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You're listening to the Bible Guys,
a podcast where a couple of friends talk

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about the Bible in fun, in
practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome

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to the Bible Guys. It is
good to be here today. My name

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is Chris and I'm Jeff, and
we together are Chris and Jeff Bible.

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Yeah. So, man, this
is going to be a good episode today

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because we're getting into more of the
last days of Jesus as we're heading towards

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this Easter week. And yeah,
it's really amazing. Yeah, and it

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sort of worked out that it's right
at Easter, right, do we plan

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that sort of sort of? Yeah, it was a lucky not a lucky

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but a happy, happy fortuitis serendipitous. Yeah, there we go. Well,

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hey, today we have a segment
called Mailbags. I love these.

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Yeah, let's see if we can
do this. Ready mail bags? No?

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No, no, ready, Oh
I don't know that mail bag.

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I don't know what you trying to
do. Harmonize harmonic mail bags? All

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right, I forget it. Well
we tried it. Yeah, yeah,

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sorry you didn't want to jump in. No. Hey, this episode of

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Mailbag says this. Cliff k wrote
in thank you Cliff k And he said,

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tell about a time in your past
when something was very dangerous or scary

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that happened to you, and you
look back at that moment now and think

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I should have died or been seriously
injured. But I didn't even have a

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scratch on me. Well, that
is a very specific story there, Cliff.

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Yeah. I was going to say, I don't think that applies to

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me. Yeah. Could you always
get hurt? Yeah? Yeah, I'm

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always hurt. Yeah, So tell
tell everybody how many things you've gotten hurt.

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So I've never broken a bone doing
dumb things. Okay, So when

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it says something very dangerous is scary
that happened to you, Yeah, I

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happened to me, That's what That's
what happened. So I've had over twenty

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sets of stitches, not twenty stitches. I've had to go get ditches twenty

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times. Okay. I've dislocated both
my shoulders, my left shoulder twice,

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both my elbows, six of my
ten fingers, my left hip, both

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my knees. We just go on. Wow. Yeah. So yeah,

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most of the time when I do
something dangerous, I also get hurt.

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I don't know that I have very
many times where I should have died and

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didn't, right right, yeah,
yeah, yeah, how about you though,

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Well one story. I have ten
of these stories, honestly goodness,

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because I don't know how I come, you know, out unscathed on a

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couple of these scenarios. But I
think of one that's pretty funny. When

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I was in college, I was
working for my wife's father, who was

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my girlfriend at the time, and
he had sent me over to work at

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this rich guy's house. It was
the same rich guy that had the Lamborghini.

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I was telling you, yeah,
yeah, yeah, remember that one.

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Did I tell that story on here? Yes? This is the same

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okay guy And he had a two
story barn where the Lamborghini in the Porschure

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in and he wanted me to stain
the whole thing. So it turns out

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I didn't know much about anything,
so I stayed it all wrong. I

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had to get a professional committed like
because because instead of just doing it slap

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by slat, I did it like
with the ladder. I did like one

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section, then I did the other
section. I kept on living the ladder

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and you can see the lines.
Yeah much. I didn't know at the

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time, right because I'm not a
stainers anyway, So I did all three

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sides of the barn, and then
the front side of the barn was over

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a bright, bright, bright pearl
white driveway, and so and and by

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the way, I had a dark
brown stain. So I got a ladder,

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and I didn't have any drop cloth. How dumb am Mike. But

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I'm like, I'm like eighteen at
the time. So I climb all over

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the ladder. I hung the can
on the little hook and I dipped it

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and I'd start staining, and all
of a sudden, one little drop would

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fall down. Boop, it would
hit the white driveway. I had to

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climb all the way down. I
get the little turpentine. I goog goog

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goo google, and I go all
the way back up, and I'd try

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really hard enough to do a drip
and then boop, another drip. I

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go all the way back down the
whole thing, right, So, and

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I was too dumb to say,
hey, I really need a drop cloth

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here, but I was like,
no, I could do it. So

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anyway, I saw a wasp nest
right, so I spray it and and

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and no. Then I run and
then I come back, and I'm thinking

