Don't get the dog's what is sacred.

Don't get the dogs what is sacred.

Don't throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet

and then turn and tear you to pieces.

Let's just pick it up right there with those three images.

Those are very strong images, right?

Dogs and pigs, that's image number one, animals, and then pearls.

Well, why the dogs and pigs? Why not penguins and caterpillars? I think Jesus

very intentionally picked two animals that would have been very alarming to have anyone likened to in the original audience.

You know how teachers have very soft hearts and they care about their students?

And it kind of, in my experience, it doesn't matter how awful a student is or how horrible a thing the kid has done.

A teacher will always say, ah, he's a good kid.

Like, you guys are amazingly patient,

because did you see what they just did?

That's not particularly good kidish,

but I think it's really admirable, and I think it's really cool.

And I think there would have been a lot of people

in the original audience who were like,

man, we just don't call people dogs and pigs, Jesus.

There's just too much.

Like we give people a little bit of the benefit of the doubt.

At least the nice people on the hill would have thought that.

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