Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are hopeful

that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it.

Hey everyone, welcome to A Year in the Bible. I'm Alexa, and I'm here with my co-host, Beth.

Today, we are moving along to this week's New Testament passage, and we are going to talk through how we annotated the Bible. I'm Alexa and I'm here with my co-host Beth. Today we are moving along to this

week's New Testament passage and we are going to talk through how we annotated that passage.

So Alexa, will you go ahead and read Matthew 2, 4 through 6 to start us off? Yes.

So he assembled all the chief priests and scribes of the people and asked them where the Messiah

would be born. And Bethlehem of Judah, they told him, because this is what was written by the prophet. And you, Bethlehem in the land of Judah are by no means least among the rulers of Judah, because out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel. So Beth, how to annotating this passage go for you? Yeah, so this was a super short annotation day. And since

there were only four prompts overall, I figured I'd just walk through all of them. So first,

we were going to look at things that point to Christ. So the things that I highlighted were

Messiah, Bethlehem, ruler, and the phrase shepherd over my people Israel. And then second,

we are looking at God's attributes. And so this one

was a bit more tricky. I ended up just going back to what we talked about yesterday. And I just made

a note of God's faithfulness. He made a promise many years before the wise men were in Herod's court.

And he has certainly kept it through the coming of Christ, who had just been born. And so then the third

prompt tells us that we are supposed to circle references to Bethlehem. And so I circled the name

that's in the verse, and it's listed twice there. So I circled both of those instances of Bethlehem.

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