You ever have one of those moments where you're watching the world unfold around you or maybe just going through a moment in your life where there's so much happening at once and in that moment you have this lingering sense that it's all very profound this matters is going to be

remembered this is shaping my story or the story a lot of history is happening

right this second right now but in that moment it can be very difficult to sort it all through, even if you do have this

sneaking suspicion that all of these little things that are happening around you really, really matter.

That is how I feel about this crucifixion account in Matthew 27.

There's so much busyness happening.

The text is rapid firing details at us left and right and Matthew doesn't even take the time here as

we're reading through this like he does in the rest of his book to be like hey and

doesn't that remind you a little bit of back there in Psalm 69 or Isaiah 53 or

Psalm 22 because there's a ton of things here there's smoking gun comparisons

with stuff that was written about or predicted in the Old Testament,

but Matthew just lets them fly by instead hitting us with detail after detail after detail.

And it can be a little bit dizzying.

I feel like that's on purpose, right?

We watched the Bourne identity with the kids a while back.

And I know that some of you were like,

born and don't people like get stabbed and choked and shot and isn't there

extra marital kissing and stuff doesn't have swears like yeah I know I

yeah I know we just all hey we see these things differently and we all watch what we watch whatever we watch the born

identity with the kids we like spy movies we like caper shows and we feel like the

way our kids are wired they digest that stuff real well and so we watch

through all of those Bourne shows and

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