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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, Jeff, you know

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what I love about you. You're
both fun and practical, fun and practical

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the same time. Wow. Well, you know it's not just me,

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you also are I am. And
one of the ways we know is that

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it says literally on the thing,
that is two guys that like to talk

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about the Bible and fun, and
it calls us friends. It calls us

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a couple of friends, a couple
of friends. That's right. Yeah,

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we're also coworkers, yes, and
pastors. We live in the same state,

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and humans. Yeah, that's right. We both eat food. We

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have so much in common, we
just become best friends. Now we both

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walk up and shout out your favorite
dinosaur right now? Do you ever see

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step brothers? No? No,
oh goodness, gracious, that's a great

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scene. Okay, and they all
look at each other and they say philosopher

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aptor anyway, Okay, so today, Jeff, you are going to pretty

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much, uh, I'm leading you
down the path with words and you have

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to guess what. It's a lot
like the game Taboo. Yes, so

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I'm gonna try to get you to
say a word without without saying the words

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that are posted on the screen.
Yeah, for the viewers, we're going

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to post the italicized words on the
screen, because, to be honest with

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you, my job isn't as hard
as yours, is, right, you

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have to somehow get me to say
this word without saying the italicized words.

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That's right. All right. So
the profession of several of Jesus's disciples,

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uh, fishermen. Yes, And
what what would they be doing when they

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were acting like fishermen? They would
be fishing fishing? There you go.

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Okay, you couldn't You just couldn't
say sport, rod line, hook or

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catch. Oh yeah, okay,
all right, And you weren't already allowed

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to say fish because it was it
was a part of the word. That's

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right. Okay, okay. Let
me see. There's a game, yes

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that you have to go to a
course and you racing. You do a

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thing with a stick, try to
get it in a hole. Okay,

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no, no, no, no, you go. Yes, So you

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said golf What is the thing you're
trying to get in the hole? There

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you go, golf ball. I
wasn't ought to say white dimple, small

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hit or curb. Oh did you
said Tiger Woods plays with a There you

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go. I'm glad that's what you
would do. It's not what I did.

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Yeah, well, I'm just letting
you know the better way. Yeah,

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it's not the better way. That's
okay. It's just that's what we

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do in life. We live and
we learn a little bit. Okay,

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this is one of the areas where
I think that you are superior to me,

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oh, better looking, with that, with handsome, with regard to

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maintenance. Yeah, maintenance like on
your home landscape. Nope, nope,

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nope, nope, in the building
itself. So she wants you to be

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remodeling. Okay, yes, So
when you're a guy that can do remodeling

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and things like that, and you
say he's so handy, handy, there

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you go handy. Okay, let
me sa way, I I'm not really

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that handy. I just attempt and
then, you know what, so many

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times I've had I've attempted something,
I destroy it and we have to call

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somebody to fax it. Yeah,
well that's we just we just call somebody

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now because I'm not I'm not even
kidding. This has happened so many times

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in my home. That's funny,
but I attempt it. Okay. Uh.

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Usually men like to build these giant
things in their basement and then watch

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watch and watch it run around and
around and around, and they'll build a

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little town train. And there you
go. What train, said train?

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What kind of train? Uh?
Freight train? Okay, you also make

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Sometimes people will make cars. Sometimes
they'll make caboose No, railroad, no,

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no, they'll make automobiles sometimes or
I'm talking about the word before train.

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Uh, so make a sometimes they'll
put together a plastic car. Or

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sometimes they'll make a model model train. There you go, yes, very

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good? All right? Oh man, I bet you all of our listeners

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beat me on that one. I
bet you yep. And then here's one

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gummut listeners. I'm sorry. Besides
a movie star, okay, you would

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think of John Wayne as a cowboy. There you go. Nice. Okay,

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good job. So I wasn't allowed
to say cattle, herd, ranch,

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boots or horse for that yeah,
and for model train, I wasn't

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allowed to say hobby, toy,
transport, tracker, scale, So good

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job. Since you were five for
five to day, hey buddy, all

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right, Hey, by the way, real quick twenty second story. My

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father served in the navy, or
no, excuse me, my father in

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law served in the Navy on the
USS Enterprise and they were docked and and

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John Wayne had come up to the
Enterprise and all of the men who noticed

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that he was there on the shore
were gathered on the side. We're talking

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thousands of men. They're cheering right
well, which the Enterprise was a aircraft

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care. Aircraft care, well you
know big those things right right. Well,

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John Wayne was wanting to go on
to the aircraft care, but they

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were not They didn't have a bridge, you know, or a walk away

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or something like. They didn't have
it out. So he decides to shimmy

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on the big, huge black chain
from the shore all the way up.

