Rest in peace professor Sugrue 🙏 It's a rare gift to receive the wisdom of a developed biblical scholar, who was also a profound intellectual, in the more general sense of the term. A true luminary

A true masterpiece. Thank you, Dr Sugrue. You are intelligent and articulate beyond belief.

Taking a breath.. it’s like an urgent rebirth listening the the infinitely staggering insight that he presents us with. A stream of consciousness that creates amazement and humility. So glad to catch this ..I hope to listen to it (and all of his lectures) 153 times..Thank you Prof Sugrue..!!

It is overwhelming. Such a passionate articulation, it is touching me spiritually.

0:40 The Most Spiritual, around year 90 1:09 Most influential, Mystical aspect of Jesus 2:26 Synopsis, Summation Text 4:00 Miraculous Divinity 4:40 Weave The Gospels Together 5:33 The Rich, Deep, End of The World 6:13 Jesus & Judaism “I Am” extension of The Old Testament 8:14 Borrowing without Diminishing Universality of The Chosen Triumph of The Spirit/The Logos 9:34 Symbolism The Logos is sacred Polyglosia 11:04 I Am, I Am, I Am 11:55 Numerical Symbols 13:04 66 Chapters 3, 7, 12, 40 14:17 1 - God 2 - Society, Adam & Eve 3 - Heavenly Trinity, Celestial 15:07 4 - The World, Direction 15:44 5 - Humanity 6 - Evil, Corruption 16:29 7 - Perfection 16:56 12 - Harmony 17:20 40 - completion 18:04 Feeding 5,000, 5 loaves + 2 fishes 18:44 Miracle of Lazarus 4 Days, human life, human rebirth 3 Days, Heavenly God rebirth 20:51 Chapter 21, Book of John Lowering the net, 153 fishes 🎣 *Times events happen* 22:08 6 Signs balanced by I Am 23:24 Unredeemed Prior to Jesus 24:20 The Journey, To Heal Wounds *The Names* 26:14 A Hymn Articulating • Son of Man & Son of God 27:37 The Perfect Man 28:53 I Am 29:27 God’s Glory is Revealed 30:59 Chapter 21: A 2nd Conclusion 31:30 _The Story of The Net & The Fish_ 🐠 🐟 🎣 Filled to Completion and Unbroken. Perfection. 32:33 33:48 “153” 35:25 Triatic Symbolism (Individual, Band, Family?) 36:40 Animal, Vegetable, Mineral Vine and Branches 38:11 Liquids • Water from Rock, • Wine from Vine/Blood 39:45 Temptations • Stone -> Bread • Bowing Down • Thrown Hope Charity 40:46 The Ages of History Age of Yahweh Age of Jesus Age of Martyrs 42:29 The Final Sign 🪧 Infinitude 43:19 1 Story in 4 Stories, The Feeding of the 5,000 People with the Fishes 44:00 44:33 Infinite Inexhaustible Spiritual Life

I've listened to this so many freaking times. Your lectures are masterworks, and I hope I can do as half as good a lecture as you one day! Since I've listened to this ive been seeing these numbers in paintings and on old buildings, absolutely astonishing.

Water turned to wine, wine turned to blood, and blood turned to water on the cross. Beautiful symbolism. Fantastic lecture

I'm not a man of faith but this series and this lecture in particular made me more exited to read and interpret the bible than any priest, pastor or deacon, more than any religious instruction could ever motivate me to do. Guess I'm a sucker for number magic.

These are genuinely the greatest lectures on philosophy I’ve ever heard. Is Dr Sugrue still around, I hope? I’d love to help put these together as a podcast; these deserve to be heard as widely as possible!

Beautiful, the Gospel of John was always my favorite

thank You Dr .Sugrue for this fascinating and clarifying lecture. Looking forward for the rest...

Professor Michael Sugrue is a Genius!

Thank you Prof Sugrue, for a fascinating lecture.

absolutely amazing discussion with poetic philosophical pungency

Thank you very much for such close adherence to the written meanings of these texts. It's been enlightening for me and integral to my work in mathematics. Correlating various discoveries of fields of pure math, namely combinatorics, with biblical significance and the Syracuse Problem. It's been an amazing competition of favorites, and I was so named for exactly the purpose of honoring John, brother of Jesus. It seems fitting my works connect with his. Thanks Dad 😆 Thank you again for speaking of these topics, Dr. Sugrue.

