Hey everybody it's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast. I am

Thanksgiving traveling, which is why it maybe sounds a little bit different in here

my in-law's place and I know in-law jokes like you're supposed to say some stuff right

there and we're all supposed to roll our eyes but mine are great.

This is genuinely very likable people and I'm super thankful to them for all the things that

they did to nurture and develop my wife into the amazing lady that she is so that I can have an

amazing family with her and so as I'm recording this it is Thanksgiving time and I

find myself being very very thankful for those

blessings in my life and I'm very thankful that you and I get to hang out and talk about

the Bible and that I don't have to feel enormous pressure to know every single thing about all the things

because there's just a lot of things to know and it's way more fun and satisfying to sort it through

with you to work through it with you to learn on the fly with you and one of the places where I've had to do that

is in a conversation we've had a couple of times here over the last few weeks which is figuring out who

on earth all these women are at the crucifixion and hint what's about to happen the

resurrection of Jesus because they're held out by Matthew as being the faithful witnesses

remember the bookend thing where on either side of the

crucifixion you get two sets of witnesses? Two of those witnesses are real crappy witnesses.

They'll just say whatever they're supposed to say to get the conviction that they want, who cares about truth. But then on the other end we get

Gentile witnesses, that being the centurion and the other people who put Jesus to death,

and we get these faithful women outsiders, but that's what a good faithful loyal witness

looks like and the more I have gone and dug into the different comparative

accounts especially the last part of Jesus' ministry of Jesus' life.

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