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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, thanks for

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joining us. We are the Bible
Guys. So for our listeners today,

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Chris and I are having a debate. So if you may notice, for

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the ones, for the ones that
are watching, you can see that I

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have my water in a nice cup
that says the Bible Guys on it,

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right, and I can take a
drink like this and it's great, and

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I can set it right back down
there and it looks nice on the set.

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Chris comes in with water bottles and
styrofoam cups and it was just sit

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it on there, and I was
just saying, this nice coffee cup that

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says the Bible Guys on it looks
more professional then, like you just stumbled

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in off the street with a cup
of coffee that you got at the mission.

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Yeah, and so, and then
my my angle is I said that

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I think that a placed mug with
our logo looks very cheesy, like a

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talk show host like The View or
something like that, where it's desperate to

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look professional and it looks cheesy,
whereas this is just real because some of

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us are naturally professional. This is
the everyday guy. This is the every

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day girl, every day guy.
Every we can. There's no pretentious feeling

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here. We're just we're drinking coffee
out of a china nette to go to

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go through to go thing. Where
did you get that? Though? My

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wife? Your wife? You have
those at home every single day? I

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take this, well almost every day. You have to go cups at home?

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Yeah wow? Okay, yeah,
so you know they make like Stanley

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to goes that you can wash and
reuse. I always leave them way to

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fill the landfills. Oh fantastic.
Kind of what kind of person you know?

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I can I can take this.
I can take this and wash it

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out and use it again tomorrow.
I can use this ten thousand times,

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and you're going to have a truckload
of garbage at the end. Okay,

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because you have to move on.
I'm not going to entertain that at all.

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Okay, but okay. A segment
that says two foods are going to

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be listed and you have to decide
which one stays and which one goes away

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forever, Well, that's why I
was talking about it. Should we keep

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the coffee cup or should we lets
bring in the way, let you bring

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in throw away. We'll just let
people vote. That's their vote on this

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one. Okay, but we have
to choose these and it goes away forever,

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right, and they're gone forever.
We never get them again. Oh

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it's terrible. Okay, waffles or
pancakes. Which one goes away forever?

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It's too waffles. I think actually
I agree, Really I do. We

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agree a lot on these, by
the way, Yeah, I actually agree

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because I think I'm choosing this for
society, not for society, and I

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think more people. Actually, you're
so good to us, Chris. Thank

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you, thank you, thank you. I do think of everybody else.

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I think you think you think for
everybody else. Number two is bacon or

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sausage. Sausage has to go.
Really well, I think more people like

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bacon. It doesn't matter what other
people want. This is for us.

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Well, you have to decide.
Well wait a minute. It's the thing

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about the instructions here. I'm a
pretty literal person. It says you have

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to decide which one stays and goes
away forever. So I'm still me making

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the choice, but it's telling you
doing it on behalf of everybody else.

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It's telling me it goes away forever
for the world. So it doesn't say

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for the world, just says it
goes away forever. Well, how can

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pancakes go away forever for you?
Just for me? Maybe maybe they're invisible

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to you and you can't smell or
take them in. Stop just stop.

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I don't know more people like bacon, so I say sausage goes. I

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would keep the sausage. Really,
yeah, bacon can go. And I

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love bacon, love it. But
I love sausage too. Wow, that's

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surprising. And I like to make
a sausage good. Okay. Tater tots

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are French fries. That's a tough
one. A good tater tot is better

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than a good fry. I agree. I agree. However, I think

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more people would be upset more people
like fries. Who cares about what more

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people want? So we're obviously viewing
through two different things. I think of

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others, you think of you.
That's the lessonaire. Yes, yes,

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that's it. So I okay.
If you want me to say for me,

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I would do actually opposite. I
would actually keep I would keep waffles

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for me, get rid of pancakes. Okay, I would keep bacon over

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sausage, and I would keep tater
trots over fries for me. Okay,

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I've just chosen. I would keep
pancakes, sausage, and tater tots also,

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so I would keep tato tytes.
Okay, pie or cake? Chris,

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Oh, I already know if I'm
going to do it for me,

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I'm going to say cake goes away
pie stage. Yeah. I think the

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point of these segments is not what
do you think? You're not You're not

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trying to get the right answer.
You're trying to give your answer. That's

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that's the point behind these But what
I'm saying, So you're saying pie overtake,

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saying my answer for the world.
You know, it didn't say anything

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about the world. It says it
goes away forever. It doesn't matter.

