Yeah, we're hanging out with friends, everybody's telling stories and the stories are getting

a little bit more ridiculous as they go along, but you feel like everything up to this

point has been in the boundaries of reality and then somebody breaks out a story where

you're like, okay, you're passing that off and presenting it as though it happened with

real people with real names in a real place at a real time.

But the details of this story are so incredibly unlikely that it seems like this would better

be presented as a fable or some sort of cautionary tale or a joke.

Maybe there's a punchline.

No, there's no punchline.

You're really asking us to believe this feels weird.

This is the kind of feel that I am getting from the story that the Sadducees are spinning

up for Jesus because they don't even quite parable exactly right.

Whereas Jesus tells a story and it's always about someone who is a ways up.

Now there was a man.

Now there was a thing.

Now, in a far off country, there was a, and it always feels like it has a little bit

of an air of storytelling to it.

The Sadducees are a bit clumsy in the way they introduce their story to try to trap

Jesus and the whole thing just feels ham-fisted and second-rate and just not nearly as good

as the stuff that we're getting from Jesus.

Not even in terms of theology, just in terms of structure.

Here's a passage we're talking about.

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