Hey everybody, this is Tim, Bible Project, and welcome to our podcast.

We're in the middle of a series where we've been talking about the theme of priests and

priesthood in the Bible.

And up till now we've been exploring the expectation of a coming royal priest through the storyline

of the Hebrew Bible.

And in this week's episode, we get to Jesus.

We're going to explore how Jesus saw himself as a royal priestly figure.

Most people often think of maybe the prophetic or the royal identity of Jesus as a king,

but he actually presented himself as a priest, is just that we don't often have the eyes

to see that that's what he's saying and doing.

We're going to look at the story where Jesus heals a paralyzed man, but then does something

very priestly.

He forgives the man's sins.

And only priests did that in ancient Israel.

We're going to look at the fascinating story of how Jesus goes up to a mountain with some

disciples and he starts glowing.

Like Moses did on Mount Sinai and he starts to look like he's closed with the clothing

of the high priest.

We're also going to tune in to Jesus' arrest and trial before Caiaphas, the high priest.

He begins to ask Jesus questions about whether he thinks he's the high priest.

It's like a showdown of the anointed high priest.

We're going to look at these stories and a whole bunch more.

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