This is the Baymont podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. Today,

we look at the record of Matthew attempting to understand his unique agenda as he presents

the life and ministry of his rabbi Jesus. Finally, dive into some text this week. I've

been doing a lot of context up to this point. I've been doing a lot of Hellenism, looking

at the five responses to Hellenism, asking some personal reflection questions, setting

up the context of gospel narrative. Finally, get back to some biblical text. Feels good,

doesn't it? Absolutely. That's what we do, right? We're going to get back to you.

Feels good until you make me read what I'm about to read. Brent gets to read a genealogy

today full of a bunch of names that we don't know how to say. It's fantastic. Be a good

exercise. But yeah, so last time we said we weren't going to do what with our gospels, Brent.

What was the one thing we're going to do? We're not going to harmonize them. I'm going

to try to harmonize them. We want to hear every gospel voice in its distinct gospel voice

because everyone of those voices has a what, Brent? They have their own agenda. They

have their own agenda. They have a message that they want to communicate. All four of

them, as far as what we have, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, all four of them are going

to use the life of Christ to communicate their agenda and communicate their message. But

every one of them has a unique message. So we're going to start today with Matthew and

we're going to look at Matthew's agenda. I hear a lot about the synoptic gospel. Matthew,

Mark, and Luke. They're all the same thing, basically. Exactly. They're all written for

very different reasons. Absolutely. Even that alone, the synoptics, they're covering the

same material. That's why we want to harmonize them. And John, I was taught in college, John

was kind of written to help at the end to help fill in the gaps, to catch all those

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