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Hey, OnScript listeners.

This is Matt Lynch.

Welcome back to the podcast.

I hope you are all doing well.

Before we get started, I'd like to gather questions for an upcoming Q&A episode

that a few of us that hosts the podcasts are going to be doing.

So if you have questions, send them to

OnScriptpodcast at gmail.com or tweet them to us at OnScript Podcast, and we'll consider them for

an upcoming episode. Now, in this episode, Matt Bates interviews Scott McKnight about his new commentary on the book of

Colossians. And we don't typically do commentaries on this podcast, but if you just do

the same thing all the time, how are you going to grow? Now that is something worth pondering.

Okay, on to the episode.

Hi, everyone. Welcome to OnScript, where we seek to bring you smack dab into the middle of world-class scholarship on scripture and theology. I'm Matthew Bates, your host for this episode.

My friend and one of my personal heroes, Scott McKnight, has joined us for this episode. We'll try to get you some

world-class scholarship today. But if you compare the situation to a meal, Scott's the T-Bone,

steak, salad with blue cheese and the Cabernet Sauvignon, and I'm just sort of that green

stuff on the side of the

plate, the garnish. The garnish isn't very tasty. Garnish isn't very tasty, but the meal is somehow

more palatable if it's present. I hope I can garnish whatever Scott brings us. So sticking

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