Introduction

When julius caesar got stabbed to death in the senate building on the edes of march forty four b c, one of the things that was really important for all the conspirators was like, everybody, everybody listing up. I think matthew is giving us a scenario like that, but with a very different tone. And what we're going to see in the final chapter, 28, that's coming up, it's becoming really clear that everybody has a knife in their hand. All these different parties and groups have some kind of ownership here. Matthew and the rest of the bible are making it super clear that the people responsible for the death of jesus of nazareth