The Father is Greater than I
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- Опубликовано: 19 май 2019
- Jesus tells us in the Gospel of John chapter 14: "The Father is Greater than I."
This may be a confusing statement, especially in the Gospel of John, since in no other Gospel, it can be argued, does is Jesus divine nature made more clearly.
So, the questions becomes what does Jesus mean in the context of the entire Gospel of John, and what does he mean in the immediate context of this verse?
Listen as Dr. Pitre explains in this video, which is a portion of a video taken from his series, The Mass Readings Explained.
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"And so, what do we say as Catholics to that? How do we interpret the verse?
Well the answer to that’s real simple. We just ignore it. We don’t talk about it. We don’t preach about it. We just pretend like it’s not there. No, okay, that’s wrong. That’s not what we do. The Church canonized the scriptures. This is not a surprise to us, that Jesus says, “The Father is greater than I” in the Gospel of John. The Church gave us the Gospel of John and said this is the word of God. So the question becomes not “what do we do with the verse?” (in the sense of, “do we take it out of the Bible” or “do we ignore it”), the question becomes, “what does it mean? How do we understand this verse in context (in the context of the whole gospel).” And I’m going to come back to the living tradition in just a second, and we’ll look at how this verse was interpreted by St. Augustine, but for now I would just make this one clear point..."
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I'm very proud to be a Catholic
@Michael Red Hawk This is just the faith once delivered. Catholicism is not a faith started by any man, but passed on from the apostles. Protestantism and sola scriptura is of man.
@Michael Red Hawk ,,,, be careful sir,,,,,,,, we are not all brothers or sisters to false teachings. They can be, but not of the BODY OF YESHUA JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!! Months ago the Pope said "" JESUS FAILED AT THE CROSS!!! The Pope also said that the Darwin theory cannot be ruled out in the creation along with helping JEHOVAH because ""JEHOVAH could have not done it on HIS OWN!!! Look up on U Tube of Mass being said in the vatican filmed as it is being held of priests singing to Lucifer (SATAN) admonishing him as YESHUA'S FATHER, AND THAT YESHUA JESUS IS SATAN'S SON. THATS JUST RECENTLY. THIS ISN'T SECOND HAND HEARSAY SIR. THIS IS OPEN TO THE CONGREGATION ON SUNDAY'S SERVICES, AND AFTER THE PRIESTS SINGS THIS INTO THE MASS THE CONGREGATION ANSWERS BACK, """AMEN"".
""AMEN""!!!!! MEANING THEY AGREE IN THE FULL SENSE OF WHAT IS BEING SAID, OR THEY BLINDLY AGREE, AS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH RITUALS ARE IN LATIN. BUT!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT IS BEING SAID ENGLISH INTERPRETATION IS HIGHLIGHTED UNDERNEATH. TO FURTHER WHATS BEING SAID HAVE GOOGLE TRANSLATE THE LATIN WORDS INTO ENGLISH AND THERE YOU HAVE IT.
MANY PEOPLE I TALK TO DOES NOT KNOW THAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH OWNS A TELESCOPE HERE IN TUCSON, ARIZONA THAT'S ONE OF THE BEST IN THE WORLD. HIGHLY SOPHISTICATED AND CAN REACH FAR INTO THE GALAXY. THE NAME OF THIS INSTRUMENT IS "" LUCIFER""!!!! GO FIGURE!!!!
I SENSE YOU ARE A TRUE MAN SEEKING THE TRUTH!!!!! I'M ALREADY CONVINCED THAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS SANTANIC. WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN HERE IS PART OF WHY I KNOW THIS.
HERE ARE MY OTHER REASONS FOR IT.
#1..... they promote HOMOSEXUALITY. Both priests, and NUNS commit fornication with the same sexes. YET they take a vow of CELIBACY. WHY??????
#2 ......many in the higher ranks have mistresses.
#3..... many have fathered children and disown their own offspring because of illicit behavior.
#4..... priests having intercourse with nuns and the babies of this union, many are aborted and burried in secret plots.....( by the way, nuns have reported this very thing).
#5....... the molestation and rapes of young boys and girls in their schools and orphanages.
This has been a practice for centuries veiled in deceit and coverups, some even murdered.
Many other reasons, but you get the idea. One last sickening thought is those PRIESTS LEAD the CONGREGATIONS ON SUNDAY'S SERVICES, HANDLE THE BREAD AND WINE WITH THEIR FILTHY HANDS AND ITS ALL IN TBE NSME OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
SIR,,,,, YOU TELL ME!!! IS THIS OF THE GOD YOU SERVE????? I DON'T THINK SO!!!! THEY COME OUT OPENLY AND PROFESS """THEIR GOD""".
