Welcome to Form Now. I'm Tim Gray, President of the Augustine Institute.

And joining me is Dr. Michael Barber, who is a professor of Scripture here at the August Institute. And it's our delight to be with you as we're walking through our Bible study on the Gospel of Matthew. We do that once a week, and we invite you to grab your Bible. We're using the Augustine Bible, which is the ESV Catholic Edition, because we think it's one of the most accurate and one of the best English translations of the Bible for studying the Word of God.

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We're at the Gospel of Matthew chapter 10. And 10 is an important

new chapter in the narrative of story of Mark's Gospel because we just saw how in chapters

eight and nine there is 10 stories of Jesus doing mighty deeds. And those 10 signify authority.

And so we've been watching Jesus's authority being on display, basically, in all these

different scenes and stories.

Now we move to chapter 10 and we get a speech or a discourse of Jesus that follows after

Jesus' deeds, narrative.

And Matthew's Gospel is structured by a movement of narrative story, showing Jesus acting,

and then showing Jesus teaching. And the actions and deeds of Jesus prepare us to understand

and to receive the teaching of Jesus more fully. And so it's action and then teaching. So the deeds and the

words of Jesus. That's so important to understand that once you do the gospel of Matthew opens up

in a whole new light, which is really exciting. So Matthew chapter 10, we're going to see Jesus

teaching and his audience is the 12 apostles alone. Not like in the sermon in the

mouth that we saw earlier in Matthew 5, 6, and 7, where he taught the apostles and the crowds.

Now he's just focusing on the 12 apostles and he's going to be sharing his authority with them.

But what kind of authority does he have to give? Well, we just witnessed that in chapters

eight and chapter nine of Matthew. So for example, in chapter eight, a centurion said, I'm a man

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