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with a segment and Desiree has written
this down because Easter is upon us,

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isn't it, Jeff, Yes it
is, And so this one says,

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and by the way, Easter we're
recording this early, so Easter is five

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weeks away. So I have no
idea for us right now, for us

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right now. But when you listen
to this, but this is rate before

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Easter? Is it okay? Slot
to be for Eastern because I was,

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you know, I was thinking,
I was thinking what if it what if

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it episode? What if it airs
after Easter? Yeah? It does race

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sharp enough to work that out.
Awesome. So Easter is this weekend,

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she says. So let's do a
draft list of your favorite things that are

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Easter related through rock, paper scissors. Who goes first? And then pick

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five things? Okay, ready read
rock papers? One two three? Shoot?

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Yes, one two three shoot.
Both of us got rock yes,

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one two three shoot. Look at
that. I always win, Yes,

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you always win, So I never
I never beat Chris. It right,

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we do rock rock and then I
did scissors and I cut his paper.

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So that's right, all right,
So what are the best five things about

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Easter? I'm gonna have to go
Obviously, if you know me, you'll

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know what I'm gonna do here.
I'm gonna go sa family specifics. We

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hide Easter baskets and it's pretty epic. So I'm gonna I'm gonna have to

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pick that. That's my favorite thing
Easter. Yeah, it's a whole thing.

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It is a whole guys. Okay, So mine is super simple.

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My very favorite thing. I mean, okay, Easter services. Let me

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say, Easter service is my first
favorite thing. Okay, I love Easter

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services. So this year you and
I are in what fourteen fourteen Easter services

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all identical. Yeah, we have
to do Friday, Saturday, and Sunday

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and we're fitted boy in. It's
gonna be super fun. That's probably my

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favorite thing about Easter. Yeah,
okay, all right, well my favorite

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thing my draft is gonna be Jesus
coming out of the tomb. That's number

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two after hiding. Good job,
Chris. I thought that was a given

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since it is Easter, but okay, I'm gonna stick with that because it's

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because you know, right after hiding, hide Easter baskets, and then a

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close second is the Resurrection. I
wasn't planning on going to spiritual. I

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was just doing tradition. You had
spiritual, so I'm like, all right,

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I'm gonna trump them. Oh no, I wasn't trying to do spiritual.

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I was saying, that's what we
do. I mean, it's gonna

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be no, I know, forty
hours and three days. It is gonna

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be amazing. I was lumping that
in with assumptions as well. Right recently.

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That's the coolest part about Eastern right, okay, okay, well then

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I'm going to go back super simple. Now. My very favorite thing,

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and I can't get enough of it, is Rec's Easter. Eggs. Yeah,

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that's that you've mentioned that before.
Those are I don't know why they're

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better. And I love Reces.
I love big cups. Yep, I

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love the Rece's big cups, the
big ones. I love those. I

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love Rece's. If kids, if
my kids are gonna give me surprise,

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they bring me Rece's. My daughter
just came in the in the house the

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other day after being out with her
friends, and she come, so,

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oh, Dad, I got this
for you, and it wass right.

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I love it. It's it's the
love language of my home is Rece's.

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But reces peanut butter eggs are better. I don't know what they did,

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but they're better. They're just better. Wow. Yeah, all right.

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Number three, I'm going to pick. My family traditionally has done egg fights

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and fights eg fights. So have
you ever seen the movie My Big Factory

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Wedding. Yes, where they walk
over and they smash each other's eggs.

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Yes, okay, that that is
a in that movie. That that's what

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we do, only on steroids.
So my family at home in Youngstown,

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my family would all get together at
Chuck's house and they make a bracket and

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everybody submits their you know, their
their egg and they have a name for

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it and everything else. And by
the way, that's the champion that they

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bring. That's only after their own
egg fights. So Chucky and his kids

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will have like traditional like their egg
fights, and then they bring the champions.

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So that champions of every household get
together and we're talking like you know,

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logos, decorations, songs, they
make songs for their eggs. Wow,

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all these different kinds of things.
And so we don't go that intense

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in the Michigan's oar Ba household,
but we do definitely have people over.

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Everybody prepares for it, and then
we have brackets and we have a you

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know, a huge you know winner
and all that stuff. Do you throw

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eggs at each other fight? Well, you don't know what a nick it

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is. So so you basically hold
your egg and then and then you smash

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it. And when you actually hit
eggs, only one will crack. Oh

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oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And then then you turn it over

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and then you smash that side.
And then if the two sides, then

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that loses. But if it's only
one each, then the good side can

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defeat the other good side and then
that egg limping a long dinner will go

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into the next round, next bracket. I see, I see. And

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so it's just really just as you
tap the eggs, only one's going to

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crack all that. That's not nearly
as fun as throwing eggs at each other.

