Hey everybody, I'm Tim McEy and this is my podcast Exploring My Strange Bible.

I am a card carrying Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is

utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you have.

On this podcast I'm putting together the last ten years worth of lectures and sermons

where I've been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites

us into the mission of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find those resources at thebibelproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

Alright, well in this episode we're going to keep exploring the gospel according to Matthew.

These were teachings I gave a number of years ago when I was a teaching pastor at Door of Hope.

And at this point in series we are in the middle of Matthew chapters 11 and 12 are a place

where Matthew is collected together all kinds of stories about people responding to what

Jesus has been doing in chapters 4 through 10.

So it's kind of all hinges on that you understand and internalize what happened in those

chapters and now people are responding.

And what we're going to see here is one of the first kind of notes of real serious rejection

of Jesus on the part of his Israelite contemporaries.

And specifically this is a section of where Jesus is pronouncing a prophetic woes and

oracles of doom against the Israelite towns and villages that have rejected his offer

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