Crazy to think that this thing was just sitting there, two centuries old, when Jesus was doing stuff in the Middle East.

There are trees that where growing when the Egyptians built the pyramids.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah_(pine_tree)

Human lifespans are a flash in the pan compared to some organisms.

Sadly one of those flashes in the pan cut down the tree that was older than Methuselah (at the time, Methuselah is now older).

It feels strange and almost arrogant to "name" the tree with the name of a human figure with our lifespan less than a mere century.