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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, we

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are the Bible Guys. Actually I'm
the Bible Guy and this is my faithful

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companion named Jeff. Wow. That's
It's just nice to be considered faithful.

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And I would love to be you
forgoting me. That's right, and I

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love being your companion. Thank you, Thank you for letting me join you

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today. I just can't believe I
get to join you again for episode number

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three ninety nine The Bible Guys.
I will allow that. Did you see

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that? Today's the three hundred and
ninety ninth episode of The Bible Guys.

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Wow, I did not see that. Yeah, it's a big deal.

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How do you know that because it
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episode three ninety nine, where where
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gun. Yeah, that's great.
It's fantastic. And we used to do

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it she daily before we switched it
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and seventy something of those episodes.
Wow. Wow, it's a big time.

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Yeah, And I've been your faithful
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that's that's great. You can give
me a Scooby snack. Yeah, there

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you go. Hey, So we
love doing where our listeners from. Oh

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yeah, yeah, because it always
fascinates me. Yeah, it's amazing.

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I get well. One, we
can't believe anybody listens, right, that's

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amazing, let alone from have you
heard? Have you heard the train wreck

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that this episode is? People keep
coming back? That's so funny. Okay,

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so it says it's so fun to
see where our listeners are from.

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Today, we're going to highlight some
of our listeners by starting by stating fun

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facts about their location. We recently
talked about how we people listening around the

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world. We're going to highlight a
whole country today. So number one,

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the Granny Smith apple originally here in
eighteen sixty eight. Well, that's one

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of my favorite apples too. That's
pretty sour. Yeah, that's great.

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Now everybody who lives here immediately knows
what this is. Yes, probably.

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Yeah. In two thousand and eight, this city won the world record for

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the longest line of pizzas in the
world, when a line stretching two hundred

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and twenty one meters took over their
little Italy. That is a heck of

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a claim. Two hundred and twenty
one meters means you know, it's not

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the US or the UK. Right, there you go, there you go.

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That's funny. Number three, it's
wildlife includes unique species such as here

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comes kangaroos and koalas. Oh,
everybody knows. Now, everybody knows now.

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And then if you didn't know,
they hosted the last Olympics of the

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twentieth century. Oh now, I
know, right, why would we put

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that number four? Less Olympics?
Now I know it's what it is.

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Stupid Sydney Australia. Yay, welcome. Yeah, that's great Sydney Australia.

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We're so glad you guys are listening. Whenever I think of Sydney Australia,

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or actually Australia in general, I
think one of my favorite movies of all

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time is Dumb and Dumber. Uh
huh where uh that's one of your favorites?

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Oh, my goodness, it is
so great. It is so great.

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It's a masterpiece, which is the
other title we thought about calling this

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podcast. But at the very beginning, he's a limo driver and he sees

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this beautiful girl on the side of
the road, and he stops and then

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you're not able to see anything because
it's dark windows. So he literally climbs

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in the back and acts like he's
the passenger. Oh, and he rolls

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it down. Of course he's got
a missing tooth and a goober face and

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everything else. And he asked the
girl. He's like, you know,

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I'm giving a lecture in about twenty
minutes. He's like, where's the university?

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And then and then she and then
she says down here, and he

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goes, that's a wonderful accident accent. And she's talking just like armed sorts

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thinger, right, you got this
deep accent. And he goes and she

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goes, it's from Austadia. And
he goes, oh, Austria. He

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goes, uh down under, he
goes, put another strip on the bobby.

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You know, he's thinking, he's
thinking Australia. Austria and Australia are

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two different countries, different things.
So anyway, that's where always think.

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And now that's everything we know about
Australia. That Australia is not Austria.

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Hey, I will say this,
Australia is on my bucket list? Is

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it? Oh? Yeah mine too? Have you I've never I've never been

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to Australia. Yeah, I really
truly want to go to Australia. Well,

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hey, all you Australia listeners,
give us a hookup, invite us

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out. We'll do like a live
Bible guys event. That's hilarious fun if

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you live in Australia and your business
somehow has the means to to bring us

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over there. Actually we were do
an event. We would definitely do an

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event, come and talk to pastors
and church leaders and oh yeah, it'd

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be great. You know what I've
it is rare that I've ever asked for

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anything that way. Leverage your influence
for personal games. It's not personal gain,

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it's for ministry purposes. But it'd
be a lot of fun because we've

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never been there. Yeah, well
it's my it's my bucket list to go.

