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Today, Matthew 8, Mark chapters 2, 3, 4, and Luke 7.

So for this first episode, we're going to focus on Matthew chapter 8, with the main focal

point of this particular episode being on a series of miracles that Jesus performs.

Yeah, so the Latin word mirror means to look or to wonder at. Miracles are things that we

can't just easily explain away, but we know what happened and we know it came from somewhere

real, something powerful. And Matthew, like other synoptic writers,

like Mark and Luke, often put materials together in their writing according to themes. And so

Matthew is trying to, again, convince his readers and listeners to his gospel of who Jesus is.

And so he brings all these, a lot of miracles together in this one chapter

in quick succession to make it really clear, Jesus is somebody you should look to because

he has the power of God on earth. So it's a really powerful thing. And if we imagine ourselves

living in this Galilean society many centuries ago, and if you

had seen someone like Jesus, you would absolutely know this is a man from God.

This is somebody from heaven who has authority to act.

And that was very, very powerful.

Now, we have lived with these stories most of our lives.

And so to see them fresh, with fresh eyes through the lens of what it may have been like

for Matthew and his friends to hear these stories and how amazing it would be for people

to hear these stories the first time or to see them, it'd be so deeply

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