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So did Matthew create a verse out of whole cloth to trick his readers?

It's time for the line of fire with your host, biblical scholar and cultural commentator Dr. Michael

Brown, your voice for moral sanity and spiritual clarity.

Call 866-34 Truth to get on the line of fire.

And now, here's your host, Dr. Michael Brown.

Thanks so much for joining us on thoroughly Jewish Thursday.

Michael Brown, absolutely delighted to be with you.

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Before we open up the scriptures in the Gospel of Matthew and ask the question, did Matthew

create a verse out of whole cloth, which many counter-missionaries would claim is the case? Before we look at

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