Well, the physical thing happens inside of us when we get treated unfairly.

We feel our chest tighten up.

Our brains start to cycle through comebacks.

Later, we're going to use our memory to play back all the comebacks that we didn't think of in the moment.

We want instant justice to land the right verbal jab.

But today we're looking at a guy who had rocks thrown at him and who just walked away.

Today on Ask Pastor John, the secret superpower of silence.

A week ago, Pastor John, we read Second Samuel 16 versus 5 to 14 about the time when King David was traveling and gets cursed by Shimei.

Cursed continually, we are told in the text, and not just with words, but with thrown rocks at David and his entourage.

In response to the endless cursing, David refuses to take vengeance.

Instead, they travel on, and David says, quote, leave him alone and let him curse for the Lord has told him to. Wow, verse 11. It's a fascinating

little twist in the story. So David leaves vengeance for God. An anonymous listener wants you to

address another text that we're reading today with a similar theme. Pastor John, hello,

in Mark 15 versus 1 to 5, and again in Mark

chapter 15 versus 15 to 39, we see Jesus respond to false accusations and suffering as

he stands before Pilate, and then as he endorsed the cross. Why did he remain silent in

the face of accusations? How does his silence reflect humility and obedience to God's will,

even when he seemed to have every right to defend himself in the moment?

Was this all only for his act of self-empting in obedience to the Father?

Or does his example teach us also how to respond to injustice and personal suffering ourselves?

In many ways, the Jewish King David was a foreshadowing of Jesus who is called the son of David.

And one of the ways that David foreshadowed Jesus was by enduring many hardships as the king of

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