Brandon and Brandon straddle the center of Matthew's story:

• unlawful vs against Torah,
• parallels between feeding stories and the Eucharist,
• what to do when Jesus talks weird,
• mistrustful vs little faith, and
• a list of toxic behaviors, rendered less toxically.

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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Brandon and Brandon get parabolic:

• how translation decisions muck our ideas of how the Hebrew Bible relates to parables,
• what's so evil about evil,
• this age vs the world, and
• tripped up vs took offense.

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Brandon and Brandon evade many unpardonable sins of Bible translation as they listen in on Jesus' escalating tensions with religious authorities, where they learn:

• why Torah really shouldn't just be called Law,
• more elastic words for Gentiles,
• sympathy for those bedeviled by all this Beelzebul and unpardonable-sin stuff,
• and more!

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Brandon and Brandon wade further into the social and political world of Jesus, finding more faithful ways of sharing it along the way:

• Off with its headings!
• Fleshing out soul language,
• Attachment and love,
• Who can be an angel, and
• Less misleading words for miracles.

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Brandon and Brandon follow Jesus down the mount, to watch him flesh out big themes of his freshly-wrapped sermon:

• why Jesus was more into having "trust" than "faith,"
• whether typical translations give demons a foothold,
• Jesus' favorite Bible cosplay,
• where all the "sinners" went,
• what's better than "salvation,"
• and more!

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Brandon and Brandon journey through Matthew 7, the conclusion of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. Along the way the explore:

• The good, the bad, and the ugly of moral binary language
• Holiness
• "Nothing to do with Torah" vs "lawless"
• and more!

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Brandon and Brandon reposition and stretch a little as we get into the middle bit of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, including:

• the endless ways to say Father,
• the limits of only saying Father,
• the Lord's prayer,
• souls,
• "mistrustful" vs "little faith"

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According to Matthew (Brandon's Translation)

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Brandon and Brandon continue the early stretch of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, including:

• hell and child sacrifice,
• "engage in sexual affairs" vs. "commit adultery",
• divorce and sex work,
• linguistic binaries, and more.

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According to Matthew (Brandon's Translation)

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Brandon and Brandon have only their breath to share with you, exploring the beginning of Jesus' big "Sermon on the Mount." They touch on:

• What bigger patterns become evident in some of these translation decisions? Does it change what we understand Matthew 5-7 to be about?
• Hints of Deuteronomy 28 and Leviticus 25 in the beatitudes,
• What about "the poor in spirit"?
• #Blessed vs gratified,
• reject force vs meek, and
• hell!

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Brandon and Brandon are tempted by many questions and creative ways of more faithfully and legibly telling the stories of Jesus' 40 day hike, including:

• What's the intended title or descriptor for the presence he meets there?
• What are the political implications of the False Accuser pressing for Jesus to submit to him, not worship him?
• What's the relationship between the Hebrew Testament and Jesus' life?
• What the hell is demon possession and can we do better?

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