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 continue exploring the Gospel according to Matthew.

We are in the narrative section of the Gospel of Matthew in chapters 8 and 9,

where Matthew has collected together nine stories of Jesus performing a whole number of powerful deeds and acts.

Some of them acts of healing. Others of them acts of creative power.

In this story we're going to consider two stories that Matthew has joined together real closely.

One about Jesus calming the chaotic waters.

He actually is asleep on a boat in the middle of a storm.

Maybe you know the story.

And that's followed immediately by a story of Jesus meeting two very dangerous men out of their minds in a graveyard.

And the story ends with the drowning of a whole herd of pigs.

These stories are dramatic. They're powerful.

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