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, in this episode we are going to keep exploring the gospel according to Matthew.

How many times have I said that now?

Lots of times because the gospel of Matthew is long and we're exploring a whole bunch of it in these episodes.

Anyway, we are going to consider one of my favorite stories in the gospels and especially Matthew's version of it.

In Matthew chapter 21, the story of Jesus riding into Jerusalem during the week of Passover and he creates a storm.

He literally storms the temple and does the whole thing of turning over the tables and staging a protest.

There's also following that a strange story about Jesus and a fig tree.

Maybe you've read these stories and they've puzzled you.

Maybe I don't know what you've thought about these stories.

But get ready for lots of Hebrew word plays, prophetic poetry and symbolism and future fate of Jerusalem in Jesus' worldview.

So there you go, Matthew chapter 21. Let's dive in.

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