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Podcast: The Amazing Bible. Book Club
Episode: “Book One” in Matthew – Chapters 3-7
Description: B. W. Bacon divides up Matthew into five books, with a prologue with chapters 1-2, and an epilogue with chapters 26-28. Book one covers chapters 3-7, and each of the books ends with a phrase like 7:28a, "When Jesus had finished saying these things..." and these are found in 7:28, 11:1, 13:53, 19:1 and 26:1. Each book has a narration, and in these chapters it covers John the Baptist and how he baptized Jesus, the temptation of Jesus, the calling of the first disciples, and the beginning of Jesus' public ministry of healing and teaching. Chapters 5-7 cover one of Jesus' teaching moments often...