Hey, Shalom everyone. I'm Amir Zarfati from Connect in the Jezrael Valley in Galilee, Israel.

And once again, this is Explore the Bible with Dr. Rick Yon. Shalom Rick. How are you, my friend?

Hello, Amir. I am doing quite well, and I'm very excited, especially for the next number of podcasts, as we look in to the Word of God, especially the Gospel of John.

Yes, and we began to look into the story behind the story, the way to interpret basically

the Bible in a deeper way and not to just look at what's written,

but to understand what beyond it.

And we already touched in the first two podcasts, the first two chapters of Explore the Bible about that.

We touch quite a few topics, but today we want to look into John, chapter 5 and on,

and ask ourselves three questions.

What is the story?

What is it that we need to look in the story, and what is the story is the story? What is it that we need to look in the story and what is the story

behind the story? Did I get that one right? You got that exactly right. Trying to get the

complicated made simple and that's about as simple as we could make it so that our viewers will just as they go through any of the narrative books in the Bible,

they just have to ask three questions. What is the story? Because narrative is a story. And Jesus was such a great storyteller,

and the Apostle John picked up on that whole process

of telling a story.

Yes.

And then when we look at the story, the question is,

what do we look for in that story?

And we're going back to observation. What do I see here? What should I see? What

should I look for? And then there's always the story behind the story. That helps us to interpret

the Bible from a historical standpoint to understand what supports what we are just reading right now.

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