Hey, my friends, it's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast, and I have a question for you that I'd like you to do some pop culture math right now.

How many times over the years in animation or in a comic book or in a movie or a TV show, have you seen a dramatization of a portrayal of Batman's origin story?

I don't think I'm spoiling anything here because it's like the most well-known thing in

all of pop culture, but Batman became Batman because he's a son of a rich couple in

Gotham City and they go into an alley and there's some crimesters in

there and the crimesters were like, give me all your stuff. And they, they shoot. There's a,

Bruce Wayne loses his parents. It's very sad. It's a very, I mean, I've seen this scene a lot and

it's very moving to me still. It tragic and out of that you know the character

of batman clean up this town is made but how many times have you seen that story because i'm thinking

maybe i've seen it five different times seven different times that's a story that is told from a lot of different angles. It's been told

by a lot of different directors. And it's just very important. It's very foundational for the story.

So anybody who handles Batman is going to handle the origin story of Batman. Likewise,

there's some stuff in the Bible that you get on repeat. When you read the Bible a lot,

it kind of runs together. It can be hard to keep straight, you know, which details are in

this account of a given scene that is repeated and which details are in this other one over

here. And it can be kind of a fun exercise when you've been around the Bible for a while to be

like, okay, well, this author who includes that scene, he's writing to these people and trying to make

this point. Ah, so I bet he would include these details. And, you know, it's, it's fun that we get

multiple different portrayals, multiple different points of view, angles on some of these really crucial stories in

the Bible. I think of Paul's conversion on the road to Damascus. We get the literal Bible telling

of that account from Luke in Acts, but then we get Paul alluding to or fully recounting that a few more times. We get the

feeding of the 5,000 from a bunch of different angles in the Gospels. And another one that we see

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