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.

We're going to consider a story from a controversy Jesus was involved in during his final

week in Jerusalem for Passover.

He ends up telling this parable.

It's actually one of his most famous stories.

Retelling the whole story of God's covenant with Israel leading up to himself through

a story about a landowner who owns a vineyard and then has some hired hands who end up

hijacking the farm and getting violent about it.

Here Jesus is involved in a really amazing set of hyperlinks to Old Testament texts.

There's Hebrew word plays going on here.

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