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That's why I thought you had like
an apple fight kind of a thing.

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No, no, no, not
not like full out egg fight.

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Okay, that'd be sweet. Yeah, the eggs und like you better be

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wearing a helmet, you better have
like goggles on the eggs themselves do the

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fighting. Okay, yeah, Okay, that's a long answer. Okay.

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Number three. Number three for me
is obviously the Easter dinner, right that

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my wife loves to have the big
family dinner, and yeah, just having

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family around celebrating. Of course we're
both you and I are exhausted on Easter

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Sunday, yes, but still that's
a great, great day. Yeah.

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So I'm gonna go ahead and say
we also do on top of that,

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we do Easter egg hunt, where
my wife would hide plastic eggs, and

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then we have prizes for our kids. And I'm just gonna go ahead and

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say this. We do scratch off
water tickets. So we buy the scratch

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offs right, and we just give
them to our kids. And so some

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eggs will have like different you open
them up, they have little peeps in

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them, and sometimes you'll get one
with like two and you're like, well

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I get two and that kind of
thing. So we do that too.

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Sweet all right, I was gonna
say Easter egg hunt. So my fourth

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one probably is the Easter afternoon nap. Oh yeah, yeah, so you

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come home, you have a big
dinner, and they zonk out. Yeah.

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Well that's pretty good. That's pretty
good. Okay. My fifth one,

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goodness, gracious is I'm gonna say, I like the idea of Easter

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music. So like in the morning, I'll get up and I'll drive into

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church and I will play I know
this is a blast from the past,

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but my favorite Easter song to play. No, no, no, it's

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not that. Well that's a great
one. Yeah, as I sing Sandy

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Patty's was it a morning like this? Oh? Wow? Really? Yeah?

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Yeah, yeah, I do every
single Easter. Wow. In fact,

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I don't think there's been an Easter
where I'm not. I shot you

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were going to do. I turned
the radios when you said Sandy Patty.

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Well, there's there's a lot of
different Sandy Patty ones that way. But

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Easter Easter oriented? Is it a
morning like this? Yeah, what's your

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fifth one? Wow? I don't
know that I have a fifth one because

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I'm already sleeping now at this point. So well, I like the fact

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that you're running yourself ragged chronological you
can back up. So we haven't really

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stacked a lot of like family tradition
on Easter, just because since before Buyden

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and I got married, it was
just all Easter work. Yeah, yeah,

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yeah, sou Easter doesn't have a
ton of them. Obviously. The

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Easter baskets for the kids were always
tons of fun, you know. So

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that was your first one before the
resurrection, but mine, mine after the

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resurrection is the Easter baskets are a
lot of fun with the kids. Oh,

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I just all the joy and the
fun of that. All right,

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we'll go with that. All right, Well, that's hard time, so

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let's move on. That's so funny. Okay, So now here's Caiaphas in

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Matthew chapter twenty six, Mark fourteen, Luke twenty two. Right, these

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three passages are the only ones,
and Jesus leaves Annis's home and they take

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him to Caiaphas. And it says
in verse fifty seven. Then the people

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who had arrested Jesus led him to
the home of Caiaphas, the High Priest,

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where the teachers of religious law and
the elders had gathered. Meanwhile,

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Peter followed him at a distance and
came to the High Priest's courtyard. He

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went in and sat with the guards
and waited to see how it all end.

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Inside, the leading priests and the
entire High council were trying to find

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witnesses who would lie about Jesus so
they could put him to death. But

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even though they found many who agreed
to give false witness, they cannot use

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anyone's testimony. Finally, two men
came forward who declared this man said,

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I am able to destroy the Temple
of God rebuild it in three days.

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Then the high priests stood up and
said to Jesus, well, aren't you

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going to answer these charges? What
do you have to say for yourself?

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But Jesus remained silent. Then the
high priest said to him, I demand,

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in the name of the Living God, tell us if you are the

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Messiah, the son of God.
Jesus replied, you have said it,

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and in the future, you will
see the son a man seated in the

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place of power, at God's right
hand, and coming in the clouds of

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heaven. Then the High Priest tore
his clothing to show as a horror and

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said, blasphemy. Why do we
need other witnesses. You've all heard his

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blasphemy. What is your verdict?
Guilty? They shouted, he deserves to

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die. And then they began to
spit in Jesus's face and beat him with

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their fists, and some slapped him, jeering prophesy to us, you Messiah,

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who hit you that time? In
Mark, chapter fourteen, verse fifty

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three, it says they took Jesus
to the High Priest's home, where the

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leading priests, the elders, and
the teachers of religious law had gathered.

