Hello my friends it's Matt this is the 10 minute Bible hour

podcast and I have no idea how long it's going to take us to do the thing that I want to do today.

Each of these four books of the New Testament, the first four books, Matthew, Mark,

Luke, John. They're all about Jesus. They all tell roughly the same story with different

points of emphasis between them. Each of them is written to a different audience

but if you're relatively new to the Bible it can be a touch confusing when you're

like okay I open the thing up I'm looking through the old stuff

I got on when does the Jesus is really important in the Bible right and I've been reading for a really long time

and he hasn't come up yet where do we get to the

Jesus okay I think Google that when does Jesus get into the Bible oh wow I got away

up here okay well just turn away up here then just just a second okay

wow that's a lot okay and then you read all the way through the book of Matthew and you're like okay

I think I get it let's see what happens next and then you read through Mark

and you're like this feels like the it feels like the same thing and then Luke again and then John again first time through

that could be really really confusing well we've talked before about the reasons that

those are all there they're all written to audiences. They all have a different point of theological

emphasis. Yesterday we were comparing two of those. One of the really huge themes of Matthew is that the life and work and

words and death and resurrection of Jesus

it's all a fulfillment of the Old Testament. So he's writing to Jewish people who would

know what the Old Testament is or the scriptures as they would have called it and

they wanted to see it fulfilled.

I'm like round that out for me. I want to know I'm not interested in any of your religious stuff

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