This story was used on the past Sunday's sermon, scopes has it as a 'legend' so it probably isn't true but it's great to use as an allegory.
A bridge keeper was with his son at work, he realised his son was playing below the bridge and a train was coming, getting the bridge down would kill his son by crushing him but if he didn't lower the bridge, 400 people would die.
The man lowered the bridge, the train passed and his son was crushed, the passengers were just unaware and did not know the true cost of their lives being spared. In a modern video take, a woman doing drugs just looks at the mourning man, baffled. What an amazing allegory of those who refuse and don't get the Gospel, even of us when we are ungrateful at times.
What a great analogy for the pain God must have felt sending his son to suffer for us and what a way to show such love at such a cost!
You're missing that part that the Son said, "if i wanted I could call 10,000 angels," and he said to Pilate, "You would have no power unless it had been given to you from above," and he also said, "No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again."
