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 Exploring My Strange Bible, we're going to keep walking through

the Gospel according to Matthew.

These were teachings I did years ago when I was a pastor at Door of Hope Church in Portland.

And at this point in the series, we're in Matthew chapter 12.

We're going to consider a story where the leaders of Israel, specifically the Bible teachers,

the Bible nerds in Israel, challenged Jesus and they want to make him prove his identity

by performing a sign.

And Jesus, true to form, responds with giving them a kind of riddle and talking about the

sign of Jonah, the famous prophet from the Hebrew Bible.

So this is just an interesting story on its own terms.

But it also raises this fascinating parallel with many of our own personal stories where

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