This is the Baimal podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his Goho Sprint Billings. Today we continue our journey through the Gospel of Matthew and into the beginning of the sermon on the Mount.

That is correct. And we made promises, Brent. We got to keep them. So we got to pick up right where we left off.

Matthew chapter four verse 12. I don't have any notes until later. So we're just going to read the passage and interact with the ideas. How about that? This will be a Baimal live.

Baimal, yeah. Baimal, raw. Baimal, raw. I like that.

All right. Go ahead. Take it away, Mr. Billings. When Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, he withdrew to Galilee.

Leaving Nazareth, he went and lived in Capernaum, which was by the lake in the area of Zebulin and Nath to Lie.

All right. Let's stop right there. Let's help him. It's sentence right at a hyphen. Jesus heard that John had been in prison. He withdrew to Galilee.

The language in the English has always suggested that he hears that John is murdered. And then he, in fact, another, another gospel, something that's Luke, Jesus has told like, here it's looking for you and you need to leave.

And so a lot of times he withdrew to Galilee, makes you feel like, oh, he's going away.

But actually what he's withdrawing from is what he's currently doing in his ministry. Like he's withdrawing from his current agenda to go pick up a new agenda in response to what's just happened to John.

The Baptist, and I don't know what point in session three Brent. It's going to be a good time for me to talk about this.

I believe John the Baptist was Jesus's rabbi. We're going to get more and more pieces of that. I've hinted at it already. I believe in one of our earlier podcasts.

I don't have like enough pieces at this point to make that case. But as we pick up more pieces, you're going to hear me keep referencing that. A lot of people, the pushback is going to be, how can John the Baptist be Jesus's rabbi?

If Jesus is only six months, his, when I try to say you're not as old junior, his junior, if John the Baptist is only six months older than Jesus, how, like that's so odd. And it would be very odd. That would not be the typical case.

But Jesus coming from us. What's going to be a birth story that is going to be very people are going to be skeptical of his background isn't going to be a background of they're not going to accept his birth story.

So they're wondering who is your real father. That makes him a legitimate like we used mums are to speak of Matthew in a poetic sense. But there's going to be a scholar out there. His name is Bruce Chilton.

Man, I wish I knew which book it would be rabbi Jesus. See if you can find a book by Chilton that we can link. And he, he definitely as a progressive scholar is going to lean liberal, but his take on Jesus says he believes Jesus was a mums are.

Which one of had a large impact on Jesus's life in the Galilee. But one of the impacts would have been that Jesus has a mums are a rabbi would never have taken Jesus under his wing.

Like Jesus could have never been trained under a rabbi. So it makes sense that you have this John the Baptist character that we talked about last week, this kind of rogue priest.

This guy who's trained by the essence that says, hey, cause.

I didn't say it that way. Hey, cousin. I know that you can never get trained. And how about you come under my wing?

Because the way that Jesus and John interact in almost every story that we have is the way that a rabbi and a disciple would interact the way that Jesus talks about John, the way that Jesus honors John, the way that Jesus will even mimic John when he takes up his rabbi's message.

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