Hey everybody I'm Matt. It's the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and we've

been looking at Matthew

chapter 9 for the last couple of weeks whatever here and one of the things that we've noticed

together is that Matthew seems to have lumped three incidents together that

tell a story or that all hit on one theme and that is the opposition to

Jesus. They're mad about him forgiven people, they're mad about him hanging out with the repugnant

cultural other, and then, well, respond to all of that.

And they're a little bit troubled about Jesus' religious ritualistic practices.

And then we see Jesus respond to all of that.

Well, I suspect that Matthew is doing all of that on purpose and so yesterday we started a

conversation about how Matthew handles the chronology how sometimes he's a little

bit chronologically loose with his document to make a point and tell the story better and how at other times he seems to be pretty dialed into then this happened then this happened then this happened so we're going to break that down more today picking it right up where we left off.

And the next verse we're going to look at is,

while he was saying this, a ruler came and knelt before him

and said, my daughter has just died.

Ba, ba, can Jesus deal with the death thing?

That's the logical question.

So why is that there?

Why didn't Matthew put the death thing at the beginning if chronologically that's more where

it happened? Well because it doesn't illustrate his point as well.

And there's no thing at the beginning of Matthew where he comes out and he's like,

hey, so here's all the things that happened exactly in order.

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