You're not going to be here. Hi, we're Scott and Maureen Proctor, and this is Meridian's podcast on the Come Follow Me curriculum.

And we're so excited because we get to come with you into your home to study the scriptures together.

It's about our favorite thing to do.

Special thanks again to Paul Cardall

for providing the music for this podcast.

Oh, we love it.

And this week our chapters are Matthew one and Luke one.

You know, it's important that you add the Joseph Smith translation to all of your

studies in the coming year because Joseph gives us so many insights into the

New Testament and we'll talk about them here and

there and you just need to pay attention to those and one of the very first

ones that we need to look at is just the fact that Joseph changed the name of

the books those four Gospels that we call the Gospel

according to Matthew and he changed it to the testimony of Matthew and the

testimony of Mark the testimony of Luke and the testimony of Luke, and the testimony of John.

That makes a real difference.

And it's important to understand their audience.

Matthew was writing to the Jews and he goes out of his way during his book to talk about how what he is talking

about fulfills the prophecy of the Jews. And that's important to understand

because the Jews were always looking for the fulfillment of prophecies.

That was just the way they approached life.

And Luke's audience, of course, is to the Greeks.

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