Hey amigos, I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast.

And yes, then it's a stretch. We are picking up where we left off yesterday.

We're in Matthew chapter 20 looking at this little passage.

It says, now as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem,

he took the 12 disciples aside and he said to him,

we're going up to Jerusalem and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests

and the teachers of the law.

They'll condemn him to death and we'll turn him over to the Gentiles to be mocked

and flagged and crucified.

And on the third day he'll be raised to life.

This is pretty weighty stuff and for you and I with the benefit of looking backwards

on a text like this, it feels like, oh yeah, well obviously that's the deal.

But this was brand new news to the disciples and this brand new for the person who's

reading straight through the book of Matthew for the first time.

So there's a lot to unpack here. So I'm going to let Jeff play some music and then we're going to go do that.

Death is a profoundly human experience and Jesus is gradually spelling out more specifically

that the Son of Man emphasizing the humanity of Christ is going to suffer the fate of humans.

But it's not going to play out exactly the way it does as humans because there's this weird

twist to every illusion that Jesus is making himself or that Matthew describes narratively

to this whole death thing and that is resurrection.

He's going to be raised to life.

Jesus is saying this again and again in every one of these mentions that this is going to happen

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