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  Speaker 1: Hidden within the pages of John's gospel lies the most
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  Speaker 1: stunning revelation in human history, the moment when eternity stepped
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  Speaker 1: into time. Written by the disciple who rested on Jesus's
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  Speaker 1: chest at the Last Supper, this isn't just another biblical account.
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  Speaker 1: It's a prophetic masterpiece that unveils the true identity of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. John saw what others missed. While the synoptic
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  Speaker 1: gospels show us jesus earthly ministry, John reveals his divine
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  Speaker 1: nature through seven miraculous signs that point to one truth.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is the eternal I Am. From water transformed into wine,
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  Speaker 1: to death, conquered at an empty tomb. Each miracle whispers
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  Speaker 1: of a greater reality. This gospel prophetically declares Jesus as
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  Speaker 1: the Word who spoke creation into existence, the light piercing
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  Speaker 1: through darkness, the bread that satisfies eternal hunger. John's vivid
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  Speaker 1: testimony doesn't just record history. It reveals the cosmic place
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  Speaker 1: of redemption that was set in motion before the foundation
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  Speaker 1: of the world. Today, as prophecy continues to unfold and
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  Speaker 1: signs multiply around us, John's gospel stands as the ultimate
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  Speaker 1: lens through which we understand not just who Jesus was,
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  Speaker 1: but who he is and who He's coming to be.
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  Speaker 1: Every verse pulses with divine purpose. Every chapter unveils eternal truth.
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  Speaker 1: Before anything existed, there was the Word. John opens chapter one,
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  Speaker 1: verse one, with this truth. In the beginning was the Word,
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  Speaker 1: and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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  Speaker 1: This wasn't just any beginning. This was the same beginning
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  Speaker 1: Moses wrote about when God spoke creation into existence. The
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  Speaker 1: Word had always been there, John continues in verse two.
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  Speaker 1: He was in the beginning with God while nothing else existed.
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  Speaker 1: The Word was already there with God, not as a
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  Speaker 1: separate being, but as God himself. Like trying to separate
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  Speaker 1: light from the sun, impossible, because they are one. Everything
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  Speaker 1: came through this word, John explains in verse three. All
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  Speaker 1: things were made through him, and without him nothing was
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  Speaker 1: made that was made, Every star, every mountain, every breath
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  Speaker 1: of air, all of it came into being because the
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  Speaker 1: Word spoke it into existence. Nothing exists without his creative power.
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  Speaker 1: In verse four, John tells us in him was life,
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  Speaker 1: and the life was the light of men. The Word
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  Speaker 1: wasn't just a creator who made things and walked away
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  Speaker 1: he was life itself, and that life became light for people.
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  Speaker 1: This light shows truth and hope. But here's the amazing
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  Speaker 1: thing about this light that John mentions in verse five,
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  Speaker 1: And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness
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  Speaker 1: did not comprehend it. Even when darkness tries to overcome
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  Speaker 1: this light, it can't. The darkness doesn't understand it, can't
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  Speaker 1: figure it out, and definitely can't put it out. God
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  Speaker 1: sent a man to prepare the way. John writes in
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  Speaker 1: verse six there was a man sent from God whose
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  Speaker 1: name was John. This was John the Baptist, and he
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  Speaker 1: had a specific mission that would change everything. His job
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  Speaker 1: was simple but crucial. Verses seven and eight explain this
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  Speaker 1: man came for a witness, to bear witness of the
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  Speaker 1: light that all through him might believe. He was not
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  Speaker 1: that light, but was sent to bear witness of that light.
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  Speaker 1: John the Baptist was like a herald announcing the arrival
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  Speaker 1: of a king. He wasn't the main event. He was
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  Speaker 1: pointing to some one far greater. Later, in verse fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: John the Baptist makes a stunning claim. John bore witness
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  Speaker 1: of him and cried out, saying, this was he of
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  Speaker 1: whom I said, he who comes after me is preferred
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  Speaker 1: before me, for he was before me. Think about this,
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  Speaker 1: John the Baptist was born before Jesus, But he's saying
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  Speaker 1: Jesus existed before him. The religious leaders got curious and
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  Speaker 1: sent priests and levites from Jerusalem to ask John who
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  Speaker 1: he was. Starting in verse nineteen, they questioned him directly.
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  Speaker 1: John was completely honest. Verse twenty tells us he confessed
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  Speaker 1: and did not deny, but confessed I am not the Christ.
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  Speaker 1: He could have taken credit for himself, but he refused.
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  Speaker 1: They kept pressing him. Verse twenty one records their questions,
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  Speaker 1: and they asked him, what then, are you, Elijah? He said,
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  Speaker 1: I am not. Are you the prophet? And he answered no.
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  Speaker 1: John wasn't trying to be mysterious. He just knew exactly
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  Speaker 1: who he was and who he wasn't. Finally, they demanded
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  Speaker 1: an answer. In verse twenty two, then they said to him,
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  Speaker 1: who are you that we may give an answer to
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  Speaker 1: those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?
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  Speaker 1: John's response in verse twenty three was perfect. He said,
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  Speaker 1: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness
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  Speaker 1: makes straight the way of the Lord. As the prophet
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah said. When they asked about his baptizing, John explained.
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  Speaker 1: In verse twenty six. John answered them, saying, I baptize
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  Speaker 1: with water. But there stands one among you whom you
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  Speaker 1: do not know. Someone was already there among them, but
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  Speaker 1: they couldn't see who he really was. John's humility shines
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  Speaker 1: through in verse twenty seven. It is he who coming
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  Speaker 1: after me is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I
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  Speaker 1: am not worthy to loose. In that culture, untying someone's
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  Speaker 1: sandals was the job of the lowest servant. John was
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  Speaker 1: saying he wasn't even worthy to be Jesus's lowest servant.
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  Speaker 1: The next day, everything changed. Verse twenty nine records the
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  Speaker 1: moment the next day, John saw Jesus coming toward him
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  Speaker 1: and said, behold the lamb of God who takes away
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  Speaker 1: the sin of the world. John recognized Jesus as the
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice that would deal with humanity's biggest problem sin. John
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  Speaker 1: continues his testimony in verse thirty. This is he of
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  Speaker 1: whom I said, after me comes a man who is
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  Speaker 1: preferred before me, for he was before me. He still
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  Speaker 1: emphasizing that Jesus, though younger in human years, existed before
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  Speaker 1: John was even born. John admits he didn't always know
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  Speaker 1: who Jesus was. Verse thirty one explains, I did not
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  Speaker 1: know him, but that he should be revealed to Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore I came baptizing with water. God had a plan
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  Speaker 1: to reveal Jesus to the nation, and John's baptizing was
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  Speaker 1: part of that plan. Then John shares what happened when
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  Speaker 1: he baptized Jesus. Verse thirty two tells us and John
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  Speaker 1: bore witness, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven
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  Speaker 1: like a dove, and he remained upon him. This was
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  Speaker 1: God's sign to John about who Jesus really was. God
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  Speaker 1: had given John's specific instructions. Verse thirty three records, I
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  Speaker 1: did not know him, but he who sent me to
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  Speaker 1: baptize with water said to me, upon whom you see
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  Speaker 1: the spirit descending and remaining on him, This is he
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  Speaker 1: who baptizes with the Holy Spirit. This was how John
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  Speaker 1: would recognize the Messiah. John's conclusion is powerful and final.
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  Speaker 1: Verse thirty four states, and I have seen and testified
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  Speaker 1: that this is the son of God. John had seen
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  Speaker 1: the proof with his own eyes, and now he was
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  Speaker 1: telling everyone who would listen. The true light was coming
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  Speaker 1: into the world. John explains in verse nine that was
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  Speaker 1: the true light, which gives light to every man coming
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  Speaker 1: into the world. This wasn't just any light. This was
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  Speaker 1: the real thing, the original source that makes it possible
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  Speaker 1: for any one to see truth. But there was a problem.
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  Speaker 1: Verse ten reveals the tragedy. He was in the world
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  Speaker 1: and the world was made through him, and the world
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  Speaker 1: did not know him. Imagine an artist walking through his
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  Speaker 1: own art gallery and no one recognizes him as the creator.
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  Speaker 1: The word had made everything, but people didn't recognize their maker.
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  Speaker 1: It got even more personal. Verse eleven tells us he
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  Speaker 1: came to his own and his own did not receive him.
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  Speaker 1: These weren't strangers. These were his own people, the ones
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  Speaker 1: who had been waiting for him. Yet when he came,
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  Speaker 1: they turned him away. But not everyone rejected him. Verse
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  Speaker 1: twelve brings hope. But as many as received him to them,
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  Speaker 1: he gave the right to become children of God to
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  Speaker 1: those who believe in his name. Any One who believed
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  Speaker 1: in him and received him got something incredible. They became
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  Speaker 1: God's children. This wasn't about human effort or family connections.
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  Speaker 1: Verse thirteen clarifies who were born not of blood nor
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  Speaker 1: of the will of the flesh, nor of the will
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  Speaker 1: of man, but of God. Being God's child isn't something
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  Speaker 1: you inherit from your parents or achieved through trying hard.
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  Speaker 1: It's something God does for you when you believe. Then
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  Speaker 1: comes the most amazing moment in history. Verse fourteen declares,
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  Speaker 1: and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and
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  Speaker 1: we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only
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  Speaker 1: begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth, the
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  Speaker 1: eternal Word, who existed before creation, became a human being
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  Speaker 1: and lived right here with people. John and the other
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  Speaker 1: disciples saw his glory first hand. This wasn't just any human.
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  Speaker 1: This was the unique son of the Father, completely filled
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  Speaker 1: with grace and truth. Grace means getting good things you
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  Speaker 1: don't deserve. Truth means reality as God sees it. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was both perfectly combined. Every one benefits from what Jesus brought.
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  Speaker 1: Verse sixteen explains, and of his fullness we have all
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  Speaker 1: received and grace for grace. It's like having an endless
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  Speaker 1: supply of grace. When you use up one portion, there's
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  Speaker 1: another one ready and waiting. This was completely different from
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  Speaker 1: what came before. Verse seventeen makes the comparison, for the
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  Speaker 1: law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came
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  Speaker 1: through Jesus Christ. Moses brought rules that showed people what
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  Speaker 1: God expected. Jesus brought grace and truth that made it
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  Speaker 1: possible to actually live in relationship with God. Finally, John
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  Speaker 1: reveals something that no one had ever experienced before. Verse
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  Speaker 1: eighteen tells us no one has seen God at any time,
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  Speaker 1: the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of
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  Speaker 1: the Father. He has declared him. People had always wondered
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  Speaker 1: what God was really like. Jesus, who has always been
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  Speaker 1: close to the Father's heart, came to show them exactly
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  Speaker 1: who God is. The next day, John the Baptist was
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  Speaker 1: standing with two of his followers when Jesus walked by.
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  Speaker 1: Verse thirty five sets the scene again. The next day,
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  Speaker 1: John stood with two of his disciples. These men had
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  Speaker 1: been learning from John, but they were about to meet
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  Speaker 1: someone far greater. When John saw Jesus, he repeated what
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  Speaker 1: he had said before. Verse thirty six records, and looking
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  Speaker 1: at Jesus as he walked, he said, behold the lamb
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  Speaker 1: of God. John wasn't trying to keep his disciples for himself.
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  Speaker 1: He was pointing them to Jesus. The two disciples immediately
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  Speaker 1: understood what John meant. Verse thirty seven tells us the
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  Speaker 1: two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. They
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  Speaker 1: left John and started walking after Jesus. This wasn't just
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  Speaker 1: casual curiosity. They were making a choice to follow. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: noticed them following and asked us simple question. Verse thirty
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  Speaker 1: eight records. Then Jesus turned and, seeing them following, said
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  Speaker 1: to them, what do you seek? They said to him, rabbi,
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  Speaker 1: which is to say, when translated, teacher, where are you staying?
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  Speaker 1: They wanted to know where he lived so they could
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  Speaker 1: spend time with him. Jesus gave them an invitation that
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  Speaker 1: changed their lives. Verse thirty nine continues, he said to them,
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  Speaker 1: come and see. They came and saw where he was staying,
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  Speaker 1: and remained with him that day. Now it was about
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  Speaker 1: the tenth hour. Instead of just telling them, Jesus invited
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  Speaker 1: them to experience it for themselves. One of these two
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  Speaker 1: men was Andrew, and he couldn't keep the news to himself.
