Hey, everybody, it's Matt. This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast, and today we are going to do our last day of looking

at the accounts of John the Baptist, baptizing people.

There's at least some reference to this in each of the four Gospels.

We started by looking at the one in John 1.

John is the, you know, it's the actual book we're actually working on

this season. But John is an interesting animal as a gospel because it kind of assumes that the

reader is aware of a little bit of the story, that the Matthew, Mark, and Luke material has been

circulating for a while. So John pinch zooms in on certain details of Matthew, Mark, and Luke

don't so much. And at other times, John just sort of quickly glosses over things that Matthew

Mark and Luke have already covered really well. So we looked at Matthew, then we looked at Mark,

and today we're looking at the account in Luke, which is interesting

because it gives us a closer look at one detail that still remains a question for us, at

least in the order that we've attacked all of this, and that is what exactly did John

want people to do?

We have a special gubernatorial election coming up in South Dakota here in a

couple weeks or something. We had a governor for a long time, and she got roped into playing some

roles in the current administration. And, you know, that I'm not sure that went the best for her.

That was the most shrewd.

It might have been better to just stay in South Dakota. But whatever the case, we've been, we've been on the hunt for a new governor here for a while. We've had a guy who's been filling in. I don't know. Maybe he's fine. I don't really hear anything about him. He's not in the news or anything. And so now the signs are all going up and we got,

I don't know, eight people or something like that running for the Republican nomination. And

like one guy, I think, is running unopposed for the Democrat nomination. This is the kind of

state where whoever wins the Republican nomination is going to be governor. Like, you know,

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