If you hang out with anybody long enough you start to hear stories more than once and that can get particularly confusing when what you're actually

hearing is two separate stories that have a lot of the same details for example

there were two different girls that I briefly dated in high school and at two different times in the

winter we went up into the mountains and went bouldering with some friends on

unseasonably warm day in the winter and it was just a beautiful lovely time.

Nothing too crazy happened.

We went up, we happened to eat at the same restaurant in Estes Park both times with our friends and we had a really nice time in the mountains.

They were just very, very, very similar, very, very memorable days.

But not all of the details align, like what car we were driving, who the other friends were,

we were up there with. And so as a result, if you heard me tell both of those stories, you might think,

like, oh, wait a a minute there's some kind of

conflict here in the versions when in reality no it just happened two separate

times also though I forget things.

So you could hang out with me long enough and I could tell you a story and be like, I'm pretty sure that's

what happened.

And then later on, time goes by and you forget some stuff or maybe some other story informs how you

remember that story and then you tell it and somebody's like, hey, wait a minute.

There were differences between those two stories, but it sounded like the same thing and

then you stop and you think about it

and you're like oh yeah that only happened one time that we went and did that thing and I just

got the details wrong on a couple of points on that second story.

Likewise we've got a situation like that brewing here in Matthew 26, and I think it's important

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