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shmoop and the Bible -Matthew. hey y'all Cecil B. DeShmoop here

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and I've got something extra special to share with you today. what this now this

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is mine get your own bucket of chicken. I'm talking about the Gospel of Matthew [Cecil holding bucket of chicken]

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aka the beginning of the New Testament. the Gospel of Matthew is the first gospel [man holds bucket of chicken]

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even though mark was written earlier. that's because Matthew is the most

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Jewish of the four Gospels. can tell because it's always coming tunes from

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fiddler on the roof. so it makes a nice bridge between the

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old and new testaments. right? is this little Testament I carried. well [Matthew asking for the old testament]

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Matthews Jesus debates Torah with other Jews as well as fulfills a bunch of

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Jewish prophecy. well this is supposed to help Jews everywhere ease into the whole [Jews celebrating]

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Jesus thing. he also gives a spirited rendition of "if I were a rich man" is

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another and it's local theater. very funny people.

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all right well the book begins with a pretty long genealogy of Jesus. 14

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generations to be specific. but eventually we get to the good stuff. we

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meet Mary and Joseph learn about the Immaculate Conception and are introduced [mary and joseph pictured]

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to the three Magi. number those guys they're Union now nice. I read wrong.

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start Matthew there. it's no "tradition" but still strong start. a small

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chance I really like Fiddler. yeah well Mary Joseph and Jesus have [Joseph, Mary and Jesus appear]

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settled down in Galilee. Matthew wisely skips Jesus awkward teenage years.

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nothing more embarrassing than being invited to a pool party and walking on

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water. am i right? and the next time we see him he's being baptized by oh yeah

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John the Baptist. that's where that came from. They weren't super creative with [John and Jesus fighting in a pool]

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nicknames back then. Well after being baptized, Jesus goes out and spends 40

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days and nights fasting in the desert while being tempted by the devil, who [Jesus laying in the desert]

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knew how to have a good time? well from here Jesus begins doing all the things

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that he's become famous for, he preaches love and forgiveness to the masses, [depiction of Jesus wearing sunglasses]

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gathers disciples, performs a bunch of miracles, is the first person to see a

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double rainbow, not that last but you know typical Jesus

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stuff. so most of these miracles are about healing people with incurable

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illnesses, which as you can imagine get Jesus a little attention in and, you know, a little PR. [Jesus sitting on a bench with a pigeon]

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well some of this attention comes from the Pharisees. they were the

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spiritual leaders of the Jewish faith at the time they weren't super stoked about

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Jesus going around forgiving people's sins and healing them. but come on who [Jesus giving speeches]

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wouldn't be stoked about that? okay fine I'll stop scuse me some words Stokes.

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I just never use it. so what one might say I was stoked. all right. well the [Cecil stoking a fire]

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Pharisees are constantly trying to trick Jesus with a loaded questions. but Jesus

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being Jesus always outsmarts them or respond in parables. it's a

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super cool way produced to reply but protip it's only cool when Jesus does it.

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your friends won't appreciate it and might stop hanging out with that weird [man shrugs]

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parable guy. I'm not speaking from experiences.

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so Jesus continues touring the land healing lepers giving sight to the line [Jesus touring on a donkey]

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walking on water and feeding 5,000 people with loaves of bread and two fish.

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well this is before unlimited bread sticks at Olive Garden so people are

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very impressed. and if you can imagine the Pharisees are looking pretty foolish [Pharisees hanging from a rope]

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and they're reaching the end of their rope. then in a throwback to Jewish

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tradition Jesus climbs a mountain and has a little chat with MO and Elijah.

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well this connection to the Old Testament shows that Jesus is a

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continuation of their faith. also what's up with all these mountain chats? first Moses

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then Jesus. can't they just meet at Starbucks or [Jesus and Moses sitting in starbucks]

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something? so, Jesus keeps on keepin on especially when it comes to stumping

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the Pharisees and preaching about forgiveness and God's love. well the [people mock Jesus]

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Pharisees finally snapped and they recruit Judas, one of the twelve

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disciples to betray Jesus. well the price is thirty pieces of

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silver. got a lot of money? I'm sure. so that convinced you to hand over your [Judas picks up silver]

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friend for execution now probably not. probably .if your friend stopped

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appreciating your fun-filled parables well then all that drop . thing is Jesus

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is 10 steps ahead of Judas. at the Passover supper Jesus as one of you will [Jesus and disciples at supper table]

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betray me by taking last of the matzah. oh, also one of you will betray me. Pass

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the wine. everyone starts freaking out and Peter's pretty upset. but Jesus is like

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come on Peter we both know you're going to deny me three times [ Jesus talks to Peter]

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the cock crows. and we both know you took the last Matza. well finally the gang

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heads to the Garden of Gethsemane where Judas betrayed Jesus by marking him with

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a kiss on the cheek. right? the kiss of death. well I guess pointing and saying here he is [Judas kisses Jesus on the cheek]

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wasn't quite as dramatic. Jesus is arrested and Peter follows after him.

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three times people ask Peter if he's friends with Jesus and three times he's

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like good I mean when we're more like a just acquaintances and the cock crows, and [Cockeril crows and attacks Peter]

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Peter remembers Jesus' prophecy. oh Peter. well

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Judas unable to live with what he's done hangs himself. the high priests hand over

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Jesus to the Roman governor Pontius Pilate. Pilate famously washes his hands [Pilate washing hands]

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of Jesus fate and lets the crowd condemn him to be crucified. you know between

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this and the insistence that the wave be done at sporting event the guy's always

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had the worst ideas. well Jesus is mocked beaten and made to wear a crown of [Jesus carries his cross]

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thorns while he carries his cross to Golgotha aka place of the skull. Jesus is

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crucified between two criminals and at the moment of his death there's an

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earthquake and the veil in the sanctuary of the temple is torn in two. well Jesus'

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tomb is sealed and guarded to make sure his body isn't taken out but three days [Guard rolls stone over tomb]

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later when the stone is rolled back there's something missing from Jesus

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tomb. what could it be what could it be oh right Jesus .yep Jesus is missing. why

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well he's risen from the dead. turns out an angel came in the night and

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the guard was so paralyzed with fear that he just kind of let it happen. well

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needless to say the chief priests aren't happy and they try to start a rumor that

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Jesus body was stolen, which all things considered better than trying starts a

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wave at a baseball game. meanwhile resurrected Jesus heads to Galilee and [Jesus appears in the forest]

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meets up with the eleven remaining disciples. book ends with Jesus telling [Jesus appears to disciples]

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them to you know go make disciples of all nations.

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and to bring him some matza. he's been craving for days. and that's that if you

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feel like you missed something well never fear there are three more versions

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of the story to go. granted none of them will be quite as Hebrew we as this one

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but if you push the Fiddler's soundtrack on in the background to drown out your [Vinyl record playing]

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mother's voice asking you why you didn't go to medical school while polishing off

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of the briskets, enough you can make any situation feel nice and easy .until next

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time i'm Cecil B. DeShmoop and I've got a brisket finish and yes I did start

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this video with a bucket of chicken, but a judge not that you be not judged right? [Jesus, Matthew and Pontius Pilot gather around brisket]

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yeah remember those words.

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