In this episode of Catholic Answers Live (April 14, 2017, 1st hour), Jimmy answers the following questions:
1:10 What was happening at the Triumphal Entry?
4:50 What is happening with the mysterious incident where the disciples get the animal for Jesus to ride?
8:30 When was the cleansing of the Temple?
9:50 What is a “Markan sandwich”?
10:40 Why did Jesus curse the fig tree?
12:00 Why is Jesus angry in the temple? Why did he cleanse it?
13:55 Why does John have the cleansing of the temple at a whole different point in Jesus’ ministry?
15:00 How did Jesus’ opponents challenge him and try to get him in trouble with the authorities?
19:00 How did Jesus respond to the challenge of the Sadducees?
21:50 How did Jesus use one of the same techniques that modern apologists use?
22:55 What are we missing about the story of the widow’s mite?
24:55 What does Jesus teach in his prophetic discourse?
27:35 Who anoints Jesus and why is he anointed?
28:50 Why are the identities of some people kept secret in the Synoptic Gospels but then revealed in John’s Gospel?
30:05 How do we explain the mysterious way Jesus arranges a place to celebrate the Last Supper? How did Jesus secretly thwart what Judas might have done?
32:40 Where is the garden of Gethsemane? How do we know what Jesus prayed there if the disciples fell asleep?
34:10 Why is the identity of the disciple who used a sword kept secret–until John’s Gospel?
35:25 What’s happening with the young man who runs away naked in Mark’s Gospel? If it’s not Mark himself, who might that be?
37:15 Was Jesus’ trial legal? Why did the Jerusalem authorities have to take him to Pontius Pilate?
39:15 Why is Jesus said to rise “on the third day” when it was only two days later? Could he have been crucified earlier than Good Friday?
41:15 How do we reconcile the different descriptions of the angels at the tomb? What about the women?
44:10 Did Jesus bodily rise from the dead?
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