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, on this episode we're going to continue in our series exploring the gospel

according to Matthew.

Specifically, this is a teaching I did in the series Exploring Matthew chapter 4, the

well-known story of Jesus being tested by the evil one in the wilderness.

This was a number of years ago from where I sit right now, a number of years ago that

I did this teaching.

And one of my big goals was to actually debunk a whole bunch of ideas about Satan and the

devil that have entered into the Christian tradition and people's ideas of this being

that aren't in the Bible at all.

They're actually much later European, mythological and medieval ideas.

What's interesting was looking back over my notes, I, Tim of 2018, I wish I could sit

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