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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, welcome to the Bible

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Guys. He's Chris, I'm Jeff. Yes, and man, you made

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it. I'm so glad you made
it just in time, made for this

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really incredible podcast. You did it. You clicked. Yes, good job,

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way to go. We're just always
amazing you keep showing back up.

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So that's great. This is your
first time with us. We're just a

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couple guys like to talk about the
Bible and fun and practical ways, and

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this is kind of a devotional conversation, right, So I think it's going

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to be really challenging today because we're
talking about Peter denying that he knew Jesus.

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Yeah. That's a big one,
big event, big event. But

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before we do that, Jeff,
Yeah, so I have a segment for

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you today. We're going to do
two truths in a Lie. Yeah.

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And this is similar to what we
did last week. Yeah, the last

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time it was you did two truths
in a Lie. Yeah, and I

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had to guess yes today and I'm
going to choose a theme today. Okay,

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Yeah, Okay, so I'm gonna
give you two truths in a lie?

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So hit me. Yeah literally?
Oh, I say, sweet,

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that's even a better game. Let
me see two punches of job. So

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I once won a video game tournament
and was invited to the World Championships.

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I am ranked in the top half
percent in the world on my favorite video

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game right now, and I own
a hybrid version of Gallica and misspac Man.

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It's in my man cave in the
basement. Okay, First of all,

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all three of these statements are blowing
me out of the world. I

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have no idea. As long as
I've known you, you have never talked

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about any of this because I don't
braggle it not even I'm not a breath.

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I've never even heard you mentioned like, would you say, Miss pack

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Miss is it the fast version of
Miss pac Man? Yes, okay,

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listen, this is this is we
got to talk miss the fast version of

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Miss pac Man? Is my game? Is that your game? Oh?

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Dude? I remember getting the high
score in Missouri. I would sit there

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for hours and hours and hours.
Yeah, but have you ever been invited

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to World Championship? Okay, so
too true? Is in a lie?

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The first truth was you're you,
you were invited to World Championship. The

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next truth was you're considered in the
top half percent. And the third truth

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or the third statement was I owned
it at home. You owned at home.

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I'm going to say, and two
of these are true. Man,

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what is happening in my life?
Okay, I'm going to say, you

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were never invited anywhere? No I
was. I was. Yeah, So

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it's a funny story. So the
lie was, well, do you want

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to choose from the other two?
Well, yeah, it's gonna be the

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half percent. No, that was
true too. How could you be something

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that you don't on it's not the
same game, that's what. So that

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was that was a false flag.
So I don't Gallica and Misspec man.

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So the game that you're actually good
at two games. So my sons,

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here's here's me getting invited to a
World championship. My sons were teenagers and

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they wanted to go to a video
game tournament. They thought they were really

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really good at Mario Brothers. And
so they went to this tournament and I'm

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just walking around with them in the
tournament and they had a Grand Triesmo set

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up, and so they keep saying, hey, you want to do this.

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I kept saying, no, I'm
not interested. Oh there's big prizes,

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all this stuff. I didn't want
to do it. Finally, the

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tournament just kept going on and on
and on. So I go and I

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sit down and I want d up
winning the Michigan version of that. But

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I placed in the top fifty in
the world. So I got invited to

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the World Championships in Dallas. And
so I'm like forty something years old and

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people call me and they say,
hey, so Jeffrey. They call me

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Jeffrey because I had to, you
know, log in everything. Jeffrey.

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We are so excited you placed in
like the top twenty, and so we're

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bringing in like the top twenty racers
in the world to Dallas. And so

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we're going to pay for you and
your guardian to fly first class and you

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can stay in a hotel and all's
your guardian has to do is sign off

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on this. It's going to be
amazing. And I said, can I

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have my wife sign off on it? She goes, what I said,

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why do I have to have a
guardian? She goes, how old are

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you? I said, I'm forty
and she went, oh, my gosh.

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So it was all teenagers, said
one and me, Okay, let's

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back up and let me ask you
this question. That's hilarious. Yeah what

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uh so Grand Trees most a racing
game. I know, but oh I

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know that. But why were you
good at it because you'd played a ton

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or are you just just good at
it? I literally I sat down and

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won it. So, in other
words, you'd never played it to that

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point. Well, I'd played Grand
Trees mo before, but not in the

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whole rig you know, driving rigs, set up all that kind of stuff.

