When my little brother and I were kids we used to do stuff that you're not supposed to do, we make a mess, we break things, we disobey mom and dad, whatever kids do, right?

And every now and then, we would sense socially some kind of subtle cue that mom or dad could

be broken in that moment and that we could avoid punishment

with humor.

And we had this one joke that we would always run and it was not funny.

It's not a clever joke, it's not good at all, but it's sort of this, ah this a shucks you caught me kind of joke where they would be like hey who made that mess out there and in unison my brother and I would look at each other and then we'd look back at them and shrug and be like

Pirates? And sometimes mom and dad would be like no not this time pals you guys get out there and you

clean up that mess and don't hit me with that pirate stuff anymore.

But other times they'd be like, no, okay, just don't make messes it.

I go clean it or something, I don't know, just whatever.

And it would work and obviously what we were doing there is acknowledging like look your eyes aren't lying dad

Clearly we did the thing but maybe it was somebody else

That was so laughable and absurd that occasionally it would work but what's funny is that

likewise in Matthew chapter 9 we see the same technique being employed but it's

being employed with a straight face the religious leaders the, the teachers of the law, the Pharisees can't deny

that stuff is happening and it's inarguable stuff that seems to break the laws of time and space.

Nobody has any counter- or explanation for the things

having happened.

There's no hoax argument that could be made based on how Matthew is describing it to you

and me at least. and so if something supernatural

has occurred kind of got two options for who you can credit that to right?

Option number one would be God that is clearly what Jesus is doing and if that real estate is already taken intellectually that

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