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Now can you can imagine how high
that is and those areas and those are

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greasy. Yeah, so he's shimmies. He actually gets on it, and

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he hangs below the chain and shimmy's
all the way up. And by this

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time he's drawn the crowd of almost
every other whole ship right right, and

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here's comes John Wayne. And so
he shimmies all the way up and then

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finally when he gets up there,
he looks at the people and he straightens

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his hat, his cowboy hat,
and he says, and I'm gonna say

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heck, but he didn't say heck. Okay, and he goes, well,

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what the heck do I do?
Now? That was it? And

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my father in law will never forget
that quote, right, And he thought

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that was the best thing in the
world, right, you know, but

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he didn't say it. That was
a tough guy. Oh my goodness,

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tough guy. But I mean you
think about it like that is the epitome

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of his images. Ye, right, right, there's no game. I'm

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not gonna wait for a gangway.
I'm just gonna show me up this chain

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several hundred feet up and out.
Yes, yeah, yeah, right,

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and he makes it, he doesn't
fall, he makes it. It's crazy.

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Yeah, okay, Well we are
continuing on. It's a little silly

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there. We we don't take ourselves
too seriously, but we do take our

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faith seriously. That's right. And
today this is a big one. I

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mean, this is where Jesus is
placed on the cross. Oh yeah,

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and in Matthew chapter this is in
all four gospels. Ye, Matthew chapter

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twenty seven, Mark fifteen, Luke
twenty three and John chapter nineteen. And

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one of the most important moments in
human history is right here. Yeah,

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it is as he's taking the punishment
for our sin in his body, so

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Matthew chapter twenty seven, verse thirty
three says. And they went out to

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a place called Golgatha, which means
place of the skull. The soldier gave

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him wine mixed with bitter gall,
but when he had tasted it, he

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refused to drink it. After they
had nailed him to the cross, the

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soldiers gambled for his clothes by throwing
dice. Then they sat around and kept

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guard as he hung there. A
sign was fastened above jesus head announcing the

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charge against him, and it read, this is Jesus, the King of

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the Jews. Two revolutionaries were crucified
with him, one on his right and

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one on his left. The people
passing by shouted abuse, shaking their heads

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in mockery. Look at you now, they yelled at him. You said

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you're going to destroy the temple and
rebuild it in three days. Well,

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then, if you're the son of
God, save yourself and come down from

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the cross. The leading priests,
the teachers of religious law, and the

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elders also mocked Jesus. He saved
others, they scoffed, but he can't

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save himself. So he is the
king of israel Is He let him come

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down from the cross right now,
and we'll believe him. He trusted God,

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So let God rescue him now if
he wants him, For he said,

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I am the son of God.
Even the revolutionaries who were crucified with

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him ridiculed him in the same way. In Mark, chapter fifteen, verse

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twenty two, I says, and
they brought Jesus to a place called Gogotha,

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which means place with the skull.
They offered him wine drugged with myrrh,

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but he refused it. Then the
soldiers nailed in Jesus to the cross,

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and they divided his clothes and threw
dice to decide who would get each

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peace. It was nine o'clock in
the morning when they crucified him. A

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sign announced a charge against him.
It read the King of the Jews.

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Two revolutionaries were crucified with him,
one on his right and one on his

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left. The people passing by shouted
abuse, shaking their heads in mockery.

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Ha look at you now, they
yelled at him. You said, you

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were going to destroy the temple and
rebuild it in three days, Well,

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then save yourself and come down from
the cross. The leading priests and teachers

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of religious law also mouncked Jesus.
He saved others, they scoffed, but

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he can't save himself. Let this
messiah, this King of Israel, come

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down from the cross so we can
see it and believe him. Even the

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men who were crucified with Jesus ridy
killed him. In Luke chapter two,

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verse thirty two, it says two
others, both criminals, were led out

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to be executed with him. When
they came to a place called the Skull,

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they nailed him to the cross,
and the criminals were also crucified,

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one on his right and one on
his left. Jesus said, Father,

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forgive them, for they don't know
what they're doing. And the soldiers gambled

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for his clothes by throwing dice.
The crowd watched the leader. The crowd

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watched, and the leader scoffed.
He saved others, They said, let

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him save himself if he's really God's
Messiah, the chosen One. The soldiers

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mocked him too, by offering him
a drink of sour wine. They called

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out to him, if you are
the King of the Jews, save yourself.

