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.

All right, well this is the fourth of a ten-part series we're doing called I Am Who I Am.

These were teachings that I contributed a number of years ago to a series we did at Door of Hope Church.

We took months to just stop and explore the scriptures, cover to cover, and rediscover the portrait of God's character

told in the story of the Bible and in the story of Jesus.

We're in this section exploring a story of Jesus, one of my favorite, because it was actually really influential on me personally

in helping me rediscover who God was and God's fundamental character towards me.

So the story of Jesus forgiving the paralyzed man who's lowered down on ropes through the hole in the roof by his friends

is such an amazing story.

But also the context, we're going to explore the version from the Gospel of Mark and the way he frames that story,

the way he sets it up by what comes before, it's really amazing.

What this paralyzed man discovers isn't just that Jesus has the power to make him well.

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