Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast. When I was a kid my parents would do the

bedtime story thing and some of the bedtime stories were like

Chronicles of Narnia and other kid books. I remember books of poetry and fairy tales and stuff like that

but we would also do stuff from the Bible pretty much every night and that went in phases

from a really kiddish version of the Bible with a bunch of pictures to the boring grunted version of the Bible

where the only pictures of the maps at the end.

But I remember one of those kid additions when I was,

maybe kindergarten, pre-kindergarten.

There is this one account of this one miracle

where they had this guy and they portrayed the dude with his arm just

wrecked I mean it was shot it was wither down to this tiny little thing it was twisted

around and like kind of grotesque at least at that age was a pretty scary image because it looked so deformed and foreign and then dad you read through the story and of course the guy's hand gets healed by Jesus and in the next picture it's better and I

remember doing the jaw on the floor thing and making dad stop reading and I was like

how did everybody not believe in Jesus after that dad and

you know dad tried to be theological and pastorly because that was still his job, but he had no answer that could convince

my five-year-old self that people could possibly see that happen and not believe.

And as a result, this is maybe the miracle

that has captured my imagination more than any other when I look at the Bible.

This is an amazing break the laws of time and space right in front of your eyes kind of miracle and in my

fifth grade brain the equation was very simple. If a person saw that happen they would need to

believe whatever the person who did it said because that

person knows something the rest of us don't know. What did not stand out to me or

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