You're listening to the Bible for Normal People, the only God ordained podcast on the internet.

I'm Pete Ends.

And I'm Jared Byas.

Hey everybody, welcome to this episode of The Podcast.

And today we're going to talk about a topic that is very close to my heart.

In fact, it's one of these topics that when I started exploring and more, especially in graduate

school, not so much in seminary, but definitely in graduate school, especially having Jewish professors.

This is a topic that really got me thinking about the kinds of things we talk about on this podcast

all the time. What is the Bible? What do we do with it? And a way of getting to that question is,

for me, the way I put it is watching how the Bible behaves.

And a great way to see how the Bible as a whole, the Christian Bible behaves, is by looking at this

very important topic of how the gospel writers or Paul or somebody else, how they handle

their scripture. What Christians call the Old Testament. There is no New Testament, obviously,

they're writing it. And they're not even thinking about writing the New Testament. They're just writing.

Eventually, it becomes part of the Christian Bible, but for Paul and for the gospel writers and

everyone else in the New Testament, really, it's their scripture and their tradition. That is

very important for understanding who Jesus is. And what we're going to look at is how they actually

do that and what that might tell us about what the Bible is and what we do with it.

So the first thing to point out, I have several points to make here. The first thing to point out is

that the New Testament writers, well, they use the Old Testament a lot. It's like they can't make a

move without bringing their scripture into it. And that's because they saw Jesus as somehow a

continuation of this Abrahamic and mosaic, Moses tradition. And Jesus is sort of, I guess you

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