Hey, it's me Matt Whitman, the person who does the podcast that you're listening to right now.

I wanted to give you a heads up on the front end that if you listen to this with kids,

we're going to get into some subject matter here that is very Bibley, but that might force you to have conversations with them you don't want to have yet.

So maybe listen to this one is for the ladies.

Okay, to be truthful, this one's actually for everybody,

because every episode is actually for everybody.

But there are a lot of ladies in this one

because we're going to look at the five women

who appear in the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew chapter 1

versus 1 through 17. The crazy thing about this, no no there are a lot of crazy

things about this, let me start with this one. One, it's crazy to put women in a

genealogy of Jewish people in the first with this defied convention right off the

one. It's crazy to put women in a genealogy of Jewish people in the first century

a. That was not done. This defied convention right off the bat.

Now we can go into how misogynistic everything used to be and yep it was pretty bad.

But the reality is that this is an incredibly bold move that is making a theological statement about outsiders and about how much

topsy-turvy stuff went into this enormous theological story that the genealogy of Jesus encapsulates.

So right at the mat just having women in here is weird and throws down a gauntlet on one level.

Next, a pretty good case could be made that all of these women are

Gentiles. Having even one Gentile in a genealogy of a Jewish man in the

first century a. D. would be weird. Having

for be in there is weirder having four be in there who are all women is

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