WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:04.879 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a couple of friends talk 2 00:00:04.919 --> 00:00:12.560 about the Bible in fun, in practical ways. Hey, everybody, my 3 00:00:12.679 --> 00:00:16.120 name is Chris and I'm Jeff, and we're the Bible Guys. Yes we 4 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:20.760 are, and we are here today to talk about the Bible. Rumor has 5 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:25.640 its rumor has it? Yep? And so but before we do, we 6 00:00:25.679 --> 00:00:28.440 have a segment, don't we, Jeff, We do, and it is 7 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:33.119 everybody's favorite segment, the one that everybody's been waiting for with baited breath all 8 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:36.759 week long. They've been waiting, Oh, Jeff, quit talking, just 9 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:39.880 get to the most important segment of the week. And so here we are, 10 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:45.399 folks. Do do what made Chris mad this week? Yeah? And 11 00:00:45.439 --> 00:00:48.479 we haven't done this in a few weeks. Yeah, we did last week. 12 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:54.320 Yeah. Yeah, it seems so long for you. It seems so 13 00:00:54.439 --> 00:00:59.200 long for you. Everything just makes you so mad. Clear you want to 14 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:02.399 talk about it every day. You prefer that this was your daily. We 15 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:07.760 recorded two weeks of episodes last week and two weeks this week. That's recorded 16 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:10.879 four weeks. That's right, twenty twenty episodes for us. It's been a 17 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:14.560 week for them, it's been like four weeks, but you would prefer that 18 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:18.000 this would be every day. No, oh, you you just walk around 19 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:22.280 mad about everything. So that's not true at all. You're gonna that's that's 20 00:01:22.319 --> 00:01:25.560 in my experience, in my personal experience. You are going to don't get 21 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:30.239 people to think that. Don't minimize my experience. Everybody is not telling the 22 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:34.760 truth. Okay, don't make me mad. You wouldn't want to see me 23 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:40.439 when I'm angry, That's right, that's right, David Banner. All right, 24 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:45.920 So here is actually my I think that made me mad this week is 25 00:01:45.959 --> 00:01:49.400 I was with a buddy of mine and he said, hey, let's go 26 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:55.120 see a movie. And we looked and we realized that there are no good 27 00:01:55.159 --> 00:02:00.719 movies out and and but no, it's bigger than this. But then we 28 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:07.079 get into a deeper discussion about how movies in theaters are. The quality of 29 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:10.000 movies being released in theaters has gone down considerably. I'm not sure if you 30 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:14.960 like would agree with that, but like if I haven't seen a movie in 31 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:20.240 the theater in six months, maybe a year, okay, see, See, 32 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:23.280 the point is is that, like the quality has gone down so much. 33 00:02:23.479 --> 00:02:27.000 Yeah, whatever it used to be, it used to be where like 34 00:02:27.639 --> 00:02:30.759 if you'd look at the lineup in the theater and you'd say, you know 35 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:35.000 that just rewind like five years ago and you'd say, man, there's like 36 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:38.759 three movies out here that I really want to see, right, And now 37 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:42.879 you're you're like, Okay, this is the fifth week in a row where 38 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:46.280 I'm looking and I'm just seeing garbage. I mean, it's just it's garbage 39 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:49.240 that nobody's even ever heard of. Like I've never even seen a preview for 40 00:02:49.319 --> 00:02:52.680 this movie, and it looks terrible and it is, and you know it's 41 00:02:52.759 --> 00:02:54.879 terrible. If Rotten Tomato says it's good. Right, So you know, 42 00:02:55.520 --> 00:03:00.240 all the critics are always wrong. So anyway, the point is is that 43 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:05.680 except me, except me, you're the critic that is right in my own 44 00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:08.400 mind. No, So here's what I started doing. So it turned into 45 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:14.919 this larger conversation that like, like theater experiences in general have really declined. 