I've never been to a party where somebody got beheaded.

I've been to some weird parties and I've certainly been in social settings where stuff

amps up over the course of the day or the course of the night and eventually you're like,

no dang, I think we might be crossing some lines here.

I don't know if this is a good idea and I don't just mean in salacious or violent ways

or anything like that.

I mean, I am talking about just like, you know, kid parties, birthday parties, slumber

parties where you just amp up the ribbing or fighting or wrestling around or whatever

to the point that's like, ah, that's just too rough.

That's too much.

That's too mean.

We're being too harsh.

You know how it can happen where things spiral a little bit socially to a place that you

probably wouldn't have got on your own?

Well, I guess that's kind of what happened at the party that we're learning about in Matthew

XIV.

It's just that here it spiraled until some underage girl did some kind of dance that probably

wasn't very appropriate and then that directly resulted in a man getting beheaded.

Here's exactly how that played out.

Matthew chapter XIV, you got this guy, Herod, who's a tetraarch or a local ruler under

the authority of Rome and he's a really insecure leader.

He very much fits the biblical archetype of the clown king.

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