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  Speaker 1: Verse forty tells us one of the two who heard
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  Speaker 1: John speak and followed him was Andrew. Simon, Peter's brother Andrew,
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  Speaker 1: would become one of the Twelve Disciples, but first he
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  Speaker 1: had something important to do. Andrew immediately went to find
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  Speaker 1: his brother. Verse forty one records he first found his
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  Speaker 1: own brother, Simon and said to him, we have found
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  Speaker 1: the Messiah, which is translated the Christ. Andrew was convinced
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus was the Messiah, the one their people had
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  Speaker 1: been waiting for. Andrew brought Simon to Jesus, and something
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  Speaker 1: interesting happened. Verse forty two tells us and he brought
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  Speaker 1: him to Jesus. Now, when Jesus looked at him, he said,
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  Speaker 1: you are Simon, the son of Jonah. You shall be
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  Speaker 1: called Cephus, which is translated a stone. Jesus immediately knew
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  Speaker 1: who Simon was and gave him a new name that
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  Speaker 1: described what he would become. The next day, Jesus decided
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  Speaker 1: to go to Galilee and found another man to follow him.
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  Speaker 1: Verse forty three explains the following day, Jesus wanted to
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  Speaker 1: go to Galilee, and he found Philip and said to
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  Speaker 1: him follow me. This time Jesus took the initiative and
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  Speaker 1: called Philip directly. Philip was from the same town as
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  Speaker 1: Andrew and Peter verse forty four ADS. Now, Philip was
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  Speaker 1: from Bethseda, the city of Andrew and Peter. These men
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  Speaker 1: already knew each other, which made it easier for the
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  Speaker 1: news about Jesus to spread. Like Andrew, Philip couldn't keep
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  Speaker 1: quiet about Jesus. Verse forty five records Philip found Nathaniel
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  Speaker 1: and said to him, we have found him of whom
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  Speaker 1: Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote Jesus
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  Speaker 1: of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. Philip was convinced that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was the one the Old Testament had promised, but
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  Speaker 1: Nathaniel had doubts about Jesus's home town. Verse forty six
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  Speaker 1: tells Us and Nathaniel said to him, can anything good
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  Speaker 1: come out of Nazareth? Philip said to him, come and see.
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  Speaker 1: Nazareth wasn't known for producing any one important, so Nathaniel
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  Speaker 1: was skeptical. When Jesus saw Nathaniel coming, he said something
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  Speaker 1: that shocked everyone. Verse forty seven records Jesus saw Nathaniel
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  Speaker 1: coming toward him and said of him, behold an Israelite,
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  Speaker 1: indeed in whom is no deceit. Jesus immediately recognized Nathaniel's
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  Speaker 1: honest character. Nathaniel was amazed that Jesus knew him. Verse
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  Speaker 1: forty eight continues, Nathaniel said to him, how do you
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  Speaker 1: know me? Jesus answered and said to him, before Philip
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  Speaker 1: called you, when you were under the fig tree, I
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  Speaker 1: saw you. Jesus had seen Nathaniel when no one else
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  Speaker 1: was around. This convinced Nathaniel completely. Verse forty nine records
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  Speaker 1: his response. Nathaniel answered and said to him, Rabbi, you
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  Speaker 1: are the son of God. You are the King of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: In one moment, Nathaniel went from skepticism to complete faith.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus told Nathaniel this was just the beginning. Verses fifty
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  Speaker 1: and fifty one conclude. Jesus answered and said to him,
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  Speaker 1: because I said to you I saw you under the
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  Speaker 1: fig tree, do you believe you will see greater things
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  Speaker 1: than these? And he said to him most assuredly, I
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  Speaker 1: say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open and
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  Speaker 1: the angels of God ascending and descending upon the son
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  Speaker 1: of Man. Jesus promised that Nathaniel would witness even more
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  Speaker 1: amazing things in the future. Three days later, there was
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  Speaker 1: a wedding in Cana. John chapter two, Verse one tells
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  Speaker 1: us on the third day there was a wedding in
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  Speaker 1: Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus and his disciples were also invited. During the celebration,
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  Speaker 1: a problem arose. Verse three explains, and when they ran
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  Speaker 1: out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to him,
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  Speaker 1: they have no wine. Running out of wine at a
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  Speaker 1: wedding was a social disaster that could shame the family.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus's response seemed distant at first. Verse four records Jesus
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  Speaker 1: said to her woman, what does your concern have to
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  Speaker 1: do with me? My hour has not yet come. But
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  Speaker 1: Mary told the servants in verse five, whatever he says
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  Speaker 1: to you, do it. Near them stood six large stone
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  Speaker 1: water jars. Verse six describes them. Now there were set
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  Speaker 1: there six water pots of stone, according to the manner
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  Speaker 1: of purification of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece.
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  Speaker 1: These held water for ceremonial washing. Jesus told the servants
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  Speaker 1: to fill the jars with water. Verse seven records Jesus
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  Speaker 1: said to them, filled the water pots with water, and
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  Speaker 1: they filled them up to the brim. Then Jesus said
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  Speaker 1: in verse eight, draw some out now and take it
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  Speaker 1: to the master of the feast. What happened next amazed
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  Speaker 1: every one. Verse nine explains when the master of the
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  Speaker 1: feast had tasted the water that was made wine and
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  Speaker 1: did not know where it came from. But the servants
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  Speaker 1: who had drawn the water knew. The master of the
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  Speaker 1: feast called the bridegroom the water had become wine. The
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  Speaker 1: master was impressed with the quality. Verse ten records, and
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  Speaker 1: he said to him, every man at the beginning sets
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  Speaker 1: out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk,
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  Speaker 1: then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now. Um,
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  Speaker 1: this wine was better than anything served before. John explains
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  Speaker 1: the significance in verse eleven this beginning of signs. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: did in Cana of Galilee and manifested his glory, and
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  Speaker 1: his disciples believed in him. This was Jesus's first public miracle.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus went to Jerusalem for passover. Verse thirteen explains, now
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  Speaker 1: the passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus
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  Speaker 1: went up to Jojerusalem at the temple. He found something
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  Speaker 1: that made him angry. Verse fourteen describes what he saw,
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  Speaker 1: and he found in the temple. Those who sold oxen
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  Speaker 1: and sheep and doves, and the money changes doing business.
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  Speaker 1: The temple courtyard had become a market place. Jesus responded
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  Speaker 1: with force verse fifteen records. When he had made a
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  Speaker 1: whip of cords, he drove them all out of the
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  Speaker 1: temple with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out
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  Speaker 1: the chang's money and overturned the tables. Jesus had strong
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  Speaker 1: words in verse sixteen, and he said to those who
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  Speaker 1: sold doves, take these things away. Do not make my
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  Speaker 1: father's house a house of merchandise. He called the temple
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  Speaker 1: his father's house. The Jewish leaders demanded proof of his authority.
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  Speaker 1: Verse eighteen records. So the Jews answered and said to him,
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  Speaker 1: what sign do you show to us, since you do
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  Speaker 1: these things. Jesus gave them a mysterious answer. In verse nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus answered and said to them destroy this temple, and
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  Speaker 1: in three a days I will raise it up. The
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  Speaker 1: leaders were confused, thinking he meant the building, but verse
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  Speaker 1: twenty one clarifies, but he was speaking of the temple
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  Speaker 1: of his body. Jesus was predicting his own death and resurrection.
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  Speaker 1: The disciples only understood this after he rose from the
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  Speaker 1: dead during Passover. Many believed because of his miracles, but
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  Speaker 1: verse twenty four explains, but Jesus did not commit himself
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  Speaker 1: to them because he knew all men. Jesus could see
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  Speaker 1: into people's hearts. A Pharisee named Nicodemus came to Jesus
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  Speaker 1: at night. Chapter three, Verse one introduces him. There was
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  Speaker 1: a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of
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  Speaker 1: the Jews. He was an important religious leader. Nicodemus acknowledged
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  Speaker 1: Jesus's divine power in verse two. This man came to
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  Speaker 1: Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we know
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  Speaker 1: that you are a teacher, come from God. For no
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  Speaker 1: one can do these signs that you do unless God
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  Speaker 1: is with him. Jesus immediately addressed the heart issue. Verse
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  Speaker 1: three records Jesus answered and said to him most assuredly,
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  Speaker 1: I say to you, unless one is born again, he
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  Speaker 1: cannot see the Kingdom of God. This confused Nicodemus completely.
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  Speaker 1: Verse four shows his confusion. Nicodemus said to him, how
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  Speaker 1: can a man be born when he is old? Can
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  Speaker 1: he enter a second time into his mother's womb and
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  Speaker 1: be born. He was thinking only about physical birth. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: explained two kinds of birth. In verse five, Jesus answered
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  Speaker 1: most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born
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  Speaker 1: of water and the spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of God. Physical birth wasn't enough. Verse six clarifies that
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  Speaker 1: which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that
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  Speaker 1: which is born of the spirit is spirit. Jesus used
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  Speaker 1: the wind as an example in verse eight. The wind
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  Speaker 1: blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it,
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  Speaker 1: but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes.
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  Speaker 1: So is every one who is born of the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was surprised at Nicodemus's confusion. Verse ten shows Jesus
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  Speaker 1: answered and said to him, Ah, you the teacher of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: and do not know these things. Mikya, a religious leader
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  Speaker 1: should understand spiritual truth. Jesus made an amazing claim in
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  Speaker 1: verse thirteen. No one has ascended to heaven but he
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  Speaker 1: who came down from heaven, that is the son of
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  Speaker 1: Man who is in heaven. He came from heaven with authority.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus referred to Moses lifting up the bronze serpent in
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  Speaker 1: verse fourteen. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness, even so must the son of Man be
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  Speaker 1: lifted up. Anyone who looked at it lived. Then comes
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  Speaker 1: the famous verse sixteen. For God so loved the world
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  Speaker 1: that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes
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  Speaker 1: in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. God's
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  Speaker 1: love motivated this gift. Verse seventeen clarifies God's purpose, for
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  Speaker 1: God did not send his son into the world to
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  Speaker 1: condemn the world, but that the world, through him might
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  Speaker 1: be saved. Jesus came to rescue, not judge. Later, when
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  Speaker 1: John the Baptists disciples, worried about Jesus's popularity, John responded
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  Speaker 1: humbly in verse thirty, he must increase, but I must decrease.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus decided to leave Judea when the Pharisees heard about
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  Speaker 1: his popularity. Chapter four, verse three tells us he left
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  Speaker 1: Judea and departed again to Galilee. She chose to go
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  Speaker 1: through Samaria. Jesus came to Jacob's well around noon. Verse
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  Speaker 1: six tells us, now Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore,
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  Speaker 1: being wearied from his journey sat thus by the well.
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  Speaker 1: It was about the sixth hour. A Samaritan woman came
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  Speaker 1: to draw water. Jesus surprised her by asking for a drink.
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  Speaker 1: In verse seven, a woman of Samaria came to draw water.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said to her, give me a drink. This was
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  Speaker 1: unusual because Jews avoided Samaritans. The woman expressed her surprise
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  Speaker 1: in verse nine. Then the woman of Samaria said to him,
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  Speaker 1: how is it that you, being a Jew, ask a
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  Speaker 1: drink from me, a Samaritan woman, For Jews have no
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  Speaker 1: dealings with Samaritans. Jesus offered her something better. In verse ten.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus answered and said to her, if you knew the
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  Speaker 1: gift of God and who it is who says to
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  Speaker 1: you give me a drink, you would have asked him
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  Speaker 1: and he would have given you living water. She was
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  Speaker 1: confused about practical matters. In verse eleven, the woman said
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  Speaker 1: to him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and
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  Speaker 1: the well is deep. Where then do you get that
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  Speaker 1: living water? Jesus explained the difference in verse fourteen. But
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  Speaker 1: whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him
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  Speaker 1: will never thirst. But the water that I shall give
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  Speaker 1: him will become in him a fountain of water, springing
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  Speaker 1: up into everlasting life. Jesus then revealed he knew her
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  Speaker 1: personal history. When she mentioned the Messiah, Jesus made a
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  Speaker 1: stunning revelation. In verse twenty six, Jesus said to her,
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  Speaker 1: I who speak to you am he The woman ran
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  Speaker 1: to tell her town about Jesus. Many Samaritans believed because
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  Speaker 1: of her testimony, and even more believed after hearing Jesus personally. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: a nobleman from Capernium came begging Jesus to heal his
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  Speaker 1: dying son. Jesus told him in verse fifty, go your way,
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  Speaker 1: your son lives. The man believed and found his son
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  Speaker 1: healed at the exact moment Jesus spoke. This was Jesus's
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  Speaker 1: second sign in Galilee. After Jesus's time in Samaria, another
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  Speaker 1: Jewish feast approached. Chapter five, Verse one tells us after
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  Speaker 1: this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus
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  Speaker 1: went up to Jerusalem. Jesus returned to the Holy City
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  Speaker 1: for this celebration. In Jerusalem was a pool called Bethesda.
