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The first reading from Ezekiel chapter 37 verses 21 through 28.
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Thus says the Lord God, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations to which
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they have come, and gather them from all sides to bring them back to their land.
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I will make them one nation upon the land in the mountains of Israel, and there shall be
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one prince for them all.
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Never again shall they be two nations, and never again shall they be divided into two
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No longer shall they defile themselves with their idols, their abominations, and all
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their transgressions.
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I will deliver them from all their sins of apostasy, and cleanse them so that they may
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be my people, and I may be their God.
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My servant David shall be prince over them, and there shall be one shepherd for them all.
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They shall live by my statutes, and carefully observe my decrees.
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They shall live on the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, the land where their fathers
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They shall live on it forever, they and their children, and their children's children,
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with my servant David, their prince forever.
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I will make with them a covenant of peace, it shall be an everlasting covenant with them,
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and I will multiply them and put my sanctuary among them forever.
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My dwelling shall be with them, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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That's the nation shall know that it is I the Lord, who make Israel holy, when my sanctuary
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shall be set up among them forever.
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The Jews were long without kings after the captivity, then they were not of the tribe
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of Judah, and all did not return.
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Only Christ fulfills the prediction.
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The Jews, even many of the priests, worshiped idols under Antiochus, but the church has
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David refers to Christ, the one shepherd, over all nations.
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My sanctuary shall be set up among them forever, but the Jews show how this has been accomplished.
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We know that Christ preserves and rules his church onto the end.
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The Gospel from John chapter 11 verses 45 through 56
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Many of the Jews who had come to Mary and seen what Jesus had done began to believe in
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him, but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
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So the chief priests and the Pharisees convene the Sanhedrin and said, what are we going
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This man is performing many signs.
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If we leave him alone, all will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away
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both our land and our nation.
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But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, you know nothing,
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nor do you consider that it is better for you that one man should die instead of the people,
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so that the whole nation may not perish.
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He did not say this on his own, but since he was high priest for that year, he prophesied
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that Jesus was going to die for the nation, and not only for the nation, but also to gather
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into one the dispersed children of God.
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So from that day on, they planned to kill him.
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So Jesus no longer walked about in public among the Jews, but he left for the region near
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the desert to a town called Ephraim, and there he remained with his disciples.
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Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem
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before Passover to purify themselves.
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They looked for Jesus and said to one another as they were in the temple area, what do
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you think that he will not come to the feast?
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Hey, not commentary.
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The chief priest said, what are we doing?
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As if they had said, why are we so slow, so remiss and indolent in our proceedings against
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this man, when we daily see what numbers he draws after him by his miracles?
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Caiaphas did not speak of himself, but as the high priest of that year, the spirit of prophecy
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was given him, and he foretells that Jesus was delayed out his life both for the nation
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of the Jews and for all mankind.
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The gift of prophecy itself does not make a man holy.
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It was also given to the wicked Baalum, see Numbers chapter 24.
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It is supposed that he exercised the sacrificial office alternately with his father and
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law Anis, who as we have seen in Luke chapter 2 was also called high priest.
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How great is the power of the Holy Ghost?
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From a wicked mind he brings forth the words of prophecy, and how great is the power
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attached to the pontifical dignity?
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For Caiaphas having become high priest, though unworthy of that dignity, prophesies, not
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knowing indeed what he says.
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The Holy Ghost makes use of his tongue only, but touches not his sinful heart.
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So say St. John Chrysostom.
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The same words have an impious and sacrilegious sense in the intention of the high priest,
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the enemy of Jesus Christ, and a divine and prophetic sense in the intention of the Holy
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We hear behold the privilege of the office and order, though in a wicked person, and
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as we have the assistance of God for the utterance of truth, which Caiaphas neither met nor knew,
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we may rest satisfied that Christ will not leave Peter's chair, whose faith he promises
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should never fail, though the occupants be as bad as their enemies describe them.
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Ephraim was a small city or town in the neighborhood of Bethel.
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Some suppose it to be the same as Ephraim mentioned in 2 Chronicles 1319 and 1 Macabees 5-2.
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UCBS and St. Jerome say it was situated about 20 miles to the north of Jerusalem.
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He or he remained with his disciples till the time in which he had resolved to deliver
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himself up into the hands of his enemies.