46 00:03:15.319 --> 00:03:16.680 Well, you know, COVID people were, you know, saying a lot 47 00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:20.159 of things about theaters, and they were saying, oh, yeah, after 48 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:23.599 COVID, the theater is going to be obsolete, and we certainly know that 49 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:28.120 that is the traction of theaters has gone down considerably, right, And so 50 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:31.159 you're almost waiting for the day where they're going to shut down all theaters everywhere 51 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:35.879 and it's just going to be the living room experience. Right. But then 52 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:38.280 in my mind and in my heart, here's what I resolved. I said 53 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:42.759 to myself. I said, well, I don't think they're going to go 54 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:45.719 away, because you know, as long as the movie is released in the 55 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:47.240 theater first and then it makes it to your TV. As long as that 56 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:52.599 system stays in place, then basically, you know, I think that the 57 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:54.879 dinner in a movie is the most common date still in the world today. 58 00:03:55.199 --> 00:03:59.120 And I think that people like the theater experience and the pop pun experience. 59 00:03:59.199 --> 00:04:00.879 So I don't think it's going to go away. I just think it's going 60 00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:02.319 to decline, you know. But people are lazy, they stay home and 61 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:06.000 all this stuff. Right, And now that I'm looking at movies and all 62 00:04:06.039 --> 00:04:10.639 of a sudden, I'm connecting dots. Here's what I believe. I started 63 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:15.240 to connect the dots and think all the good movies are now being made for 64 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:18.920 TV. That's right. So now it's like it's like making four Prime. 65 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:25.000 They're made four netflis. Yeah, they're actually and there I think, actually, 66 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:29.439 we've we've just now reached the tipping point to where the ones that are 67 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:32.120 made for streaming services are better than the ones in the theaters a lot of 68 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:36.160 times. And I think that that actually has only people home theater systems and 69 00:04:36.199 --> 00:04:39.839 all that kind of stuff. Yeah, and so I guess what I'm saying 70 00:04:39.879 --> 00:04:43.600 is is like I just now started to connect the big picture dots and I'm 71 00:04:43.639 --> 00:04:46.120 saying, oh, my goodness, we've reached the tipping point. And I 72 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:48.519 think it's only happened in the last like year to year and a half to 73 00:04:48.600 --> 00:04:54.680 where I think I think, actually that could be the downfall of most theaters 74 00:04:54.759 --> 00:04:57.199 as well. I think coming out of COVID, people got in the habit 75 00:04:57.399 --> 00:05:01.120 of they invested in their home theaters and then they bought all the streaming you 76 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:05.600 know, things rocked, everything didn't, and you know, everything for the 77 00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:08.720 got out of the habit. Yeah, for most of it. For the 78 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:13.680 worst. I think the last movie that I went to in theater was Indiana 79 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:15.759 Jones. Oh yeah, they did they know one? That was the last 80 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:18.680 week. That was last year with the girl. Yeah that was last year, 81 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:23.399 right, right. Anyway, The point is is that it may be 82 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:27.199 mad, it may be mad for the theater experience. It may be mad 83 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:30.399 for future generations that they're probably not going to grow up and experience the great 84 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:33.519 theater experience. Yeah, all that stuff. The world is changing, and 85 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:36.680 Chris is mad about it. Next week, tune in as he complains about 86 00:05:36.759 --> 00:05:41.279 kids on his lawn the old man. No like, get off my lawn, 87 00:05:43.759 --> 00:05:48.920 darn kids. Okay, well, good well, I'm mad for the 88 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:53.879 theater experience. Yeah, I like change. Well, apparently you just need 89 00:05:53.879 --> 00:05:59.519 to buy a really good popcorn machine. I don't think I have that yet. 90 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:00.680 I would thank you. I have everything. You just don't want to 91 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:04.160 have to make it yourself. You'd rather pays. I've got the surround sound, 92 00:06:04.199 --> 00:06:08.040 I've got the big screen, I've got all that. I just I 93 00:06:08.199 --> 00:06:12.759 just like the movie theater experience. I just do. Okay, Well, 94 00:06:12.759 --> 00:06:14.759 there you go. Have you have it, folks. I know that was 95 00:06:14.759 --> 00:06:17.759 important to you. Yes, so we have just dealt with it. You're 96 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:21.600 welcome, Yes, thank you, Thank everybody. Yes, you're grieving now 97 00:06:21.639 --> 00:06:28.600 today it wasn't so much mad. It's grief grieving on behalf of the rest 98 00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:30.920 of us that we're losing. Well, how about how about this? How 99 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:39.040 about this I'm mad at the broad strokes of Hollywood of actually making the choice 100 00:06:39.079 --> 00:06:42.160 to cut off the theaters. How about that? Would that would make me 101 00:06:42.199 --> 00:06:44.720 mad? Yeah? Right, So I'm sad for the theater experience, but 102 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:47.399 I'm actually mad at the decision makers who don't care about the theater experience. 