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It's your people want an insight for
you, not what you think about the

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world, but for you. What
do you want? And so you say

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pie? I like pie? I
hate pie, the only the only pie

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I like. I like two kinds
of pies. I like a like a

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chocolate silk with a good GRAMD cracker
bottom to it, Oh my word,

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And I like a uh pecan pie. We are definitely disagree on this one.

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I know. That's why I need
cake cake. I don't like almost

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all cake, almost all cake I
don't like. Why are we friends?

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I don't know. Okay, guacam
oli your caso because we like tater tots.

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Yeah, we have tater tots and
common That's right, no matter what

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happens, Chris, we always have
tater tots. We have we'll always have

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what is it rio, We'll always
have rio. Yeah, we'll always have

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tape tots. Okay. And guacamole
your keeso. Oh that's a very tough

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one. Oh, I'd get rid
of Keeso a hundred times over. Quawk.

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M I think I agree, not
a hundred times, No, I

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would, but I think I would
keep quawk yeah quawk. Okay, Well

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there you go our own we have
commonalities? Yes, Okay? That that

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had to have been riveting. Well, just really the biggest debate was you

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know, I was, I was
thinking of others. That was the biggest

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debate about the whole thing. Yan, Well, this is jon Hey,

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the coffee cup conversation was way more
rivetu than that. Right. So this

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particular scripture that we're about to read, which is Jesus being betrayed is found

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in all four gospels. Hey,
what is the percentage of all of our

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episodes that had do you think all
four gospels? Let me look it up

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real quick. A lot, not
many, not many, is the answer.

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Yeah, not many, not many. I was just going to say,

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I bet you it's five percent to
seven percent of all the episodes that

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we've had. The events actually shows
up in all four gospels. Yeah,

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I think so. Wou't you agree? Yeah, there's a lot of commonality

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between Matthew and Mark, they're the
most common. Luke covers a lot of

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the same things, oftentimes with different
details. And then John comes that the

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whole story of Jesus totally different,
and so he covers different things you know,

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along the way. But yeah,
it's pretty rare. I think that

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all four gospels hold the same thing. Well, so we're reading from Matthew

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twenty six, Mark fourteen, Luke
twenty two, and John eighteen. There's

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a lot of verses to h Yeah, so let's get right into it.

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It says, even as Jesus Matthew
chapter twenty six, verse forty seven.

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Even if Jesus said this, remember
get up and pray right here, they

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might betrayer. Even as Jesus said
this, Judas, one of the twelve

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disciples, arrived with a crowd of
men armed with swords and clubs. They

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had been sent by the leading priests
and elders of the people. The trader

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Judas had given them a pre arranged
signal, You'll know which one to arrest

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when I greet him with a kiss. So Judas came straight to Jesus.

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Greetings, Rabbi, he exclaimed,
and gave him the kiss. Jesus said,

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my friend, go ahead and do
what you've come for. Then the

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others grabbed Jesus and arrested him,
but one of the men was Jesus.

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Is pulled out his sword and struck
the high priest's slaves, slashing off his

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ear. Put away your sword,
Jesus told him. Those who use the

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sword will die by the sword.
Don't you realize that I could ask my

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father for thousands of angels to protect
us, and he would send them instantly.

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But if I did, how would
the scriptures be fulfilled that describe what

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must happen? Now? Then Jesus
said to the crowd, am I some

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dangerous revolutionary that you come with swords
and clubs to arrest me. Why didn't

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you arrest me in the temple?
I was there teaching every day. But

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this is recorded in the scriptures.
I'm sorry, but this is all happening

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to fulfill the words of the prophets
as recorded the scriptures. And at that

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point all the disciples deserted him and
fled. In Mark chapter fourteen, it

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says, and immediately even as Jesus
said this, Judas, one of the

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twelve disciples, arrived with a crowd
of men armed with swords and clubs.

