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Even the Winds Obey: A Table of Outcasts and Twelve Sent With Nothing | Matthew 8–10
Episode Overview
Today we read Matthew chapters 8 through 10, and the miracles come in rapid succession. Jesus touches a leper—a detail worth pausing on, since touching made Him ceremonially unclean and He does it anyway. He heals a Roman centurion's servant at a distance and says He has not found faith like this in all Israel, which would have landed hard on His Jewish listeners. He calms a storm with a word, and the disciples ask what kind of man this is that even the winds and the waves obey Him.
Between the miracles, the demands sharpen. A scribe volunteers to follow, and Jesus warns that…
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