Welcome to Form Now. I'm Tim Gray, president of the Augustine Institute. And joining me today is Dr. Michael Barber,

who's a professor of scripture here at the August Institute. And we're going to continue our Bible study on the Gospel of Matthew.

We invite you to grab your Bible, and we'll be using the Augustine Bible, which is the ESV standard edition, Catholic edition.

And it's a wonderful Bible translation.

We hope you can join us.

And we left off last time and we covered Matthew chapter 8.

And we talked about how chapters 8 and 9 are a particular section in the Gospel of Matthew,

where Jesus does 10 mighty deeds.

We call them miracles, but miracle isn't a biblical word.

It's more of an enlightenment word that we use,

the idea of a miracle where you stop nature in its tracks.

Well, that's not how the ancient people described it,

especially the Jews.

They talked about dunamide, deeds of power, might,

because there's nothing more natural

than that the maker of nature commands nature to obey him.

And so it's a very different worldview,

a very different mindset for these mighty deeds.

Well, Jesus does 10 mighty deeds,

and we talked last time that 10 in the Bible

and Jewish culture is a symbol of authority. That's why you have the 10 commandments, the authoritative commandments. Well, Jesus does 10 mighty deeds, and they illustrate Jesus' authority. We saw that with the healing of the leper, where the leper says, if you will, you can make me clean. And then the centurion who comes, who has a servant who's ill. And he says, I'm a man of authority, and I say, do one go and he goes.urion who comes who has a servant who is ill and he says I'm a man of

authority I say to one go and he goes I said another come come he comes so he recognizes

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