Hey my friends I'm Matt, this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast. And you know that part in action movies,

or sci-fi or adventure movies, where you just

watched a big giant fight, and it was a pretty good fight.

But now the losing side is just so beat down. They can barely like even lift their

sword anymore. So they kind of lazily parry a little bit this way or that. Or it's like in the Mandalorian real early on when

Din is fighting that mud horn he's just getting his butt kicked and finally he's like

oh well you're a big giant mega fauna horned animal and I got this dagger but I'll just kind of hold this here like you

just know like that's the limpest attempt at possibly defeating the charging bull of truth that is coming right at you.

And don't even think about what happens next in that fight with baby Yoda and the force and all that stuff.

The analogy breaks down at that point.

You can picture that scene where it's abundantly clear to everybody.

All right, that's not going to work, but okay, I mean I guess props to you for still trying.

And that is what you are getting here in Matthew chapter 12 with Jesus doing remarkable thing after remarkable thing, asking for no money or power.

And then after he does a good thing, people get real mad at him.

He's like, you know what I'm going to do?

Go somewhere else and do more good things.

And then he goes and does that.

He teaches good things.

It's just redemptive and right and good, and it's in keeping with everything that was predicted that was supposed to be good when this character, the son of David, the Christ, the Messiah, the son of God, shows up to establish this kingdom. So in the rhetorical sense, the Pharisees,

the teachers of the law at this point have just been beaten senseless by the

Mudhorn and now they're kind of just standing there with their dagger and like,

wow, we gotta do something, like we can't just let them get away with

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