Ronald Dahl wrote a short...
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Ronald Dahl wrote a short story called "Lamb to the Slaughter," about a woman who killed her husband by beating him with a frozen leg of lamb, then putting the leg of lamb in the oven. When the police arrive to investigate, she kindly serves them the dinner she had prepared for her poor dead spouse. The police joke about the possibility of the murder weapon being right beneath their noses -- oh, how right they are. Like those policemen, the answer was right beneath the noses of the Jewish leaders of Jesus' day. Jesus was right there the whole time, warming up in the rural areas. And when he came to the leaders' attention, they didn't investigate this man as they should have. Instead, they devoured him and destroyed the evidence of God's mighty love.
