Name my friends, it's Matt.

This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast

and we're in the middle of a conversation

where we're looking at Matthew chapter 23 verse 13

where Jesus stands up like in the temple complex area

in front of everybody and calls out the fanciest people

in the room, the fanciest people in all of society

they're saying the following,

what do you teachers of the law and Pharisees,

you hypocrites, you shut the door of the kingdom

of heaven and people's faces

and you yourselves don't enter

nor will you let those enter who are trying to.

Like we talked about yesterday,

it looks like Jesus is drawing on some prophetic stuff

from the Old Testament, this denunciation

which sounds pretty bad

and just straight up good old fashioned American English today.

I think is actually much weightier

when we understand some of the cultural context

and I also think this is the beginning

of a whole bunch of payoffs for things

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