We're still trying to make sense of what's going on in Matthew 27

verse 51 Jesus has just died on the cross and then the temple of the curtain is torn

into the earth shakes and the rocks split and then it says verse 52 math 27 the tombs broke open and the bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life.

They came out of the tombs and after Jesus resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many people. What on earth is going on here and what are we to make of this as

historically minded people? I spent a bunch of time at the mic recording my thoughts on this and wrestling it through and

it got way too long so you got half of that yesterday.

I'm just gonna play a little music and pick up where we left off here today.

I don't know whether Centurion in verse 54 is coming to his moment of belief as Jesus is right there on the cross or if maybe Matthew is describing something that

happened in part while Jesus was there on the cross and it was more fully

realized by the centurion and others who had participated a little bit later on, something

that could be evident in an after-the-fact interview that may or may not have been conducted.

But in Matthew 2754, it says when the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened and all that had happened, they were terrified and exclaimed surely he was the son of God and in that regard Matthew is kind of taken the reader by the hand and saying look all of these details I'm giving you are physical and real and this is the effect they had on someone

who just got done literally killing Jesus. This is a maximum about face

readers. Now I think it's pretty clear that Matthew believes

that the darkness, Jesus' behavior on the cross, the curtain thing, the earthquake, the rocks splitting, and the tombs breaking open, and probably

then a couple of days later, at the point of the resurrection, people coming out of those and going back into the city.

Looks like Matthew is saying that that's compelling. That should be enough for people to believe.

But will it be enough for everybody to believe?

Like if this actually happened historically, why didn't everybody become a Christian?

But remember over in Luke?

What is that?

That's Luke 16, right?

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