If you wanted to convince people to take Jesus seriously, where would you start? The author of the gospel of Matthew chose a story that would scandalize most church people today, just like it did his original contemporaries.

If you want to see how the real Jesus isn’t the guy they told you he is, there’s no better place to start than Matthew 1:1–17.

Join us as we uncover surprising details in the seventeen most-skipped-over verses in the Bible.

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