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hey, it's you know, everything's
dead. So I come up to stain

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it right where the wasp nest is, and there's like a lone survivor wasp

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who crawls just over the wasp nest
and falls like on my neck, right,

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so he's like dead, but he's
falling on my neck. Well,

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I'm on like two stories. I'm
two stories high, like I'm at the

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peak of the barn. You understand
how high that is? Right, Okay,

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I fall off on the cement.
I should died. Yeah, right,

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So what it ends up happening is
I start freaking out and I fall

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down and on the way down,
I'm like somehow I like hit the ladder

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and I land bam on the cement. And I'm telling you, after this

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incident, I get up. I
was fine. I don't know how I

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was fine. The angels must have
just caught me. But listen, I

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land on the ground. That's how, That's how your whole life spent.

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The angels just you, yeah,
bring you to the ground. So I

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land on the ground two stories on
the cement thing. And then and then

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I'm hitting the ladder in the way
down. So the can of stain is

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sloshing over slash slash blaah. Right, It's just everywhere. Right. Then

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all of a sudden, the can
falls and I'm laying down on the ground.

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I'm pretty hurt, right, and
then the can hits my ankle,

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lands directly on my ankle and then
goes goog gook goo good look good good

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good lolok all over the way driveway. So I have to get up,

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and I was I didn't know what
to do. And it's like literally just

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dark brown staying over this pearl white
driveway. And then and then then I

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just grabbed the turpentine with my teeth
right just glug it all over the thing.

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And then I grabbed a push broom
and I'm trying to scrub it and

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it's just, I mean, it's
just not coming. It's not working.

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It's not working. Then I grab
a hose and I and there wasn't a

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nozzle. I'm doing the thumb thing
and I'm trying to do everything, and

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I spray it off into the grass
and then finally I got I got it

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down to like a bleak gray and
then the owner of this billionaire guy,

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she she comes running out and she's
like what happened? And I'm covered in

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stain. I told her I fell
two stories. I probably need to go

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to the hospital. And I'm showing
her everything and she looks at me and

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she goes, couldn't you have sprayed
it on the left side where the dirt

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is. You had to spray it
where the grass was. Oh no,

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you killed all the grass. And
that's what she was mad about. Never

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asked me if I was okay,
right, and then that was that was

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my last day working it. As
you can imagine. That's great and rightfully,

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so, oh that's great, good
story. But I you didn't get

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hurt. I didn't go to the
hospital because I felt fine. Wow,

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I mean I felt like I do
now. I was like, oh,

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I'm a little sore, But did
you land on your head? I don't

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even remember. I'm joking. I
was joking. That was supposed to be

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a joke. Yeah, one,
two, five, Yeah, good job,

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Chris. Yeah, I got the
threes and four is not that so?

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Yeah, dude, it was.
It was amazing. Well there you

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go. I hope that's enough.
Cliff. Yeah, well, because he

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says he has ten of those.
But I think i'd like to move on

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if it's okay. Yeah, well
that was a long story. That's amazing

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man. Yeah. Thanks, okay, Well we're going to die. Well,

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you have Matthew twenty seven. So
this is Matthew twenty seven, Mark

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one and Luke twenty two. And
this may be no Mark fifteen. I'm

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sorry what I say you said?
Mark one, I'm sorry, Mark fifteen,

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and Luke twenty two. This might
be one of the more difficult twenty

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minute segments we've ever had to do, because we're reading Matthew twenty seven,

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one and two, Mark fifteen one
and Luke twenty two is sixty six or

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seventy one. So here we go. Here we go. Council of religious

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leaders condemned Jesus. But we didn't
see that coming. It says Matthew twenty

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seven. Very early in the morning, the leading priests and the elders of

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the people met again to lay plans
for putting Jesus to death. Then they

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bound him, led him away,
and took him to pilot the Roman governor.

