Hey everybody, I'm Tim McEy and this is my podcast Exploring My Strange Bible.

I am a card carrying Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is

utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you have.

On this podcast I'm putting together the last ten years worth of lectures and sermons

where I've been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites

us into the mission of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find those resources at thebibelproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

Alright, well in this episode we're going to keep exploring the Gospel according to Matthew.

These were teachings that I gave a number of years ago when I was a pastor at Doer of Hope Church in

Portland.

We took a couple of years to just slowly work through the Gospel according to Matthew and our

Sunday gatherings.

At this point we were in Matthew chapter 18 and we just slowed down and camped out in this

chapter.

In the framework of the whole story of Jesus, this teaching is in a side on the road trip

that Jesus made up from where he grew up in Galilee, Northern Israel, Palestine and the

down to Jerusalem.

And he's trying to give his closest followers their final step of like education about

...