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Yeah, that'd be fantastic. So
please help Chris out otherwise she's going

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to be impossible. Now, well, keep in mind I want to go

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because I have always seen and heard
great things about Australia. Oh yeah,

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right, so it's so it's not
for wanting a vacation, it's me wanting

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to actually see Austria. Of course, everything in Australia is trying to kill

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you, Chris. Every spider,
every snake, every plant, everything that's

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in the water, everything's trying to
kill you. There. People in Australia

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are tough. Yeah, they're tougher
than you and me. Yeah. Well

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well, I mean I know because
I've seen crocodile dundee. Yeah, well

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you're an expert, then you're an
expert on Australia culture. Which, by

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the way, it was one of
the most ridiculous movies, right you look

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back now at that eighties movie because
back then, you know, the world

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was bigger and the internet, you
know, like stereotypes were huge, right,

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and this guy didn't know what a
toilet is, right, you know,

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this guy thinks from another planets,
right, he's from Australia. For

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loud, you know, it's hilarious. Okay, so good. Well,

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anyways, we're so glad you guys
listen, and so keep telling your friends

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and family about us. And we
love the fact that we get to be

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a part of of the walk that
you're that you're on, this journey that

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you're on spiritually. So thank you
for letting us apart. Which, by

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the way, do you know the
most famous quote from crocodded Unde, No,

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but I guess you can tell me. Yeah, he says, you

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call that a knife? This this? Yeah, that's right, I remember

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that. Yeah, that is the
most famous quote. Well, good job,

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all right, buddy. Can you
imagine if you knew as many Bible

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verses as you do movie quotes.
I know more Bible verse I know.

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I do not know thirty thousand quotes
from the movies, But you know thirty

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thousand Bible verses. No, I
do not. But I'm not sure how

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that was building up your argument there. But there are thirty thousand. But

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hey, let's read some of these. Yes, hey, maybe you can

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learn some of these today. So
today it's a very somber mood. Again,

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Jesus had just literally died on Friday
at three in the afternoon, three

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hours before the Sabbath is starting.
That's correct, And so that's where we

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picked. Yeah, we're still in
that somber time here. This is in

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that three hours before passover begins.
So in Matthew Chap Twenty seven, verse

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fifty seven, it says as evening
approached Joseph, a rich man from Arimathea

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who had become a folloer of Jesus, went to Pilot and asked for Jesus's

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body, and Pilot issued in order
to release it to him, and Joseph

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took the body, wrapped it in
a long sheet of clean linen cloth.

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He placed it in his own new
tomb, which had been carved out of

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the rock, and then he rolled
a great stone across the entrance and left.

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Both Mary Magdalene and the other Mary
were sitting across from the tomb and

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watching. In Mark, chapter fifteen, verse forty two, it says this

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all happened on Friday, the day
of preparation, the day before the Sabbath.

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As evening approached, Joseph of ai
Mathea took a risk and went to

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Pilot and asked for Jesus's body.
Joseph was an honored member of the High

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Council and he was waiting for the
Kingdom of God to come. Pilot couldn't

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believe that Jesus was already dead,
so he called for the Roman officer and

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asked if he had died yet,
and the officer confirmed that Jesus was dead,

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so Pilot told Joseph he could have
the body. Joseph brought a long

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sheet of linen cloth. And then
he took Jesus' body down from the cross,

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wrapped it in the cloth, and
laid it in a tomb that had

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been carved out of the rock.
Then he rolled a stone in front of

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the entrance, and Mary Magdalene and
Marry, the mother of Joseph, saw

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where Jesus' body was laid. And
then in Luke chapter twenty three, verse

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fifty, it says, now there
was a good and righteous man named Joseph.

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He was a member of the Jewish
High Council, but he had not

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agreed with the decision and actions of
the other religious leaders. He was from

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the town of Arimathea and Judea,
and he was waiting for the Kingdom of

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God to come. He went the
pilot and asked for jesus body, and

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then he took the body down from
the cross, wrapped it in a long

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sheet of linen cloth, and laid
it in a new tomb that had been

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carved out of rock. This was
done late on Friday afternoon, the day

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of preparation, as the Sabbath was
about to begin. As his body was

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taken away, the women from Galilee
followed and saw the tomb where his body

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was placed. Then they went home
and prepared spices and ointments to anoin his

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body. But by the time they
were finished, the Sabbath had begun,

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so they rested as required by the
law. Then in John chapter nineteen,

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verse THIRTYE says, afterward, Joseph
of Arimathea, who had been a secret

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disciple of Jesus because he feared the
Jewish leaders, asked Pilot permission to take

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down Jesus's body. When Pilot gave
permission, Joseph came and took the body

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away. With him came Nicodemus,
the man who would come to Jesus at

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night. He brought about seventy five
pounds of perfumed ointment made from murr and

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aloes. Following jesus burial or the
Jewish burial custom, they wrapped Jesus body

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with the spices and long sheets of
linen cloth. The place of crucifixion was

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near a garden where there was a
new tomb never used before, and so

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because it was the day of preparation
for the Jewish Passover, and since the

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tomb was closed at hand or close
at hand, that laid Jesus there.

