Hey my friends, it's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast.

Yesterday we're talking about Simon of Cyrene, the guy who was carrying the

cross for Jesus because Jesus was too beat up to do it and I think I speculated a little bit I don't know I never did go back and listen that Jeff just that it's a right up and publishes it for me and he does a great job so

sometimes I get a couple days behind on listening to my own podcast which is fun it's like you know finding five dollars in

your pocket in the laundry like oh yeah there's Bible stuff that I was thinking

about the other day I'm excited to see what I thought about it the other day.

But I think at the end of that I was saying that okay I'm not totally sure

why Matthew used some of his precious scroll real estate to include this little nugget, this little

detail, that there was a guy from Cyrene who carried Jesus Cross.

I assume I would speculate that this is the point toward the idea that the whole Jesus thing is

transcending cultural boundaries that there's a new family of faith.

Maybe it's a way to round out the thought

that it should have been the Jewish leaders

who recognized Jesus and showed care for him,

even if it was compulsory.

And they're nowhere to be seen in some complete Rando outsider

who theoretically has no claim on or interest in this situation. He's the one who's

there in this absolute desperate hour of need.

Maybe it plays on the abandonment theme that everybody else is gone.

So you just get some guy from the far reaches of North Africa who's the only one

who's left to do anything to help Jesus out

who's abandoned by everyone else. I don't think any of those things that I just

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