When Julius Caesar got stabbed to death in the Senate building on the Id of March 44 BC.

One of the things that was really important

for all the conspirators was like,

hey, everybody, everybody, listen up.

We're all getting in a stab

because we're all gonna have a hand in this and we're all going

to own it. I don't want like just one guy running in there ahead of everybody else and

being like I'm getting in all the stabs myself right away.

Mm-mm. everybody gets a stab.

Everybody needs to walk out of there with blood on the knife because it needs to be very clear

that we all had a hand in this and that this wasn't some rogue actor. This was a comprehensive bipartisan

rejection of this tyrant Julius Caesar and we're all going to own it in front of everybody.

Likewise, I think Matthew is giving us a scenario like that,

but with a very different tone.

In Matthew 27 and what we're going to see in the final chapter 28 that's coming up

It's becoming really clear that everybody has a knife in their hand all these different parties and groups have some kind of ownership here.

I mean, over the last couple of days, we've talked about the ambiguity and confusion that

people have felt, sometimes for very nefarious reasons, over the centuries, about who's really to blame for this thing

when in reality it shouldn't be very difficult at all.

Matthew and the rest of the Bible are making it super clear that the people responsible for the death of Jesus of Nazareth is everybody.

Everybody's got a knife in their hand, everybody's getting in a stab,

just like what happened with the conspirators who killed Julius Caesar.

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