MY GOD IS NOT MIXED WITH OTHER gods Of NO VALUE!!! All others are FALSE. MY GOD IS THE ALMIGHTY GOD YAHWEH JEHOVAH, YESHUA JESUS HIS SON, AND THE LEADINGS OF GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT. ALL others ARE IN VAIN. DO YOUR RESEARCE BROTHER, GOD LOVES YOU AND HE WILL NOT LEAVE YOU AS YOU SEARCH FOR TRUTH. BELIEVE!!!!
Patricia Rowe whilst i agree these actions are horrifically depraved and God will return them for what they have done, i don’t think that completely rules out the Catholic Church 100% because it has been around since Christ. I get what u mean though many priests and nuns are not true Christians and God will punish them
@Belinda I hope you know what Christ needs to fulfill and what that tells us about who He really is.
Also, if what you say is true, then Islam is for the simple minded since God's message seems too confusing like you said.
Anyway, Christ died for you because God loves you, Muslim.
So am I!
Dr. Pitre is an amazing theologian. I listen to his Podcast every week, and I always learn something. He is a gift to the Church!
He never has a Bible out of his hand, it is his index. He can just flick to any passage he talks about. It takes me ages to find anything while stalling for time saying, ' its definitely in here somewhere ' 😂. How I would love to be like this man!
You have Google...
This was today’s mass reading. I was wondering the meaning of it. It’s amazing that this video just showed up in my feed thanks to God’s providence.
Jesus is a messaged of god, u are tweeting the word to make him god
@@rgamer7396 JWs aren’t Christian
@@rgamer7396 it's your quran said that and we don't believe that, we believe in our Bible.
Or could it be that your phone is listening to you and suggested a video based on what it hears. No providence present here
@@rgamer7396God Is Triune Father Son Holy Ghost
The Teaching coming through you Dr Pitre, is beyond words. Thank you.
This is so enlightening! Thank you, Dr. Pitre! I'd never heard it explained this way and so clearly.
Another related verse to ponder is 1 Cor 15:28:
"When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things under him, that God may be everything to every one (may be all in all)."
Thank you for sharing ❤
I'm glad I found you on you tube since I read your book "JESUS and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist" (thanks to our Pastor ),I began to follow you on you tube and I'm so grateful - I watch you all the time. Thank you So much Dr. Brant Pitre you are a Godsent to us,Catholics. May God bless you always.
@@safiaalajmi7859 seriously dude?this video related to your question.. listen with your ear not mouth 😁
@@zelbert12
He’s a Muslim using Muslim arguments against Jesus. It’s standard stuff that he gets out of anti Christian books.
Let’s face it, without an open mind and an educated mind and an understanding of Tradition, you can twist words of the NT to make almost any argument that you want.
God bless you Dr. Pitre. 🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏
I try never to miss your commentaries because you help me understand scripture/teachings of faith like never before. You are a gift Brandt Pitre! And so are your books. Blessings to you for blessing us with your knowledge.
Amen Brother sir you are absolutely right Jesus is Fully Human and Fully God True Words Amen and Amen God Bless you Ame
You say Jesus was both fully human and fully God? If that were the case--which it's not--how would you explain John 7:16, where Jesus said: "My message is not my own; it comes from God who sent me"? So, if the human Jesus were also fully God, why did God lie and say that his message was not his when it really _was_ his?
@Belina What you said is so true on two levels. Consider:
1. If God is a trinity and that the human Jesus is fully God, then Jesus would be a single-person human who is also a three-person deity at the same time.
2. If the human Jesus is fully God, then, the Father of God is greater than God.
And another thing, you are correct by saying the trinity belief is polytheistic. As the trinity doctrine says:
1. "The Father is God." [God #1]
2. "The Son is God." [God #2]
3. "The holy spirit is God." [God #3]
That's three Gods. The trinity teaching is incredibly stupid.
@Belina I'm one of Jehovah's Witnesses. And you?
@Belina I believe in the Bible, which says:
1.God is one person, not three. As 1 Cor. 8:6 says: "There is one God, the Father." Jesus added: "I am ascending to my Father and my God."
2. Jesus is not God, but God's Son. As John 20:31 says: "But these are written that you may (come to) believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through this belief you may have life in his name."
3. Jesus is alive since his resurrection from the dead. As Acts 2:32 says: "God raised Jesus from the dead, and we are all witnesses of this."
4. God has a personal name, which is "Jehovah" [in English]. As Ex. 3:15 says: "God said to Moses: 'And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.'"
@Belinda - what a beautiful name for a Muslim (Belinda). We Catholics believe in the Trinity but you Muslims PRACTICE the Trinity.
