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deeper than that, but that's the question that they asked Jesus. And Jesus had an incredible

answer. You don't want to miss it. We'll find out all about it on today's episode.

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Hey friends, welcome back. Matthew chapter 22 today in our Bible and we're in the last week

of Jesus life. Hard to believe, really wrap your mind around the fact that Jesus died at age 33. I have children that are older than age 33. It's really

hard to wrap your mind around. And then to think that when you look at the 33 years of Jesus' life,

really 30 of those years, we hardly know anything about. We know about his birth, obviously.

We know briefly about his flight to Egypt as a toddler. But then really for 28, 27, 28 years, he is in

Nazareth, and we don't know anything other than what we can infer about

the upbringing of somebody in a poor village back in those days, except for that one episode

in Luke chapter 2 when Jesus is 12 years old and his mom and dad are attending the feast

of the Passover in Jerusalem,

and Jesus gets left there.

Remember that story?

I preach a little message called Leaving Jesus Behind.

Not original to me, but wow, we don't know much about the life of Jesus till age 30.

And then Jesus inaugurates his ministry at age 30, and his public ministry is about three years long.

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