The thing that always struck me about John is how, very near the end, he says ‘and I suppose...’ As far as I’m aware, none of the other gospel writers refers to himself in this way, let alone in such an ambiguous way

I was already aware of much of this but it's beautiful how you put all this information together. Open up new insights

You're too good to be true Michael. Goodness, an absolute shame you didn't become a priest or at least taught seminarians. You're magic! Thank you. I am ploughing through your SERMONS!

153 is the sum of numbers 1 through 17 - not sure what this means, but it's interesting! This also means you can lay out 153 items in a perfect triangle.

Unbelievable amazing!

Thank you professor. You’ve helped me a lot.

I have listened to biblical scholars who claim that what the "end of this sinful world" meant to the people of the time was an end to the current evil political system under which so many suffered, i.e. Rome. They did not mean a literal end of life on Earth. Personally, the expectation of the end of the world was always HUGELY problematic for me. If someone has promised to come back for you, and more than two thousand years later they person still had not come for you, then I think it is time to admit no one is coming back for you. As one biblical scholar I have heard said, it is not so much we who are placing the demands on God but God who is placing the command on us to change our world and live according to Jesus's teaching. Now, I do believe the literal end of the world may very well happen, but it will be humanity's collective suicide by way of what we are doing to the planet and all life on it.

It is demonstrating the patterns of reality, as we experience it.

The lecture so nice, I had to listen twice

Thank you again. You have helped greatly with my studies.

Beautiful

Don’t let this incredible and life altering lecture distract you from the fact that prof. Sugrue looks absolutely goofy in the thumbnail

Thanks very much Michael. So many great insights here.

Extraordinary lecture!!

Irenaeus Florinus I can even describe the place where the blessed Polycarp used to sit and discourse - his going out, too, and his coming in - his general mode of life and personal appearance, together with the discourses which he delivered to the people; also how he would speak of his familiar intercourse with John, and with the rest of those who had seen the Lord; and how he would call their words to remembrance. Whatsoever things he had heard from them respecting the Lord, both with regard to His miracles and His teaching, Polycarp having thus received [information] from the eye-witnesses of the Word of life, would recount them all in harmony with the Scriptures.

Excellent ! will share on the Bird App for a Sunday Listening Suggestion

much thanks for the lectures professor

That cough at 23:27 really caught me off guard haha I was so invested on that whole numerology bit explain the 6 events before Jesus' death and resurrection and his explanation that 6 was representative of evil, that when he coughed it literally threw me so off and made question my reality for a bit

Thank you. RIP

Fascinating again. 🌞🌹

John is the 43rd book in the Bible, which numerically might represent harmony between Heaven and Earth, and completion of divine work, where 40 represents completion and 3 represents divinity. Also worth noting is that according to Big Bang Theory, there was a brief period of time immediately after the beginning of space time called the Planck constant which is 10 ^ -43, when the Universe was so excessive in temperature that there weren’t even atoms. John opens with, “In the beginning” and the Planck constant refers to the beginning of the material world.

Jesus is where it's at.

I'm always looking for new interesting lectures on Psychology/Philosophy, please let me know if you guys have any recommendations, would be highly appreciated

This is lecture 8 of part 1

The Net is Infinite

"In the tomb 4 days!" Dude was overbaked !

This is tremendous! Would someone please, lay out the 6 early signs?

What's the source you're referring to, for the 30 page analysis of the number 153? I'd love to read it.

When the individual human is holy, there will be God's plenty on Earth.

31:30 Interchangeable triads-such a cool analysis. Though on the surface does 153 not signify: *God/man/divinity* Famished souls cast their net faithfully on the other side and discover endless sustenance.

Watching your lectures is sometimes like reading a chapter of nietzsche, where just out of the blue you’ll drop a profound connection or insight that blows me away. The end of this video, however, was more like trying to read through the epigrams chapter of beyond good and evil without pausing at all to think 😂.

Can this account post all of Sugrues lectures? We want to see all of what is in the archives…

Son Of Man, that statement has always left me puzzled.

Profoundly profound 🤔

Hi Professor - @ 39:45 I don’t quite understand the triad temptations of Jesus and how it relates to animal, vegetable, and/or liquid symbolism. Changing stone into bread made sense, but I’m a little lost on the other 2 temptations. Could you expound on those 2 relationships?

Dr. Sugrue, I need the Nietzsche's Lecture series please3x :'(

Gospels esp of John is complicated What is sublime is at its essence simple

12:04 CASUALLY DROPPING THE HOTTEST BIBLICAL NUMEROLOGY EDUCATION YOU CAN GET IN THE FREE WORLD

A question: Jesus feeding the 5000, left 12 baskets, and 12 is harmony. the harmoy of what?