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  Speaker 1: Verse two describes it. Now there is in Jerusalem by
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  Speaker 1: the sheep Gate a pool which is called in Hebrew bethesda.
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  Speaker 1: Having five porches, this place attracted desperate people seeking healing.
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  Speaker 1: The area was filled with sick people. Verse three explains
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  Speaker 1: in these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed,
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  Speaker 1: waiting for the moving of the water. Hundreds came here
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  Speaker 1: hoping for a miracle. Among them was one man whose
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  Speaker 1: situation was tragic. Verse five tells us, now a certain
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  Speaker 1: man was there who had an infirmity thirty eight years.
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  Speaker 1: For nearly four decades, this man couldn't walk. Jesus saw
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  Speaker 1: him and knew his condition. Verse six records when Jesus
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  Speaker 1: saw him lying there and knew that he already had
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  Speaker 1: been in that condition a long time, he said to him,
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  Speaker 1: do you want to be made well? Jesus tested his faith,
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  Speaker 1: the man revealed his hopelessness. Verse seven shows the sick
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  Speaker 1: man answered him, Sir, I have no man to put
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  Speaker 1: me into the pool when the water is stirred up.
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  Speaker 1: But while I'm coming, another steps down before me. Others
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  Speaker 1: always got there first. Jesus didn't need the pool. Verse
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  Speaker 1: eight records Jesus said to him, rise, take up your bed,
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  Speaker 1: and walk. Three simple commands changed everything. The healing was instant.
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  Speaker 1: Verse nine tells us, and immediately the man was made well,
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  Speaker 1: took up his bed and walked, and that day was
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  Speaker 1: the Sabbath. After thirty eight years, he was healed on
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  Speaker 1: the Sabbath. The religious leaders complained about rule breaking. Verse
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  Speaker 1: ten a records the Jews therefore said to him who
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  Speaker 1: was cured, it is the sabbath. It is not lawful
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  Speaker 1: for you to carry your bed. They cared more about
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  Speaker 1: rules than miracles. The man explained what happened. Verse eleven
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  Speaker 1: shows he answered them, he who made me well, said
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  Speaker 1: to me, take up your bed and walk. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: know who Jesus was, yet later Jesus found him in
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  Speaker 1: the temple. Verse fourteen tells us. Afterward, Jesus found him
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  Speaker 1: in the temple and said to him, see you have
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  Speaker 1: been made well. Sin no more lest a worse thing
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  Speaker 1: come upon you. Jesus warned about spiritual health. The man
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  Speaker 1: told the religious leaders it was Jesus. This made them angry.
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  Speaker 1: They persecuted Jesus for healing on the Sabbath. Jesus responded
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  Speaker 1: in verse seventeen, my father has been working until now,
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  Speaker 1: and I have been working. He claimed God as his father.
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  Speaker 1: This made them want to kill him more. Verse eighteen explains.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him
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  Speaker 1: because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also said
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  Speaker 1: that God was his father, making himself equal with God.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus explained his relationship with the Father. Verse nineteen declares,
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  Speaker 1: Then Jesus answered and said to them most assuredly, I
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  Speaker 1: say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself,
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  Speaker 1: but what he sees the Father do. For whatever he does,
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  Speaker 1: the son also does. In like manner. Jesus claimed authority
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  Speaker 1: over life and death. Verse twenty one states, for as
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  Speaker 1: the Father raises the dead and gives life to them,
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  Speaker 1: even so the Son gives life to whom he will.
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  Speaker 1: He also claimed authority to judge all people. Jesus crossed
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  Speaker 1: the Sea of Galilee. Chapter six, Verse one tells us
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  Speaker 1: after these things, Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee,
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  Speaker 1: which is the Sea of Tiberius. A huge crowd followed
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  Speaker 1: him because of his healing miracles. Jesus went up on
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  Speaker 1: a mountain with his disciples. Verse four adds now the passover,
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  Speaker 1: a feast of the Jews was near. The timing was important.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus saw the crowd coming and tested Philip. Verse five records.
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  Speaker 1: Then Jesus lifted up his eyes, and, seeing a great
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  Speaker 1: multitude coming toward him, he said to Philip, where shall
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  Speaker 1: we buy bread that these may eat. Jesus already knew
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  Speaker 1: what he would do. Philip calculated the impossible cost. Verse
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  Speaker 1: seven records answered him, two hundred denari worth of bread
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  Speaker 1: is not sufficient for them, that every one of them
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  Speaker 1: may have a little. Andrew found a boy with lunch.
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  Speaker 1: Verse nine continues, there is a lad here who has
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  Speaker 1: five barley loves and two small fish. But what are
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  Speaker 1: they among so many? It seemed hopeless. Jesus organized the crowd.
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  Speaker 1: Verse ten tells us. Then Jesus said, make the people
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  Speaker 1: sit down. Now there was much grass in the place.
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  Speaker 1: So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus took the boy's lunch and gave thanks. Verse eleven explains,
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  Speaker 1: and Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks,
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  Speaker 1: he distributed them to the disciples, and the disciples to
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  Speaker 1: those sitting down, and likewise of the fish, as much
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  Speaker 1: as they wanted. Every one was fed completely. The food
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  Speaker 1: multiplied as Jesus distributed it. When finished, Jesus said in
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  Speaker 1: verse twelve, gather up the fragments that remain, so that
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  Speaker 1: nothing is lost. They collected twelve baskets of leftovers. The
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  Speaker 1: crowd recognized this miracle. Verse fourteen records then those men,
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  Speaker 1: when they had seen the sign that Jesus did, said,
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  Speaker 1: this is truly the prophet who is to come into
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  Speaker 1: the world. They wanted to make him king, but Jesus withdrew.
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  Speaker 1: That evening, the disciples crossed the lake without Jesus. A
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  Speaker 1: strong wind made rowing difficult. Verse nineteen tells us. So
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  Speaker 1: when they had rowed about three or four miles, they
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  Speaker 1: saw Jesus walking on the sea and drawing near the boat,
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  Speaker 1: and they were afraid. Jesus calmed them in verse twenty,
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  Speaker 1: but he said to them, it is I, do not
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  Speaker 1: be afraid. They received him into the boat and immediately
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  Speaker 1: reached shore. The crowd looked for Jesus the next day.
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  Speaker 1: When they found him in Capernium, they asked when he arrived.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus challenged their motives in verse twenty six, most assuredly,
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  Speaker 1: I say to you, you seek me not because you
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  Speaker 1: saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves
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  Speaker 1: and were filled. Jesus told them to seek eternal food.
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  Speaker 1: Verse twenty seven explains, do not labor for the food
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  Speaker 1: which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life,
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  Speaker 1: which the Son of Man will give you. They asked
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  Speaker 1: what work God required. Verse twenty nine records Jesus's answer,
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  Speaker 1: this is the work of God that you believe in
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  Speaker 1: him whom he sent. They demanded a sign and mentioned manner.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus corrected them in verse thirty two, most assuredly, I
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  Speaker 1: say to you, Moses did not give you the bread
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  Speaker 1: from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread
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  Speaker 1: from heaven. When they asked for this bread, Jesus made
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  Speaker 1: his famous declaration in verse thirty five. I am the
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  Speaker 1: bread of life. He who comes to me shall never hunger,
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  Speaker 1: and he who believes in me shall never thirst. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: explained that all the Father gives him will come, and
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  Speaker 1: he will raise them up on the last day. The
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  Speaker 1: Jews complained because he claimed to come from heaven. Knowing
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  Speaker 1: his earthly family, Jesus explained that no one can come
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  Speaker 1: unless the Father draws them. He repeated in verse forty eight,
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  Speaker 1: I am the Bread of life. He compared himself to Manna,
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  Speaker 1: saying those who ate it died, But whoever eats the
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  Speaker 1: bread from Heaven will live forever. Jesus made his most
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  Speaker 1: shocking statement in verse fifty one. I am the living
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  Speaker 1: Bread which came down from Heaven. If anyone eats of
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  Speaker 1: this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that
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  Speaker 1: I shall give is my flesh, which I shall give
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  Speaker 1: for the life of the world. This caused arguments among
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  Speaker 1: the Jews. Jesus continued explaining about eating his flesh and
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  Speaker 1: drinking his blood for eternal life. Many found this teaching
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  Speaker 1: too hard and stopped following him. Jesus asked the twelve
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  Speaker 1: if they wanted to leave. Two Peter answered in verse
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  Speaker 1: sixty eight, Lord, to whom shall we go, you have
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  Speaker 1: the words of eternal life. Jesus stayed in Galilee because
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  Speaker 1: the Jews in Judea wanted to kill him. Chapter seven,
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  Speaker 1: verse two tells us now the Jews Feast of Tabernacles
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  Speaker 1: was at hand. This was a major festival. Jesus's brothers
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  Speaker 1: urged him to go publicly. Verse four continues, for no
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  Speaker 1: one does anything in secret, while he himself seeks to
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  Speaker 1: be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself
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  Speaker 1: to the world. But verse five clarifies, for even his
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  Speaker 1: brothers did not believe in him. Jesus told them his
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  Speaker 1: time hadn't come yet. Verse eight explains, you go up
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  Speaker 1: to this feast. I am not yet going up to
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  Speaker 1: this feast, for my time has not yet fully come.
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  Speaker 1: After his brothers left, Jesus went secretly at the feast.
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  Speaker 1: People were divided about him. Some said he was good,
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  Speaker 1: others that he deceived people, but they spoke quietly for
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  Speaker 1: fear of the leaders. Half Way through the feast, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: taught in the Temple. The Jews marveled at his teaching
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  Speaker 1: without formal education. Jesus explained in verse sixteen, my doctrine
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  Speaker 1: is not mine, but his who sent me. Some Jerusalem
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  Speaker 1: residents wondered if he was the Christ, since he taught
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  Speaker 1: openly without arrest. Jesus cried ot in verse twenty eight,
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  Speaker 1: you both know me, and you know where I am from,
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  Speaker 1: and I have not come of myself. But he who
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  Speaker 1: sent me is true whom you do not know. They
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  Speaker 1: tried to arrest him, but couldn't because his hour hadn't come.
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  Speaker 1: Many believed, asking if the Christ would do more signs
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  Speaker 1: than Jesus on the last day, Jesus stood and cried
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  Speaker 1: in verse thirty seven, if any one thirsts, let come
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  Speaker 1: to me and drink. He promised rivers of living water
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  Speaker 1: flowing from believers, referring to the spirit. The people were divided.
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  Speaker 1: Officers sent to arrest him returned, saying in verse forty six,
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  Speaker 1: no man ever spoke like this man. The Pharisees were angry,
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  Speaker 1: but Nicodemus suggested they should hear Jesus before judging. After
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  Speaker 1: the divided reactions at the Feast of Tabernacles, everyone went
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  Speaker 1: to their own homes. Chapter seven, verse fifty three tells
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  Speaker 1: us and everyone went to his own house. The festival
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  Speaker 1: was ending and people were returning to their daily lives,
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  Speaker 1: but Jesus had nowhere to go for the night. Chapter eight,
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  Speaker 1: verse one explains, but Jesus went to the mount of
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  Speaker 1: Olives while others went to comfortable homes. Jesus spent the
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  Speaker 1: night outdoors on the mountain. Early the next morning, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: returned to the temple to teach. Verse two us. Now
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  Speaker 1: early in the morning, he came again into the temple,
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  Speaker 1: and all the people came to him, and he sat
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  Speaker 1: down and taught them. People were eager to hear more
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  Speaker 1: of his teaching. While Jesus was teaching, a dramatic interruption occurred.
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  Speaker 1: Verse three records. Then the scribes and pharisees brought to
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  Speaker 1: him a woman caught in adultery, and when they had
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  Speaker 1: set her in the midst, they publicly humiliated this woman
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  Speaker 1: by placing her in front of every one. The religious
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  Speaker 1: leaders explained the situation to Jesus. Verse four continues, they said,
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  Speaker 1: to him, teach her. This woman was caught in adultery.
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  Speaker 1: In the very act they claimed to have caught her
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  Speaker 1: committing adultery, which was a serious crime under Jewish law.
