{"podcast":{"title":"Exegetically Speaking","slug":"exegetically-speaking-336484","podcast_index_feed_id":336484,"rss_url":"https://exegeticallyspeaking.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://exegeticallyspeaking.libsyn.com/website","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/6/3/5/f/635fe23877605d7d16c3140a3186d450/1400-Exegetically-Speaking-Season-Seven-1400-x-1400-small.jpg","author":"Wheaton College","episode_count":100,"summary":"\"Exegetically Speaking\" is a weekly podcast of the friends and faculty of Wheaton College, IL and The Lanier Theological Library. Hosted by Dr. David Capes, it features language experts who discuss the importance of learning the biblical languages—Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek—and show how reading the Bible in the original languages \"pays off.\" Each podcast lasts between seven and eleven minutes and covers a different topic for those who want to read the Bible for all it is worth. Click on the ⓘ symbol below for each episode to read the description. If you're interested in going deeper, learn more about Wheaton's undergraduate degree in Classical Languages (Greek, Hebrew, and Latin) and our MA in Biblical Exegesis.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-29T20:17:33.112244+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/exegetically-speaking-336484"},"episode":{"title":"The Messiah Is Jesus, with David Ritsema: John 20:31","slug":"the-messiah-is-jesus-with-david-ritsema-john-20-31","published_at":"2026-04-06T09:15:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/exegetically-speaking-336484/the-messiah-is-jesus-with-david-ritsema-john-20-31","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/exegetically-speaking-336484","url":"https://exegeticallyspeaking.libsyn.com/the-messiah-is-jesus-with-david-ritsema-john-2031","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/exegeticallyspeaking/ES7_29_Final_Ritsema.mp3?dest-id=826937","summary":"John 20:31 is usually translated as John's purpose statement: \"that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God\" (ESV). But could the clause also be understood as, \"that you may believe that the Christ, the Son of God, is Jesus\"? What difference would this make for how we read John's Gospel as a whole? In this episode, David Ritsema discusses the grammatical question behind this translation and its implications for John's presentation of Jesus as the Messiah. Dr. David Ritsema is Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor of New Testament at B. H. Carroll Theological Seminary, East Texas Baptist University. His book, The Divine Messiah: A Portrait of Jesus in the Johannine Literature , is forthcoming with Wipf & Stock. Check out related programs at Wheaton College: B.A. in Classical Languages (Greek, Latin, Hebrew): https://bit.ly/4tfjeTr M.A. in Biblical Exegesis: https://bit.ly/4lYiJuC","meta_description":"John 20:31 is usually translated as John's purpose statement: \"that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God\" (ESV). But could the clause…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":737,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/exegetically-speaking-336484/episodes/the-messiah-is-jesus-with-david-ritsema-john-20-31/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/exegetically-speaking-336484/the-messiah-is-jesus-with-david-ritsema-john-20-31.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}