Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast and as promised,

we are picking up exactly where we left off yesterday.

Right after my friend Jeffrey plays some music. Here you go. The rest of eight and nine just keep demonstrating that theme of authority, authority over

disease, authority over disease, authority over nature, authority over the spiritual

forces of darkness, authority over paralysis, that's the story at the beginning of nine

where the guy gets lowered through the ceiling and you remember the language that he specifically uses there

The teachers of the law are all mad at him because Jesus said he's forgiven us fellows blaspheming but then Jesus knowing

their thoughts says why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts in his picture

I'm pointing about hey yeah you guys over there so which is easier to say your sins are

forgiven or to say get up and walk but so that you may know that the son of man has

authority on earth to forgive sins and he looks at the Paralytic he says

get up take your mat and go home. And the guy does exactly that.

And then Jesus chases that by turning right around

and wielding more authority to forgive.

This time, it's not just authority over Jewish regulation and

jurisdiction and like what he demonstrated in forgiving sins here or

touching the unclean leper in the previous chapter.

Now he's demonstrating authority even over Roman jurisdiction

by effectively restoring, recruiting, and demonstrating authority over a tax collector.

Then Jesus demonstrates authority over the disease that causes the woman's bleeding, demonstrates

authority over death by resurrecting the dead girl in the house of

gyrus does it say gyrus in Matthew I don't remember if it does or not but I think that's

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