Hey, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the Catholic Talk Show. Today we've got an exciting episode. We're going to be talking about things that Jesus said that are not in Scripture.

That's right. We're looking at the unwritten words of Jesus, also known as the agrapha. And we're going to ask, are these the authentic sayings of Jesus Christ himself?

Yeah. Are these the authentic sayings of Jesus Christ himself? All right, so this is a pretty interesting episode.

I was looking through some of the show notes here.

And, you know, it touches on so many things that are unique to the Catholic Church, unique to the deposit of faith, that really kind of illuminate a lot of church tradition and scripture and the early church.

That's right. So what we're looking at today is the agrifice, which comes from the Greek word meaning unwritten.

So according to tradition, these are things that Jesus actually said that were never

written down on papyrus, collected, and added to the gospel. Now, there's a lot of reasons

for that. We'll pack that. We'll unpack that today. But, you know, this is really

interesting because, you know, as Catholics, we approach Scripture as the definitive

collection of the inspired source of Christ's sayings, right? That is definitive. But also,

the church recognizes, and it's even in Scripture, and we'll cite that, that not

everything Christ did or said was recorded in Scripture.

So a lot of these things that we're going to get into will have come to us from either

citations, fragmentary early church documents.

They're going to come from oral tradition.

And we're going to take a look at these in the light of scripture, in the light of tradition,

the magisterial teaching.

I'm going to see if these things actually make sense as the actual sayings of Christ himself and what their implication is

of that. And then by doing that, we're going to see kind of how the early church was able to

compile scripture, how they understood scripture, how they understood the teachings of Christ

at a time when there was no such thing as a Bible. So I think this is really important

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