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  Speaker 1: They reminded Jesus of what the law required. Verse five states, Now,
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  Speaker 1: Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned.
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  Speaker 1: But what do you say. According to the law of Moses,
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  Speaker 1: adultery was punishable by death through stoning. But this was
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  Speaker 1: actually a trap designed to get Jesus in trouble. Verse
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  Speaker 1: six explains this. They said, testing him, that they might
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  Speaker 1: have something of which to accuse him. But Jesus stooped
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  Speaker 1: down and wrote on the ground with his finger, as
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  Speaker 1: though he did not hear. Jesus didn't respond immediately, but
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  Speaker 1: bent down and wrote something in the dirt. When they
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  Speaker 1: kept pressing him for an answer, Jesus stood up and
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  Speaker 1: gave them a response they didn't expect. Verse seven records,
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  Speaker 1: so when they continued asking him, he raised himself up
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  Speaker 1: and said to them, he who is without sin among you,
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  Speaker 1: let him throw a stone at her first. Jesus challenged
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  Speaker 1: them to examine their own hearts first. Then Jesus returned
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  Speaker 1: to writing on the ground. Verse eight tells us and
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  Speaker 1: again he stooped down and wrote on the ground. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: continued writing, perhaps listing their own sins for them to see.
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  Speaker 1: The accusers began to leave one by one as they
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  Speaker 1: realized their own guilt. Verse nine explains. Then those who
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  Speaker 1: heard it being convicted by their conscience went out one
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  Speaker 1: by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last,
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  Speaker 1: and Jesus was left alone and the woman standing in
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  Speaker 1: the midst. Starting with the older men, they all quietly departed.
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  Speaker 1: When Jesus looked up, only the woman remained. Verse ten records.
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  Speaker 1: When Jesus had raised himself up and saw no one
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  Speaker 1: but the woman, he said to her, woman, where are
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  Speaker 1: those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you Jesus
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  Speaker 1: asked where her accusers had gone. The woman confirmed that
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  Speaker 1: every one had left. Verse eleven tells us she said
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  Speaker 1: no one, Lord, and Jesus said to her, neither do
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  Speaker 1: I condemn you, Go and sin no more. Jesus showed
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  Speaker 1: both mercy and justice. He didn't condemn her, but he
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  Speaker 1: told her to stop sin. Later, Jesus spoke to the
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  Speaker 1: people again with another important declaration. Verse twelve records then
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  Speaker 1: Jesus spoke to them again, saying, I am the light
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  Speaker 1: of the world. He who follows me shall not walk
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  Speaker 1: in darkness, but have the light of life. Jesus identified
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  Speaker 1: himself as the light that guides people out of spiritual darkness.
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  Speaker 1: The Pharisees immediately challenged this claim. Verse thirteen states. The
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  Speaker 1: Pharisees therefore said to him, you bear witness of yourself,
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  Speaker 1: your witness is not true. They argued that his testimony
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  Speaker 1: about himself wasn't valid. Jesus explained why his testimony was
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  Speaker 1: actually valid. Verse fourteen responds Jesus answered and said to them,
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  Speaker 1: even if I bear witness of myself, my witness is true,
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  Speaker 1: for I know where I came from and where I
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  Speaker 1: am going. But you do not know where I come
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  Speaker 1: from and where I am going. Jesus knew his divine
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  Speaker 1: origin and destination. Jesus pointed out their limited perspective. Verse
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  Speaker 1: fifteen explains, you judge according to the flesh. I judge
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  Speaker 1: no one. They judged based on external appearances, while Jesus
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  Speaker 1: saw spiritual realities. Jesus revealed that his judgment carried divine authority.
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  Speaker 1: Verse sixteen continues, and yet if I do judge, my
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  Speaker 1: judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I
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  Speaker 1: am the Father who sent me. When Jesus did judge,
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  Speaker 1: it was with the father's authority. Jesus reminded them that
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  Speaker 1: their own law required two witnesses. Verse seventeen states, it
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  Speaker 1: is also written in your law that the testimony of
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  Speaker 1: two men is true. Jewish law required multiple witnesses to
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  Speaker 1: establish truth. Jesus explained that he had the required witnesses.
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  Speaker 1: Verse eighteen declares, I am one who bears witness of myself,
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  Speaker 1: and the father who sent me bears witness of me.
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  Speaker 1: Both Jesus and the Father testified to his identity. The
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  Speaker 1: Pharisees asked about his father. Verse nineteen records Then they
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  Speaker 1: said to him, where is your father? Jesus answered, you
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  Speaker 1: know neither me nor my father. If you had known me,
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  Speaker 1: you would have known my father. Also, they didn't understand
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus was talking about God as his father. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: spoke about his departure, which confused his listeners. Verse twenty
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  Speaker 1: one explains, Then Jesus said to them again, I am
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  Speaker 1: going away, and you will seek me and will die
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  Speaker 1: in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus warned them about dying in their sins if they
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  Speaker 1: didn't believe. Jesus emphasized the importance of believing in him.
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  Speaker 1: Verse twenty four declares, Therefore I said to you that
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  Speaker 1: you will die in your sins, for if you do
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  Speaker 1: not believe that I am He, you will die in
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  Speaker 1: your sins. Believing in Jesus's identity was literally a matter
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  Speaker 1: of life and death. Jesus spoke about future understanding. Verse
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight explains, Then Jesus said to them, when you
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  Speaker 1: lift up the son of Man, then you will know
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  Speaker 1: that I am He and that I do nothing of myself.
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  Speaker 1: But as my father taught me, I speak these things.
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  Speaker 1: They would understand his identity after his crucifixion, as Jesus
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  Speaker 1: walked along, He and his disciples encountered a man with
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  Speaker 1: a tragic condition. Chapter nine, Verse one tells us, now,
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  Speaker 1: as Jesus passed by, he saw a man who was
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  Speaker 1: blind from birth. This wasn't someone who had lost his
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  Speaker 1: sight later in life. He had been born without the
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  Speaker 1: ability to see. The disciples had a theological question about
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  Speaker 1: this man's condition. Verse two records, and his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi,
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  Speaker 1: who sinned this man or his parents? That he was
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  Speaker 1: born blind. They assumed that someone's sin had caused this blindness.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus corrected their assumption about suffering and sin. Verse three
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  Speaker 1: explains Jesus answered neither this man nor his parents sinned,
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  Speaker 1: but that the works of God should be revealed in him.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes suffering exists so that God's power can be displayed
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  Speaker 1: through healing. Jesus spoke about the urgency of his mission.
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  Speaker 1: Verse four states, I must work the works of Him
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  Speaker 1: who sent me while it is day. The night is
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  Speaker 1: coming when no one can work. Jesus knew his time
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  Speaker 1: on earth was limited. Jesus made another declaration about his identity.
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  Speaker 1: Verse five declares, as long as I am in the world,
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  Speaker 1: I am the light of the world. Jesus identified himself
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  Speaker 1: as the source of spiritual illumination. Then Jesus did something
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  Speaker 1: unusual to heal the blind man. Verse six tells us,
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  Speaker 1: when he had said these things, he spat on the
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  Speaker 1: ground and made clay with the saliva, and he anointed
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  Speaker 1: the eyes of the blind man with the clay. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: made mud and put it on the man's eyes. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: gave the man specific instructions. Verse seven continues, and he
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  Speaker 1: said to him, go wash in the pool of siloam,
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  Speaker 1: which is translated sent. So he went and washed, and
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  Speaker 1: came back seeing The man obeyed and received his sight.
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  Speaker 1: The neighbors were amazed by the transformation. Verse eight records. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: the neighbors and those who previously had seen that he
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  Speaker 1: was blind, said, is not this he who sat and begged?
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  Speaker 1: They could hardly believe this was the same person. Some
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  Speaker 1: people weren't sure it was really him. Verse nine explains
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  Speaker 1: some said this is he, others said he is like him?
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  Speaker 1: He said, I am he. The man had to confirm
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  Speaker 1: his own identity. Because the change was so dramatic, people
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  Speaker 1: wanted to know how this miracle happened. Verse ten asks. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: they said to him, how were your eyes opened? They
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  Speaker 1: were curious about the method of healing. The man gave
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  Speaker 1: a simple, factual account. Verse eleven responds, he answered and said,
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  Speaker 1: a man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes,
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  Speaker 1: and said to me go to the pool of siloam
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  Speaker 1: and wash. So I went and washed, and I received sight.
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  Speaker 1: He told exactly what had happened. They brought the formerly
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  Speaker 1: blind man to the Pharisees for investigation. Verse thirteen tells
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  Speaker 1: us they brought him, who formerly was blind, to the Pharisees.
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  Speaker 1: The religious leaders wanted to examine this case themselves. There
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  Speaker 1: was a problem with the timing of the miracle. Verse
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  Speaker 1: fourteen explains, now it was a Sabbath when Jesus made
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  Speaker 1: the clay and opened his eyes. Once again, Jesus had
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  Speaker 1: performed a healing on the Sabbath day. The Pharisees questioned
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  Speaker 1: the man about how he received his sight. Verse fifteen
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  Speaker 1: records then the Pharisees also asked him again how he
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  Speaker 1: had received his sight. He said to them, he put
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  Speaker 1: clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.
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  Speaker 1: The man gave the same straightforward account. The religious leaders
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  Speaker 1: were divided in their opinions about Jesus. Verse sixteen shows
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  Speaker 1: their disagreement. Therefore, some of the Pharisees said, this man
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  Speaker 1: is not from God because he does not keep the Sabbath.
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  Speaker 1: Others said, how can a man who is a sinner
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  Speaker 1: do such signs? And there was a division among them.
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  Speaker 1: They asked the formerly blind man for his opinion about Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Verse seventeen records they said to the blind man again,
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  Speaker 1: what do you say about him? Because he opened your eyes?
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  Speaker 1: He said, he is a prophet. The man recognized Jesus
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  Speaker 1: as some one sent from God. The Jewish leaders didn't
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  Speaker 1: believe the man had really been born blind. Verse eighteen
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  Speaker 1: tells us but the Jews did not believe concerning him
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  Speaker 1: that he had been blind and received sight until they
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  Speaker 1: called the parents of him who had received sight. They
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  Speaker 1: decided to question his parents. The parents confirmed their son's
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  Speaker 1: identity and blindness, but were afraid to say more. Verse
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  Speaker 1: twenty explains His parents answered them and said, we know
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  Speaker 1: that this is our son and that he was born blind.
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  Speaker 1: They verified the basic facts, but the parents refused to
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  Speaker 1: explain how their son received sight. Verse twenty one continues,
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  Speaker 1: but by what means he now sees we do not know,
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  Speaker 1: or who opened his eyes, We do not know. He
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  Speaker 1: is of age. Ask him, he will speak for himself.
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  Speaker 1: They directed the questions back to their adult son. The
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  Speaker 1: parents were afraid of being expelled from the synagogue. Verse
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  Speaker 1: twenty two explains his parents said these things because they
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  Speaker 1: feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already that
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  Speaker 1: if anyone confessed that he was Christ, he would be
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  Speaker 1: put out of the synagogue. There were serious consequences for
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  Speaker 1: believing in Jesus. The religious leaders called the man back
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  Speaker 1: for more questioning. They tried to get him to denounce Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: but the man stood firm. Eventually they threw him out
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  Speaker 1: of the synagogue. When Jesus heard about this, he found
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  Speaker 1: the man and revealed himself as the Son of God.
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  Speaker 1: The man believed and worshiped Jesus. Jesus began teaching with
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  Speaker 1: the parable about shepherds and sheep Chapter ten, Verse one
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  Speaker 1: starts most assuredly, I say to you, he who does
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  Speaker 1: not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up
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  Speaker 1: some other way, the same as a thief and a robber.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus contrasted legitimate shepherds with those who had evil intentions.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus described the proper way to enter the sheepfold. Verse
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  Speaker 1: two explains, but he who enters by the door is
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  Speaker 1: the shepherd of the sheep. True shepherds didn't need to
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  Speaker 1: sneak in, they had legitimate access. The doorkeeper recognized genuine shepherds.
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  Speaker 1: Verse three continues to him, the doorkeeper opens, and the
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  Speaker 1: sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep
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  Speaker 1: by name and leads them out. Real shepherds had a
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  Speaker 1: relationship with both the doorkeeper and the sheep. Jesus described
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  Speaker 1: the intimate relationship between shepherd and sheep. Verse four states,
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  Speaker 1: and when he brings out his own sheep, he goes
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  Speaker 1: before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know
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  Speaker 1: his voice. The sheep trusted their shepherd and followed willingly,
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  Speaker 1: But sheep wouldn't follow strangers. Verse five explains, Yet they
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  Speaker 1: will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee
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  Speaker 1: from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.
