I don't like it in movies and books when they skip time.

I mean, you're invested in the characters.

You like them.

You're there because you care about what's happening to them.

And then you just take three or five years off from their lives.

It feels like you went to prison and you missed your kid's life or something when Avengers

Endgame opened up and it was like five years later.

That was tough for me because five years of those characters prime just died and I didn't

get to see it or experience it or walk through it or understand how they were evolving

and changing.

I just read a massive book, Ken Follett, Pillars of the Earth and he did the same thing.

He would jump ahead for massive amounts of time and it was tough.

Look, I don't want to gripe about the Bible or the people who made it.

I think they did a really good job.

That's why we spend all of this time on it.

But I hate that this next little passage we're going to look at implicitly has a skipping

a whole bunch of Jesus' life.

I mean, you only really get a snapshot of three years of his adult effective life anyway

and it just buzzed by several days, weeks, months, whatever this computes to.

It's tough, so much stuff must have happened in here.

Here's what I'm talking about.

It just finished up the really tense part of Matthew 15 and Matthew 15 follows another

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