Hey, my friends, I'm Matt. This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast. We're doing something really fun right now.

Yesterday we started a conversation with Denver Seminary Professor Dr. Craig Blomberg.

He's a part of the new international version translation committee and is

phenomenal at this kind of stuff. He's one of the people who I really look up to in this world.

And so I am privileged that he was up for extending our conversation and hanging around

for an extra segment here. So I'm going to have Jeff play some music and we're going to jump

back in with Dr. Craig Blomberg and keep talking about the manuscript evidence and the

little bit of controversy behind these couple of verses in Matthew chapter 16 we've been looking at.

What was the final bit of evidence that tilted you toward this should be included with the footnote?

We haven't said anything about the internal evidence, the actual contents of the disputed

verses and it's absolutely fascinating because you can find in ancient Jewish and Greek sources

earlier than the New Testament as well as modern European folklore rhymes like red skies at

morning. Sailors take warning. Red skies at night. Sailors delight. And if all you're thinking of

as we love to do in Colorado is some of our gorgeous sunrises and sunsets. This sounds completely

backwards because if I see a red sky at night I'm looking to the west. I'm looking to a place where

there are at least enough clouds to scatter the sunlight as the sun is setting and that's what

makes this guy such beautiful red and orange. Well if clouds are coming from the west and I'm of

course if you're in Colorado you can't be out on a body of water at night because we don't have

anything big enough. That would say oh maybe there's chance of rain that's not something I take

the lighting. And the same thing is in the morning if I'm looking to the east and there are clouds to

create a nice bright sunrise then those clouds moving from west to east are going to scatter so

at first glance I read this and I say this is entirely backwards. Well this is not the phenomenon

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