Son of Man is a translation from the Hebrew expression, “son of Adam”. It is meant to point out that Jesus is a descendant of the bloodline of Adam, he is the new Adam, the deified perfect man. The Theanthropos.

153 - my interpretation. The '5' is sandwiched between the two pillars of God (1) and the Trinity (3). 'Our essence is God (1). However, as 5' represents original sin and human imperfection, then in order to achieve perfection and freedom from sin, we need to be transformed by the baptism of the Holy Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Ghost). Hence, people will do the sign of the cross to demonstrate that they consciously acknowledge and brand themselves as disciples of Christ - in the same way babies/children are baptised with the sign of the cross (Trinity). The three elements of the Holy Trinity are distinct but not separate, emanating from the essence of God. God is the source. 153 appears AFTER the resurrection of Jesus to further reinforce that redemption occurs through undertaking that transformational process via the Trinity - otherwise we can decide to stay stuck at being '5', imperfect and sinful. Jesus suffered 5 wounds, again demonstrating the sins wrought on Him by man.

This guy needs to sell t-shirts with the slogan ... "Now ... "

1. Jesu said: i am the truth, i am the light of world 2. Network of symbolic to nature 3.

Anthony Fantano’s dad is so cool

Can't say I didn't find this lecture interesting. Even so, I find this reducing the Gospels to "number magic" to be very superficial and missing the entire messages of the stories. There have been many Hebrew scholars who have done the same with the Talmud and Pentateuch. It's like turning the scriptures into a kind of soduku puzzle where you can only unlock the message with fancy feats of numerology. The Bible and the Gospels are so much more than that. Perhaps, Dr. Sugrue prefers numerology over facing the ideas of the Bible head on. Dr. Sugrue, I'd love to hear your response!

Are the audio tapes still available for purchase? If not, you should start producing them again.

It went from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John to John, Paul, George and Ringo (the only Jew).

Professor Sugrue, here’s my crappy homework on “153”. 1={~€^%#|~}. 5= this idiot. 3= divine intervention that I “accidentally” stumbled upon via KZfaq algorithm. It gave me gift of your channel. I had my final nudge back to the faith I was raised on when I viewed your lecture on the Book of Matthew. I may be a member of generation x, but what I have just stated is neither sarcasm ( my gen’s vice), or delusion. In short, thank you

Given the Messianic conviction expressed throughout John, could the 153 fishes netted by the disciples in the final Verse not represent the official number of nations within the Roman Empire, and beyond?

153 fish. "Fishers of men". I guess it would be unity of man and divine - or maybe that the one (Jesus) is man and divine

I think he should have mentioned Philo's treatment of the number six. Certainly Revelation treats six as evil but I'm not convinced the whole Bible does that and I suspect some of the authors of the new testament had read Philo. Also the analogy to Bach doesn't work well. Bach's music does of course always end on a consonant chord but it doesn't have clearly established zones of "tension" that require some sort of explicit "resolution"; this terminology is generally applied to sonata form (such as by Charles Rosen), the dominant form of most of the composers following Bach until the 20th century.

This is great and love the explanation of the final sign but I mean... 153 = infinity is nice but... why not any other number? How about this idea: 153 is the order of God's manifestations to humanity... 1= God's number / God the father; 5 = Human number / God the man 3 = Spiritual realm / God the spirit... first there was Yahweh leading the Israelites, then he sent Jesus, then Jesus was sacrificed & resurrected giving us access to the Spirit. Still fits with the rest of the analysis... God is infinite, yes, but also, God & His various manifestations / means of providing for us is enough "spiritual food" to feed all of humanity.

How many books has Mr. Sugrue read in his lifetime?

That is a Rolls Royce brain on display.

What is the exact order of these lectures? They all seem to be called Part 1.

I figured 153 was God-Humans-Celestial or rather Father-Son-Holy Spirit, those three digits also being a celestial amount of numbers, all combined into an eternal, spiritual unity. Probably an oversimplification lol

So I'm gonna be that guy. After all that explanation of symbolic numerology, what does 153 represent? If we take them in order it goes: God, man, trinity. Maybe signifying that the covenant between God and man is intrinsically holy. Or, for a little more abstract, if we add the numbers together we get 9. Nine is perfectly divisible by 3. And not only that but technically it's 333, so is this symbolic of the last miracle being the most holy? The end all be all miracle of the most perfect person that has eternal life? I know he said we didn't have enough time but after him explaining the numbers outright I was hoping for his direct translation. Unless I'm missing something. Am I stupid?

