Hello and welcome to Bible Stories. We are your hosts, Matt Mullen. Hello. Hey Matt, my name is Todd

Hamons and we are two ministers slash buds who love telling the stories of the Bible and my goodness we got

another one for you today. This has to do with Jesus and the first disciples. That's right buddy. We are in the

middle of July, both out here in Texas. We're in them dog days of summer Todd. It is hot. It's dry. My nose has

bled some. It's fine. Is that a thing that happens like regularly for you? Regularly. It's not like it's

happened every day since I've been here. Sorry, y'all. Mom's friends are starting off this way, but you know, I

moved from the swamps of Florida, nice and humid, breathing in that humidity. And now I'm in East Texas and by

and large people here. Oh, it's very human here. Well, it is, but it ain't as human as it was back in the swamps.

And there's been some dry days here. And daddy's had some nose bleeds, but we're going to, you know, we're fine. I got the

Aferin. We're good. Aferin's amazing. Didn't find it till I was an adult. P.S. By and large is the nickname. The pet

name my wife has for me. He's nearby and he's large. Aferin when first had like the first squirt of it. Yeah, it

it immediately addresses congestion. It's incredible. It's great. And it keeps the nasal passages moist, which is nice.

This episode's brought to you by Aferin. No, I wish. Big nose can't. Big nose has no interest in us. We're not there yet.

But you're right, buddy. Today's story is about recruiting. And it turns out, I owe you an apology, mom, because it turns out

that I, the last episode took us a few verses too deep. So we skipped a bunch of stuff. I stayed in a

loop for too long. So have you received a lot of angry texts and emails about it? All from my mom.

Just yelling at me and like really ugly pictures of me as a child.

Sorry. Pictures of me as a child. The other stuff's implied. No, I was a beautiful baby. I really

was. Anyway, here's what's happened. So let us, let me, let me get us back on the rails. Here's

what's happened so far leading up to this story. Jesus has been baptized in the Jordan. By the way,

we're looking at Jesus' first year of ministry. He's been baptized in the Jordan. He's gone into the

wilderness. He's been tested there. And now Jesus is going to call his first disciples. So we're

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