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  Speaker 1: Sheep had the wisdom to recognize and avoid dangerous voices.
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  Speaker 1: The listeners didn't understand this. Teaching. Verse six tells us
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  Speaker 1: Jesus used this illustration, But they did not understand the
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  Speaker 1: things which he spoke to them. The spiritual meaning of
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  Speaker 1: the parable wasn't clear to them. Yet Jesus explained the
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  Speaker 1: parable more directly. Verse seven declares, then Jesus said to
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  Speaker 1: them again, most assuredly, I say to you, I am
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  Speaker 1: the door of the sheep. Jesus identified himself as the
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  Speaker 1: way into the sheep fold. Jesus condemned false leaders who
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  Speaker 1: came before him. Verse eight states, all who ever came
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  Speaker 1: before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did
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  Speaker 1: not hear them. Jesus distinguished himself from false messiahs and
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  Speaker 1: corrupt religious leaders. Jesus emphasized his role as the door.
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  Speaker 1: Verse nine explains, I am the door. If any one
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  Speaker 1: enters by me, he will be saved, and will go
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  Speaker 1: in and out and find pasture. Jesus provided both security
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  Speaker 1: and freedom for his followers. Jesus contrasted his purpose with
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  Speaker 1: that of thieves. Verse ten declares, the thief does not
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  Speaker 1: come except to steal and to kill and to destroy.
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  Speaker 1: I have come that they may have life, and that
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  Speaker 1: they may have it more abundantly. Jesus came to give life,
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  Speaker 1: not take it. Then Jesus made one of his most
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  Speaker 1: famous declarations. Verse eleven states, I am the good shepherd.
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  Speaker 1: The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was willing to die for those who followed him. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: distinguished himself from hired workers. Verse twelve explains, but a hireling,
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  Speaker 1: he who is not the shepherd, one who does not
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  Speaker 1: own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the
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  Speaker 1: sheep and flees, and the wolf catches the sheep and
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  Speaker 1: scatters them. Hired hands abandoned sheep when danger came. Hired
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  Speaker 1: workers didn't really care about the sheep. Verse thirteen continues.
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  Speaker 1: The hiring flees because he is a hirling and does
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  Speaker 1: not care about the sheep. They worked for money, not
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  Speaker 1: out of love. Jesus spoke about his intimate knowledge of
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  Speaker 1: his followers. Verse fourteen declares, I am the good shepherd,
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  Speaker 1: and I know my sheep, and am known by my
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  Speaker 1: own There was mutual recognition and relationship. Jesus revealed his
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  Speaker 1: global mission. Verse sixteen explains, and other sheep I have
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  Speaker 1: which are not of this fold. Them also I must bring,
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  Speaker 1: and they will hear my voice, and there will be
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  Speaker 1: one flock and un shepherd Jesus would gather followers from
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  Speaker 1: beyond Israel. Jesus explained why the Father loved him. Verse
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  Speaker 1: seventeen states, Therefore, my father loves me because I lay
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  Speaker 1: down my life that I may take it again Jesus's
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  Speaker 1: willing sacrifice please the Father. Jesus emphasized that his death
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  Speaker 1: would be voluntary. Verse eighteen declares, no one takes it
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  Speaker 1: from me, but I lay it down of myself. I
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  Speaker 1: have power to lay it down, and I have power
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  Speaker 1: to take it again. This command I have received from
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  Speaker 1: my Father. Jesus chose to die. No one could force him.
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  Speaker 1: The people were divided again about jesus teaching. Some thought
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  Speaker 1: he was demon possessed and crazy, while others pointed to
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  Speaker 1: his good works and asked how a demon possessed man
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  Speaker 1: could open the eyes of the blind. A man named
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  Speaker 1: Lazarus became seriously ill in the village of Bethany. Chapter eleven.
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  Speaker 1: Verse one tells us, now a certain man was sick.
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  Speaker 1: Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
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  Speaker 1: Lazarus lived with his two sisters in a small town
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  Speaker 1: near Jerusalem. This was the same Mary who had anointed
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  Speaker 1: Jesus with expensive perfume. Verse two clarifies it was that
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  Speaker 1: Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped
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  Speaker 1: his feet with her hair. Whose brother Lazarus was sick.
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  Speaker 1: John helps readers identify which Mary this was. The sisters
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  Speaker 1: sent an urgent message to Jesus about their brother. Verse
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  Speaker 1: three records therefore, the sisters sent to him saying, Lord, behold,
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  Speaker 1: he whom you love is sick. They expected Jesus to
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  Speaker 1: come immediately, since he loved Lazarus. When Jesus heard the news,
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  Speaker 1: he made a surprising statement. Verse four explains when Jesus
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  Speaker 1: heard that, he said, this sickness is not unto death,
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  Speaker 1: but for the glory of God, that the Son of
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  Speaker 1: God may be glorified through it. Jesus saw a bigger
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  Speaker 1: purpose in this illness. Jesus loved this family deeply. Verse
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  Speaker 1: five confirms now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
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  Speaker 1: This wasn't just casual friendship. Jesus had genuine affection for
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  Speaker 1: all three siblings. But Jesus didn't rush to help immediately.
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  Speaker 1: Verse six tells us so when he heard that he
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  Speaker 1: was sick, he stayed two more days in the place
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  Speaker 1: where he was. Jesus deliberately delayed his response, which must
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  Speaker 1: have seemed strange to his disciples. After two days, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: finally decided to go to Judea. Verse seven records. Then
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  Speaker 1: after this he said to the disciples, let us go
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  Speaker 1: to Judea again. Jesus announced his intention to travel toward Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 1: The disciples were alarmed by this plan. Verse eight shows
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  Speaker 1: their concern. The disciples said to him, Rabbi, lately the
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  Speaker 1: Jews sought to stone you, and are you going there again?
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  Speaker 1: They remembered the recent threats against Jesus's life. Jesus explained
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  Speaker 1: that he operated according to divine timing. Verse nine responds
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  Speaker 1: Jesus answered, are there not twelve hours in the day?
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  Speaker 1: If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble
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  Speaker 1: because he sees the light of this world. Jesus walked
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  Speaker 1: in God's perfect timing and was safe. Jesus then spoke
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  Speaker 1: about their friend Lazarus. Verse eleven tells us these things
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  Speaker 1: he said, And after that he said, to them, our
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  Speaker 1: friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may wake
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  Speaker 1: him up. Jesus used sleep as a metaphor for death.
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  Speaker 1: The disciples misunderstood what Jesus meant. Verse twelve records their response.
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  Speaker 1: Then his disciples said, Lord, if he sleeps, he will
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  Speaker 1: get well. They thought Jesus meant natural sleep, which would
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  Speaker 1: be good for someone who was sick. Jesus had to
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  Speaker 1: speak more plainly about what had happened. Verse fourteen states. Clearly, then,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said to them plainly, Lazarus is dead. Jesus told
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  Speaker 1: them directly that their friend had died. Jesus revealed why
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  Speaker 1: the delay had been necessary. Verse fifteen explains, and I
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  Speaker 1: am glad for your sakes that I was not there,
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  Speaker 1: that you may believe. Nevertheless, let us go to him.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus's absence would make the coming miracle more powerful. When
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  Speaker 1: Jesus arrived in Bethany, Lazarus had been dead for four days.
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  Speaker 1: Verse seventeen tells us, so when Jesus came, he found
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  Speaker 1: that he had already been in the tomb four days.
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  Speaker 1: By Jewish understanding, the soul departed after three days, making
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  Speaker 1: resurrection impossible. Martha heard that Jesus was coming and went
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  Speaker 1: to meet him. Verse twenty records. Now, Martha, as soon
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  Speaker 1: as she heard that jesus was coming, went and met him,
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  Speaker 1: but Mary was sitting in the house. Martha was always
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  Speaker 1: the more active sister. Martha expressed both faith and disappointment.
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  Speaker 1: Verse twenty one tells us, now, Martha said to Jesus, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
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  Speaker 1: She believed Jesus could have prevented the death, but Martha
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  Speaker 1: still had her Verse twenty two continues, but even now,
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  Speaker 1: I know that whatever you ask of God, God will
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  Speaker 1: give you. Martha believed Jesus still had special power with God.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus made a promise about resurrection. Verse twenty three states
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said to her, your brother will rise again. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: assured Martha that Lazarus would live again. Martha thought Jesus
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  Speaker 1: meant the final resurrection. Verse twenty four responds Martha said
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  Speaker 1: to him, I know that he will rise again in
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  Speaker 1: the resurrection at the last day. Martha believed in future resurrection,
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  Speaker 1: but not immediate restoration. Jesus made one of his most
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  Speaker 1: powerful declarations. Verse twenty five declares Jesus said to her,
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  Speaker 1: I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes
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  Speaker 1: in me. Though he may die, he shall live. Jesus
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: claimed to be the source of both resurrection power and
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  Speaker 1: its eternal life. Jesus continued his promise about eternal life.
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  Speaker 1: Verse twenty six explains, and whoever lives and believes in
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  Speaker 1: me shall never die. Do you believe this? Jesus asked
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  Speaker 1: Martha to respond with faith to this incredible claim. Martha
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  Speaker 1: made a powerful confession of faith. Verse twenty seven records
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  Speaker 1: she said to him, Yes, Lord, I believe that you
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  Speaker 1: are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to
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  Speaker 1: come into the world. Martha declared her belief in Jesus's
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  Speaker 1: identity as the Messiah. When Mary came to Jesus, she
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  Speaker 1: fell at his feet and said the same words as Martha.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was deeply moved by their grief and asked to
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  Speaker 1: see the tomb. Then comes the shortest verse in the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: Verse thirty five simply states Jesus wept at the tomb.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus commanded them to remove the stone. Martha worried about
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  Speaker 1: the smell, but Jesus reminded her about believing. After praying publicly,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus called with a loud voice, Lazarus come forth. The
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  Speaker 1: dead man came out, still wrapped in burial clothes. And
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  Speaker 1: Jesus told them to unwrap him. Many who witnessed this
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  Speaker 1: miracle believed in Jesus, but some reported it to the Pharisees,
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  Speaker 1: who began plotting to kill both Jesus and Lazarus. Six
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  Speaker 1: days before passover, Jesus returned to Bethany, where he had
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  Speaker 1: raised Lazarus from the dead. Chapter twelve, Verse one tells us, then,
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  Speaker 1: six days before the passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where
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  Speaker 1: Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he had raised
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  Speaker 1: from the dead. This was a significant return to the
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  Speaker 1: place where Jesus had demonstrated his power over death. The
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  Speaker 1: people of Bethany prepared a special dinner to honor Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Verse two explains There they made him a supper, and
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  Speaker 1: Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat
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  Speaker 1: at the table with him. Martha was doing what she
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  Speaker 1: did best, serving others. Lazarus, who had been dead just
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  Speaker 1: days before, was now sitting and eating with Jesus. During
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  Speaker 1: this dinner, something beautiful and costly happened. Verse three records
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  Speaker 1: then Mary took a pound of very costly oil of spikenard,
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  Speaker 1: anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with
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  Speaker 1: her hair, and the house was filled with the fragrance
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  Speaker 1: of the oil. Mary brought out an expensive bottle of
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  Speaker 1: perfume worth a year's wages, and poured it all on
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  Speaker 1: Jesus's feet. Judas is Scarri had criticized Mary's act. Verse
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  Speaker 1: five records his complaint, why was this fragrant oil not
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  Speaker 1: sold for three hundred dinari eye and given to the poor.
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  Speaker 1: But John reveals Judas's real motivation in verse six. This
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  Speaker 1: he said, not that he cared for the poor, but
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  Speaker 1: because he was a thief and had the money box,
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  Speaker 1: and he used to take what was put in it.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus defended Mary's act of worship. Verse seven records his response.
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  Speaker 1: But Jesus said, let her alone. She has kept this
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  Speaker 1: for the day of my burial. Jesus revealed that Mary's
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  Speaker 1: anointing had a deeper meaning she was preparing his body
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  Speaker 1: for burial. Meanwhile, words spread that Jesus was in Bethany.
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  Speaker 1: Verse nine tells us, now a great many of the
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  Speaker 1: Jews knew that he was there, and they came not
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  Speaker 1: for jesus sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus,
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  Speaker 1: whom he had raised from the dead. People came to
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  Speaker 1: see both Jesus and Lazarus, the living proof of Jesus's power.