Does anyone have the source he alludes to towards the end in regards to the number 153?

1 God 5 Man 3 The divine number it’s 3 numbers. something to do with the man and god coming together, bringing the fish to shore. I don’t know.

The Professor's deep respect for this non-synoptic Gospel- I greatly esteem. However, devoting the entire lecture to "number magic" and hidden meanings was sad for me. For this most poetic gospel that contains far too many "classic" lines, including "For God so loved the world"( those words are only in This gospel) and the Great chapter 17, consisting entirely of Jesus' personal prayer to God..I happen to dislike "You can only understand the hidden meanings with higher education"--this time in the Bible, but I believe we've scared several generations in the US away from poetry, because too.many think, in order to "get" the poem, they have to "decode it." This is a LONG way from the average Athenian of the 5th Century BC being able to easily quote Sophocles. It is impossible to explain beauty using logic

153 . . . God + Man + Heaven ?

Tell us Dr. Sugrue… how much caffeine and how many stimulants did it require to establish such a forceful delivery??? I also suppose perhaps none, there are those that vibe so high that there’s nothing to do but tone it down.

153 = god, man, eternity?

Where is the link to part 2??

Can you share the source mentioned in 35:39 ?

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"Magic" is the wrong word. That connotes occultism and witchcraft.

Do you still teach or have you retired?

Jesus was a janitor when cleansing was required.

Animal, vegetable and mineral??? Are you serious? This is very broad interpretation of the Gospel. Actually this is nothing more than heresy.

Gods statement to Moses, "I am" means "I am all things" as opposed to Jesus's "I am" statements that are quite focused, specific and directly related to a pathway aka the way, the truth and the life. And so it seems to me that Jesus is a life guide who leads us to become more 'I am' in this life. Jesus's message seems to be that we focus on specific things in order to transform ourselves into those worthy of the kingdom of God in the afterlife but more practically speaking to transform ourselves into more 'godlike' beings. As Jesus is quoted in the bible, "You shall do all this and more". Is this not a reference to becoming godlike especially since Jesus himself is seen, in many respects, as a god? And if we are capable of doing more than Jesus himself then havent we advanced into a godlike state? This line of reasoning contains no elements of blasphemy for if we analyze the concept of human souls evolving into the ranks of "I am" then this can only mean that we are 100% in harmony with God and not capable of placing ourselves above God in any way since doing so would be in conflict and in contradiction to being in the state of 'I am'. You would literally become something else and no longer be godlike.

One 5 three of You know God then He will tell you the beauty of 153 it is 9 *17 or 17 *3*3 nine being rapture and 17 being the number that represents Christ too much to explain here but beyond the symbolism of the numbers it’s Also Passover or the Passover more specifically if your interested comment and I can explain more. I hope this guy is saved. He seems like he is or will be

153 great fish is to teach the Greeks (and everyone else) who seeks wisdom that Jesus contains the fullness of human wisdom. Archimedes' value of pi consists the number 153 many times. However, Jesus had already cooked some fish when they had caught the 153 fishes. it is to show Jesus' wisdom is even beyond the human wisdom. :) In this time of pandemic, we really need this wisdom of Jesus because the variant of the Covid is changing faster than the vaccines we can develop. To add: 1John2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. It's the three major temptation in the world and Jesus was tempted of this triad.

The same old Chosen People. Not my choice.

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Which Book had all the Jesus Jokes. C'mon, Jesus had a great sense of humor - he was Jesus.

Why is such sophisticated coding and decoding is needed in the Bible? By some estimates 97% of the population in the 1st century were illiterate. How does this even makes any sense? I found it futile in a way to try and look for something which is not there. How is this different from astrology?

23:28 *cough**cough*

The more I listen to these lectures the more I start to feel like Jordan Peterson got famous from plagiarizing this man

This is the typical humanistic interpretation of scripture and taken apart from a humanistic perspective. This didn't add anything to my knowledge. Taking away truth and denying light are the only qualities I perceive in this dissertation. A huge disappountment in the assessment of the truth of the Gospel.

Numerological nonsense.

Lol, What a load of garbage, esoteric wordplay and revisionism. The true meaning of the bible is not relativistic. It's true meaning is what the early christians understood of it, rest all are reinterpretations and revisions. The invocation of deliberate wordplay is borderline parody. You can pickup a random children's storybook and put in few days and come up with cosmic deep esoteric meanings of symbolism of things in that story. What a travesty of reason and common sense this whole lecture is.

When the individual human is holy, there will be God's plenty on Earth.