Hey, I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and I am ridiculously grateful for you cramming in 10 minutes

with me every weekday to talk about the Bible. In this case, we're processing our way one day at a time,

10 minutes ish at a time through the Book of Matthew.

And so far we haven't really actually looked specifically at much of the Book of

Matthew at all, but we've looked at a lot of things about the book of

Matthew. What we're trying to do is lay a really good foundation for what this

whole thing is and what it means and where it came from and where it fits in

history so that instead of just grabbing it through the lenses of 21st century us and assuming it was meant first and foremost for us, I want to instead try to encounter this at least a little bit through the lenses of the people it was originally written to and to get to a place

where we can imagine the assumptions and the context and the ideas and the rhythms of language

and life that they would have had in their lives so that we can catch

more of those little subtleties and nuances where the meaning really does hide out in any

great book, any great poem, any great song, any great movie,

it's in those little touches and flourishes.

So this might just take a minute, but that's okay, because hey hey we got time.

Here's the thing I want to talk about historical context this time around.

Let's imagine that we're alive hundreds of years from now and we find a movie.

And this movie is a buddy comedy where two people who don't like each

other that much get thrust into a situation where they have to travel all over the

place through airports and on airplanes to solve some crime or riddle or mystery or get the money or track down the

McGuff and who cares what they're doing right but it's funny and it's enjoyable and

it's this quirky little slice out of the distant past that catches our attention and we want to understand better.

Well, here's the thing, you and I know that at this point, a buddy comedy movie about airplanes and airports could date anywhere from what the 1950s to the 2000 right nows

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