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  Speaker 1: The chief priests decided they had to kill Lazarus two.
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  Speaker 1: Verse ten records their shocking plan, but the chief priests
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  Speaker 1: plotted to put Lazarus to death also. Their reasoning was
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  Speaker 1: practical but evil. Verse eleven explains because on account of him,
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  Speaker 1: many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: The next day, news spread that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 1: Verse twelve tells us the next day a great multitude
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  Speaker 1: that had come to the feast when they heard that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. The crowds organized a royal
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  Speaker 1: welcome for Jesus. Verse thirteen records their actions. Took branches
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  Speaker 1: of palm trees and went out to meet him and
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  Speaker 1: cried out, Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the
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  Speaker 1: name of the Lord, the King of Israel. The people
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  Speaker 1: cut down palm branches and used them like flags to
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  Speaker 1: waive in celebration, but Jesus chose a humble entrance. Verse
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  Speaker 1: fourteen tells us. Then Jesus, when he had found a
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  Speaker 1: young donkey, sat on it as it is written Jesus
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  Speaker 1: deliberately chose to ride on a donkey, fulfilling prophecy and
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  Speaker 1: sending a mesas of peace rather than war. Verse fifteen
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  Speaker 1: quotes the prophecy fear not, daughter of Zion, Behold your
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  Speaker 1: king is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt. A king
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  Speaker 1: riding on a donkey was a symbol of peace, not war.
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  Speaker 1: The disciples didn't understand this at first. Verse sixteen explains
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  Speaker 1: his disciples did not understand these things at first, but
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  Speaker 1: when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things
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  Speaker 1: were written about him, and that they had done these
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  Speaker 1: things to him. The crowd that had witnessed Lazarus being
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  Speaker 1: raised continued to tell others about this miracle. More people
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  Speaker 1: came out to see Jesus because they had heard about Lazarus.
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  Speaker 1: The Pharisees watched helplessly, as Verse nineteen records their frustrated conversation.
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  Speaker 1: The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, you see that you
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  Speaker 1: are accomplishing nothing. Look the world has gone after him.
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  Speaker 1: Among the crowds were some Greeks who wanted to meet Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Verse twenty one records their request Then they came to Philip,
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  Speaker 1: who was from Bethsada of Galilee, and asked him, saying, Sir,
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  Speaker 1: we wish to see Jesus. Philip brought this request to
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  Speaker 1: Jesus through Andrew. When Jesus heard that Greeks were seeking him,
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  Speaker 1: he knew something significant was happening. Verse twenty three records
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  Speaker 1: his response. But Jesus answered them, saying, the hour has
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  Speaker 1: come that the son of Man should be glorified. The
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  Speaker 1: fact that non Jewish people were seeking Jesus meant his
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  Speaker 1: message was about to spread world wide. Jesus used a
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  Speaker 1: farming illustration to explain what was about to happen. Verse
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  Speaker 1: twenty four tells us most assuredly, I say to you,
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  Speaker 1: unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies,
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  Speaker 1: it remains alone. But if it dies, it produces much grain.
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  Speaker 1: Like a seed that must die to produce a harvest,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus would have to die to produce spiritual fruit. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: taught about the cost of following him. Verse twenty five
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  Speaker 1: explains he who loves his life will lose it, and
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  Speaker 1: he who hates his life in this world will keep
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  Speaker 1: it for eternal life. Those willing to sacrifice for Jesus
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  Speaker 1: gain eternal life. As Jesus thought about his approaching death,
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  Speaker 1: he felt troubled. Verse twenty seven records, Now my soul
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  Speaker 1: is troubled, and what shall I say? Father? Save me
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  Speaker 1: from this hour? But for this purpose I came to
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  Speaker 1: this hour. Jesus chose to submit to God's will. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: prayed for God to be glorified. Verse twenty eight continues, Father,
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  Speaker 1: glorify your name. Then a voice came from heaven, saying,
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  Speaker 1: I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.
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  Speaker 1: God spoke order from heaven. Jesus announced that Satan's power
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  Speaker 1: was about to be broken. Verse thirty one declares, now
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  Speaker 1: is the judgment of this world. Now the ruler of
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  Speaker 1: this world will be cast out. Jesus revealed how his
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  Speaker 1: death would affect the world in verse thirty two, and I,
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  Speaker 1: if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw
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  Speaker 1: all peoples to myself. Despite all the miracles Jesus had performed,
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  Speaker 1: many people still didn't believe. Verse thirty seven explains, but
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  Speaker 1: although he had done so many signs before them, they
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  Speaker 1: did not believe in him. This fulfilled what Isaiah had
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  Speaker 1: prophesied about people rejecting the Messiah, Jesus made one final
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  Speaker 1: public appeal. Verse forty four records. Then Jesus cried out
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  Speaker 1: and said, he who believes in me believes not in me,
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  Speaker 1: but in him who sent me. Jesus emphasized that believing
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  Speaker 1: in him was the same as believing in God the Father.
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  Speaker 1: Before passover, Jesus knew his hour had come. Chapter thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: Verse one tells us, now before the feast of the Passover,
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  Speaker 1: when Jesus knew that his hour had come, that he
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  Speaker 1: should depart from this world to the Father. Having loved
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  Speaker 1: his own who were in the world, he loved them
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  Speaker 1: to the end. During supper, Jesus did something shocking. Verse
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  Speaker 1: four records. Rose from supper and laid aside his garments,
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  Speaker 1: took a towel and girded himself. Jesus took off his
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  Speaker 1: outer robe and wrapped a towel around his waist like
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  Speaker 1: a servant. Verse five tells us after that he poured
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  Speaker 1: water into a basin and began to wash the disciple's
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  Speaker 1: feet and to wipe them with the towel with which
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  Speaker 1: he was girded. Washing feet was the most humble job available,
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  Speaker 1: only the lowest servants did this work. When Jesus came
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  Speaker 1: to Peter, Peter was shocked. Verse records. Then he came
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  Speaker 1: to Simon Peter, and Peter said to him, Lord, are
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  Speaker 1: you washing my feet? That Peter couldn't believe Jesus would
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  Speaker 1: do such humble work. Peter refused to let Jesus wash
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  Speaker 1: his feet, but Jesus told him in verse eight, if
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  Speaker 1: I do not wash you, you have no part with me.
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  Speaker 1: When Peter heard this, he went to the opposite extreme.
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  Speaker 1: In verse nine, Simon Peter said to him, Lord, not
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  Speaker 1: my feet only, but also my hands and my head.
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  Speaker 1: After washing everyone's feet, Jesus explained what he had done.
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  Speaker 1: Verse fourteen states, if I then your lord and teacher
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  Speaker 1: have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one
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  Speaker 1: another's feet. If Jesus was willing to serve his followers
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  Speaker 1: should serve each other. Jesus told them this was an
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  Speaker 1: example to follow. Verse fifteen declares, for I have given
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  Speaker 1: you an example that you should do as I have
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  Speaker 1: done to you. Jesus wasn't just teaching with words, He
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  Speaker 1: was showing them how to live. Then Jesus became troubled
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  Speaker 1: as he thought about betrayal verse twenty one tells us
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  Speaker 1: when Jesus had said these things, he was troubled in
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  Speaker 1: spirit and testified, and said, most assuredly, I say to you,
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  Speaker 1: one of you will betray me. The disciples were shocked
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  Speaker 1: and confused. Jesus identified the betrayer by giving bread to
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  Speaker 1: Judas Iscariot. Verse twenty seven explains, Now after the piece
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  Speaker 1: of bread Satan entered him, then Jesus said to him,
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  Speaker 1: what you do do quickly? Judas immediately left. Verse thirty
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  Speaker 1: concludes having received the piece of bread, he then went
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  Speaker 1: out immediately, and it was night. Judas left the light
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  Speaker 1: and warmth of being with Jesus and stepped into darkness.
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  Speaker 1: After Judas left, Jesus spoke about what was coming. Verse
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  Speaker 1: thirty one tells us so when he had gone out,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, now the son of Man is glorified, and
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  Speaker 1: God is glorified in him. With Judas gone, events leading
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  Speaker 1: to Jesus's death were set in motion. Jesus told his
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  Speaker 1: disciples his time with them was almost over. Verse thirty
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  Speaker 1: three explains, little children, I shall be with you a
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  Speaker 1: little while longer. You will seek me. And as I
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  Speaker 1: said to the Jews, where I am going you cannot come.
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  Speaker 1: So now I say to you. Before leaving, Jesus gave
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  Speaker 1: them a new commandment. Verse thirty four records a new commandment.
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  Speaker 1: I give to you that you love one another as
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  Speaker 1: I have loved you, that you also love one another.
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  Speaker 1: This wasn't ordinary love. It was love like Jesus had
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  Speaker 1: shown them. Jesus explained that this love would identify his followers.
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  Speaker 1: Verse thirty five declared by this, all will know that
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  Speaker 1: you are my disciples if you have love for one another.
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  Speaker 1: Peter asked where Jesus was going and insisted he was
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  Speaker 1: ready to die for him. Verse thirty seven shows Peter's
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  Speaker 1: bold declaration. Peter said to him, Lord, why can I
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  Speaker 1: not follow you? Now? I will lay down my life
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  Speaker 1: for your sake. But Jesus knew Peter better than Peter
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  Speaker 1: knew himself. Verse thirty eight records Jesus's shocking prediction. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: answered him, will you lay down your life for my sake?
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  Speaker 1: Most assuredly, I say to you, the rooster shall not
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  Speaker 1: crow till you have denied me three times. Jesus saw
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  Speaker 1: his disciples were troubled, so he offered comfort. Chapter fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: Verse one tells us let not your heart be troubled.
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  Speaker 1: You believe in God, believe also in Me. Jesus promised
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  Speaker 1: to prepare a place for them in verse two, in
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  Speaker 1: my Father's how so many mansions. If it were not so,
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  Speaker 1: I would have told you I go to prepare a
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  Speaker 1: place for you. When Thomas asked about the way, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: gave one of the most important statements in the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: Verse six declares, Jesus said to him, I am the Way,
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  Speaker 1: the Truth, and the life. No one comes to the
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  Speaker 1: Father except through me. Jesus claimed to be the only
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  Speaker 1: path to God. Jesus explained that knowing him means knowing
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  Speaker 1: the Father. When Philip asked to see the Father, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: responded in verse nine, he who has seen me has
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  Speaker 1: seen the Father. So how can you say, show us
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  Speaker 1: the Father. Jesus made amazing promises about prayer. Verse thirteen explains,
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  Speaker 1: and whatever you ask in my name, that I will
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  Speaker 1: do that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit in verse sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: and I will pray the Father, and he will give
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  Speaker 1: you another helper that he may abide with you forever.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus promised not to leave them as orphans. He explained
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  Speaker 1: that love shows itself through obedience. In verse twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: he who has my commandments and keeps them, it is
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  Speaker 1: he who loves me. And he who loves me will
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  Speaker 1: be loved by my Father, and I will love him
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  Speaker 1: and manifest myself to him. Jesus promised that the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit would continue their education. Verse twenty six declares, but
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  Speaker 1: the helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send
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  Speaker 1: in my name, He will teach you all things and
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  Speaker 1: bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus offered them his peace as a farewell gift. Verse
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven explains peace I leave with you My peace
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  Speaker 1: I give to you. Not as the world gives. Do
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  Speaker 1: I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled,
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  Speaker 1: neither let it be afraid. Jesus used a grape vine
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  Speaker 1: to teach about relationship with his followers. Chapter fifteen. Verse
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  Speaker 1: one begins, I am the true vine, and my Father
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  Speaker 1: is the vine dresser. Jesus explained what happens to unfruitful branches.
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  Speaker 1: In verse two. Every branch in me that does not
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  Speaker 1: bear fruit he takes away, And every branch that bears fruit,
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  Speaker 1: he prunes that it may bear more fruit. Jesus emphasized
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  Speaker 1: staying connected to him. Verse four declares, abide in me
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  Speaker 1: and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit
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  Speaker 1: of itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can
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  Speaker 1: you unless you abide in me. Verse five explains I
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  Speaker 1: am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides
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  Speaker 1: in me and I in him bears much fruit. For
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  Speaker 1: without me you can do nothing. Apart from Jesus, his
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  Speaker 1: followers can accomplish nothing spiritually valuable. Jesus promised that abiding
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  Speaker 1: in him leads to answered prayer. Verse seven declares, if
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  Speaker 1: you abide in me and my words abide in you,
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  Speaker 1: you will ask what you desire, and it shall be
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  Speaker 1: done for you. Jesus repeated his commandment about love. Verse
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  Speaker 1: twelve states, this is my commandment that you love one
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  Speaker 1: another as I have loved you. He described the greatest
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  Speaker 1: expression of love in verse thirteen. Greater love has no
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  Speaker 1: one than this than to lay down one's life for
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  Speaker 1: his friends. Jesus changed their status from servants to friends.
