Jesus, the New Shepherd in the Wilderness

The Wilderness E10 — Throughout ancient Israel’s long history of wandering in the wilderness, failing in the garden land, being exiled to the nations, and then continuing to struggle after their return to the land, one thing has been clear. The people need a faithful shepherd like Moses who can guide them into God’s provision and wisdom. So after Jesus is baptized in the wilderness and succeeds in his own wilderness tests, you can probably guess where Jesus goes to feed, heal, and teach people! In this episode, Jon and Tim explore stories in the gospels where Jesus provides for Israelites and non-Israelites in the wilderness, acting as a new Moses-like shepherd.

CHAPTERS

1. Recap of Theme and Setup for Jesus as a New Moses Figure (0:00-14:03)
2. The People’s Need for a Shepherd (14:03-24:04)
3. Bread in the Wilderness for Israel (24:04-38:12)
4. Discussing Bread With Pharisees and a Canaanite Woman (38:12-47:35)
5. Bread in the Wilderness for the Nations (47:35-1:02:37)

OFFICIAL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

View this episode’s official transcript.

REFERENCED RESOURCES

• You can view annotations for this episode—plus our entire library of videos, podcasts, articles, and classes—in the BibleProject app, available for Android and iOS.
• Check out Tim’s extensive collection of recommended books here.

SHOW MUSIC

• “Be Like Water” by Lofi Sunday, Zairis TéJion
• “Holy” by Lofi Sunday, Just Derrick
• “It's Gonna Be Alright-22” by Lofi Sunday, Marc Vanparla
• “jazz club” by Lofi Sunday, PAINT WITH SOUND
• BibleProject theme song by TENTS

SHOW CREDITS

Production of today’s episode is by Lindsey Ponder, producer, and Cooper Peltz, managing producer. Tyler Bailey is our supervising engineer, who also edited today’s episode and provided the sound design and mix. JB Witty does our show notes, and Hannah Woo provides the annotations for our app. Our host and creative director is Jon Collins, and our lead scholar is Tim Mackie. 

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