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In Mark fifteen one, it says, very early in the morning,

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the leading priests, the elders,
and the teachers of religious law, the

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entire High Council met to discuss their
next step, they bound Jesus, led

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him away and took him to Pilot, the Roman governor. And then in

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Luke, chapter twenty two, verse
sixty sixty says, at daybreak, all

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the elders of the people assembled,
including the leading priests and the teachers of

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religious law. Jesus was led before
this high council, and they said,

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tell us, are you the Messiah? And he replied, if I tell

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you, you won't believe me,
and if I ask you a question,

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you won't answer. But from now
on, the son of Man will be

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seated in the place of power at
God's right hand. They all shouted,

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So you are claiming to be the
son of God, and he replied,

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you say that I am. Why
do we need other witnesses? They said,

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we ourselves heard him say it.
That sounds like Fridays, Yeah,

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very similar for Thursdays rather right.
Previously it was the trial before the trial,

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right right, And these were all
illegal trials. But so there was

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the trial with Annis and is trying
to make sure, hey, this is

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a it's worth bringing it to the
Sanhedrin. Then he gives it to Caiaphas,

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and Caiaphas pushes further Caiaphus gets the
same thing, are you saying that

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you're the Messiah? And then finally
after Caiaphas's house, now they bring him

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to the what's called the High Council
here it would be the Sanhedrin. So,

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yeah, which would be like the
Jewish Supreme Court at that time.

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Right, And so Luke twenty two
says, you know, obviously a lot

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more information than the other passages here
in Matthew twenty seven, mark fifteen,

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because there's a conversation and tell us, are you the Messiah? Which again

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he had already admitted in front of
Caiaphas. Right, but if I tell

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you you won't believe me, and
if I ask a question, you won't

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answer. But from now on the
Son of Man will be seated in the

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place of power at God's right hand. I love how Jesus points out that

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of their unbelief. Basically, right, if I tell you, you won't

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believe me, if I ask you
a question, you won't answer. It

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is it is a how Jesus points
out their unbelief. They don't accept it.

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There are times in the scripture where
Jesus tells the disciples things very plainly,

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and yet they don't question it,
they don't push back on it.

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There's no evidence of them saying,
well, wait a minute, we better

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be aware of this, because Jesus
said we weren't going to be aware of

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it. So I think there's a
lesson in there. And the lesson is

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is that so many times when we
think we're right or we think we know

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something. You know, if you
ever heard the expression you don't know what

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you don't know? Yes, And
I think sometimes that's probably true. We

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hang on to our opinions, and
we have our opinions about who God is

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and who God isn't. We have
our opinions about what God won't do and

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what he should do, and we
get angry. We hang on to those.

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And I can only imagine God in
Heaven sitting down and you know,

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not judging us, but I guess
righteously judging us and saying, gosh,

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he just doesn't know what he doesn't
know, right, And and and you

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know, you hear things and you
don't believe it, you know, you're

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you're unwilling to accept it, and
it really does just, you know,

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encourage us to be open to the
fact that, hey, you could be

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wrong, we could be wrong.
Sometimes, you know, no matter how

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confident we are when it comes to
God, you know, we have to

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really be open to hearing. You
know that maybe you know the things we

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think, or you know obviously evidence
in scripture. Right, I'm not saying

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question the scripture. I'm not saying
that. I'm just saying, sometimes we

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form opinions about God, and you
know that's it. People get angry with

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God for thirty forty years. Sure, Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

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Yeah, because they God says,
my ways are not your ways, my

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thoughts are not your thoughts. Sometimes
we get angry because we expect him to

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do what we decided was important.
Right. Well, I mean we just

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forget our place and his place as
if God needs to behave according to how

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we think. Right, that's just
arrogance or freshness. Right. So that's

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what I'm really trying to say.
So God will never be contrary to his

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own words, No, never,
right, but there are times we can

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misunderstand his words. Yes, that's
a great way to say that. Well,

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thank you, that's what I was
meaning. Yeah, I'm earning my

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keep today. Well you did that
last week too. I rambled on and

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then you said a sentence. I'm
like, that's what I meant to say.

