Hey I'm Matt, this is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast and we are in the middle of Matthew Chapter 8 talking about this deal with the Centurion after the sermon on the mount gets done. Jesus comes down the hill everybody's like

all right is this guy for real or what how does this thing work and then he needs to do a bunch of stuff so that people

know whether or not he can back up all the things he said. And so of course he runs into the

leper that we talked about a few times back and he heals the guy with leprosy and overcomes social

boundaries and all kinds of things and no doubt this is messing with everybody's

brain then they walk a little bit further toward this community of Capernium

and when they get there they are greeted as we've talked about for the

last couple of days by the centurion a guy who commands a bunch of Roman troops.

Normally this

in a community, and from the similar account in Luke,

people like the Centurion,

he's a decent guy.

He seemed to have the back of the Jewish synagogue and so the leaders kind of liked him but he does not go

to the Jewish religious leaders when things get weird in his household with somebody he cares about

Instead he goes straight to Jesus

who is more of an unknown factor but it never crossed his mind that the religious

leaders and the religion that Jesus frankly just got done criticizing pretty aggressively

in the sermon on the mount could solve his problem but maybe this weird homeless

guy who speaks with authority in a way that other people aren't used to could do that.

So, well I'll just read it to you.

I mean I can tell you the whole story but it would take me twice as long.

So here we go.

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