Today, my friends, it's Matt, this is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast, and if you did not

listen to yesterdays and probably the day before that episode as well, you should go back

and catch those first because they're very important to setting this up, and I just

want to get right into it.

We're looking at a tension that exists in Matthew 23, 35, where Jesus says, and so upon

you, you being the Pharisees, the teachers of the law, the religious leaders, will come

all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth from the blood of righteous able

to the blood of Zechariah, son of Barakaya, whom you murdered between the temple and

the altar.

I tell you the truth, all this will come upon this generation.

As we discussed, it's pretty easy to tell what Jesus means by the remark, but who is

this Zechariah?

Because Zechariah, son of Barakaya, is a prophet who wrote in the 500s BC and gave a

bunch of Messianic prophecies, but the Zechariah whose story is being described would seem

to be Zechariah, son of Jehoia, from at least a century before this other Zechariah.

Possible solution to this tension number one, and this is not what I believe, but if we're

to be fair-minded, we have to acknowledge this possibility.

Number one, is as somebody just made a mistake and it made its way into the Bible.

Maybe Luke made a mistake, maybe Matthew made a mistake, maybe Peter recalled the details

of what Jesus said mistakenly.

Maybe other people mistakenly remembered what Jesus said and they reported it to Matthew

or to Luke when they were trying to get all the details together to write down this story.

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