Quran starts with the Trinity in Chapter 1 verse 1 of the Quran -
In the Name of Allah, Al Rehman , Al Rahim that's 3 times.
Why 99 Allah has 99 names why not 100 or 98.
( Tip:The age of Jesus 33years x 3 =99)
Your Prophet Muhammad does everything in threes. Why?
Abulution/ Wudu,, (washing before prayers) 3 times ears, nose,forearms, hand,legs, foot.
Greet someone 3 times - Saalam Vale Kuum.
Taking oath 3 times.
Divorce by saying 3 times -Talak, Talak, Talak.
No Allah no Islam,
No Jabreel no Islam,
no Muhammad no Islam.
Namus (later identified as Jabreel squeezed Muhammad 3 times.
Please explain why every thing in Islam is done 3 times. The mike is yours 😉
Amen.Yes.The emphasis IS on his humanity; therfore he says the Father is Greater than Him
Excellent presentation. Thanks for posting!
Excellent interpretation. Yeshua is guiding you. Love from Ireland.☘💚
Your jokes are really good Dr. pitre😆. God bless you and your family
This is very well explained. Thank you!
Thank you, Dr. Pitre!
Thank you Dr Pitre. We should all be praying for you and your wonderful ministry.
Thanks for that!
Beautifully explained! God bless you!
Great teaching .thank you JESUS
Thanks for enlightening the passage Dr. Brant Pitre. God bless you more.
Great explanation, God bless you and all who watch this!
Wonderful teacher
Great explanation, thank you Dr Pitre & God bless you 🙏🏻✝️
Amen. I love you my Lord Jesus
very informative,,,keep up the good work brother..God bless\m/
Great message. Thanks!
Thanks for your enlightening talk ..it help my faith become stronger as catholic Christian, you are a gift from God to us ..God bless you more snd your family
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An excellent presentation! Thank you.
Other level... Thanks brother
God bless 🙏 🙌 ❤
This man is a treasure to the Catholic Church.
Thanks Dr. Pitre for enlightenment on Jesus Divinity
God bless you..
Excellent teaching
Thank u Dr Petri 4 clarifying this verse. I hav never understood what Jesus meant. God bls u.
Thank you.
Great expansion of the text Dr Pitre
Outstanding explanation. Thank you
Thank you bro
ALLELLUIAH..JESUS IS GOD
Awesome explanation...thanks sir
Amen Sir Godbless!
Thank You AVAH Yeshua
Wow!!! Am glad I listened 2 this vedio. Thank u Dr Petri 4 clarifying this holy verse. I'v never understood what Jesus meant. God bls u exceedingly & keep u well together wit ua loved ones, thr Jesus Christ, amen. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏
Thank You so much..........
very well interpretation sir...now this is not a mysterious to me but finally reveal...from true GOD to true GOD...JOY JISHU.
God is so deep and beautiful.
Thanks!
Thanks dr
The most cogent explanation of this that I have heard. Thank you.
Awesome
God bless you Sir for a great video for our catholic faith
Tess Chavit , God bless your good looks ,sister.
Thank you
This explanation makes such perfect sense. Thanks for helping me understand this scripture. 🙏🙏❤️
Julie,
It is absolutely redundant to say that the Father is greater than a human.
The Father is GREATER than any and all humans.
No!
This statement was made by a divine being. So the question is: how can one divine being, be greater than another…?
Can one infinity be greater than another? Mathematicians tells us, YES. Infinity + 1, is greater than infinity.
In theological terms: the Father is unbegotten, He has no beginning, He is divine by nature.
Christ is begotten, he has a beginning (like Eve from Adam), he is divine by the Father’s decree.
And this sense the Father is greater than Jesus; Jesus is greater than Adam; and Adam is greater than Eve.
I Cor 11:3.
Yet, Jesus is fully divine; just as Eve is fully human.
We submit to Jesus as we submit to a Prince or a King; whereas we submit to the Father through a sacrifice - which we offer by invoking the name of Jesus.
This construct eliminates the need for the unbiblical Catholic Trinity.
Biblical Trinity is the unity between the Father and the Son, with the Holy Spirit being Their invisible manifestation to the world.
Amen brother
*_"Whew, okay...let's do something a little easier, let's go to the Acts of the Apostles and talk about why we can eat crawfish."_*
LOL, brilliant! That closing statement by Dr. Pitre had me spit out my water I was drinking at the moment. Too funny. Perfect juxtaposition and dramatic whiplash...especially coming after the deep and very serious theological analysis on Christ and his eternal relation to the Father. Great sense of timing and humor.
