the different phases of the moon.
10:41That's why they called them lunatics.
10:45The passage of the Father, who prays for his son, who suffers from epilepsy,
10:51It's not as bombastic as the version Marcos offers,
10:55but it retains the fundamental elements that allow us to see that faith,
11:01both from the father of the child suffering from the disease,
11:05Like that of the disciples, it was not enough to produce the healing.
11:11Mark has focused on the Father's faith.
11:14Matthew, for his part, has focused on the faith of the disciples,
11:19who could have healed the child if they had faith in Jesus
11:24and commit themselves to the mission He has given them.
11:30As a link between this narrative and the one concerning the temple tax,
11:36Matthew offers us the second announcement that Jesus makes of his passion,
11:42the topic relating to the tribute or tax that Jewish adults paid to the temple in Jerusalem once a year.
11:51It puts Peter back at the center of the narrative.
11:55Those responsible for collecting the tax went from village to village year after year to collect half a cycle or two drachmas
12:05and people paid for it in their city of residence.
12:10That is why they are charged in Capernaum.
12:14This tax, required by law,
12:18It was the responsibility of every adult Jewish male to maintain the temple and its priests.
12:27However, by Matthew's time, the temple had been destroyed,
12:33which is why it doesn't seem to be an important issue for him directly.
12:39On the other hand, some Jews thought it was wrong to collect this tax,
12:45since all taxes are levied on strangers and not on one's own, whom Jesus calls children.
12:52It is possible that Matthew presents Jesus as acting respectfully and promoting peace with the Jewish community,
13:02not viewing the tax negatively.
13:06On the other hand, if the charge was lawful, Jesus complied with it freely and respectfully.
13:14But if it was a legitimate tax, Jesus wanted to show solidarity with those who believed that paying taxes to the temple was something
13:24beloved by God.
13:26By presenting Jesus as knowing the future and sending Peter to catch the first fish that bites
13:35and that upon finding a coin in said fish, he should pay for Jesus and Peter,
13:42It makes us see the fundamental place of Peter in the Christian community of Matthew's time.
13:49Brothers, we have reached the end of this session.
13:52We look forward to seeing you in our next class, where we will continue to delve deeper into the Gospel of Matthew.
14:00Until then, blessings.
14:17Thanks for watching the video.