Wesley Huff

be preaching these things multiple times in multiple different settings.

Like it's probably likely, myself as an itinerant, I have given the same talk on a particular subject quite a few times.

And I joke with my wife that she could give my talk on the historical reliability of the Bible herself.

You know, if I'm sick, I'll just send my wife, right?

Because she's heard it so many times.

I think that's the case that's going on with the disciples.

There's an aspect of they would have heard

say the Beatitudes, that Jesus most likely more than once is the case because that's just the nature of not just itinerant speaking, but even traveling rabbis in the ancient world.

And then you have this event that is kind of earth shattering in terms of their narrative of who they are.

They've been traveling with this rabbi for three years straight.

They've been hearing his teaching.

They've been seeing miracles, at least that are recorded in the gospels.

pretty phenomenal things.

And then he gets taken and he's murdered publicly.

And they think it's over.

They think, you know, there are other messianic movements in the ancient world, most of which you and I aren't hearing on a regular basis because when those individuals die, their movement dies with them.

And so that's what they think is happening, right?

So they think, okay, we're done.

So the story is they're hiding in this upper room and they're scared.

In fact, it's the women who take on the responsibility of like going and figuring things out, which in terms of the time period is actually an embarrassing fact because of the kind of cultural dynamics of what's going on.