103 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:49.720 Oh, there you go, there it is those are the anger comes in. 104 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:55.480 Okay, and anymore so many of the movies just feel preachy and it 105 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:59.680 feels way it don't even start instead it instead of getting up and leaving a 106 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:01.639 movie that you just spent thirty bucks on or forty bucks on, yeah, 107 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:04.639 it's easier just to go find a different movie on Netflix. So I think 108 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:09.079 there's a lot of that every Disney movie ever made. Okay, so let's 109 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:12.040 move on. That's what you can yell about next week. In the last 110 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:15.560 eight in the last five years, Oh, the Disney movies are terrible that 111 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:18.360 way. Okay. So, and it's funny that preachers hate preachy stuff. 112 00:07:18.399 --> 00:07:23.360 So that's that's funny to me too. But yeah, okay, So today 113 00:07:24.040 --> 00:07:29.920 we're continuing on as we are in the last hours before the crucifixion. Just 114 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:32.879 maybe these are the last minutes before the crucifixion. Now as of today, 115 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:38.399 Matthew, Chapter twenty seven is where we're going to start, and verse twenty 116 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:41.839 seven, and then it'll also go over to Mark fifteen. It's these two 117 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:44.920 places. And this really is the Roman soldiers part. Yeah, this is 118 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:49.600 the soldiers. And some of the governor's soldiers took Jesus into their headquarters and 119 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:54.959 called out the entire regiment. And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe 120 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:58.680 on him, and they wove thorn branches into a crown and put it on 121 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:01.759 his head, and they placed a red stick in his right hand as a 122 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:05.600 scepter. Then they knelt before him and mockery and taunted, Hail, King 123 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:09.000 of the Jews. And they spit on him and grabbed the stick and struck 124 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:11.439 him on the head with it. When they were finally tired of mocking him, 125 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:15.279 they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him again. 126 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:20.319 Then they led him away to be crucified. And in Mark chapter fifteen, 127 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:24.279 verse sixteen, the soldiers took Jesus into the courtyard of the governor's headquarters called 128 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:26.879 the Preetorium, and called out the entire regiment. They dressed him in a 129 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:31.560 purple robe, and they wove thorn branches into a crown and put it on 130 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:35.360 his head. And then they saluted him and taunted Hail King of the Jews. 131 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:37.000 And they struck him on the head with a red stick and spit on 132 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:41.600 him, and dropped to their knees and mock worship. And when they were 133 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:45.120 finally tired of mocking him, they took off the purple robe and put his 134 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:48.240 own clothes on him again, and then they led him away to be crucified. 135 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:54.120 Okay, first thought is one causes a scarlet robe and one calls it 136 00:08:54.200 --> 00:09:00.000 a purple robe. I wonder if that's now I know that Herod put up 137 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:03.120 purple robe ontom scarlet robe, I would think is more red, right, 138 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:09.399 I would imagine. Yeah, But you can have read that looks purply, 139 00:09:09.799 --> 00:09:16.399 yeah probably so yeah, yeah, color purple. So let's let me let 140 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:22.440 me read this note in the Life Application Study Bible that it says about Roman 141 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:28.159 soldiers. It says when the military invention of POMPEII in the internal affairs of 142 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:33.799 Judea in sixty three BC, Rome established its presence in Palestine. The Roman 143 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:39.559 military presence is visible throughout the Gospels and during the New Testament period, service 144 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:43.600 in the Roman legions was open to all Roman citizens. A professional volunteer of 145 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:50.279 army had replaced a conscripted militia. The permanent standing army was made up of 146 00:09:50.440 --> 00:09:56.279 legions of recruited from the ranks of citizens, expressed officers in the ranks of 147 00:09:56.360 --> 00:10:01.320 the consul command of the legions on spot. So occasions, particularly all the 148 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:05.480 Great Jewish festivals, when riots and disorders could be anticipated, the providential governor 149 00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:11.080 would take up residents in Jerusalem, accompanied by a substantial contingent of troops. 