Hey, everybody, it's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast. And probably a lot of you've been

listening to this program for the last couple of weeks. We're like, well, surely you're not sick

anymore because of how long you've been sick and had a cough, but you're wrong. I'm still sick.

And consuming cough drops. And now on top of that, I'm popping steroids, which is

kind of exciting. I've only been doing it for a day, but I think I've already got some back knee

going and a little extra male pattern baldness, which is disappointing. Speaking of that male

pattern baldness, I was watching this heady drama show the other day on HBO, and they made fun

of mats who were bald. What the heck

I'm a meme? It was a bunch of dudes who were all like in their 40s or something and they weren't

being portrayed in a particularly flattering light. They were all insecure and stuff. Every single

one of them was a bald dude with a beard and the joke was somebody was like, watch this. Hey Matt.

And they all looked over

at once. That ain't good. Great. Now I can't be differentiated from other mats anymore because we're

apparently all the same thing and now it's a great big joke. Speaking of moments in history,

when there was a glut on one particular name and a whole bunch of people with the same name were right by each other

and it might have been a little bit confusing. How about the first century AD and Bible times

when apparently a lot of people were named John, which can be terribly confusing because the

only two names that we've seen so far in the Gospel of John are John and John, but they're

not the same guy. Now, in fairness, John, the author of the Gospel of John, wouldn't have thought

this was confusing because he didn't sign his gospel. This is not a vanity project to him. All the

evidence inside the Gospel of John says that this book was written by John,

the beloved disciple of Jesus, and the John, who was a leader in the early church and the only

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