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This is show 464, the unique Gospel of Matthew.

Well, hello and welcome to the Jeff Kaven Show.

Thank you for joining me this week.

Hope you're doing well.

It's kind of that time of the year after Christmas, after the New Year's where people are settling in, kids back to school, and you're back to work, whether that's at home or driving to work, wherever it might be. But it's good to be with you. Thank you for

joining me today. You know, I got to thinking about the show today, and it actually developed into

four shows.

And what I'd like to do today is to introduce you.

This is the first time, actually, that I've done this in almost nine years, I think, with you.

And it's the first time that I've ever taken a moment to kind of acquaint you with one of the

Gospels as we are entering cycle A of the liturgical years.

There's A, B, and C, and this is A, and we're focusing on Matthew.

And so I thought it would be good to kind of introduce you to this book a little bit.

And today I'd like to talk about the uniqueness of Matthew and kind of orient you to it because

you're going to be in it during this liturgical year. And then on next week, I want to talk about

the genealogies of Matthew, which most people think are very boring, but you'll see next week

that they're not. They're actually very

exciting. And then the week after that, I want to talk about Matthew connecting with the Old Testament,

give you a little insight there on how to read Matthew and listen to Matthew for this year. And then

on the fourth week, Jesus completing the Old Testament and how he does that. So we're going to

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