Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and I did the thing again where I just start talking and getting excited about a passage and later I look down like oh wow that's not going to work for something called the 10 minute Bible hour podcast. So we're going to cut it in two.

So the first half of this conversation

about Matthew 8, 23 through 27,

that's the account of Jesus Calming the Storm

on the Sea of Galilee.

The first half of that is yesterday's or

last episode and I think that's 0170. I think that's probably right. So then this one would be

0171. You're definitely going to need the last one

in order to make sense of this one

because we're going to pick it up abruptly

right after the music that I'm going to play in 3, 2, one, now. This is where it gets weird. So then he got up out of the boat,

and he got up out of the boat and he rebuked the winds and the waves and it was completely calm.

There are two things that stand out for me about this one.

One is what the original audience might have thought of.

I think this incident

would have conjured memories for them of King Xerxes, the one from Esther, the one from

300, the one who went to punish the Spartans and the Athenians for the defeat that his predecessor had suffered

in trying to conquer or rather bring to heal the Greek city states who had come into conflict with

their Persian overlords.

Xerxes famously when he was trying to cross the Hellespont,

that's a little skinny chunk of river between

what we would call Asia Minor or Turkey

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