Hey, my friends, I'm Matt. This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast. And a couple times this

week, as we've been working on this whole Matthew 16, Mariners, Diddy about red skies

at night in the morning and what that all means. A couple times, as we've been going along

with this, I've been saying that there's a manuscript question here that there's a

little bit of debate about what we actually do with this historically, as well to put it

frankly, there's a question as to whether verses two and three are Bible or not. And I really

like this whole aspect of biblical studies that involves looking at these early manuscripts,

but I'm a hack. And so even though I took my classes and I remember stuff about Greek

and I can muddle through it really, really clumsily, for me, it's like decoding, it's like

crack or jack stuff. I'm really just not, I'm not even close to an expert. I'm not the

person to look to on this, but I know people. And so I've decided to call in a favor from

a mutual acquaintance that I have with a bunch of other people I know and trust. This is Dr. Craig

Blomberg. Dr. Craig, thank you for jumping in. Thank you for having me. Okay, you're a Denver

seminary, correct? That's right. What do you do there? What's your area of specialization?

I teach variety of courses in New Testament and Greek. And my buddy, Aaron Utecht, who people

on the podcast will be familiar with because he jumps on very often was one of your students,

correct? Quite a while ago, yes, and a very good one. He's better than me at all of this stuff,

so apparently you do your job well. We get into this passage here and I'm just cruising along

and anybody with a Bible that has even the most basic of footnotes is going to notice a couple

of marks in their Bible and they go down to the bottom. They're like, what's this about? And

in the little italicized notes in the NIV, not the big study notes at the bottom,

you'll see something that reads something like this, note on verse two. Some early manuscripts

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