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Come Follow Me study. I'm Hank Smith and I'm John by the way. We love to learn, we love to laugh.

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Hello, my friends. Welcome to a new episode of Follow Him. My name is Hank Smith. I'm your host and I'm here with my co-host who I will describe this way.

Among them that are born of women, they're not risen, a greater co-host than John by the way.

And I think of them that are born of women. That's a pretty high percentage, John. So you should feel wonderful about this description of you.

My mom is right here on my desk. So she's saying, thanks, Hank.

Well, I was actually reading in Matthew 11 and that's what Jesus says about John the Baptist of them that are born of women. There's no none greater than John the Baptist.

We're going to spend a lot of time in Matthew 11, 12 today and Luke 11. We needed an expert and a friend to join us. Who is it, John?

We're really glad to have John Hilton the third back with us again and we have read his extensive bio. He sent me a nice short one to use today because everybody loves him and is familiar with him.

John Hilton the third is a professor in religious education at Brighamming University with degrees from Harvard and BYU.

He's written many books including the founder of our piece and considering the cross which we've talked about before in here.

He loves snowboarding, performing magic tricks. Sometimes at the same time. He's also the author of the podcast and free video course seeking Jesus which we wholeheartedly love and support.

Which you can find by searching YouTube or your favorite podcast app. And John, tell us about your family one more time and then we'll start.

My wife, Lonnie and I have six kids. Our oldest Levi is a 21. He's at BYU just off this mission in Georgia and we have a daughter who's serving a mission in England.

And then we have four younger children ranging between the ages of nine and 18. Yeah. Awesome. It's a full house. Thank you. So great to be here.

John Hilton the third. I always say he's so great. They made three of them. This is fantastic. We love having you here, John.

So Hank, John, I kind of want to start out with something that might seem like an unrelated question but it'll tie in.

What are your favorite movie or video depictions of Jesus Christ?

One of the first times I think in my life I ever really kind of felt the spirit was with my parents watching Ben Hurr.

Do you remember that movie? It takes about three weeks to watch it. I think it's four hours long or something.

But they have a depiction of the sermon on the Mount. They don't show Jesus's face. You just see this figure come walking out and it just handle it so beautifully.

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