Hey everybody it's Matt this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and every single

one of you is really really good at interpreting stories. You intuit the beats of a story,

whether it be something overt like a book or movie or TV show or something or even

more subtle stories like an advertisement or

listening to a friend tell you something about what happened or just observing the

world around you you're really good at picking this stuff out.

You see commonalities, you learn the pacing and the beats, and every now and then a story messes

with you, it subverts your expectations, and that can be kind of fun from time to

time but for the most part you know what's common and how things need to work out

but let's just take a second and run Matthew 27 and what we're seeing here is

Jesus goes to the cross through that story interpretation filter try to forget that

you know what's coming. How would this normally work out? All right, you got a guy who was predicted to be a really big deal.

He's got the right pedigree.

He's got all of the proper lineage and titles

and all of that, but he's also a man of the people he's

humble and all of those ugly parts that you would normally expect to show up in a

character to round him out and make him seem more relatable or complete.

Those just don't show up.

Instead, it looks like we're dealing with a main character who's simultaneously the underdog

and the obvious, undefeatable indisputable winner.

There's inevitability both to his death, it feels like, but also to his victory. How can both of those things that our storytelling

Spidey sense is telling us? How can they both be true at once? They're familiar beats

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