You ever watch one of those movies where the main characters are on a quest and

it's a kind of quest that has some riddles involved and whoever the threshold

guardian is is like on the fifth day look in the shadow of the great oak and you will find the blue rose that only blooms in the

ruins of love and all the characters are like what how can it bloom in the hey mysterious suit say what where did he go?

And then they have to go and figure it out without the help of the mysterious suit sayer and so they go on this very linear journey.

And then all of a sudden, in kind of the fashion of the old campy Batman and Robin with Adam West,

all the clues just quickly and efficiently come into alignment like they did for the caped crusaders

and the heroes on the quest are like right there it's the thing and the ruins of

love mean the ruins of that honeymooners hotel that's in the woods near Niagara Falls and the blue

rose isn't a rose at all it's the type of beer that was brewed here in the 1960s

I'm completely making things up this is actually turning into a pretty good story.

But you got done with it and you're like, I'm sorry. It's cool that you

guys solved it and everything and that you got your quest fulfilled and

then you found the missing kid or the sword of destiny or true love or meaning in life or whatever it is you're trying to find on this quest.

But I'm just going to go ahead and call objection on the part where you solved that impossible riddle that the soothsayer gave you because no one

could have ever possibly found those things. There were 10 billion different permutations of reality in one scene alone that would have caused you to miss a vital clue that would have been needed to solve everything.

I go on and on and on, but my point is that sometimes you run into these things in literature and it just feels

like that is unsolvable. I'm sure it's very important and it's very important to you

mysterious wise person, but I'm never going to actually know what you meant. Do we have one of those situations

unfolding here in Matthew chapter 12 as Jesus continues to beat away at the Pharisees.

We got two Sabbath controversies,

you got Jesus strategically withdrawing,

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