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 of the podcast we're going to continue exploring the Gospel

of Cording to Matthew.

We're going to ponder a pretty well-known parable of Jesus that has been misused and abused

in really unfortunate ways when this parable is read out of context in Jesus' mission

to Jerusalem in the last week of Passover.

So this story is about a landowner who gives different size investments to different

of his servants and then expects them to produce something with them.

And then when he returns he rewards or punishes different people according to their performance.

This is one of those stories in the Bible where if you rip it out of context you can just

do terrible things to people with it and of course all the things that have been done

in the history of interpretation.

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