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Well, I had the benefit of
you rambling on, and I'm trying

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to distill it down to this.
Right, here's the whole experience. I

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did say a bunch of words.
So here's what's happening. There's this preliminary

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hearing before Annis that you know that
we'd already talked about a couple of days

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ago. And by the way,
one of the reasons why we love the

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Life Application Study Bible is because the
notes are great. And then even within

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the notes sometimes there's little sidebars that
are just so great. There's one about

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how Jesus trial was illegal. Maybe
you want to talk about that, but

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this one is just kind of giving
the six stages of Jesus trial, and

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right now we've covered three of them. And then Mark chapter fifteen to one

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and Matthew twenty seven to one or
two tell us that they eventually now they're

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taking him to pilot. So this
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But there's this preliminary hearing before Annis. Right, because the office of High

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Priest was for life, Annis was
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they're reminding us of in the eyes
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though the Romans had appointed another,
Annis was still carried so much weight because

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in the Jewish mindset he's always a
high priest. Now, so sure,

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now we have two high priests.
Annis is the top high priest. Caiaphas

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is the one that has the government
influence right now, right, that's how

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they saw it, So this is
why they would have accepted it. Then

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he goes before Caiaphas, and this
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secrecy, which was against the law
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time. And then it had all
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we can talk about that in a
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what we just read today, Right, the Annis one and the Caiaphas one,

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those are at night time. Now
we're coming to daybreak. And at

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this point, then just after daybreak, there's seventy members of the High Council

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and they meant to rubber stamp their
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appear legal. So the other two
were illegal. So now Caiafis needs to

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bring in the other seventy of the
High Council and they're basically rubber stamping it,

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going, yeah, we did everything
legit. It's almost like backdating a

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check, right, right, that's
what they're doing. They're trying to make

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everything legit. And then it says
the purpose of this trial was not to

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determine justice, but to justify their
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de Germany. He's guilty. Now. They find a way here by asking

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him, are you really the Messiah? He says, you say I am.

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They hear him say I am.
I'm going to sit next to the

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Father. Okay, that's exactly what
we're looking for. But they couldn't execute

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Jesus. The Romans had removed that
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is go to Pilot and recommend that
Jesus be executed. Right. And so

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we're about to move into the Roman
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that's how it ends is they led
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the Roman governor. So there is
another chart here. As you mentioned about

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how Jesus's trial was illegal, it
says the religious illegal. That's what I

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tried to say. Okay, it
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The religious leaders were not interested in
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minds, Jesus had to die.
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justice that they were appointed to protect. These are some examples of the actions

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taken by the religious leaders that were
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one, even before the trial began, it was determined that Jesus must die.

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We read that already Mark fourteen,
John eleven. There was no innocent

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until proven guilty approach. Number two, false witnesses were sought to testify against

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Jesus. Remember we talked about that
last week in Matthew twenty six. Usually

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the religious leaders went through an elaborate
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Not in this case, they fabricated
false ones. Number three, no defense

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for Jesus was sought or even allowed
in Luke chapter twenty to So Jesus was

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not given a chance to defend or
anybody else defending him, which is shockingly

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irregular, because the Romans expected that
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did the Jewish law. Right,
so both sides and these guys just we're

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going to go find fake accusers,
but we're not going to allow you any

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attorney to protect you or anybody else
to step up in your defense to defend

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you. And then number four,
the trial is connected at night, as

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we just mentioned, which was illegal
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And then number five the High Priest
put Jesus under oath but then incriminated him

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for what he said in Matthew twenty
six. And then number six, cases

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involving such serious charges were to be
tried only in the High Council's rarely reading

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place, not in the High Priest's
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mentioned, right, So yeah,
holy cow. So everything about it was

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crooked, but they they just had
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as well, the Sabbath is coming
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timeline, right, so if the
Sabbath comes up, that they cannot they

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cannot crucify somebody on the Sabbath according
to their own loss, right, which

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means they've got to push this trial
through. So it happens on Friday before

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Friday would be on our calendar like
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And by the way, this is
worth mentioning the Jewish calendar is different

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than ours in that it goes from
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goes you know, roughly six ish
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the way till uh you know,
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would have started Friday sundown and then
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chapter one, the Creation story where
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day, evening and morning with the
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the Jewish people manage time from evening
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we do. Yeah, well we
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sort of six hours later, right, so it's really not even like

