Do we really have any good reason to think that what the authors recorded actually happened?

Is this something that developed over the time?

Maybe it's not pure myth, but maybe so much myth has grown up around it that it's really not something we can trust.

And you can hear Paul is getting in his rhetorical mode, right?

He's really, he's really leaning into this.

Was Paul crucified for you?

Were you baptized in the name of Paul? I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Christmas

and Gaias. Love it. So that no one can say that you were baptized in my name. And then he says,

I did baptize also the household of Stephanus. Beyond that, I don't know. Once I baptized.

Can't that just mean sitting among the teachers, but he himself isn't one?

Like there's Matt Fred sitting among the scholars.

But typically, it's the teachers that sit in the ancient world. Right.

So usually the audience stands.

Okay.

As a professor, I feel like I got the short end of the stick on this, because I have to

stand.

Every time in the Septuagint, you find Lord, Lord, it's because you have in the Hebrew, Adonai,

Tetragratonaton.

Wow.

So when Jesus says, Lord, Lord, he's not just saying, I'm a king.

Staples argues, he's saying, I am the Lord God.

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