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And, you know, I don't think I have any announcements to make that I know.

So I'm just going to go to the phones and talk to Ryan in Linwood, Washington. Hi, Ryan. Welcome to the narrow path. Hey, Steve. So I was listening to your verse by verse in Jeremiah, and I think it's chapter 31, and it says that God will do a new thing on the earth, and a woman will encompass a man.

That's Isaiah, I believe.

Jeremiah. Is it? Okay, I'm sorry. Yeah, I Isaiah, I believe. Jeremiah.

Is it? Okay, I'm sorry.

I mean, I just read it. Oh, yes. I read it. And then I listened to the verse 22.

Yeah, there's an, Isaiah also several times speaks about God doing a new thing.

But here, yeah, you're right. In Jeremiah 3122. Yeah.

So I just have a kind of a set-up question, then my suggestion.

Is it true that, at least from the records, that Jesus was the first rabbi to have women followers?

That's an interesting question.

I know that the Jews generally thought it was a waste of time to teach women, and therefore I would be shocked, and I really don't think it is the case that any rabbi would have had disciples that were female, because they believed it was, you know, you might as well

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