Here's one of the things that I'm just loving about this passage we're looking at in

Matthew 27 with Joseph Verimuthia and all the details Matthew is giving about who

collected Jesus's body and where the burial is happening.

What I love about it is just how tangible this would have been for the original audience.

Jesus is actually dead. He is actually getting buried.

You know how sometimes they wrap people up in sheets if they do a nice burial for him?

Well guess what? That is exactly how Jesus got buried.

You know how whenever the Romans crucified people in Judea,

there was always a question of,

what are you gonna do with the body?

Well, that has been answered.

Here's what's happening with the body.

Here is whose tomb that body is going in. All of these details are here and that creates a sense of proximity for that original audience member who can go and tangibly encounter these things.

They could go to that tomb, they could find out exactly which cave, which carved out chunk

of rock this is, and go to it. They could go find Joseph of Eremathia.

Well, maybe they could if they were reading this a couple decades later, but if the legends of the Middle Ages about Joseph of Verimathia

are to be believed, then maybe they couldn't because maybe he was off gallivanting around

Europe somewhere burying Grails, more on that in a minute.

Hey you know what I didn't mention? My name is Matt and this is the 10 minute Bible

Hour podcast and I'm super super glad that you're here. We're working our way

through the book of Matthew one little chunk at a time and then when we're done with that here in about a month and a half

starting on January 2nd we are going to start going through the Bible one day one book for the first quarter of next year and it's going to be delightful.

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