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  Speaker 1: Verse fifteen states, no longer do I call you servants,
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  Speaker 1: for a servant does not know what his master is doing.
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  Speaker 1: But I have called you friends. For all things that
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  Speaker 1: I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus warned that the world would hate them. Verse eighteen
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  Speaker 1: tells us, if the world hates you, you know that
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  Speaker 1: it hated me before it hated you. He explained why
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  Speaker 1: in verse nineteen, if you were of the world, the
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  Speaker 1: world would love its own. Yet, because you are not
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  Speaker 1: of the world. But I chose you out of the
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  Speaker 1: world there for the world hates you. Jesus promised to
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  Speaker 1: send the Holy Spirit to testify about him. Verse twenty
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  Speaker 1: six states, but when the helper comes, whom I shall
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  Speaker 1: send to you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth,
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  Speaker 1: who proceeds from the Father, he will testify of me.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus continued preparing his disciples for persecution. Chapter sixteen. Verse
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  Speaker 1: one tells us these things I have spoken to you,
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  Speaker 1: that you should not be made to stumble. Jesus wanted
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  Speaker 1: to prevent them from losing faith when difficult times came.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus warned them about being thrown out of synagogues and
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  Speaker 1: even killed. Verse two explains, they will put you out
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  Speaker 1: of the synagogues. Yes, the time is coming that whoever kills,
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  Speaker 1: you will think that he offers God's service. Religious people
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  Speaker 1: would persecute Christians thinking they were serving God. Jesus explained
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  Speaker 1: why this persecution would happen Verse three states, and these
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  Speaker 1: things they do to you because they have not known
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  Speaker 1: the Father nor me. Persecution comes from ignorance of God's
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  Speaker 1: true nature. Jesus told them his departure was actually beneficial
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  Speaker 1: for them. Verse seven declares, Nevertheless, I tell you the truth.
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  Speaker 1: It is to your advantage that I go away. For
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  Speaker 1: if I do not go away, the Helper will not
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  Speaker 1: come to you. But if I depart, I will send
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  Speaker 1: him to you. The Holy Spirit could only come after
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  Speaker 1: Jesus left. Jesus explained what the Holy Spirit would do
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  Speaker 1: in the world. Verse eight states, and when he has come,
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  Speaker 1: he will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness
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  Speaker 1: and of judgment. The Spirit would convince people about these
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  Speaker 1: three crucial truths. Sin because they don't believe in Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: righteousness because Jesus goes to the Father, and judgment because
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  Speaker 1: Satan is already defeated. Jesus promised that the Spirit would
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  Speaker 1: guide them into all Verse thirteen declares, However, when he
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit of Truth has come, he will guide you
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  Speaker 1: into all truth. For he will not speak on his
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  Speaker 1: own authority, but whatever he hears, he will speak, and
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  Speaker 1: he will tell you things to come. The Spirit would
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  Speaker 1: be their teacher and reveal future events. Jesus use the
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  Speaker 1: illustration of a woman in childbirth to explain their coming experience.
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  Speaker 1: Verse twenty one explains a woman when she is in
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  Speaker 1: labor has sorrow because her hour has come, but as
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  Speaker 1: soon as she has given birth to the child, she
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  Speaker 1: no longer remembers the anguish for joy that a human
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  Speaker 1: being has been born into the world. Their pain would
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  Speaker 1: turn to permanent joy. Jesus promised direct access to the
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  Speaker 1: Father in prayer. Verse twenty three states, and in that
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  Speaker 1: day you will ask me nothing. Most assuredly, I say
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  Speaker 1: to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name,
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  Speaker 1: he will give you. They would be able to pray
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  Speaker 1: directly to the Father without needing Jesus to intercede. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: predicted the disciples would abandon him, but concluded with victory.
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  Speaker 1: Verse thirty three declares these things I have spoken to
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  Speaker 1: you that in me you may have peace. In the world.
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  Speaker 1: You will have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I
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  Speaker 1: have overcome the world. Despite coming troubles, Jesus had already
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  Speaker 1: won the ultimate victory. Then Jesus prayed his magnificent high
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  Speaker 1: priestly prayer in Chapter seventeen. He lifted his eyes to
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  Speaker 1: heaven and asked to be glorified. Verse one begins, Father,
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  Speaker 1: the hour has come, glorify your son, that your son
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  Speaker 1: also may glorify you. Jesus asked to be glorified through
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  Speaker 1: his coming death and resurrection. Jesus reminded the Father of
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  Speaker 1: the authority he had been given. Verse two explains, as
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  Speaker 1: you have given him authority over all flesh, that he
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  Speaker 1: should give eternal life to as many as you have
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  Speaker 1: given him. Jesus had power to give eternal life to
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  Speaker 1: those the Father chose. Jesus defined eternal life in simple terms.
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  Speaker 1: Verse three declares, and this is eternal life that they
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  Speaker 1: may know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: whom you have sent. Eternal life means having a personal
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  Speaker 1: relationship with God and Jesus. Jesus reported that he had
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  Speaker 1: completed his earthly mission successfully. Verse four states, I have
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  Speaker 1: glorified you on the earth. I have finished the work
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  Speaker 1: which you have given me to do. Jesus had accomplished
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  Speaker 1: everything the Father sent him to do. Jesus asked to
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  Speaker 1: return to his pre incarnate glory Verse five requests and now,
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  Speaker 1: O Father, glorify me together with yourself, with the glory
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  Speaker 1: which I had with you before the world was. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: wanted to return to his position with the Father before creation.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus reported on his work with the disciples Verse six,
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  Speaker 1: tells Us, I have manifested your name to the men
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  Speaker 1: whom you have given me out of the world. They
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  Speaker 1: were yours. You gave them to me, and they have
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  Speaker 1: kept your word. Jesus had revealed God to those the
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  Speaker 1: Father gave him. Jesus prayed specifically for his disciples protection
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  Speaker 1: Verse eleven requests, Now I am no longer in the world,
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  Speaker 1: but these are in the world, and I come to you,
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  Speaker 1: Holy Father, Keep through your name those whom you have
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  Speaker 1: given me, that they may be one as we are.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus wanted them unified and protected while he was gone.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus explained that he had protected them while he was
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  Speaker 1: with them. Verse twelve states while I was with them
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  Speaker 1: in the world, I kept them in your name. Those
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  Speaker 1: whom you gave me I have kept and none of
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  Speaker 1: them is lost, except the son of Perdition, that the
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  Speaker 1: scripture might be fulfilled. Only Judas was lost fulfilling prophecy.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus prayed that his disciples would have his joy fulfilled
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  Speaker 1: in themselves. Verse thirteen explains, but now I come to you,
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  Speaker 1: and these things I speak in the world, that they
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  Speaker 1: may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. Jesus wanted them
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  Speaker 1: to experience complete joy. Jesus acknowledged that the world would
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  Speaker 1: hate his disciples. Verse fourteen states, I have given them
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  Speaker 1: your word, and the world has hated them because they
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  Speaker 1: are not of the world, just as I am not
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  Speaker 1: of the world. Christians don't belong to the world system.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus didn't pray for God to remove his disciples from
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  Speaker 1: the world, but to protect them. Verse fifteen clarifies, I
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  Speaker 1: do not pray that you should take them out of
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  Speaker 1: the world, but that you should keep them from the
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  Speaker 1: evil one. Christians must stay in the world, but be
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  Speaker 1: protected from Satan. Jesus prayed for their sanctification through truth.
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  Speaker 1: Verse seventeen declares, sanctify them by your truth. Your word
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  Speaker 1: is truth. God's word would set them apart for holy purposes.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus extended his prayer beyond his immediate disciples. Verse twenty states,
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  Speaker 1: I do not pray for these alone, but also for
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  Speaker 1: those who will believe in me through their word. This
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  Speaker 1: prayer included all future Christians throughout history. Jesus prayed for
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  Speaker 1: unity among all believers. Verse twenty one declares that they
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  Speaker 1: all may be one, as you, Father, are in me
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  Speaker 1: and I in you, that they also may be one
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  Speaker 1: in us, that the world may believe that you sent me.
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  Speaker 1: Unity among Christians would convince the world of Jesus's divine mission.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus concluded by expressing his desire that believers would eventually
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  Speaker 1: be with him in heaven. Verse twenty four requests, Father,
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  Speaker 1: I desire that they also, whom you gave me, may
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  Speaker 1: be with me where I am, that they may behold
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  Speaker 1: my glory which you have given me, For you loved
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  Speaker 1: me before the foundation of the world. Jesus wanted his
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  Speaker 1: followers to see his heavenly glory and share in his
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  Speaker 1: eternal presence. This prayer covered everything Jesus had completed his
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  Speaker 1: earthly work, was protecting his current disciples, had provided for
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  Speaker 1: future believers, and had prepared a way for all of
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  Speaker 1: them to join him in heaven. It was the perfect
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  Speaker 1: conclusion to his earthly ministry before facing the cross. The
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  Speaker 1: night air was thick with tension as Jesus led his
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  Speaker 1: disciples across the Kidren Valley to a garden. He knew
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  Speaker 1: well this place had been their refuge many times before,
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  Speaker 1: but to night would be different, as recorded in John
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  Speaker 1: eighteen two to three. Now Judas, who betrayed him, also
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  Speaker 1: knew the place because Jesus had often met there with
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  Speaker 1: his disciples. So Judas came to the garden guiding a
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  Speaker 1: detachment of soldiers and some officials from the chief priests
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  Speaker 1: and the Pharisees. They were carrying torches, lanterns, and weapons.
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  Speaker 1: The flickering light of torches cut through the darkness as
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  Speaker 1: an armed crowd approached. Jesus didn't run or hide. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: he stepped forward to meet them. When he asked in
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  Speaker 1: John eighteen four, who is it you want? They answered
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  Speaker 1: Jesus of Nazareth. His simple response in John eighteen five
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  Speaker 1: six caused something extraordinary to happen. I am he, Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: and Judas, the traitor, was standing there with them. When
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, I am he, they drew back and fell
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  Speaker 1: to the ground. The power in those words was undeniable.
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  Speaker 1: Here was the same Jesus who had spoken creation to existence,
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  Speaker 1: and even in his moment of surrender, his divine nature
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  Speaker 1: couldn't be hidden. He asked them again in John eighteen seven,
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  Speaker 1: who is it you want? When they repeated their answer,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus made his intentions clear. In John eighteen eight nine,
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  Speaker 1: I told you that I am he. If you are
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  Speaker 1: looking for me, then let these men go. This happened
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  Speaker 1: so that the words he had spoken would be fulfilled.
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  Speaker 1: I have not lost one of those given to me.
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  Speaker 1: Even in his arrest, Jesus was protecting his followers, but Peter,
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  Speaker 1: impulsive as always, couldn't stand by and watch. John eighteen
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  Speaker 1: ten eleven tells Dries. Then Simon Peter, who had a sword,
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  Speaker 1: drew it and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off
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  Speaker 1: his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus. Jesus commanded, Peter,
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  Speaker 1: put your sword away. Shall I not drink the cup
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  Speaker 1: the Father has given me? This wasn't a moment for fighting.
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  Speaker 1: This was the moment Jesus had been preparing for his
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  Speaker 1: entire ministry, the cup of suffering that the Father had
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  Speaker 1: given him was not to be avoided, but embraced. The
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  Speaker 1: soldiers bound Jesus and led him first to Annas, the
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  Speaker 1: former high priest who still held tremendous influence. As John
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  Speaker 1: eighteen thirteen fourteen explains, they brought him first to Annas,
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  Speaker 1: who was the father in law of Caiaphas, the high
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  Speaker 1: priest that year. Caiaphas was the one who had advised
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  Speaker 1: the Jewish leaders that it would be good if one
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  Speaker 1: man died for the people. Meanwhile, Peter and another disciple
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  Speaker 1: followed at a distance. The other disciple, known to the
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  Speaker 1: high priest, was able to enter the courtyard, but Peter
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  Speaker 1: was left outside until this disciple spoke to the servant
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  Speaker 1: girl at the door. As they warmed themselves by a
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  Speaker 1: fire in the courtyard. The first test of Peter's loyalty came.