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A sign was fastened above him with
these words, this is the King

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of the Jews. One of the
criminals hanging beside him scoffed, So you're

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the Messiah. Are you prove it
by saving yourself and us two while you're

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at it? But the other criminal
protested, don't you fear God even when

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you've been sentenced to die. We
deserve to die for our crimes. But

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this man hasn't done anything wrong.
And then he said, Jesus, remember

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me when you come into your kingdom. And Jesus replied, I assure you

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today you will be with me in
Paradise. And then in John chapter nineteen,

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verse e, Eventina says, carrying
the cross by himself, he went

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to the place called the place of
the Skull in Hebrew Golgatha. There they

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nailed him to the cross. Two
others were crucified with him, one on

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either side, with Jesus between them. Pilot posted a sign in the cross

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that read Jesus of Nazareth, the
King of the Jews. The place where

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Jesus was crucified was near the city
and the sign was written in Hebrew,

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Latin, and Greek, so that
many people could read it. Then the

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leading priests subjected and said to Pilot, change it from the King of the

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Jews to he said, I am
the King of the Jews. Pilot replied,

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no, I have written. No, what I have written, I

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have written. When the soldiers had
crucified Jesus, they divided his clothes among

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the four of them, and they
also took his robe. But it was

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seamless, woven in one piece from
top to bottom. So they said,

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rather than tearing it apart, lest
throw dice for it. This fulfilled the

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scripture that says they divided my garments
among themselves, and three dice for my

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clothing. So that is what they
did. Standing near the cross where Jesus

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mother and his mother's sister marry,
the wife of Cleopus and Mary Magdalene.

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When Jesus I saw his mother standing
there beside the disciple he loved, he

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said to her, dear woman,
here is your son. And he said

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to his disciple, here is your
mother. And from then on his disciple

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took her into his home. Who
there's a lot in there, buddy,

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Yeah, I'm sure is it covers
a lot of the big events that happen

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on the cross here. Yeah,
So I think the best way to do

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it probably is just to go in
chronological order, you know, start with

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Matthew and work her way through.
Yeah, just I don't miss anything.

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So it says they took him out
to the till Golgatha. Yeah, you've

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been to Goal Gotha. Yeah.
And there's a place right outside the city

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walls that I believe is the more
accurate place where he would have been crucified

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on the crossroads. Yeah, a
public display and it looks like a looks

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like let's go. Yeah, the
two deep eyes are still there. The

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nose has come off of it.
But back in the eighteen hundreds when it

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was discovered you could see it.
Now there's a bus depot down there at

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the base of it, which is
craz Yeah. And then one of the

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reasons why I think it's pretty clear
that that would be the legit Goal Gotha

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is because of the fact that it
was just outside what was then the city

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walls. So then there were new
walls built after that, but then the

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city walls, and it was at
the main crossroads between the road that would

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have head out to the Mediterranean Sea
and the road that would have gone to

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Damascus. And the reason why you
know that that's important is because the Romans

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loved to crucify in a public place
where everybody could see it. That's what

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it was the purpose, right,
That's why Pilot put the here's the king

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of the Jews, right, Jesus
of Naza, king of Jews, in

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all three languages. Was so that
everybody could see it was a message,

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right, yeah, And and he
wrote it and Hebrews so the Jews can

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read it. He wrote it in
Latin so the Romans could read it,

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and the Helenus and others who could
read Greek. That's why he wrote wrote

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it in Greek. So so then
it says they they gambled over his robes.