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And they had been sent by the
leading priests, and the teachers are religious

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law and elders. The trader Judas
had given them a pre arranged signal,

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You'll know which one to arrest when
I greet him with a kiss, and

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then you can take him away under
guard. As soon as they arrived,

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Judas walked up to Jesus Rabbi,
he exclaimed, and gave him the kiss.

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Then the others grabbed Jesus and arrested
him. But one of the men

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with Jesus pulled out his sword and
struck the high priest's slave, slashing off

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his ear. Jesus asked them,
am I some dangerous revolutionary, that you

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come with swords and clubs to arrest
me. Why didn't you arrest me in

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the temple? I was there among
you, teaching every day. But these

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things are happening to fulfill what the
scriptures say about me. Then all his

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disciples deserted him and ran away.
One young man following behind was clothed only

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in a long linen shirt. When
the mob tried to grab him, he

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slipped out of his shirt and ran
away naked. In Luke, chapter twenty

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two, verse forty seven, it
says, but even as Jesus said this,

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a crowd approached, led by Judas, one of the twelve disciples.

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Judas walked over to Jesus to greet
him with a kiss, But Jesus said,

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Judas, would you betray the son
of Man with a kiss. When

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the other disciples saw what was about
to happen, they exclaimed, Lord,

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should we fight. We brought the
swords, and one of them struck at

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the high priest's slave, slashing off
his right ear. But Jesus said no

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more of this, and he touched
the man's ear and healed him. Then

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Jesus spoke to the leading priests,
the captains of the temple guard and the

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elders who had come for him.
Am I some dangerous revolutionary? He asked

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that you come with swords and clubs
to arrest me. Why didn't you arrest

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me in the temple? I was
there every day. But this is your

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moment, the time when the power
of darkness reigns. And in John eighteen,

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verses one to eleven, it says, after saying these things, Jesus

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crossed the Kidron Valley with his disciples
and entered a grove of olive trees.

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Judas, the betrayer, knew this
place because Jesus had often gone there with

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his disciples. The leading priests and
pharisees had given Judas a contingent of Roman

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soldiers and temple guards to accompany him, and now with blazing torches, lanterns,

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and weapons, they arrived at the
olive grove. Jesus fully realized all

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that was going to happen to him, so he stepped forward to meet them.

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Who are you looking for? He
asked Jesus the Nazarene. They replied,

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I am he, Jesus said,
Judas, who betrayed him, was

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standing with them. As Jesus said, I am he they all drew back

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and fell to the ground once more. He asked him, who are you

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looking for? And again they replied, Jesus the Nazarene. I told you

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that I am, he Jesus said, And since I am the one you

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want, let these others go.
And he did this to fulfill his own

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statement. I did not lose a
single one of those you've given me.

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Then Simon Peter drew a sword and
slashed off the right ear of Malchus,

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the high priest slave. But Jesus
said, to Peter, put your sword

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back into its sheath. Shall I
not drink from the cup of suffering the

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Father has given me? Yeah,
So in this case, I'm going to

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vote for John's writing. You like
John sebest oh without a big fan out,

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big fan, big fan, big
fan, big big time fan of

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the Bible. That's right. He
comes up so even the way he starts

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it, and he says, he
says, he crossed the Kindred Valley,

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and he'd gone into a grove of
olive trees. And Judas knew this,

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and so he had given him Roman
soldiers to accompany him as a contingent.

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That was blazing ches and lanterns and
weapons they arrived in the olive growth.

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I mean, it's just it paints
the picture, it gives specifics and only

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that. But John's the only one
that records this unbelievable thing that happens where

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everybody falls down when Jesus says,
I am her right, and in the

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in the Gospels, here it's I
am capital am capital a, which is

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you know, it's the name for
God, the name that God gave to

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Moses for himself, right, And
so here's and by the way that they

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would have known that I would,
I would guess, don't you think.

