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 continue exploring the Gospel according to Matthew.

A teaching series I contributed to a number of years ago when I was a teaching pastor at Dorophoop.

And we are going to be exploring the sermon on the Mount in Matthew, Matthew, chapter 5 through 7

for the next number of episodes.

This one is in Matthew chapter 5 and we're going to focus on Jesus as teaching about his relationship

to the Torah, to the Jewish covenantal laws embodied in that phrase, Torah, which often gets translated as law in our

Bibles and so we'll talk about in the teaching why that's kind of an unfortunate translation.

But it captures one part of what that word and idea means.

Probably Jesus's relationship to the Torah isn't something you woke up thinking about this morning.

And that's fine.

It's a bad person because of that.

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