Introduction

Tim Mackie is a card-carrying Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is utterly amazing. On this podcast I'm putting together the last ten years' worth of lectures and sermons where I've been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible. We're in the 20s of Matthew which means that we're in the Passion Week, Jesus' final week in Jerusalem for Passover. What we're going to ponder today is a controversy Jesus is in with a group called the Sadducees or in Greek the Sadukaios.