 And that level is the level, if you like, of background, which we as dwellers in the 21st century do not come to the Scriptures with. In other words, we come out of the context of our own lives and our own day to read the Bible. And when we read concerning this crowd, we perhaps just say to ourselves, well, of course, it's a crowd like any other crowd. But that is to miss the fact that the people in this crowd