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Meanwhile, Peter followed him at a
distance and went right into the priest's courtyard.

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There he sat with the guards,
warming himself by the fire. Inside.

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The leading priests and the entire High
council were trying to find evidence against

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Jesus so they could put him to
death, but they couldn't find any.

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Many false witnesses, many false witnesses
spoke against him, but they contradicted each

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other, and finally some men stood
up and gave him this false testimony.

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We heard him say, I will
destroy this temple made with human hands,

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and in three days I will build
another made without human hands. But even

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then they didn't get their stories straight. Then the high priests stood up before

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the others and asked Jesus, well, aren't you going to answer these charges?

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What do you have to say for
yourself? But Jesus was silent and

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made no reply. And then the
high priest asked him, are you the

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Messiah, the son of the blessed
one? Jesus said, I am,

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and you will see the son of
Man seated in the place of power,

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at God's right hand, and coming
on the clouds of heaven. Then the

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high priest tore his clothing to show
his horror and said, why do we

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need other witnesses. You've all heard
this blasphemy. What's your verdict? Guilty?

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They all cried, he deserves to
die, and then some of them

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began to spit at him, and
they blindfolded him and beat him with their

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fists. Prophesied to us, They
jeered, and the guards slapped him as

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they took him away. Then Luke
says, So they arrested him and led

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him to the high Priest's home.
The guards in charge of Jesus began mocking

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and beating him, and they blindfolded
him. That prophesied to us, who

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hit you that time? And they
hurled all sorts of terrible insights at him.

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So look at Luke, he's just
summarizing everything we just read in the

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other gospels in like three verses.
Yes, so wow, he did not

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include a lot of detail at all. Right, well, we carved out

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a piece. So what they did
is they carved out fifty four through sixty

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two for the book of Luke.
What do you mean, so Luke twenty

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two is fifty four and then it
picks back up in sixty three and sixty

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five. Where did the other verses
go. They're in the next story where

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Peter denies knowing Jesus. Oh,
because it's chronological. Yeah, so they're

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doing the chronological Oh okay, all
right, yep, so how about that.

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But still they're indicating that these are
the only verses that are talking about

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these other gospel references, right,
yes, so this whole story is only

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Yeah, Luke does not include the
trial. Luke concludes that a trial happened,

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but doesn't tell the trial. But
then the other ones here aren't telling

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the story of Peter's denial. They
tell that afterwards, whereas Luke put it

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in the middle of the trial.
I find it interesting that Mark is the

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only one that says false testimony,
isn't he? Yes? Right? Yeah?

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And he says many false witnesses came
and spoke against him, and they

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gave things that they couldn't get their
story straight. Which is that an indicator

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that the high priests tried to fabricate
false witnesses at a trial. Well,

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absolutely, because it says in Matthew, the leading priests and the entire council,

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we're trying to find witnesses who would
lie about Jesus so they could put

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him to death. Yeah that's right. Yeah, that's trying to manufacture this

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thing. Yeah. So in other
words, they're trying and they're failing,

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and somehow it's indicating that they couldn't
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would imagine how this would play out, almost wondering if everybody there knew that

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it wasn't good enough, or you
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public display of false witnesses that couldn't
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which is and by the way,
that would make sense because because once

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he got Jesus to confess, and
it's almost as if they that wasn't good

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enough. So the High Priest looks
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are you the Messiah? Then Jesus
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happened. And then he says,
why do we need any more witnesses?

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fabricate witnesses. None of that worked,

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but now we got them because he
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word and the Book of Mark I
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doesn't it. But yeah, so
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said in the garden, which is
what is the name God used for himself?

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that's right, and so yeah,
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clothes. It's a sign of mourning. So some people would point out that

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Matthew said when he said, are
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Jesus replied, you have said it, And then in Mark it says,

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are you the Messiah, the son
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said, I am. Those are
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people would point that out going,
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would say both of them are true. Right, he said, you said

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it, and I am. That's
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is, so that that's not a
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of them record the fact that he
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at the the right hand of God. Yeah, and we're able to do

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that. And so many of these
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you know, the fact that you
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we talked about how one gospel included
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another one said he cut off the
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then the other guy said he cut
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yes, and the guy who did
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was Peter, right, which means
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for the same story. And so
we use all those details. We'd be

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sad together and we realize all of
that happened. Right where you would question

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if the Bible was true is if
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have said it and nothing else,
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not right. Right, So if
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other words other than you have said
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well, now there's a mistake there. There's a contradiction, right, a

