Welcome back to the podcast on this new week. Today's Labor Day for us here in the

United States and we're taking a break from our work but we still can use the day

to learn new skills specifically to become better Bible readers.

And of course we have dozens of episodes covering a host of very practical tips on overcoming the challenges

of studying the Bible for ourselves.

And I took all of those episodes on Bible reading, Bible study,

Bible memorization, even the struggle with Bible neglect.

All those many episodes, I put them together in one big digest

to show you all the ground that we've covered in the APJ book,

that first section on pages 1 to 46, which is also the section that I've heard probably the most compliments

about to this point. And this episode will add to it so what do we do

when a Bible verse doesn't make sense on first read the question is from Chris and it's

specific Pastor John hello and thank you for this podcast, Chris writes,

you have said in the past that you didn't understand Matthew 6

versus 22 to 23 for a long time.

But then you spent more time looking at the context before in the

treasuring focus in Matthew 6 19 to 21 and more time after the text in the

money focus in Matthew 624 and those contexts before and after helped make sense of

everything in between. Also what you learned in Matthew 20 versus 13 to 15 you brought back into your discovery as well. Can you explain

how you came to understand Jesus teaching on the healthy and sick eye using both

the close context before and after it and the broader

context together. These seem like Bible interpretation principles we all need to

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