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So you have Joseph of Verimathea and
Nicodemus, you have married jesus mother and

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married Joseph's mom are the ones that
are in this story, along with pilot

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who shocked that Jesus is dead,
right, Like what, yeah, well,

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he's such a strong man, right. Jesus was a probably the epitome

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of a human you know, specimen. He's very strong, and obviously he

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was you know, we already went
over this, but you know, he

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was brutalized. Yeah, and even
but even in spite of that, Pilots

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still thought Jesus would have survived longer. Right, So he brings in the

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officer who was in charge of this
crucifixion. And remember this officer. We

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didn't even cover this in the previous
episode because you're talking about some many things.

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But when they found out that Jesus'
legs, you know, didn't need

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to be broken, which, by
the way, fulfilled prophecy that he'd have

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no bones broken, they just stabbed
Jesus with a spear and out came blood

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and water, which is an indicator
of the swelling around the heart, and

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it's a medical thing. So it's
really interesting that that was the description it's

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such a rare thing that they would
have seen in their day. But we

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know medically that under that kind of
stress, your body, your heart begins

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to you know, suffocate with water
around the heart. So so they call

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their pilot, calls that leader in, who, by the way, goes,

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surely this is the son of God. This is a conversion moment for

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him too, right, And then
the guy goes, yeah, he's dead.

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He goes, okay, you can't
have his body. So I think

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there's a lot to be said about
Joseph and about Nicodemus, but that that

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was that's how we get to this
point. Yeah, and you know,

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Nicodemus is is the It's the story
that almost was, isn't it. So

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Nicodemus was a member of the Sanhedron. He was on the council the seventy

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two. You know, he was
a man who came to Jesus by night

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demonstrating his belief. He also,
I believe he stood up too and said

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uh and and and spoke on behalf
of Jesus and leveraged his influence so people

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wouldn't kill Jesus, you know,
during the time, and said hey,

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let it be right. And then
and then here he is. Now,

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you know, a person who didn't
fully follow Jesus. He was very inquisitive

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of he believed in him, but
he still remained on the Saint Adrian,

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not letting go his his title.
And then and now that Jesus is gone,

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uh, he shows up, which, by the way, is a

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heck of a statement. Yeah.
Right, So if the Sanhedron truly is

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the one who initiated this execution trial
with pilot in herod uh, you know

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for him to make a statement to
go surely surely this is not as that

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secret of you can't keep this secret, right, This is the public,

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the public removal of Jesus's body,
which means this would have been done.

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It's not like everybody left and went
home. Well after seeing the events that

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happened, Father, forgive them,
you know, darkness, darkness, the

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temple veil being torn into which which
finished, which people, by the way,

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believe that it could have been an
earthquake as well, which said that

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there was an earthquake. Yeah,
and then the earthquake and then dead bodies,

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you know, resurrecting and coming back, all these things together might nudge

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you over the edge at that point. Yeah, so you have Nicademas he

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didn't happen to after the resurrection.
Yeah, I thought the same thing,

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but it actually said after the rest, after the resurrection of Jesus. Is

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it Okay, that's coming, So
these things are are happening. Nicodemus is

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a member of the High Council.
But the Bible says here that Joseph was

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an honored member of the High Council. So there's Nicodemus and then Nicodemus's boss

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on the High Council. Right,
this is the celebrity senator, not the

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just junior senator from whatever. Right, that's what you've got is Joseph Amith

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aarmythe is a wealthy man. He's
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member of the High Council, and
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come. And he decides that of
all the people who could take care of

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jesus body, Joseph Arimathea could,
who's gonna fight him? And it says

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that he voted against it. He
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it says, now there was a
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It really it's really amazing. But
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I wonder about that. Now,
all of this had to have happened the

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way that it happened in order to
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just because it was required to happen
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It doesn't let the Jewish leaders off
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the hook. And I wonder how
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decision to be secret followers of Jesus
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wonder if a famous guy like Joseph
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going no, I'm a follow Jesus. I believe it was legit. I

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wonder what would have happened. It's
hard to kill famous people. They were

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feel afraid of killing Jesus, right, they were afraid of the riots.

