Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast. I know you have a

gazillion things you could be doing with your time, you're busy, you have

things that you need to accomplish, and yet here we are hanging out.

That is not lost on me.

Thank you for making the time to do this together every weekday as we work through the book of Matthew.

And one of the things that can happen as we do this every single weekday and as we get

through nine chapters of the book of Matthew is that we can get to these rapid fire

anecdotes like we've had in Matthew 8 and Matthew 9 since we got done with the

sermon on the mountain Matthew 7 through 5 and each anecdote demands you know

some cultural background and history and interpretation

and there's usually some red letters in there from Jesus and like, oh, what does that mean?

What do we do with that?

And cross referencing to the Old Testament there's a lot of

I think very enjoyable busyness that goes into digging into each of these stories but

then what can happen is I think we can lose the pattern a little bit and there can also be questions that don't present themselves in one little anecdote or passage, but only become evident when you look at several of them at once that we can

miss.

And I don't want to miss those.

So this is one of those episodes where we're going to step back and look at the big picture

a little bit for the sake of understanding the little picture more specifically.

So here's a deal.

Matthew does some goofy chronological stuff in his book.

I'm not troubled by it.

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