Hey my friends, it's Matt. This is a 10 minute Bible hour podcast. And maybe some of you were like,

what are you doing, dude? You finished up Matthew yesterday, like I heard you, you said the last verse and you were like, boom, that's it, and then it was just quiet after that and you like just left us us with that we were I thought we were done

that seemed like a really good place to end well yes if that felt like the right place to

leave it then don't worry about these next five episodes, but these next five episodes, which I might add,

neatly bring us to 800 total for all of Matthew. These next five episodes are the epilogue. This is where we look at the whole big picture of

where we've been and where we consider where it all went next. And that's actually what I want to

start with today is just the quick rundown of what

happened next what happened to all of these characters we've come to care about and empathize

with how did stuff turn out for them how did stuff turn out for them?

How did stuff turn out between the Jewish leadership and Rome?

How did their attempt to keep Rome under their thumb?

How did all of that play out? There's a lot of history and there's a lot of stuff and we of course don't have time to deep dive into all of it because I mean really to answer the question what happened next we'd have to cover events all the way up to, like, and then you and I talked about Matthew,

and it was this year and this time, because this is really still part of the story, like what you and I are doing right here right now is

really part of the story of what happened next because this flows directly out of

the kingdom events that Jesus and the disciples and the resurrection set in

motions. It's a big story but we'll just go for like the short term what happened next. All four gospel accounts give us

basically the same idea. Jesus started to appear to the disciples and to a lot of

other people. He was very physically present,

though it looked like he had the ability to do some stuff that transcended the physical

and at times did. He's always sitting with people and eating food and

hanging out and you can physically interact with the world. He's a guy. He's

physically resurrected. It's not like this is his spirit walking around.

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