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And if more people have spoken up, I wonder. I wonder how Joseph

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thought about his silence the rest of
his life. There certainly there's some care

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for Jesus when you look at it
was to say, seventy something pounds of

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of you know that reminds me of
of Myrrh and Aloes, which which sounds

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pretty kingly, doesn't it. It's
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of that would have been unbelievable.
Yeah, yeah, I was just sorry.

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I was at a random thoughts.
Your thoughts are random, Yeah,

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I know, we're But when you
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followers, I was thinking of King
of King of Grippa, where you said

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you almost persuaded me to be a
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That was one of those guys Book
of Acts. Yeah, so almost.

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So in this situation, they were
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almost thing. It says that they
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think that it said that they were
secret followers, right. So Joseph air

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Mathea, who had been a secret
disciple of Jesus, who had been not

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became right, had been a secret
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leaders. So his fear kept him
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see it is finish in the earthquake, the temple vale splitting, the sky

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going dark. At that point you
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I believe that God brings us to
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am I going to go all in
or not? And Joseph does, and

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thank God, he did it at
his own sacrifice. It's his own money,

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it's his own resources. And then
seventy pounds seventy five pounds of perfumed

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ointment made from mer and alos would
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board. Well, so stepping up
now, So it doesn't say that Joseph

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of Arimathea purchased the new tomb,
But that's what people believe, don't they.

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They believe that this tomb had to
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as opposed to requisitioning it. Is
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it over? Well yeah, yeah, it says it's a new tomb carved

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out of rock, which means surely
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that wasn't It's not like somebody's going
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whoever wants he can have it,
right, So so there has to be

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some sort of a uh uh you
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That is that is clearly carved out
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which means, you know, not
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a garden, right right, So
so this was a rich man's tomb,

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and so uh, you know,
it's it's it's most scholars belief that Joseph

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Averimathia purchased the tomb, and it
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and number one had never been used
before. And by the way, it

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was probably used again because it was
vacant after three days. Well, need

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to borrow it, need to borrow
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a tomb and uh and and uh
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also uh probably an appropriate place to
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with three hours left on Friday and
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so keep in mind that people are
like, hey, that's just that's a

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little over like one day. It's
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plus you know, maybe an hour
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That's like twenty seven hours in a
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in there for seventy two hours.
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the third day, so which means
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a Sunday. So that's really how
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technically calendar three days. But yeah, so in other words, all that

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to say the tomb wasn't vacant or
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the day and a half pretty much. So yeah, so what else

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we have in here? We have
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So there's a great note for John
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two. It says Joseph of Verimythea
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They were afraid to make this allegiance
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community. You know, a lot
of people, I think, struggle to

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make their relationship with Jesus known in
their workplace because they're afraid or to right,

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or in their school or whatever.
Joseph was a leader and honored member

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of the Jewish High Council. Nicodemus
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Came to Jesus by night in John
chapter three. That's where we get John

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three sixteen God so love the world
right, right, and later tried to

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defend him before the other religious leaders
in John chapter seven, but Joseph didn't

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join him. Then it was just
Nicodemus speaking up on his own. Yet

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they risk their reputations to provide for
jesus burial after the death of Christ,

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right, and so it was the
death of Christ that got their attention and

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decided to push them out from the
darkness and into the light, to push

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them from hiding into boldness. Right, and it says, are you a

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secret believer? Do you hide your
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Right now, this is an appropriate
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others know whom you follow. Right, Because of what Jesus did on the

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cross, we shouldn't be hiding in
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Jesus said, you know there's going
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But here's what I know. Joseph
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not regret coming public. The regret
is going to be hiding right, right,

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So the regret is going to be
not speaking up. And so while

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there may be earthly consequences to stepping
up, when you get to heaven for

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the rest of eternity, your regret
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with your faith, right You're one
of the things you'll be rewarded for is

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the boldness of being willing to share
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people around you. So anyways,
I just I think about that. It's

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just a missed opportunity for them,
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end, they finally did step up. And well, hey, it's a

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great reminder for all of us,
isn't it. Yep? You know,

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don't be private with your faith.
Your your faith is never intended to be

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private. It's definitely intended to be
personal, but it's never intended to be

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private. So step out, have
boldness, and don't be ashamed. The

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Bible says, hey, if you're
ashamed in front of me, I'll be

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shamed in front of my father,
Jesus said, and he calls us to

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be bold in our faith. So
that's a good reminder. Okay, Well,

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hey, we will see you next
time. On the Bible guys mhm h