What's up my friends? I'm Matt. This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast. We are in a deep dive into this passage, Matthew 15

21 through 28. It's a tricky passage because it looks like Jesus is just blowing off this foreigner lady who needs his help

But then when he finally does talk to her, it looks like he's pretty harsh with her

We're trying to figure out why the tone. What is being accomplished here? Why is Matthew even including this in his document?

Doesn't it make Jesus look bad? And we're about, I don't know, halfway-ish through our process of trying to figure out what the heck is going on here

I have no idea where we're resuming because I recorded this whole thing at once

So I'm going to have Jeff play some music and we're just going to pick it up wherever we left off yesterday

So okay for me after the first time I really sat and thought about this and broke it down

It cut through some of that. Jesus, what are you doing impulse that I felt and if I really think about the exchange

I feel a little bit better about it

But there's a lot to break down here

And I'm not even sure where to start so I'm just going to pick things make some observations and we'll see if we can make sense of this

So we've already acknowledged this motif of Jesus having a soft spot for the Gentiles and then being able to identify him

Further, we've acknowledged the repetition of this motif where women in the gospels

Seemed to identify Jesus and be willing to take that desperate step to go and get his attention

But third, I think there's something that's sitting in plain sight here that needs to be acknowledged as well

And that's that again Jesus praises an outsider for their faith

He did the exact same thing again. I'm turning pages and I don't know why in Matthew chapter 8

When he says I tell you the truth. I've not found anyone in Israel with such great faith

I say to you that many will come from the east and west and will take their places at the feast with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven

But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside into the darkness where they'll be weeping and gnashing of teeth

There's this idea throughout the whole gospel and John the Baptist hits on it as well that just saying we have Abraham as our father

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