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but we say one one in the
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one in the morning is still dark, which means we're sort of like splitting

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the difference. That's right, yeah, we split it. But but anyway,

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the point is is that uh uh
so like, for instance, we're

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about to see uh you know that
the events where which uh it gives us

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times, it gives us times like
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out and all these different kinds of
things. Uh you know, that would

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be you know, three in the
afternoon. So the difficulty that these guys

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are facing and so you're gonna find
what they bring to pilot. The accusation

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is different than what they decided to
convict him on here. And did I

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did I say that wrong? I
think I said it wrong. Isn't it?

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Sunrise to sunrise? That's what?
What's that? How we do time?

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No? No, no Jewish count
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sundown to sundown is a sundown to
say, Okay, okay, I'm sorry,

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go ahead. So the difficulty that
the Jewish leaders have here is that

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essentially they had determined, predetermined they
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blasphemy. Right. The problem is
the Romans don't care about blasphemy at all.

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It's not a capital punishment. It
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it's it's the worst thing. They
would stone you to death if they

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had a chance for anything that appeared
to be or hinted of blasphemy. So

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in this case, in order to
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needed to convince convict him of blasphemy
and then convince the people that he had

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spoken against God. That was the
only way, right that the people didn't

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care about what Jesus thought about Rome. The people cared about what Jesus said

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about God, and so that was
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trial that's what they do. But
you'll see in the next day or two

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when they go to pilot, their
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he's claiming to be the king of
the Jews, which is a totally different

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thing, right, right, because
they're saying, hey, there's a threat

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to you, right. But where
the stretch that they're making there is the

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fact that Jesus had said, I'll
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father, right, so I'll be
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sits on as ways saying. And
so that's how they pivot and go.

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So the Romans like, whoa,
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What are you talking about? Right, So that's what's going to happen

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here pretty soon. But they find
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difficult position where they have to swing
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apparently they were very convincing because we
know eventually that people begin to yell crucify

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him. The same people who were
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Now are going to be yelling and
crucify him. Something changed, And

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you know, in a lot of
nations even today, charges of blasphemy will

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cause a riot, right, And
that's what they were counting on now,

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is we need to They were afraid
of arresting Jesus in the temple when he

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was so articulate and he was so
mysterious and the people were so drawn to

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him. They didn't want to rest
him there because that would cause a bad

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kind of riot for them. But
instead, what they wanted to do was

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to be able to convict Jesus of
some kind of heresy of blasphemy. Then

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that's why the Sanhedron together, all
seventy of them, collude for this,

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and then they pivot and get the
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he's a heretic blasphemy crucify him right, because it was so embedded in

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them that you couldn't do that,
and so they needed Jesus to get these

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words out. But the Romans again
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So the Pharisees are very slick.
We've got to change, We got to

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find a way to convict Jesus change
the attitude of the people, convince Pilot

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to kill Jesus all before passover starts, right right, all before the Sabbath

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starts. And that's a really that's
why they're moving so quickly, they're moving

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through the night, They're doing all
these things, and you know, it

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just kind of points out again.
I think the devil thought he was sprinting

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to a victory at this point,
right, And that's what I think the

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devil does a lot of times,
is he begins to stack on top of

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us, so he gets us to
just deviate just a little bit from what

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we know is right next thing,
you know, opportunity, opportunity, opportunity,

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temptation, temptation, temptation, and
suddenly you get into a situation where

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go, how did I ever get
here? It's like a one in a

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million chants that I would end up
doing this thing. Well, the Devil

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was coordinating it all along. He's
a pretty good coordinator, and so we

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have to really be This is why
Peter tells us be careful, right,

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because our enemy is prowling around like
a roaring lion looking for whom he made

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devour. Right, He's always probing
the edges, always trying to find a

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way to manipulate a situation to ruin
your life. And so I think that's

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what you see here with these guys. Well, hey, that is our

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time and that's great and that's a
good place to end. So we will

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pick up the story next time in
the Bible. Gotsh