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Welcome to A Year in the Bible with daily grace. This year we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study, Christ in All of Scripture. Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the new, seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.
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Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present throughout the entire biblical story, but but the center of it. Hey everyone. Welcome to A Year in the Bible. I'm Alexa and I'm here with my co host, Beth.
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Today we are moving along to this week's New Testament passage and we are going to talk through how we annotated that passage. So Alexa, will you go ahead and read Matthew 2, 4, 6 to start us off? Yes.
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So he assembled all the chief priests and scribes of the people and asked them where the Messiah would be born. And Bethlehem of Judah, they told him, because this is what was written by the prophet. And. And you, Bethlehem in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah, because out of you will come a ruler who shepherd my people Israel. So Beth, how did annotating this passage go for you?
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Yeah, so this was a super short annotation day and since there were only four prompts overall, I figured I'd just walk through all of them. So first we are going to look at things that point to Christ. So the things that I highlighted were Messiah, Bethlehem, ruler, and the phrase shepherd over my people Israel. And then second, we are looking at God's attributes. And so this one was a bit more tricky. I ended up just going back to what we talked about yesterday. And I just made a note of God's faithfulness. He made a promise many years before the wise men were in Herod's court, and he has certainly kept it through the coming of Christ, who had just been born. And so then the third prompt tells us that we are supposed to circle references to Bethlehem. And so I circled the name that's in the verse and it's listed twice there. So I circ circled both of those instances of Bethlehem. I circled the phrase in the land of Judah, and I circled the whole phrase by no means least among the rulers, because that's a description of Bethlehem. And then I also circled out of you will come a ruler. So some big long sentences that were circled on my annotations there. And then finally there's one last prompt and it's a Pretty interesting one, which had us compare the two prophecies and underline any differences that we saw. So. So the things that I found that were different, in the Micah passage it says, I think it says that you are small among the tribes of Judah, and in this passage it says you are by no means least among the rulers of Judah. And then there's an added phrase, which is the ruler who will shepherd my people Israel, which is not in the original Micah passage.
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Yeah, that's an interesting prompt about looking at those differences. Do you want to talk more about those differences?
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Yeah. So you're going to learn more about this in your study day tomorrow. But I think it's worth noting now that these differences weren't included to change or mess with the prophecy that Micah had spoken. Rather, these differences are just clarifying that prophecy and emphasizing certain aspects of it. So changing it to Bethlehem in the land of Judah connects it more explicitly to the kingly line of Judah. Saying by no means least among the rulers of Judah instead of saying it's small emphasizes that this small town has a really big role to play in God's story of redemption. And the addition of he will shepherd my people is actually not really changing anything. It's just adding a later part of the prophecy, which is found in Micah 5.
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4. I love how the New Testament writers help to bring clarity to Old Testament prophecies. That just goes to show that they understood what these prophecies meant and they wanted to make sure the audience understood that too. Well, I'm excited to talk more about these passages, so be sure to join us tomorrow as we connect the passages we learned this week together and to Christ. Thank you for listening to today's episode of A Year in the Bible with Daily Grace. Be sure to check out our show notes for some helpful links and resources related to today's episode. And make sure you're following aileygrace Podcast and hedaily Grace Co on Instagram for more Bible study resources and encouragement. We're looking forward to studying God's Word with you again tomorrow. Bye, friends.