Everyone is a Witness

"So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt." Genesis 37:28

Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and mourned for his son many days. All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. 'No,' he said,' I will continue to mourn until I join my son in the grave. So his father wept for him.'" Genesis 37:34-35

It is always interesting to come back to read passages, for the mind tries to fill in some gaps unmentioned within the Bible each time through. This passage was another one of the sorts.

Joseph has been sold as a slave to a place far away. Now he had ten older brothers. The Bible does not specifically say that all the brothers were present at the scene of the crime, but nevertheless, it seems safe to assume there were more than one brother present. With the selling as a slave covered as a death to their father, it seems almost stunning how none of them told the truth of Joseph. Not one brother came out to Israel and say that Joseph was sold as a slave. Think about how many years that must have been, a lump in their conscience. Or would they have forgotten their wrongdoings with time?