What's up my friends, I'm Matt, this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and we are on

I think our third day of looking at this very contentious exchange between the Pharisees

and Sadducees who formed an unholy alliance to oppose Jesus, setting aside their ideological

differences to eliminate this common enemy and they come and they ask something that seems

pretty innocuous.

We just do another miraculous sign for us and Jesus, no doubt, thinking back to the

11 billion miraculous signs that he just got done doing is like, how about no, no, you

can read the signs, you see how the things are, you can look at the sky and tell what's

going to happen with the weather, you're perfectly competent, no, a wicked and adulterous

generation looks for a miraculous sign but none will be given it except the sign of

Jonah.

And today we're going to break down more about that wicked and adulterous stuff and about

the sign of Jonah and what it means in this context.

I'm going to ask my dear friend Jeff to play some music and then we're going to get

after it.

Jesus never really did ever debate these guys, did he?

There's no moment where Jesus is like, all right, I have to face down my logical opponents

and we are going to put a neutral observer over there.

They're going to judge the whole thing, we're going to get note cards out, they're going

to say things and after they make their eight points, I'm going to have to make sure to

rebut those eight points, then I get to go on the offensive for a while.

That structure never seems to occur and I think that's really interesting too because

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