<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/874393/open_sms">Send us a text</a>Who has the authority to forgive sins? Only God? Who has the authority to speak for God then? The ruling classes in antiquity used systems of temples, priests, and sacrifice to control the people. Jesus demonstrates to the people that they don't need any of that to have good standing before God and each other.

Send us a text Who has the authority to forgive sins? Only God? Who has the authority to speak for God then? The ruling classes in antiquity used systems of temples, priests, and sacrifice to control the people. Jesus demonstrates to the people that they don't need any of that to have good standing before God and each other.

<a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/874393/open_sms" rel="noopener noreferrer">Send us a text</a>Who has the authority to forgive sins? Only God? Who has the authority to speak for God then? The ruling classes in antiquity used systems of temples, priests, and sacrifice to control the people. Jesus demonstrates to the people that they don't need any of that to have good standing before God and each other.

Episode 19: Jesus Heals and Forgives a Paralytic, Matthew 9:1-8

This podcast takes a journey through the Gospel of Matthew, unpacking its story of Jesus as a peasant leader of a nonviolent movement for a new society that he calls “The Kingdom of Heaven.” Each episode explores literary, cultural and historical context, passage by passage.

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Episode 19: Jesus Heals and Forgives a Paralytic, Matthew 9:1-8

Episode 19: Jesus Heals and Forgives a Paralytic, Matthew 9:1-8