Now my friends, Matt, this is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast.

And do you remember back at the end of chapter 22, if you've been with me for any period

of time?

This is your first time here.

Hey, welcome.

Thank you for being here very much.

We go straight through the Book of Matthew a little bit every single day and we're in

Matthew chapter 23 right now working on this series of condemnations, this series of

very public denouncements toward the injustice, awful leadership and cruelty and missing

the pointedness of the religious leaders at the time of Jesus.

And so there's a series of woes and like these oracular declarations, woe to you for

this, woe to you for that.

And we just finished up the third of those woes.

But all of that said, do you all who have been here with me working on this?

Do you remember at the end of chapter 22, when what seems like a pretty level headed

Pharisee comes up to Jesus and he's like, hey, what's the greatest commandment in the

law?

And Jesus says, love the Lord your God with paraphrasing here, everything you got and

love your neighbor is yourself.

And we know from the corresponding account over in Mark that the Pharisee is like, oh, yeah,

right on.

That's a good answer.

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