Hey my friends, this is Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast. We're probably not

going to have a ton of fun today because the passage we're looking at is about the hero of the story and the one person who

ever it could be said about that they did not deserve it taken an absolute beating

in public after he's already been beaten and I don't know it's that's just not light material it is

what it is what we're looking at in Matthew 27 are the details running up to

the crucifixion itself and as we've talked about it's really easy to just when you think about Jesus suffering.

Oh, the crucifixion you picture that part of it, but there's a bunch of other stuff on the way that are additional indignities as we've looked at.

It seems like maybe each of these indignities points to some theological truth or

fulfillment or prediction about what would happen. to some theological truth or fulfillment,

prediction about what would happen with the Messiah

and how this would play out.

It all tells a story.

It's all in there for a reason.

And the abuse is not nearly done yet.

So this is what we've been looking at so far.

A couple of verses earlier, everybody in the crowd,

this is not representative of the population of Jerusalem or the Jewish people or the people Jesus had talked to,

these are the people who were incentivized and whipped into a frenzy to go to this

crowd and make all of this noise.

Side note, that's a really important thing to bear in mind

any time it looks like you have public consensus is that usually only a

certain subset of people are properly motivated or available to turn out to give

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