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contradiction. But in this case,
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I am, and then he goes
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piece, which is saying, you'll
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place of honor at God's right hand, which is the offensive statement. Right,

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So him declaring I am would have
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the Matthew version of it, him
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power, at God's right hand,
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future king, right that in their
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sitting on the throne. You've got
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that its right hand is the king, right, they both would have been

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king, yes, And that's the
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The Caiaphas then loses his mind,
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it wouldn't make any sense, because
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it said it said some began hitting
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him, jeering prophesy at test Messiah, who hit you that time? But

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it doesn't include the blindfold, right, Well, without the blindfold, even

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that explanation doesn't make sense, which
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an indicator that you have to have
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sense. That's right, right,
which means like there's a piece that fits

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so nicely right in there. So
you know that the blindfold is an insertion

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in lookes in Matthew's story, right, And so that's the benefit of doing

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these three. So you hear us
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you go, he just read the
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you know, parallel versions. You
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the story for you in a better
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it was happening in that moment.
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it's all it's on at this point
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hey, we don't need anything else. I'm tearing my garment. This is

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it, everybody cries guilty, and
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they have to get Rome to kill
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were not permitted to put somebody to
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understanding, right that they only Rome
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means so think about it. So
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the religious governments, right, and
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know again, they were the final
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to convince them that this guy's worthy
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to see pilots saying, okay,
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any violation here. And there's these
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okay, here it is he's worthy
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you know what, am I say? The gloves are off right? That's

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right right? So quite literally,
they're just hitting them, they're beating them,

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and then starts this huge awfulness,
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people who want to reject Jesus.
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go, oh, I dismiss him. They could have just dismissed him,

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but a lot of people they just
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a guy that was a very local
atheist that wanted to engage with me for

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a while and very interesting, very
intelligent, and he just couldn't quit coming

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after Jesus, and I went man
for an atheist, you sure are obsessed

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with Jesus. I wish most of
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as you are. Right, he
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it. It wasn't that he was
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god. And I believe Jesus was
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left it at that if that's all
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but it's not. It's a hatred
for Jesus. And that's why Jesus says

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a name another god on the planet
that is a curse word, right,

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right? How often I was watching
a show the other day and they used

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Jesus name, specifically Jesus Christ.
They probably used fifteen times in that show,

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and I'm thinking, what the heck? What They didn't say Mohammed every

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time they were mad or frustrated.
They didn't say Buddha every time they were

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frustrated. They didn't say Krishna,
right, They didn't say any other gods.

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They didn't even say the devil.
Hey, if you want to make

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a cussword, make the devil be
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the name of Jesus a cuss word. There's a hatred, an unnatural from

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a Christian's perspective, but a perfectly
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despise the person the claims of Jesus. And so here they couldn't just let

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it go. They had to punch
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add him, they had to mock
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they could. They couldn't help themselves. And it's almost irrational except for the

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fact that you have to understand this
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battle between light and dark, and
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sometimes as Christians, we use Jesus
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or in a cussword way, and
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on like they did. So.
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a teenager and I was Christian,
and I remember this family member saying,

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you know, Jesus, you know
JC. You know, they kind of

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said that, and uh and uh
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I think it might have been the
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I go, can you just not
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me and she's like, well,
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is it. I'm like, well, it is one of the ten commandments.

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name in vain. And then finally, after you know, the habit kept

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on continuing. Here's here's what I
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the English language? Can you tell
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she's like, I don't know I'm
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of words in the English language,
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not to do the one right?
Could you just maybe you don't think that

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there's something spiritual to that? Right? Why is why is that the word

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right? Right? Why have you
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that? The devil hates Jesus.
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interesting take. Obviously, that's I
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that out is is actually pretty insightful. You know, that's a spiritual battle

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that God, that God says not
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you know, it's in our society
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a global level, if you do
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oh, we do it because we
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oh okay. But if you do
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of governments go, no, we
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lot about that with the Samaritans purse
that, you know, they do their

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work in Jesus name, and they'll
have governments go no, we don't want

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your help. But then when none
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enough and Spirits person is sit right
there, finally go okay, go ahead.

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But he wrote a book called I
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it's about the fact that so much
persecution becomes because of Jesus. Lots of

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people say, oh, I believe
in God. They'll talk in this generic

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way about God. And that's not
surprising our offensive or heart to anybody become

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a Jesus person, talk about Jesus
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know that persecution will come. And
that's what Jesus said. Don't be surprised

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that they hate you because they hated
me. Yeah, that's good. All

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right. Well, hey, we're
going to pick up the story next time

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and we'll see you then, hopefully
on the Bible. Guys,