MATT291 - If There Was Already a Matthew Out There, Why Did John Feel the Need to Write Another Gospel?

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🗓️ 28 December 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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MATTHEW 13:1-9 On this podcast we pick books of the Bible and work through them from beginning to end, bit by bit every day. This show exists because of listener support. If you'd like to consider supporting, you can learn more at thetmbh.com/support or check out the Patreon support page at patreon.com/thetmbhpodcast Thanks to everyone who supports TMBH You're the reason we can all do this together! Discuss the episode here Music written (or covered) and performed by Jeff Foo...

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0:00.0	Hey my friends I'm Matt this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast we're going to do weird stuff today
0:12.1	because I got my buddy Josh here
0:14.4	and Josh is he's planning a church right now.
0:17.8	I do walk us through that just a quick version Josh what are you doing?
0:20.8	Planted a church here in Rap City, South Dakota.
0:23.8	We began at the beginning of 2020, it's called Redeeming Grace Church.
0:27.5	And you preached on the Book of John all year long.
0:31.3	And I had the privilege of going and sitting in on a few of those and they were great.
0:34.1	I liked the way you come at the Bible, I liked the way you think about stuff.
0:37.7	And so I'm ambushing you with microphones without any warning whatsoever because you came to my
0:42.3	house to watch a football game
0:43.4	and that was your mistake my friend because I'd like to have a Bible fight with you about
0:47.7	the Gospels and which one is best. I am going to vote for Matthew, but you made a compelling case today in your sermon for
0:57.0	John. So let me lead with this question. If you already got Matthew floating around out there as one of the early Gospels, some people argue it was the first, some people argue it was Mark, and then Matthew a little bit after that, but nobody argues John was first. Pretty much everybody thinks John was last.
1:14.5	If you're John and you look at something of the quality
1:19.6	and the scope of Matthew, what on earth would get in your head that would cause you to pick up a pan
1:26.2	and be like, you know what, I think we need another one of these. Why even write it?
1:29.2	I think John is wanting us to know that there's more to the story. John has about 92% new information as
1:35.5	opposed to the other Gospels and so I think John just wants to fill out the story a little
1:39.5	bit. I think he's also writing afterwards because he knows that there's some different ideas that are floating around about Jesus and he just wants to nail down very clearly,
1:48.6	Theologically who Jesus is why he came and he very much emphasizes more so I think than the other
1:55.0	Gospels of the deity of Jesus. And so his Godness seems to be very much at the
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