Well explained
AWESOME
I am not a Catholic but this was well explained.
St. Paul explained it for us in his Letter to the Philippians 2:5-7.
Yes . Understood . Amen
Hey, I still want to hear about why/how we can eat crawfish now! LOL.
Me too. Guess I'll have to wait for Mass (except neither the pastor or associate pastor at my parish is from Louisiana, so it's questionable either would make Acts 15 about Cajun food).
😂 😂
Good one! So do I! LOL :D
Joking aside though, I believe it was done for practical and health reason. Think about how people, nomads, in the desert, preserving their foods without any refrigeration? Cows are useful to carry stuff, but pigs? They’re fat on 4legs! Not to mention the diseases pigs carry. Even now in developing countries pork is still viewed unsafe - when I grew up we were cautioned not to get pork from random butcher due to the tape worm disease it could carry. Pigs eat anything and it is more expensive to tend.
@@d.a.tsun5104 ,I would add to your great observation that it also separated, set apart, perhaps concercrated the Jews from many of the pagan cultures they would encounter.
This passage of scripture is such a pitfall for those desperate to disprove the divinity of Christ. Again, beautifully explained.
Each person defers to the other, eternally; not just when, or as, the son takes on human nature. My thoughts. TY
It’s the same old, same old, same old, all of you trot out but you never get close to the truth. The truth that stares you in the face.
I agree Dr. in your explaination some baptist concentrate more in preaching the word of God less on teaching about God but I have also heard some baptist Minister explaining what you say about Jesus and the Father and the same explanation. But for me in what I've seen and read in the bible Jesus Christ is the Image and Body of God. The God that was formed Isaiah 43:10 - 13 .The Image John 14:9 , 2Cor. 4:6 , Col.1:15 The Body Prov. 8:22-23 ,John 10:30 ,14:10 , 1 Cor.8:6. The Spirit is Lord and God is the Body that manifested in the flesh.
the key to understanding scripture is taken in the whole of scripture not solely in one or two verses.
Amen.
Us humans will forever be bodies.
The paradox of the Incarnation. No less mysterious than what is now asked of us to accept in quantum theory.
In my believing God is space light covering all his creations and nearest to all and God could not be existed himself if without his space of everlasting .
John, also says in his letter that 3 bear witness. The father, word and spirit
♦ More puzzling is John 20:17, words from the post-resurrection God-Man in His new glorified body that isn't subject to death: “Do not hold me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, *to my God and your God* .”
♦ It's easier to understand pre-resurrection Jesus in His lowly human estate like ours say in Luke 18:19 and Mark 10:18 say "“Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone."
♦ Perhaps when Jesus was stuck on planet earth limited by spatial and temporal boundaries before His Ascension, the Father in Heaven is technically greater due to Jesus "being found in human form He humbled Himself (Phil 2:8)." Jesus In Time versus Jesus Eternal
♦ When The Lord Jesus shows up in the Book of Revelation to John of Patmos, His co-equality with the Father is unquestionable.
NDC JesusMary@ beside because Christ was still in human shape, I thought Christ was teaching about 'HUMBLE' to His followers. Cause to be GOD and 'down' to the earth is 'a very humble action' that something ever happened in whole history. (Sorry, I'm not native speaker, I just gave my opinion)
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Dr Brant Pitre one little question.
What the holiness of God.?
Hope one day you see this text and make a video about it.
"the whole is greater than the parts"
Indeed. The Father created the Son; the Son did not create the Father. The Father is the Whole; the Son is One in Unity WITH the Whole....But the Son is not the Whole in Its entirety. The Father is MIND and the Son is Its Thought - given the ability to think WITH the Mind that is God. This is what the first chapter of John is telling us, when understood. Want to know more? Give me a "click." Elijah has returned.....
@@tomrhodes1629 However, the Son is not part of the Father God has no parts
@@tomrhodes1629 What you are saying contradicts the teaching that was given. The Father did not CREATE the Son.
@@tomrhodes1629 The Father did not CREATE the Son who is as eternal as the Father. He was born from the Father but not created, begotten but not made. On the other hand, the human nature of the son was created BUT NOT THE PERSON.
Another example, when Jesus said “why do you call Me good. No one is good but God alone.”But in His Divinity He says, “Before Abraham was, I AM.”
Matthew 20:15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? Is thine eye evil because I am good?
Jesus calls himself good
Great teaching thank you! It brought up a question for me. When you said Christ is doing something new in his assension... How does it compare to something like Elijah being carried up to heaven?
That’s a good question. I think Christ was in his glorified body whilst the others were not.
