Welcome to the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Right now we're going through the entire Bible to understand it is one big cohesive story.

We're covering one book each day, and this one is about Matthew.

This is the most excited I've been for an episode that we've done so far together as we're

going through the Bible one book per day until we're done.

The book of Matthew is not only my favorite book of the Bible, it is my favorite book

of everything.

It's my favorite thing that's ever been written by anyone, and first and foremost, the

reason for that is not just because I'm named after the guy who wrote it.

That probably factors a little, but first and foremost, the biggest reason is because

this is where I met Jesus of Nazareth.

This is the first account I ever heard of who he was or what he's about, what he did,

his life, his death, his resurrection, all of that stuff.

I'm a Christian, so as much as I like to come at the Bible academically and historically,

I love narrative structure, all of that stuff is really important and exciting to me.

Nothing in the Bible is more important or exciting to me than the main character of the

Bible.

Jesus of Nazareth, I think he's got in the flesh, I think he is the completion and the answer

to everything that gets set up in the Old Testament.

When I set out to do something like this, I'm just straight up excited because we finally

get to talk directly about Jesus of Nazareth on screen here in the book of Matthew, and

as I keep hinting at here, I don't think I'm going to do it justice because I just did

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