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

And we're going to talk and continue our Bible study on the Gospel of Matthew. I hope you can join us. We're in Chapter 8, and so you can just pick up right here at Chapter 8.

So just grab your Bible and

open up with us. I think it'll, it's just be much easier to follow along if you have your Bible

with this. And of course, we're using the ESV Catholic Edition, which is the Augustin Bible. So you can

see that. You're welcome to get that. And you can find that at Catholic.market. If you're interested,

I know we get questions about that. So we're going to start with a new section. So we finished last

time the sermon on the Mount, right? And Matthew's chapters 5, 6, and 7. And now we're beginning

a new section of Matthew's Gospel. And that section is Matthew 8 and 9. And in those two chapters, Matthew,

who is that tax collector, but Matthew is very organized in the way he teaches and relates to the life

of Jesus Christ. And he's organized. And so he's putting together in these two chapters,

10 stories where Jesus does a mighty deed, what we would call a miracle.

And these mighty deeds, these deeds of power, are going to illustrate Jesus' authority.

So authority is going to be one of the most important themes in chapter 8 and 9,

because we're learning about the authority that Jesus Christ has. That will be very

important because when we get to chapter 10, Jesus is going to share his authority with the 12

apostles. What kind of authority is he sharing? Well, that's the kind of authority that will be

demonstrated in chapters 8 and 9. So you really want to look at chapter 8 and 9, which is a narrative story

that gives us 10 mighty deeds of Jesus, and that prepares us for the speech that Jesus gives in

chapter 10, also known as a discourse, and that speech that Jesus gives will be giving his authority,

sharing his authority with the 12.

So it's a very organized, systematic way of teaching the life of Jesus for Matthew, and

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