I was thinking the same thing but I know Elijah was a sinner and Jesus mentioned to John and his brother that “ can they be baptized as he was baptized meaning the suffering and being crucified. I know later John the Baptist and Elijah was connected and he did get beheaded. Elijah was born like all humans and we believe he went up to heaven with his body but God came down from Heaven and then became flesh dwelling amongst us. He is Emmanuel and Elijah is not so I hope this helps my friend and God bless you in your walk in Christ
Pray For Me i m siner
I already prayed for you. Amen.
Beautiful explanation of Jesus as human being lesser than the Father. However we do have human beings who went up bodily before Jesus - Enoch, Elijah and perhaps Moses (he appeared at the Transfiguration). So are their bodies glorified too like Jesus?
Very enlightening! However, you said you were going to relate what St Augustine had to say about this passage. Well ?
A great breakdown.
It takes a dishonest or incompetant reader to pitch one part of a Gospel account against another part. Certainly you cannot do it and consider yourself a competant teacher, unless you consider the book self-contradictory.
Good clarification. Now I understand. I always wondered why Jesus said this & yet He has revealed 2 us tha He s one God wit th Father & th Holy Spirit. Nb. U said that no human body has ever entered in2 God th Father's realm except that of Jesus.. What about prophet Elijah?
Pray to end abortion. Save the babies and help the ladies.
Maranatha. Come .lord Jesus.
Our Father who art in Heaven hallowed be thy name, Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily Bread . And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours now and forever. Amen
Come Holy Spirit and kindle in us the fire of thy love. Amen
Amen?
How Jesis Thought Man how to call Him.. Our Father..
Dr. Pitre, do you know if John's original Gospel was written in Aramaic, Hebrew or Greek? Could this passage have been mistranslated in its Greek version? Maybe Jesus didn't quite say this? I imagine a theologian such as yourself must know Millar Burrows' and other scholars' articles on the original language of John's Gospel; which I don't have access to
Can it also mean that God is the source from where Jesus (The Word) flows And this is why he is greater then Jesus?
I think we shouldnt be afraid to consider God is greater than Jesus. It does not mean Jesus isnt God and He is still our Lord and the creator of all things in heaven and under heaven. But the Son submits to the Father, just like we will be submitting to Jesus perfectly once when we are in our glorious body. At that time we will be equal to Jesus as His friends and brothers yet at the same time Jesus is greater than us because He is also our Lord and savior. And we are His servants
Dr. Pitre: Thank you very much and God bless you. You began by saying that here`s what Saint Augustine said about this verse, and since i am Augustinian, can i please ask you to read some of the words which saint Augustine quoted about this exact verse? Like he explained as you did about verses and words which concerns his divinity and others which concerns his humanity... Jesus is the Son of David according to his humanity and Jesus is the Lord of David according to his divinity. Jesus is a descendant of Abraham according to his humanity and Jesus is the God of Abraham according to his divinity ( Before Abraham was I AM ), Jesus is born of Mary according to his humanity and Jesus is the Creator of Mary according to his divinity. The Father is greater than I according to his humanity and I and the Father are one according to his divinity... And many more words... Thank you again and God bless you...
Jesus hide his words to those who cant see and still blind...
6:55 You mentioned that Christ's human body is not present everywhere. How do you square this with the belief that Christ's human body, blood, and soul (his divinity is omnipresent as the second person of the Holy Trinity) is truly and substantially present in all the tabernacles in the world at the same time in the eucharist? Thank you.
Christ's human body before he died is limited. But His body after resurrection is omnipresent, the proof are his apparitions written in the Bible
Jesus have a body now, is He still not equal with Father?
If Jesus is God (or equal to God the father), why did he call our God and Father his God and Father at John 20:17?
Philippians 2:6 is the key verse.
I thought it meant the Father had greater authority or rank. Which is whe He says The Father who sent me.
Would this be wrong interpretation??
The Father, as Jesus stated, is His God and our God.
Randy W.
The Father is God, So is the Son.
Remember Thomas called Him My Lord And My God.
The Father is greater then the Mother stating the sin of inequity. Father+Mother=Christ=Life=Equal=Love I took Jesus's rib and gave birth to myself in a daughter. Love is a concept. An immaculate One
the verse, it is so clear. The reason why you people has many interpretation. Tell us about christian unitarian in 4th century after Jesus? Be honest, when this verse reveal to Jesus? Why so complicated? Confusing, right? I revert to Islam.
There is no disciple named Thomas! The father greater than i -- God doesn't change His nature > become flesh. Anything use become word, meaning transform and change.
The father and i are one -- so the disciples too. In purpose not in unity. WHY YOU PEOPLE ALWAYS CUT THE VERSE???