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It just yeah, it was just
something you were decent. So they

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sent me thousands of dollars worth of
prizes. It was pretty great, but

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I declined to go to the World
Championship. I didn't want to go play

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against much of teenagers. I was
kind of embarrassed at that point, and

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I was pastoring a heritage church.
So that's one. The other one is,

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right now, I'm ranked in the
top half percent in the world in

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Call of Duty Mobile. Yeah.
Yeah, there's there's like forty million people

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or thirty million people something like that
that play Call of Duty and yeah,

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I'm in like the top twenty thousand
or something. Yeah, Okay, isn't

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it funny? You have never once
breathed any of that information. Isn't it

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weird? Yeah? Oh no,
not weird. It's just it's surprising.

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So that's my fallback in case ministry
doesn't work. I'm a professional gamer.

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I had no idea. Dude,
I would not have pegged that. Wow,

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you didn't know those two things about
me? No good, you've never

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missed I win. I know Okay, you know me well enough to know

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had you breathed any of that,
I would have logged that my memory back.

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Yes, I know. That's why. That's why I did those,

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because I knew. I don't think
I've ever talked to you about that.

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Wow, amazing. I am truly
surprised. Wow, that's what. So

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last week I think we had one
of those secret skills that you've never mentioned

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before. I remember I almost told
those, and I thought, and I'm

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going to save those for the next
Wow. Yeah, son of a gun.

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Yeah there you go. All right, Well, hey, why don't

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you blow me away again by reading
the passages found in Matthew, Mark,

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Luke, and John. And this
is the big event today? Yes,

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so Matthew Chapter twenty six, verse
sixty nine, It says, meanwhile,

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you know doing this trial in Kyaphas's
house. Meanwhile, Peter was sitting outside

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in the courtyard. A servant girl
came over and said to him, you

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were one of those with Jesus the
Galilean, but Peter denied it in front

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of everyone. I don't know what
you're talking about, he said. Later,

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out by the gate, another servant
girl noticed him and said, those

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standing around this man was with Jesus
of Nazareth. Again Peter denied it,

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this time with an oath. I
don't even know the man, Jesus said,

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a little later, some of the
other bystanders came over to Peter and

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said, you must be one of
them. We can tell by your Galilean

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accent. Peter swore a curse on
me if I'm lying, I don't know

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the man, and immediately the rooster
crowed. Suddenly, Jesus' words flashed through

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Peter's mind. Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times that

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you even know me, and he
went away, weeping bitterly. In Mark,

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chapter fourteen, verse sixty six,
it says, meanwhile, Peter was

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in the courtyard below one of the
servant girls who worked for the high priests

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came by noticed Peter warming himself at
the fire. She looked at him closely

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and said, you were one of
those with Jesus and Nazareth, but Peter

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denied it. I don't know what
you're talking about, he said, and

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he went out into the entryway.
Just then a rooster crow. When the

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servant girl saw him standing there,
she began telling the others this man is

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definitely one of them, but Peter
denied it again. A little later,

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some of the other bystanders confronted Peter
and said you must be one of them,

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because you're a Galilean. Peter swore, occurs to me if I'm lying,

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I don't know this man you're talking
about, And immediately the rooster crowe

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the second time. Suddenly Jesus' words
flashed through Peter's mind. Before the rooster

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crows twice. You will deny three
times that you even know me. He

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broke down and wept. Luke chapter
twenty two, verse fifty four. Remember

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how we skipped this piece yesterday,
yeah, says and Peter followed at a

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distance, and the guards lit a
fire in the middle of the courtyard and

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sat around it, and Peter joined
them. There, a servant girl noticed

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him in the firelight and began staring
at him, and finally she said this

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man was one of jesus followers.
But Jesus denied it woman, he said,

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I don't even know him. After
a while, someone else looked at

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him and said, you must be
one of them. No, I'm not,

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Peter retorted. About an hour later, someone else insisted this must be

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one of them because he's a Galilean
too. Peter said, man, I

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don't know what you're talking about.
Immediately, while he was still speaking,

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the rooster crode. At that moment, the Lord turned and looked at Peter.