150 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:16.360 And so just a little insight here about the history of Roman soldiers and understanding 151 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:22.320 that a Roman legion contained about two hundred men. A regiment was a division 152 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:28.039 of a Roman legion. Yeah, yeah, So the Roman legion did not 153 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:33.159 contain it's the regiment contained about two hundred men. Oh okay, oh yeah, 154 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:35.240 because the legion is a thousand, isn't it. Yeah yeah, yeah, 155 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:37.759 okay, So a regiment, there'll be five regiments in the legion. 156 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:43.919 So the so it's about two hundred men that come out to mock Jesus. 157 00:10:43.960 --> 00:10:48.159 This isn't just a little thing. That's a big thing, right that they 158 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:50.559 bring out Jesus. They decide that they're going to mock him, they're gonna 159 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:54.720 beat him, they're going to rough him up. They're just gonna play with 160 00:10:54.799 --> 00:10:58.679 him like a cat plays with a mouse, right, is what they're doing 161 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:03.799 here. And they're incredibly brutal. Right, So you have a power hungry 162 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:13.279 leader in Pilot who wasn't particularly gifted. You have a kind of another power 163 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:18.279 hungry half Jewish king Agrippa, who just dismisses Jesus, just wants me to 164 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:24.039 do tricks. You've got a bunch of just wild eyed radical leaders, religious 165 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:28.960 leaders wanting to execute Jesus because they have multiple reasons. But a lot of 166 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:33.960 it was, according to Pilot's view, it was just envy. They didn't 167 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:37.360 like that Jesus was so popular. That's Pilot's take on the whole thing was 168 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:43.440 they're just envious. And so there's this rage, this anger, this brutality 169 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:50.159 in this whole process right here that seems unwarranted and unmerited for a guy that 170 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:56.159 basically is famous for saying, turn the other cheek and go the extra mile 171 00:11:56.200 --> 00:11:58.440 and treat people the way you want to be treated, and love your enemy, 172 00:11:58.559 --> 00:12:01.039 love your enemies, and pray for them and do good to them, 173 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:05.600 and don't judge lest you be judged. And give to Caesar what is Caesar's, 174 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:07.960 Give to God what is God's. And oh, let me heal that 175 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:13.000 little girl. Let me, let me heal that man. Let me solve 176 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:16.000 your problems, Let me feed the hungry, Let me just walk among the 177 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:22.960 people and love them. It seems so inordinately violent and brutal to go after 178 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:24.519 a guy like Jesus the way that they do, but they are. It 179 00:12:24.519 --> 00:12:30.840 doesn't make any sense, which a lot of times persecution and you know, 180 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:35.879 the fight against what is good and right seems so heavy handed, far more 181 00:12:35.879 --> 00:12:43.080 heavy handed than is reasonable. So the crown of thorns that they made, 182 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:50.960 it says here that they took a wove thorn branches into a crown and put 183 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:52.519 it on his head and put a red stick in his hand as a scepter. 184 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:56.240 Yeah. So, you know, if you've been to church a little 185 00:12:56.240 --> 00:13:00.879 while, you've been going to church, you know for years you've probably heard 186 00:13:00.919 --> 00:13:03.759 preachers mention this. But you know, when you're over, when you're over 187 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:07.440 in that part of the world and you see thorns, the thorns are not 188 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:09.840 like thorns on a rose bush right where there's just like, oh, these 189 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:13.360 little prickly thorns. And I remember one time in my backyard I had like 190 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:18.559 a I had a it was like a red bush that was thorny, and 191 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:24.200 and those were like maybe twice the size and twice as pointy as rose thorns. 