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Yeah, one of the Greek phrases, it could have been translated the I

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am is here, rather than just
I am here, I am here.

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It could have been translated the I
am is here, I mean he I

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am he, Yeah, I am
he. I'm sorry. It could have

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said the I am is here or
I am the Lord right. That's so.

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Yeah, he's definitely assigning his association
with the God that confronted Moses from

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the burning bush. I am.
When Moses said, you know, who's

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who should I say sent me?
He said, tell him, I am.

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I mean, that's how God refers
to himself. Yes, I am,

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I am to be? No,
I am, I just am. So

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so anyway they all fall down.
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imagine Jesus just announcing and I and
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all the Jewish scholars, you know, they were all scholars, weren't they,

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But all the Jewish boys who had
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and every one of them knew it. And so when he claims to

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be, I am, and he
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a sudden, everybody falls down.
What compels them to fall It's the power.

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I think it was the power of
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that they could not stand in the
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like we got to get rid of
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of my knees. I think that
the fact that there's this contingent, right,

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so there's some priestly guards and then
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Right, So these these two military
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the twelve, and maybe several more. Right, we know that Cleopus and

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Cleopus's wife was there. We know
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around the cross, Mary his mother
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people, but I don't think you're
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you're talking about a dozen and a
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send out basically a mini army.
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think this is an indicator that the
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They were rejecting that it was from
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god declaration, I am is here
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is very similar to when God told
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on holy ground, only this one
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knocked them down. Right then,
I'm gonna stop and take off their sandals,

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these soldiers, So God's like flick, flick, flick, right,

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just fall down such a coo and
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many, but it's a bunch,
yeah, right. And and to be

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fair too, they the Pharisees,
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to be with Jesus. And the
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have been a revolutionary you know,
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the people expected as Jesus marched in
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desire was the king of the Jews, let you know, finally another king

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of Israel to overthrow the oppression of
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an army, maybe maybe thinking that
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a pushback. Yeah, I think
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arrest him when he was in the
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points it out, you cowards,
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everything's politics with them, yeah right. So he's in the tap trying to

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avoid a riot, yes, and
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yes, right, because after all, you know, Herod's job is in

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Pilot's job is just to keep the
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Pilot, as we're about to find
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is peace, and and Caiaphas and
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just care that they're not having problems
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because they're paid well. Right,
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then how cool is it? You
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mentions that the disciples carried swords.
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uh, get make sure you know
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sword. Memory he said before I
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them. But when he sent them
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swords, right, that's what he
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all this happened, they're together and
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take go ahead and get a sword. It's gonna get really, really rough.

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many have you got too? That's
enough, right, that's enough. You

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got enough to defend yourself from bad
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whatever. Right, And then here
they say, hey, lord, we've

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got the swords. You want us
to fight, right, and he literally

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takes out his sword Peter does and
cuts off Malchus's ear, which again John

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is the one who mentions Malchus.
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says he healed them, right,
yeah, and so he just picks up

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the The only only Mark in Matthew
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only one of the gospels talking,
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it, so must have been.
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We're wasting a bunch of time.
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find it as we're talking. Somebody, somebody will tell us. And then

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he actually heals. It's it's Luke, it's Luke, yeah, which again

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he's he's always the one talking about
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But he said, no more of
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ear and healed him. Yeah.
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been something great, you know,
just just to see that. Uh,

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you know they're expecting you know,
they send an army, they're expecting pushback.

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just the price of doing business,
right, Yeah, and then Jesus like,

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no, let's do another miracle in
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here. Can you imagine if you're
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you're you're giving your duty, right, I mean, you just have

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an assignment. I wonder how many
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I wonder how many Roman guards believed
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felt like they weren't a part of
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a Jewish doctor or healer, you
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many of them said, I can't
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the time you get to the cross, you have at least one saying,

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surely this is a son of God. Yeah. So yeah, I don't

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know, but they're they're just doing
their job. And Peter cuts off Malchus's

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ear, which is such a cool
move, right, I mean, it's

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it's a violent moment that that part
of it's bad. But Peter is that

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committed that going up against a Roman
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him credit because he he did say

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we'll die with you. Yeah.
Yeah, And so this is him saying,

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Okay, this is the I have
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Man, I'm gonna So you know, sometimes people would say Jesus was

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a pacifist, but Jesus told his
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it, and he doesn't say,
oh, why do you have swords?