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Well, they mixed with bitter gall. Oh, yeah, the gall

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is it's like a narcotic. It
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was like us saying, give me
more morphine, right, right, But

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he refused to drink it to fulfill
the prophecies. Correct. So Jesus faced

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this full on, fully conscious,
nothing deadened in him. He faced the

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punishment for us and without any medication
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telling him to save himself. Little
did they know that he had just had

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a conversation with Pilot and said,
don't you know that if I wanted to,

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I can call legions of angels down
at my command. But but but

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you know, she's not going to
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take himself off the cross. We
know that. And and then once again

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they gambled for his clothes, They
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And that was another prophet after they
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yes, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And so we

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often think of being nailed right through
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right, but the hand would have
always also considered the forearm. If they

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nailed you through the palm of the
hand, it would have just slowly your

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own weight would have torn out of
your you know, between your your middle

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finger and your ring finger. But
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the bottom of the wrist and nail
there, which by the way, has

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one of the most sensitive nerves in
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through that and that would hook you
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off. Yeah, And then the
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nailing between the metatarsals, they'd come
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ankles and nail you to the cross
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off the cross. Then it's horrific, one of the most painful ways to

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die, because you didn't die from
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You died from being exposed out in
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dehydration, and then eventually suffocation by
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to breathe right because it was it
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was really a battle of pain from
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a shifting of endurance just to breathe
right. And now another details, so

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and then they gambled over as close. Yeah, right right, sorry?

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And then and then another detail is
so we moved from Matthew, which includes

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all those details. Ye, mark
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nine in the morning, which some
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third hour. So there was this
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six thirty that started the day,
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thirty sort of the sleeping hours,
even though that you know, it was

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just sort of categorized. And then
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sun rose, all the way until
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in the scripture where they would say, like the first hour, the second

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hour of the third hour, the
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And so it gives us incredible detail
because again, you remember, they

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did not want him to be crucified
on the Sabbath, which is why they

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were hurrying this, which is why
on Friday he dies. We're about to

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find out right before the Sabbath hits, just three hours before the Sabbath hits,

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cross. The two revolutionaries on either
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were both partaking in the mockery.
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talks about how eventually one of them
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were up there for obviously hours and
who knows why, but this one criminal

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on the cross decides to put his
faith in trust, recognizing that he is

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the Christ, and he says,
remember me when when we come into your

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kingdom, which by the way,
is like a death row salvation, right,

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somebody who spends their whole life deserving
sin and death and destruction and execution,

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and then at the last minute on
death row says, I put my

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faith in trust in you. And
what does Jesus do today? You'll be

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with me in paradise. I wonder
this is just circumstantial. But Jesus in

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Luke chapter twenty three, had already
said, Father, forgive them. They

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don't know what they're doing. Yeah, And then this guy says, hey,

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Jesus, would you forget me?
Right? I wonder if that was

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the pivotal moment for this guy.
Was everybody's yelling, you know, revolutionaries

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and thieves and all them. They'd
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in their faces. And Jesus said
that they don't say mocking, rocking him.

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And Jesus says, they didn't take
my life from me. They they

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I'm going to lay it down will
So Jesus wasn't fighting while probably these other

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revolutionaries were now all this hostility.
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and his first statement his father,
forgive them, and they don't know what

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they're doing while they're nailing him to
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in my mind that's a logical place
for one of them to go, what

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what is this about? And then
watching everybody all this hostility towards Jesus and

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the love and the peace that Jesus
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one goes, get us both off
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dude, Jesus, take me where
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yeah. And and by the way
that you know, the body of the

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Bible says to be absent from the
is to be present with the Lord,

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you know, And if God truly
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that he does, then you know
today you'll be with me in paradise.

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And just that idea that you know, that promise that Jesus gives is something

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that we could all hang on to. Right. So it's never too late,

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that's the invitation, that's right.
It's never too late to repent,

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it's never too late to turn to
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regardless of your past. When you
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right. Maybe that guy had never
contemplated the idea that he could be forgiven

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and then finds out he can be
because his request for forgiveness comes after hearing

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that Jesus was willing to forgive,
right, and that that's pretty significant anyways.

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Then Jesus said, today you'll be
with me in your kingdom. Right

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in my kingdom, I mean today
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And that's one of those moments that
you just have to understand. A lot

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of people say, oh, you
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baptized, Well, this guy didn't. Right now, you can't go to

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heaven if you don't take comunion.
This guy didn't. Can't go to heaven

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if you don't do a bunch of
good deeds. This guy didn't. Right,

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What is necessary at its very foundation, at the base, the bottom

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level, is faith in Christ and
repentance in your sins. Jesus is the

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Savior, and I need him to
forgive my sins right now. And that

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that's it, and that's that's all
that this guy did. So Jesus plus

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nothing. That's exactly right. That's
what you gets say to heaven. There

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are no works. And so so
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so if you move into John's account, it talks about how he has another

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saying on the cross. Right,
So so some of the sings on the