192 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:28.440 And I even thought that was like killer thorns until you go over in 193 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:35.559 Israel and you realize that the thorns are like sometimes three inches maybe two and 194 00:13:35.559 --> 00:13:41.720 a half inches long, and I'm telling you, they are as sharp as 195 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:46.000 a needle would be, so imagine and strong, yeah, imagine, imagine 196 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:48.799 just as strong, yeah, in some cases. So imagine if you were 197 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:52.440 to get needles. You know, it's it's the it's it's the things that 198 00:13:52.559 --> 00:13:56.000 looked like remember when doctor Strange was tortured on the Infinity Worst, you know, 199 00:13:56.320 --> 00:13:58.919 remember that. Yeah, so it's like it's it's sort of like that 200 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:03.919 right where all the needles are coming at you. But those needles, man, 201 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:05.600 I mean, those thorns were like needles. And when you're over there, 202 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:09.279 you touch them and you can't even barely go to touch the tip of 203 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:11.159 them, just to say, well, I want to shut this, and 204 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:16.080 it's already immediately in your skin. So they took those kinds of thorn branches, 205 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:20.039 which are the only kinds of thorns branches over there by the way, 206 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:24.720 and they wound them together and they put them on his head. Well, 207 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:28.919 I mean, you know, the scalp is the most rigid part of the 208 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:31.360 body and it bleeds the most profusely, right, so there would have been 209 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:39.159 blood coming down his face in such a raging fashion. It would have just 210 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:41.919 been probably even maybe even hard to breathe because that's how much blood would be 211 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:48.159 going over his nose in his mouth. So it's just an unbelievable thought of 212 00:14:48.200 --> 00:14:52.600 the cruelty. Right when you were in Israel, did you come across one 213 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:58.159 of those trees where the thorns they call them the Jesus Christ trees? Yes, 214 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:01.120 yeah, yeah, Yeahah. So we were in and Getty near the 215 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:07.120 Dead Sea, and we're I don't know, just south of Jericho, you 216 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:11.360 know, maybe an hour or so, maybe an hour and a half outside 217 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:15.519 of Jerusalem, so kind of you know, to the east, and there 218 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:18.159 were a couple of those trees, and so I thought, oh, neat, 219 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:22.440 I'm gonna go get a I'm gonna go get one of those and stab 220 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:26.919 myself so bad. Yeah, And I wasn't even doing anything. Also, 221 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:30.240 I was trying to do is I was trying to get it off the tree. 222 00:15:30.360 --> 00:15:35.360 So it was a little the branch didn't want to come off easy, 223 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:37.200 and so I started to bend it and I stabbed myself right in my hand 224 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:41.799 and it just lit me up. Man. It just was instant, searing 225 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:46.000 pain. And I mean, I've been around, you know, I'm a 226 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:50.879 hunter. I have a pocket knife right here, right, this razor blade. 227 00:15:52.440 --> 00:15:54.120 This blade is a razor blade. You see how I can remove the 228 00:15:54.120 --> 00:15:58.840 blade, the razor blade, this thing right here, I could carve you 229 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:02.480 up so quick, right, I've been around that's really really really sharp. 230 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:06.679 I've been thinking about it. I've been around really sharp stuff all my life. 231 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:08.360 So it's not like I was just being reckless. It was that it 232 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:11.600 was just a slip in my hand. Bam, lit me up, and 233 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:15.960 good news was I mean, I got to stop quickly, but it was 234 00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:21.559 it shocked me how painful it was and how quick they could just penetrate your 235 00:16:21.559 --> 00:16:23.639 skin like that. So that's what they made the Crown of Thorns from. 236 00:16:23.879 --> 00:16:30.480 Is probably that that's the most commonly viewed. So they it says it says 237 00:16:30.480 --> 00:16:33.879 sequentially they put the chron of thorns on his head, They put a reed 