#467 Why Did John Write His Gospel? - Tim Staples

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🗓️ 11 January 2023

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Tim Staples shares the story of the dark figure early Church writers say motivated John to clarify the truth about Jesus Christ. Cy Kellett: Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host, and it may not seem obvious, but many of the earliest Christian writings had to do with defending the faith; not just expressing the faith, but defending it. Today we talk about the Gospel of John with Tim Staples, senior apologist here at Catholic Answers, and author of all kinds of stuff you could find…

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to Focus. The Catholic Ants was podcast for living, understanding, and
0:10.3	defending your Catholic faith. I'm Psy, Kellet, your host. And it may not seem obvious, but
0:17.1	many of the earliest Christian writings had to do with defending the faith, not just
0:22.2	expressing the faith, but defending it. And today we talk about the gospel of John with
0:26.8	Tim Staples, senior apologist here at Catholic Answers, an author of all kinds of stuff. You
0:32.2	can find it, Tim Staples.com. And the author of Behold Your Mother, a biblical and historical
0:36.4	defense of the Marian doctrines. Tim, thanks for being here with us.
0:39.9	Great to be with you, Psy, Kellet, to talk about some of the players behind the scenes of John's
0:45.9	gospel, maybe. Yes. Yeah. I call him the odd man behind the gospel of John. You know, it's
0:52.1	funny, Psy, whenever I speak to conferences, parishes, whatever. In fact, I just gave a talk on
0:59.8	this topic just a few days ago, up in in Hillmark, California, I had a parish. I usually start by
1:07.6	saying, you know, most Catholics know that Matthew wrote his gospel to a Jewish Christian community.
1:14.5	Right. We've heard the new Moses. Jesus is the new Moses. Oh, yeah. You have so much in there
1:20.1	that demonstrates that as well as the testimony of the fathers of the church. Yeah. And you're
1:24.3	in your right. Even the language itself, you know, when Matthew talks about Jewish traditions,
1:29.9	he doesn't explain them. He just mentions that. Right. Whereas, you know, Luke or Mark even will
1:35.1	explain what they mean. There's hebraisms, all kinds of stuff. All over Matthew's gospel that
1:41.9	help us to know that, yeah, this was written to a Jewish Christian community. And one of the most
1:47.6	obvious is you see Matthew's emphasis on Peter, on the Petrine office. You notice how only in
1:54.8	Matthew's gospel, do you have Peter walking on the water? Right. Only in Matthew's gospel, you
1:59.0	have the keys of the kingdom. Only in Matthew, do you have the the famous fishing excursion? Go get
2:04.1	your fishing pole cast it in the sea. When you catch a fish, you'll have enough money to pay for
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