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cross that he's already spoken his father, forgive them, for they don't know

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what they're doing. And then he
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me in paradise. And then he
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cross. That's right, But this
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And the third one is Jesus looked
over and he saw his mother standing

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there beside the disciple. He loved, Yeah, that, oh it might

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be the author of this is John. And he says, dear woman,

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here's your son. And he said
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And from this and then from then
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home. And and by the way, this is an indication. This is

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why we believe that Joseph, the
earthly father of Jesus, had passed,

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because he disappears somewhere in the equation
in Jesus ministry. He's gone. Yeah,

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he's never mentioned again after Jesus was
twelve. Right, and then and

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then here you know, here Jesus
is doing something practical, uh, and

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and customary for Jews, which is
to make sure that his mother is taken

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care of after he's gone. So
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John. And and this would have
made sense because John was there president of

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the crucifixion, because John was the
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and he was he had an in
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was he was there for those reasons. He appears. He's the only disciple

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named at the cross at the the
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Now there are other when when we
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is one of the twelve twelve apostles, right, because we do know that

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that Joseph Barimythia was there. We're
gonna read about that tomorrow. We know

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that Nicodemus was there. And these
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the followers of Jesus, but they
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talk about the twelve. But it's
interesting the women show up, right,

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right, isn't that something? Well, you know, my old pastor used

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to say women first, first at
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Yeah, the women were the first
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Absolutely. And and so Jesus has
great love for his mother and is

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taking care of the family. He's
the oldest son, and so hey,

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we need to button this up.
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is the youngest of all the disciples. Yeah, so he he says,

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Hey, John, I want you
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Now. It didn't you also here
this morning that John might have been

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the cousin of Jesus. Yeah.
Yeah, so we've commented on that here

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on that podcast, right we have
here, So I just heard another pretty

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famous pastor, uh and professor,
he's a college uh president, mentioned that

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John was jesus cousin. James,
and John says, and that's right,

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and uh, the mother of or
the wife of Kleapus or Mary. Right,

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you've got you've got all these these
the names of all these women that

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are there. But John was probably
a cousin of Jesus, so it makes

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sense that he would hand off his
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yeah, yeah, And and and
the reason why people believe that they're

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the cousins is because of the uh, the two references that talk about the

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women at the cross, and one
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the other one says the sister of
Mary, the sister of Mary, right

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yeah. So so you could you
could deduce that, and again we don't

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know, but it's very probable right
there in John standing near the cross was

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jesus mother and his mother's sister,
Mary, the wife of Cleopus and Mary

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Magdalene. And in another one it
mentions the name of Mary's sister, who

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is the wife of Zebedee, right
right, So that that that's how it

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works out. And so John is
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the cross, right yeah. And
and it makes also it makes a lot

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of sense also if he was a
head, if Zebedee was a priest,

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priest, very likely, and then
that would give the reason why John had

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access to the whole thing. So
so there's a lot here and uh,

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and I would just definitely say that
as we're moving through, you know,

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these events in Jesus life. You
know, again, every single hour counts.

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Every every event on the Cross is
significant, and even the things that

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seem like their minor details were done, uh, you know, to fulfill

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prophecy. And so just imagine,
you know, if if the odds are

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incalculable, that one man will fulfill
all these prophecies, just know that the

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details given are given to prove that
he is the Messiah. He is the

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long awaited Messiah who is fulfilling all
the scriptures, all the prophecies God's promises

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from the very beginning thousands of years
ago, which again are insurmountable, incalculable

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odds, and Jesus fulfills every single
one of them. That's hundreds of prophecies.

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One other thing, and this is
incredibly practical. Here's Jesus just before

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he dies, preparing for his family. It's appropriate for Christians to prepare to

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take care of their family after they
die, right. Most people in America

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die without a will, They die
without any plan to provide for their family.

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But Jesus is doing that here.
And there's a note here in the

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Life Application study of Bible says our
families are precious gifts from God and we

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should value and care for them under
all circumstances, neither Christian work, nor

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key responsibilities in any job or position
excuse us from caring for our families.

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What can you do today to show
your love to your family? What a

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great thing, you know, right
in the middle of this devastating time.

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Jesus goes ahead and mixtures, providing
for the gift that God gave him in

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his family. Yeah that's great.
Yeah, well, that seems like a

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great place to end, and we
will pick up next time and we'll hopefully

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see you then on the Bible.
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