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Suddenly, the Lord's words flashed through
Peter's mind. Before the rooster crows

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tomorrow morning, you'll deny three times
that even know me. Peter left the

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courtyard weeping bitterly. And then in
John chapter eighteen, verse twenty five,

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it says while Simon meanwhile, as
Simon Peter was standing by the fire warming

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himself, they asked him again,
you're not one of his disciples, are

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you, And he denied it,
saying, no, I'm not, but

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one of the household slaves of the
High priest. A relative of the man

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whose ear Peter had cut off,
asked, didn't I see you out there

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in the olive grol with Jesus?
And again Peter denied it, and immediately

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a rooster crode. Yeah, so
John includes two denials. But isn't it

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isn't John the one that included the
denial at Annis? Yeah, let's go

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back and see. That's a great
one, because I was going to ask

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the same question. Yes it is, it's John. Yeah, so John

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has John lets us know one of
them was at Annis's house, the other

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was at Caiaphas's house. The other
two were at Caias, which, by

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the way, I'm I'm not sure
until this moment that I've ever pieced that

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together. That's why it's the benefit
of Okay, So in other words,

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like so so Matthew, Mark and
Luke talk about him being in a courtyard.

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But let's keep in mind that through
the last couple of days, what

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we saw is that they were in
the courtyard in front of Annis's house,

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and they were also in the courtyard
in front of Caiaphas's house, right,

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which are very very close. If
you ever look at a map of Jerusalem,

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they're close, right, Caiaphas's house
and Annies's house probably were very very

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We're maybe even next door. Yeah. So remember John is the one who

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knew them, and he had access
in so he would have known this is

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Caiaphas's house, this is Ani's house. But maybe Matthew didn't know the difference

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between the two because oftentimes in the
Middle East they build these big complexes.

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Right, it's not just a house
and you get your little yard and your

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little fence around your yard. Right, a lot of times it would be

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complexes, and then you're in the
city where everything's built wall the wa the

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wall to wall the wall, and
so they may not have realized that they

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were in two different homes at John
level. But John clearly knew that courtyard

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was Annis's courtyard, that courtyard is
Caiaphas's courtyard, and that would make sense

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with the insight of knowing that John
was on the inside of things. Yeah,

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he knew them. So first of
all, Wow, that's fascinating,

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because that's that's a detail that I
don't think I've ever even heard anybody saying.

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Again, those little details that prove
prove the historicity of this to me.

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Uh, And now let's talk about
this fact. So I went to

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Caiphas's house and uh, and there's
you know, again when you go to

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Israel, there are places where they
rank you know, one, two and

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three. This was definitely it.
This may have been at this was close,

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and they rank Kiphas's house as definitely
as definitely it. So, you

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know, and there's still there's a
structure still there, and and the place

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where Jesus would have spent the night
in the dungeon down there in the cave.

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And then also the walls separate,
you know, the walls around Caipas's

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house, which by the way,
was a pretty big it was a pretty

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big courtyard and pretty big property.
And by the way, incidentally, side

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note, there is also a set
of stairs that Jesus would have had to

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have walked up to get to get
there. And those stairs, you know,

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I could just even imagine, you
know, as you're walking those stairs,

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you're like trying to imagine how hard
it would have been. Anyway,

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So it was a very emotional place
to be in. But let me talk

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about the courtyard for a minute.
This is a purpose of me talking about

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this is that only Luke says the
Lord took to turned and looked at Peter.

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Right, So, how in the
world would Jesus have been inside the

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house and Peter outside in the courtyard
and then all of a sudden, how

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would Jesus have turned and looked at
Peter. It wasn't through a window.

