Welcome to Form Now. I'm Tim Gray, president of the Augustine Institute, and joining me is Dr. Michael Barber, who's a professor of scripture here at the Augustine's Institute as well.

And we're going to continue our ongoing Bible study on the Gospel of Matthew.

Last time we left off at the very beginning of Matthew Chapter 11.

And we saw that Matthew chapter 11 begins a new section of Matthew, as we talked about before, that Matthew's gospel moves back and forth between a narrative story

of the deeds of Jesus and then a teaching of Jesus in a discourse.

And so you go narrative discourse, narrative discourse.

And so we're in a narrative section now.

Matthew chapter 11 and Matthew chapter 12 will be stories.

And in chapter 11, we're going to see the people not repenting at Jesus' word.

And then in chapter 12, we're going to see the leadership of Israel rejecting Jesus.

And then we'll see that move that Jesus will make to his teaching in chapter 13, which will be focused primarily, although it's beginning with the crowds, it'll be focused on the 12.

And so we'll see a kind of transition in Jesus' ministry that happens in chapter 13 in light of key things that happen in chapter 11 and chapter 12.

Now we began chapter 11 with John the Baptist sending his disciples from prison,

and he sends his disciples to go inquire of Jesus.

Are you he who is to come or shall we look for another?

Faith seeking understanding.

John knows he can trust in Jesus, but he's not sure if Jesus is the Messiah, given that he's just doing the healing ministry, it would appear.

And he would expect the Messiah to do some more political things, to shake things up a little bit.

And he wants to know, is Jesus really the Messiah?

And then Jesus gives him a coded message back that we talked about before, where Dr. Barbara talked about Isaiah 35 and Isaiah 61

were in the coded message of, go tell John what you see and hear, the lame being healed,

the blind, the deaf, and the good news being proclaimed to the poor. So the answer, of course,

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