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.

All right, well in this episode of the podcast we are continuing to explore the gospel

according to Matthew.

We have for many episodes been in the part of the story where Jesus is in Jerusalem.

It's his final week there.

It's the week leading up to Passover.

This teaching is actually something of a replay and a development of a teaching I gave

actually numerous times when I was at Doer of Hope.

And it's actually there's an earlier similar version to this message in the podcast called

the Messianic Passover.

But you know every year think of it for over three thousand years.

In Jewish tradition people have every year been celebrating the Passover meal, retelling

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