Brandon feels like he's been making translations, even unto the end of the age. The other Brandon has thoughts. They discuss:

• the implications of so few technical terms around the Passion and lynching,
• helping vs serving vs ministering,
• parallels with Matthew 1,
• woken up vs raised,
• every jot and tittle of the "Great Commission."

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Brandon and Brandon discuss all the little nuances of translating the Eucharist or Last Supper.

• spoke praise and gave thanks,
• keeping covenant,
• poured out with many in mind vs poured out for many,
• liberation from deviations vs forgiveness of sins,
• and shitty shitty Calvinism.

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Brandon and Brandon listen carefully to Jesus final teachings before his crucifixion, including:

• unmarried girls vs virgins,
• shortsighted/foresight vs foolish/wise,
• praised vs blessed.

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Brandon and Brandon listen closely to Jesus' expectations of what would come next for imperialists, the violent, and his followers, including:

• arrived victoriously vs come/coming
• absence of Torah vs lawlessness
• pray that it might not happen vs and never will happen
• brightly shining grandeur vs glory

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Brandon and Brandon are startled by Jesus' fierceness in Jerusalem, finding new layers of meaning through these translations and more:

• those in hardship and those with privilege
• select vs elect
• pretenders vs hypocrites, and
• reawakening vs resurrection.

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Brandon and Brandon follow Jesus on his approach to Jerusalem, prying open his more cryptic foreshadowings to the crucifixion:

• generosity vs grace,
• drink vs cup,
• as the price of freeing many enslaved people vs as a ransom for many,
• faithfulness to the Path vs faith, and more.

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Brandon and Brandon are startled by some deep shifts of meaning and scandal in Jesus' teaching:

• What Jesus was getting at concerning divorce;
• Whether Jesus' aside about eunuchs might be his deepest cut against patriarchy;
• eternal life vs age-long life;
• the renewal vs the reset

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Brandon and Brandon get closer and closer to Jerusalem with Jesus, and ponder about one of the weirdest moments in Matthew's story:

• Transformed vs Transfigured,
• the relative non-jewishness of booths,
• how Jesus talks about his friends,
• what happens when you stubbornly surface one of Matthew's broadest and most layered word-pictures.

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Brandon and Brandon are joined by Terry Wildman, the lead editor of the First Nations Version of the New Testament and co-founder of Rain Ministries. The First Nations Version is a dynamic equivalence translation that captures the simplicity, clarity, and beauty of Native storytellers in English, while remaining faithful to the original language of the New Testament. They discuss the damaging legacy of settler translation decisions among First Nations persons, what it is like to translate a text for cultures of oral storytelling, and what Bible words were the most gratifying to fine-tune in their work.

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Brandon and Brandon continue through Matthew's midway point, exploring:

• oppressive and unfaithful vs wicked and adulterous,
• how Son of God who is alive was actually politically provocative,
• the risk of translating ekklesia as church,
• what to call what happens after death, and
• translating Jesus as a human, not a mannequin.

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