Hey everybody it's Matt this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and in my right hand I have the

Norton anthology of English literature sixth edition volume Norton Press, and in my left hand I have a sheet of paper

with some notes on it about some things that I probably needed to do, but did not get done.

Huh, that's disappointing. This Norton

anthology of English literature has 2,586 pages not counting the

paperback cover on the front and back and at this time I'm going to try to

rip it in half. Just a second here.

Hm.

Oh, on.

Stupid.

Okay, that didn't work at all.

At this time I'm going to try to rip that little piece of note paper in half.

Yep, worked really easy.

As we discussed yesterday, how impressive it is to rip a thing in half has everything to do with how thick it is.

So what was the deal with this curtain, this veil that tore when Jesus died in Matthew 27?

If it's a decorative curtain that you could get from Walmart and it's real cheap, I don't know, it's pretty cool that telekinetically that thing got torn, I guess.

But if it's something real thick and heavy and impressive, and it has all kinds of meaning attached to it.

Oh, dang, that's a bigger deal and that's going to get people's attention more.

But what is this curtain like? Those of you have been around church for a long time, those of you who have not,

let's speculate for a minute, what have you heard? What do you remember? If you're somebody who's never

heard the sermon or a Bible study or a conversation about this passage ever, what would you guess, knowing what you know about the temple?

I mean, just to jog your memory from things that we've talked about here, back in Exodus,

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