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It was because at that moment Jesus
was coming outside. And so there's two

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systems of belief here that this is
what the tour guide told us. Because

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people in Israel, how knowledgeable are
the tour guides whether they have to go

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to college in order to get to
be licensed as a guide, right,

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right, right? Because they're historians
is what they are. They're not just

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tour guides, like and over here
is the liberty bell. They're historians that

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are that are preserving the history of
Israel. So they can't get licensed unless

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they've gone to college for it,
right, Yeah, So I remember the

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tour guide telling us that one of
two things, either the courtyard was on

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this side of the wall with a
gate, or was on this side of

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the wall. If it was on
this side of the wall would have been

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pretty small courtyard. It's not likely
that would mean that Jesus would have come

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out of the house and they would
have been over here on this side of

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the wall, which is a very
small area, not likely for somebody who

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was awaiting Kiaphas's trials. There would
have been a larger, larger crowds,

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which means probability is pretty high.
They don't know for sure, but probability

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is really high that it would have
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in other words, in order for
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by the way, the wooden doors
were no longer there. So it was

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like two walls that had come together
with an entrance, and there would have

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been either some iron gates or some
wooden gates that would have been closed,

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probably wooden gates because they want people
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So imagine these two walls, the
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place in the inside. And so
Peter thinking he's, you know, separated

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by Jesus with a wall and some
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he denies, and it says,
as he was speaking, here's what must

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have happened. So scholars say,
what must have happened is the gates opened

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at that moment Peter denies. The
rooster crows. It happens in one swoop,

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and all of a sudden, the
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So imagine that you're on the outside, Jesus is going through a trial

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on the inside, and then all
of a sudden, as you dine him

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the third time, you know,
boom, the gates open. The trial's

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over. He's in chains or whatever. He is right guarded. And it's

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that look, that haunting look that
really sticks with you. And I mentioned

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the haunting look in the garden when
when Judas came in and he says,

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do you betray the Son of Man
with a kiss? And that that look

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right into your eyes. Well,
in this case it would have been completely

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different because Peter is, you know, the follower of Christ, right,

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he's considered by some to be the
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Inner Circle. And so that look
is probably the most haunting and guilt filled

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look maybe described in all the scriptures. Yeah, and so yeah, that's

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just that's just terrible. Well,
you find him denying Christ at the same

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time trying to fit in with the
crowd. Right. So the girl comes

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in and she goes and she was
a relative of Malchuses. Hey, wait

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a minute, aren't you You were
one of those guys. No, woman,

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I don't know what you're talking about. So the guy says, no,

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I'm pretty sure. Yeah, you
were one of those things. He

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goes, man, I don't know
what you're talking about. And the last

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one he's start it's cussing right right, blankety blank, I don't know what

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you're doing. Yeah, and I
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they say, hey, no,
we recognize you because you have a Galilean

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accent. The people in Jerusalem they
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They were the ones who'd arrived,
and they viewed the people from Galilee

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kind of like Hillbilly's right. In
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very different accent. You stand out, you're not one of us. And

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so in that context, he's kind
of he's trying really hard to fit in

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and he's around these tough soldiers.
It's the soldiers that hauled Jesus in,

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which is pretty crazy. Yeah,
I can't imagine how that played out.

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Did he like walk up to the
fire and then realize, oh, their

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soldiers act cool at cool Yeah,
and just to start washing his you know,

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warming his hands and trying to,
you know, pull his cloak around

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his face and not be noticed.
But they could tell by his language and

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his words. But he was trying
to fit in. And usually when we

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work hard to try to fit in
with the world, we're gonna deny Christ

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at some point. I think that's
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But the good news is, you
know, there's a note here that says

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for Luke twenty two to fifty five
says Peter's experiences in the next few hours

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would change his life. He would
change from a half hearted follower to a

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repent and disciple, and finally to
the kind of person Christ could use to

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build his church. Right, what
a great that's what happens here, because

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he weeps bitterly immediately, and that's
what our sin should do to us,

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right, should break our hearts.
He weeps bitterly. He eventually Jesus gives

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him an opportunity to repent after the
resurrection, and then he gets back up

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and he throws himself at serving Jesus
the rest of his life. And he

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has exactly the right response to his
sin at this point, his denial of

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Christ. But it came I think
partly because he's trying really hard to fit

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in, to not bring attention to
himself. And a lot of times we

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do that in the world. We
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vote the way they vote, we
talk the way they talk, we do