238 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:37.639 stick in his hand, right, which which was decently heavy, right, 239 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:41.679 And then it says in both accounts, then they hit him in the head, 240 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:45.720 which means it sounds like his crown of thorns was still on. Yeah, 241 00:16:45.799 --> 00:16:49.679 So if they would have hit him in the head with that crown of 242 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:55.440 thorns still on, it is almost unthinkable that could have that could have probably 243 00:16:55.480 --> 00:16:57.960 killed him there, yeah, you know, but obviously it wasn't his time, 244 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:00.840 but the pain, because you know, it's not going to be his 245 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:04.680 time until he's on the cross. But the pain that he endured through this 246 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:08.839 was just unbelievable. And then to have the h to have them spit on 247 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:17.359 him and mock him and and then beat him is just unthinkable. The idea 248 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:22.000 that ugh, I just can't even think about it. I think about this 249 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:27.759 idea that you know, they they they're so brutal to him and then at 250 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:33.440 the same time just mocking him, right, and they're bowing down with their 251 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:37.319 knees to the ground, like, you know, pretending mocking him of being 252 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:42.359 the king of the Jews, and just this this harassment, and I think 253 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:48.480 of a song. There's an old Southern gospel song that says the lyrics said, 254 00:17:48.519 --> 00:17:52.319 like a lamb led to the slaughter, Jesus never opened his mouth, 255 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:56.319 which is what Isaiah says. From the trial, through the crucifixion to the 256 00:17:56.359 --> 00:17:59.240 grave, he was laid out after three days in the garden tomb. I 257 00:17:59.240 --> 00:18:02.880 can hear the angels saying, as the lamb came forth as the lion, 258 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:07.279 and the lion became a king, right, and they're bowing down to him 259 00:18:07.319 --> 00:18:11.799 in this moment like he's a king. But what we do know is at 260 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:15.759 the end, every knee will bow right, right right, and every tongue 261 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:18.839 will confess that he's the King of kings and the Lord of lords. And 262 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:22.240 so the chorus on that song says, you won't find him again at the 263 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:26.799 whipping post, standing there so meek, and he won't be nailed to a 264 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:30.519 rugged cross through his hands and through his feet. They'll never be another cavalry 265 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:33.039 because he don't have to prove a thing. That day, the lamb became 266 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:37.319 the lion, and the lion became the king. Right. So when he 267 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:40.319 rose out of the tomb, the Bible said, it was like he was 268 00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:42.240 the lion of Judah. And then when we see him come back. He's 269 00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:45.240 the King of Kings. This is going to be the last time. So 270 00:18:45.279 --> 00:18:48.319 they're bowing their knee now, they're mocking him now, but this is the 271 00:18:48.440 --> 00:18:52.720 last time. He's the Lamb, right, So we see him as the 272 00:18:52.799 --> 00:18:57.480 Lamb from in a past tense in the book Revelation. But he returns to 273 00:18:57.599 --> 00:19:00.839 Earth as the King of king. He's got fire in his eyes, he's 274 00:19:00.880 --> 00:19:04.440 got a blazing sword, he's wearing a white robe, and he's coming back 275 00:19:04.440 --> 00:19:08.599 and wiping out all the armies of this world. And so on the one 276 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:12.519 side, I feel so bad for what's happening, but there is a little 277 00:19:12.519 --> 00:19:15.519 bit of me I feel bad for these Roman soldiers because they have no idea 278 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:18.480 what they're doing, right, they have no idea who they're missing. And 279 00:19:18.599 --> 00:19:22.200 Jesus says, they don't take my life from me. I'm going to lay 280 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:26.279 it down freely. So all these things Jesus was permitting. At one point, 281 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:30.599 you remember he told Peter, he said, don't you know, I 282 00:19:30.599 --> 00:19:33.880 could call ten thousand angels, right right, a whole legion of angels come 283 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:37.359 and rescue me. And one angel, two angels came and wiped out entire 284 00:19:37.400 --> 00:19:41.720 cities in the Old Testament, right, so let's bring in a thousand or 285 00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:45.960 ten thousand of them, right, So Jesus is permitting these things. They're 286 00:19:45.960 --> 00:19:49.839 not abusing Jesus because they had the power to do. So Jesus was taking 287 00:19:49.880 --> 00:19:52.960 the abuse for you and me. But the next time we see him he 288 00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:57.400 comes back as the King. You know, if you are a Marvel fan, 289 00:19:59.119 --> 00:20:04.319 have you ever seen on Disney Plus the Little Things What If? Have 290 00:20:04.359 --> 00:20:08.680 you ever seen the what If? Series? No? So they supposed things. 