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culture. It's part of what they
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thing. So Jesus isn't pacifistic here. But what Jesus said is if you

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use the sword, you're gonna die
by the sword. Right, So if

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you choose a violent path, you're
probably going to die that way. And

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so he pulls out that sword,
cuts off his ear, ready to die

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for Jesus. On Peter's best day, Peter's pretty amazing. Yeah, and

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then in just a few minutes,
we're gonna see Peter has his worst day,

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right, right, and it's just
I think that's us. We have

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these really amazing days for Jesus,
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when we get into him. But
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the power Jesus displays. I love
the courage that Peter displays. And you

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know, to contrast that, you've
got Judas just this cowardly kiss and stepping

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back and saying, go get them
boys. Uh. And by the way,

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Luke's the only one that records you
just mentioned it. But Jesus said

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to Judas, Judas, would you
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You know? You and I memorized
it, right, betrayed betrayed has

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to betrayed me with a kiss.
But you know, I always think of

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at two brute, right, That's
what I always think of. Julius Caesar

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obviously killed. Yeah, and and
uh, and it's like the friend the

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friend betrayal. Obviously this story came
first, but still I always think of

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like this moment where there's an eye
locking exchange where you know, Judas comes

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in and I'm not sure what he
was thinking. He was. Was he

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thinking that maybe perhaps uh he had
a story, you know, like,

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hey, these guys captured me.
Uh this army there there, you know,

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whatever it is. But Jesus,
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and he looks right at him and
he says this question, and uhlater on,

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we're going to see that Judas is
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but still and I think I'd have
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moments that probably haunted him as Jesus
looked at him and says, do you

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betray the son a man with a
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this terrible moment Verse four. John
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that was going to happen to him, so he stepped forward to meet them.

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He steps out, and he goes, hey, just take me,

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don't hurt my disciples, right,
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takes Jesus takes the punishment, Jesus takes

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the violence for our sin. Jesus
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He steps out in front of us
and is to take me, don't

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take them. Yeah, that's great, incredible. Hey, and last thing,

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and I was I was really trying
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I'm about to say, but I
can no longer avoid it. Oh,

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you gotta do it, I gotta
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By the away? This one young
man was closed in a long linen

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shirt and the mob try to grab
him. He slipped out of a shirt

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and ran away naked. And it
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and then one young man, which
means it indicates It doesn't say specifically,

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but it's indicating that it's one of
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Jesus. Yeah. So church tradition
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you remember Mark was Eventually Mark is
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remember John doesn't use his own name
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right. And this is an incidental
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didn't see because they're all running.
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knew this detailed. Nobody else knew
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probably Mark was writing about his own
experience in that moment. So Mark wasn't

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a disciple of Jesus, but he
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right, he was one of the
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like a young boy here, like
a very young teenager. Because remember he's

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he's Barnabas's nephew, right, so
he's a young man. Just in a

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couple of years. Paul is frustrated
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this would have been he would have
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it says, right, one young
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a young guy. He's probably younger
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that I ever have heard that before. I don't know how that escaped me,

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but I've always thought I've read through
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across, I'm like, why,
why, what's what that details? Well,

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he's in his you know, they
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close sleep in their pajamas and for
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or this nightgown. Right, and
then he goes running. Yeah, and

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you've seen it in football. Somebody
grab ahold the jersey. Jersey just shreds

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into the guy, right, the
same thing. Yeah, that's so fun,

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isn't that great? What a great
picture? Yeah? All right,

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well, hey, well that looks
like our time, so we will see

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you tomorrow on the bibble guys,