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what they do. We don't want
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right thing to do. And then
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you know, it reminds me of
Daniel Chapter one, right, what is

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it like, verse eight or whatever, where he says, but Daniel purposed

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in his heart, you know,
not to defile himself with a portion of

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the king's you know, the vegetables
and the wine, and it says that

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he just he just refused. He
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or compromise. And it's the opposite
of what Peter's doing here. So obviously

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Peter's under a great duress. He's
under great stress. He's afraid, he's

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you know, he's he knows what
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follower. His life can be on
the line. And when that happens,

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you don't know how you're gonna act
in the moment. But Peter obviously was

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scared so instead of going in there
with great resolve, kind of like in

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the garden, remember when you pull
out the sword. He must have put

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up this workcause he had great resolve. Yes, He's like, okay,

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here it is, buddy, this
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right now. That's great resolve,
that's that's purposing your heart. But at

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this point, all that's gone,
right, and so he's he's following.

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He doesn't know what to do.
There's no purpose or resolve, and so

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the Bible says to be in the
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Right, there's that reminds me of
Elijah. Remember Elijah's so tough. He

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goes and defeats the prophets of Bale
and then he's running from Jezebel and he's

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hiding and he just wants God to
kill him right right the very next right,

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you know. And that's what we
do. So sometimes we're hot,

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sometimes we're cold. But the issue
is you have a choice every time you

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face with these moments, either you
run to Jesus or from Jesus. Right,

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and Jesus came looking for Peter,
and he gave Peter an opportunity to

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come back to him and he just
leaned in. There's also another note here

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just in it to button up the
piece we were talking about before. It

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says Caiaphas's home and Ann's home were
part of a huge palace complex there it

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is, so yeah, so they
probably shared multiple courtyards, which it makes

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sense since they're related, right,
right, And it's why the story of

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Peter in John has ans courtyard,
Caiaphas's courtyard, and Matthew Mark and Luke

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just say Caiaphas's courtyard is because it
was all together, right, it was

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all blended together because they were part
of a giant palace complex. So that's

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really interesting, which would mean that
when I was at Caiaphas's house, I

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was also at Annis's house. Well, you were probably at Caiaphas's dwelling space,

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but it would have been a giant
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times what they do is they build
those walls and then the homes to be

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built into the walls. So if
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was Caiaphas's house and maybe Annis's was
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you know, to the north or
whatever, that that's what it could have

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been. But however it is Bonnie
and I we went to Morocco and we

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stayed in these riodds. They were
palaces, and they had these big open

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courtyards in the middle, and then
the houses, the house itself, the

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mansion. The palace was built around
the courtyard. That's every place we stayed

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in Morocco is the same way.
It was really really cool, and so

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we'd go out for breakfast in the
morning, there'd be a fountain, there'd

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be out palm trees and stuff in
the courtyard, and there'd be other people

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staying in the palace at the same
time, and we'd all sit at different

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tables and stuff, and there would
be a couple of little courtyards, a

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couple of little private spots throughout the
thing. And that's exactly how I'm envisioning

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this is, you know, this
Middle Eastern mindset of building a multiple homes

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around one courtyard, one giant complex, yeah, which which that was the

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purpose of a courtyard was a shared
space in the middle. And for political

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reasons, to park you Lamborghini's I
think, yeah, right, in Morocco

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probably yes, right, But for
here, obviously, for political purposes,

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the courtyard would have been a shared
space for crowds. That's correct, and

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people and things like that gathering.
Yeah. So wow, that is just

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an unbelievable insight that John had and
it makes so much sense since he was

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in the inside of things. Yeah, and so when you read those things,

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you should feel more confident that,
wow, these are real eyewitness accounts

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because they're giving details that fit,
but they're different details and that that's really

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great. And then obviously with Peter, this was these experiences over a twelve

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hour period were some of the most
devastating things that God used them in some

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of the greatest ways to make him
into the great man that he was going

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to be right right, because we're
about to see the breakfast on the beach.

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It's coming, baby, So all
right, Well, hey, that's

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it for this week and hopefully we'll
pick up on Monday with you on the Bibble Gosh