Alright, we need to meet two more of Jesus's disciples and start getting into Jesus doing his magic healing tricks, and start getting ready for our first big section of teachings.
So why not skip to the teachings? Because we're not here for the highlight reel of Jesus, we're here to find out what the author is trying to say, and it's hard to figure out what they meant in their whole book by skipping what they thought was important enough to spend ink and paper writing - generally, if you know people are going to be writing this by hand over and over again, you don't waste words. So, if they're important to Mat, they're important to us.
Plus, with us, we'll pull some weird information and drunk commentary out of any verse.