291 00:20:10.039 --> 00:20:12.240 So if they say, as they say, like, what if instead 292 00:20:12.279 --> 00:20:18.160 of the super Soldier serum going to uh h Rogers, Captain Rogers, what 293 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:26.119 if it would have been given to the woman what's your name? His girlfriend? 294 00:20:26.519 --> 00:20:30.759 His girlfriend? Oh good? Just agent Carter, okay, Agent Carter? 295 00:20:30.839 --> 00:20:33.160 And then and then and then and by the way, when you saw 296 00:20:33.400 --> 00:20:38.319 Doctor Strange's multi universe and Madness, uh, that that was doctor Carter was 297 00:20:38.759 --> 00:20:42.359 uh she played the Captain America member. That was from that was from the 298 00:20:44.359 --> 00:20:47.640 Yah. Yeah. Remember they went to a different alternative universe. Well that 299 00:20:47.799 --> 00:20:51.400 was that was actually based off of It was a nod to the what If 300 00:20:51.400 --> 00:20:55.359 series? Okay, so so it's just it's a what if supposed you know, 301 00:20:55.599 --> 00:20:59.079 universe, right, and and and so that whole series was comic books 302 00:20:59.119 --> 00:21:00.240 when I was a kids, and it was called The Watcher, and the 303 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:03.799 Watcher would see all the different possibilities and he would he would create these what 304 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:07.799 if scenarios and there were a lot of fun to read because they weren't true. 305 00:21:07.319 --> 00:21:11.960 And uh, and there's a what if scenario that plays in my mind 306 00:21:12.319 --> 00:21:18.200 every single time without exception that I read this, and is Jesus calling the 307 00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:23.519 angels. I try to envision this Raiders of the Lost arc ending kind of 308 00:21:23.559 --> 00:21:30.279 scene when when when the angels swoop around and people's faces melt off, right, 309 00:21:30.359 --> 00:21:33.640 they just destroy everybody. So I see, I see Jesus standing there, 310 00:21:33.640 --> 00:21:36.720 you know, and he's bounding chains and everybody's around them, and he's 311 00:21:36.759 --> 00:21:38.759 in front of either Pilo Herod or somebody, you know, and all of 312 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:41.680 a sudden, he looks up at the clouds and he just he squits his 313 00:21:41.720 --> 00:21:45.319 eyes. He just gives a nod, you know, and all of a 314 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:48.519 sudden everything happens, you know, like there's a there's an earthquake, and 315 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:51.359 there's an eruption. Then the clouds part, you know, there's a voice 316 00:21:51.400 --> 00:21:53.240 coming down. All of a sudden, these angels came down and they raised 317 00:21:53.359 --> 00:21:56.559 the lost arc everybody, right, and then Jesus is like, I'm enough 318 00:21:56.599 --> 00:22:00.720 of this. I'm going home. I've had enough of this. And although 319 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:04.640 obviously you know, Jesus says, you'll be glad and one day the whole 320 00:22:04.640 --> 00:22:07.880 world will rejoice, Yeah, over the over the sadness. Right, so 321 00:22:08.039 --> 00:22:11.400 Jesus knows that we're rejoicing now that he did not do that. Yeah, 322 00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:15.920 I was gonna say, there's no gaither song had it not been and it 323 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:18.880 was. If Jesus hadn't been willing to die, I would be lost, 324 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:26.359 right, and the the the consequences of that comprehension not the Southern gospel today. 325 00:22:26.039 --> 00:22:29.720 Yeah, yeah, you're right, but but there is a what if 326 00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:33.480 scenario that because I long, and it's the same instinct that you had, 327 00:22:33.519 --> 00:22:34.960 You're like, one day's gonna come back line, you know, King of 328 00:22:36.079 --> 00:22:38.599 Kings, line of Judah. And that instinct for me is like I just 329 00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:45.759 wish in that moment that Jesus was able to show his power to those guards 330 00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:51.000 who were beating them and mocking him. Right, it's that it's that well, 331 00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:52.519 he was able, he chose not to Yes, I know, but 332 00:22:52.759 --> 00:22:56.160 I wish he did. He just just a little bit another I Am moment, 333 00:22:56.359 --> 00:22:59.839 yes, where he goes I am and they all fall down. Yes, 334 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:03.599 yeah, yeah, it's it's that moment where at this point he's operating 335 00:23:03.720 --> 00:23:07.359 as a man taking the punishment of our sin in his body, right, 336 00:23:07.559 --> 00:23:11.519 and that's that's what he's doing. So yeah, well the God part spiritually 337 00:23:11.759 --> 00:23:15.240 and in the man part physically, right, because the payment for sin is 338 00:23:15.480 --> 00:23:18.240 death, which is both a physical and a spiritual death in it. So 339 00:23:18.920 --> 00:23:22.440 well, hey, that is a great place to end, and that wraps 340 00:23:22.519 --> 00:23:26.480 up today's passage, so hopefully we'll see you Monday on the Bible Gush