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  Speaker 1: John eighteen seventeen records you are one of this man's
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  Speaker 1: disciples too, are you, the girl at the door asked Peter.
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  Speaker 1: He replied, I am not inside. Annas questioned Jesus about
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  Speaker 1: his disciples and his teaching. Jesus answered, in John eighteen
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  Speaker 1: twenty to twenty one, I have spoken openly to the world.
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  Speaker 1: I always taught in synagogues or at the temple where
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  Speaker 1: all the Jews come together. I said nothing in secret.
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  Speaker 1: Why question me? Ask those who heard me, Surely they
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  Speaker 1: know what I said. This bold response prompted an official
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  Speaker 1: to strike Jesus, but Jesus remained calm, asking in John
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  Speaker 1: eighteen twenty three, if I said something wrong, testify as
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  Speaker 1: to what is wrong. But if I spoke the truth,
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  Speaker 1: why did you strike me? While Jesus faced questioning with dignity,
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  Speaker 1: Peter was crumbling under pressure when servants and officials asked
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  Speaker 1: if he was one of Jesus's disciples. John eighteen twenty
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  Speaker 1: five shows us he denied it, saying I am not.
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  Speaker 1: The third denial came from an unexpected source. One of
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  Speaker 1: the high Priest's servants, a relative of Malchus whose ear
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  Speaker 1: Peter had cut off, recognized him. John eighteen twenty six
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven tells us, didn't I see you with him
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  Speaker 1: in the garden. Again, Peter denied it, and at that
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  Speaker 1: moment a rooster began to crow. The sound must have
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  Speaker 1: cut through Peter's heart like a knife, reminding him of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus's prediction just hours before. Early in the morning, the
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  Speaker 1: Jewish leaders brought Jesus to the Roman governor Pontius Pilot,
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  Speaker 1: but they wouldn't enter the palace themselves, as John eighteen
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight explains, to avoid ceremonial uncleanness. They did not
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  Speaker 1: enter the palace because they wanted to be able to
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  Speaker 1: eat the passover. Pilot came out to meet them, asking
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  Speaker 1: what charges they brought against Jesus. Their evasive answer in
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  Speaker 1: John eighteen thirty revealed their true motives. If he were
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  Speaker 1: not a criminal, we would not have handed him over
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  Speaker 1: to you. When Pilots suggested they judge Jesus by their
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  Speaker 1: own law, they revealed their deadly intent in John eighteen
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  Speaker 1: thirty one. But we have no right to execute any one.
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  Speaker 1: Pilot then took Jesus inside for a private conversation. His
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  Speaker 1: first question was direct, Are you the king of the Jews?
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  Speaker 1: Jesus answered with a question of his own in John
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  Speaker 1: eighteen thirty four, Is that your own idea? Or did
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  Speaker 1: others talk to you about me? When Pilot denied being
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  Speaker 1: a Jew, Jesus gave him a profound answer in John
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  Speaker 1: eighteen thirty six. My kingdom is not of this world.
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  Speaker 1: If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my
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  Speaker 1: arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is
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  Speaker 1: from another place. This led to Pilot's famous question in
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  Speaker 1: John eighteen thirty seven, you are a king, then, Jesus replied,
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  Speaker 1: you say that I am a king? In fact, the
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  Speaker 1: reason I was born and came into the world is
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  Speaker 1: to testify to the truth. Every One on the side
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  Speaker 1: of truth listens to the me. Pilot's response in John
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  Speaker 1: eighteen thirty eight has echoed through history. What is truth?
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  Speaker 1: Finding no basis for charges. Pilot tried to release Jesus
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  Speaker 1: by offering the crowd a choice between Jesus and Barabas,
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  Speaker 1: a rebel and murderer, but John eighteen forty tells us
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  Speaker 1: they shouted back, no, not him, give us Barabbas. Hoping
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  Speaker 1: to satisfy the crowd's bloodlust, Pilot had Jesus flogged. The
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  Speaker 1: soldiers mocked him, placing a crown of thorns on his
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  Speaker 1: head and a purple robe around his shoulders, saying in
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  Speaker 1: John nineteen three, hail king of the Jews, and they
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  Speaker 1: slapped him in the face. Pilot brought Jesus out again,
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  Speaker 1: declaring in John nineteen four, look, I'm bringing him out
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  Speaker 1: to you to let you know that I find no
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  Speaker 1: basis for a charge against him. When Jesus appeared wearing
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  Speaker 1: the crown of thorns and purple robe, Pilot said in
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  Speaker 1: John nineteen five, here is the man. But the chief
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  Speaker 1: priests and officials shouted in John nineteen six, crucify, crucify.
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  Speaker 1: The crowd's demands grew more intense when they claimed in
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  Speaker 1: John nineteen seven, we have a law, and according to
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  Speaker 1: that law, he must die. Because he claimed to be
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  Speaker 1: the son of God. Pilot became even more afraid. He
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  Speaker 1: asked Jesus in John nineteen nine, where do you come from?
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  Speaker 1: But Jesus gave him no answer. Frustrated, Pilot reminded Jesus
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  Speaker 1: of his power in John nineteen ten. Don't you realize
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  Speaker 1: I have power either to free you or to crucify you.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus responded in John nineteen eleven, you would have no
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  Speaker 1: power over me if it were not given to you
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  Speaker 1: from above. Therefore, the one who handed me over to
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  Speaker 1: you is guilty of a greater sin. Finally, the Jewish
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  Speaker 1: leaders played their trump card, shouting in John nineteen twelve,
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  Speaker 1: if you let this man go, you are no friend
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  Speaker 1: of Caesar any one who claims to be a king
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  Speaker 1: opposes Caesar. Pilot brought Jesus out and sat down on
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  Speaker 1: the judge's seat. John until fourtaneen to fifteen records the
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  Speaker 1: final exchange. Here is your king, Pilot said to the Jews.
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  Speaker 1: But they shouted, take him away, take him away, crucify him.
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  Speaker 1: Shall I crucify your king? Pilot asked, we have no
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  Speaker 1: king but Caesar. The chief priests answered with those words.
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  Speaker 1: Pilot handed Jesus over to be crucified. Carrying his own cross,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus walked the road to Golgotha, the place of the Skull.
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  Speaker 1: John nineteen seventeen eighteen gives us the stark details. Carrying
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  Speaker 1: his own cross, He went out to the place of
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  Speaker 1: the Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. There they
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  Speaker 1: crucified him, and with him two others, one on each
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  Speaker 1: side and Jesus in the middle. Pilot had a sign
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  Speaker 1: prepared and fastened to the cross. John nineteen nineteen to
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  Speaker 1: twenty tells us Pilot had a notice prepared and fastened
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  Speaker 1: to the cross. It read Jesus of Nazareth, the King
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  Speaker 1: of the Jews. Many of the Jews read this sign
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  Speaker 1: for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city,
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  Speaker 1: and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin, and Greek.
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  Speaker 1: The chief priests protested, wanting the sign to read that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus only claimed to be king, but Pilot's response in
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  Speaker 1: John nineteen twenty two was final. What I have written,
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  Speaker 1: I have written. At the foot of the cross, soldiers
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  Speaker 1: divided jesus clothes among themselves, but his under garment was seamless,
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  Speaker 1: woven in one piece from top to bottom. John nineteen
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  Speaker 1: twenty four records Let's not tear it, they said to
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  Speaker 1: one another, Let's decide by lot who will get it.
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  Speaker 1: This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled. That said,
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  Speaker 1: they divided my clothes among them, and cast lots for
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  Speaker 1: my garment. Near the cross stood jesus mother, his mother's sister, Mary,
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  Speaker 1: the wife of Clopus, and Mary Magdalene. Even in his agony,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus showed love for his mother. John nineteen twenty six
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven tells us when Jesus saw his mother there
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  Speaker 1: and the disciple, whom he loved, standing near by, he
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  Speaker 1: said to her woman, here is your son, and to
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  Speaker 1: the disciple, here is your mother. From that time on,
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  Speaker 1: this disciple took her into his home. As death approached,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus knew that everything was now completed. John nineteen twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight says later, knowing that everything was now finished and
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  Speaker 1: so that scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, I am thirsty.
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  Speaker 1: A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked
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  Speaker 1: a sponge in it, put it on a hissop branch,
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  Speaker 1: and lifted it to Jesus's lips. After receiving the drink,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus spoke his final words. John nineteen thirty records when
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  Speaker 1: he had received the drink, Jesus said, it is finished.
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  Speaker 1: With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
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  Speaker 1: The work of salvation was complete. Because it was preparation
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  Speaker 1: day and the bodies were not to remain on the
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  Speaker 1: Yee crosses during the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders asked Pilot
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  Speaker 1: to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down.
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  Speaker 1: The soldiers broke the legs of the two criminals, but
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  Speaker 1: when they came to Jesus they found he was already dead.
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  Speaker 1: John nineteen thirty four tells us, instead, one of the
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  Speaker 1: soldiers pierced Jesus's side with a spear, bringing a sudden
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  Speaker 1: flow of blood and water. John, who witnessed these events,
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  Speaker 1: testified to their truth in John nineteen thirty five. The
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  Speaker 1: man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony
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  Speaker 1: is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and
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  Speaker 1: he testifies so that you also may believe. These things
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  Speaker 1: happened to fulfill scripture. Not one of his bones will
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  Speaker 1: be broken, and they will look on the one they
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  Speaker 1: have pierced. As the sun began to set, a secret
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  Speaker 1: follower of Jesus stepped forward with courage. Joseph of Arimathea
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  Speaker 1: had been hiding his faith out of fear of the
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  Speaker 1: Jewish leaders, but now he couldn't stay silent. John nineteen
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  Speaker 1: thirty eight tells us later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilot
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  Speaker 1: for the body of Jesus. Now, Joseph was a disciple
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jewish leaders.
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  Speaker 1: With Pilot's permission, he came and took the body away.
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  Speaker 1: Joseph wasn't alone in this sacred task. Another secret believer
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  Speaker 1: joined him, Nicodemus, the same Pharisee who had come to
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  Speaker 1: Jesus by night early in his ministry. John nineteen thirty
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  Speaker 1: nine records he was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who
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  Speaker 1: earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture
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  Speaker 1: of myrrh and aloes, about seventy five pounds. The amount
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  Speaker 1: of spices Nicodemus brought was fit for a king, an
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  Speaker 1: expensive tribute that showed his deep respect for Jesus. Together,
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  Speaker 1: these two men prepared Jesus body for burial. John nineteen
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  Speaker 1: forty describes the process taking Jesus body. The two of
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  Speaker 1: them wrapped it with the spices in strips of linen.
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  Speaker 1: This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs. Time was
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  Speaker 1: running short, the Sabbath was approaching, and they needed to
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  Speaker 1: finish before sundown. Fortunately, there was a garden near the
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  Speaker 1: place where Jesus had been crucified, and in that garden
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  Speaker 1: was a new tomb. John nineteen forty one to forty
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  Speaker 1: two concludes at the place where Jesus was crucified there
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  Speaker 1: was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb
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  Speaker 1: in which no one had ever been laid. Because it
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  Speaker 1: was the Jewish day of preparation, and since the tomb
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  Speaker 1: was nearby, they laid Jesus there. The tomb was sealed,
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  Speaker 1: and Jesus's body lay in the darkness. To his followers,
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  Speaker 1: it seemed like the end of everything they had hoped for.
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  Speaker 1: Early on the first day of the week, while it
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  Speaker 1: was still dark, Mary Magdalen came to the tomb. What
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  Speaker 1: she found there changed everything. John twenty one tells us
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  Speaker 1: early on the first day of the week, while it
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  Speaker 1: was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and
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  Speaker 1: saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.
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  Speaker 1: Her immediate thought was that someone had stolen Jesus's body.
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 1: She ran to tell Simon, Peter and the other disciple,
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  Speaker 1: the one Jesus loved. John twenty d two records her
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  Speaker 1: breathless announcement, they have taken the Lord out of the tomb,
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  Speaker 1: and we don't know where they have put him. Peter
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  Speaker 1: and the other disciple raced to the tomb. John twenty
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  Speaker 1: four shows us both were running, but the other disciple
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  Speaker 1: out ran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent
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  Speaker 1: over and looked in at the strips of Lynn lying there,
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 1: but didn't go inside. When Peter arrived, he went straight
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  Speaker 1: into the tomb. John twenty six seven describes what he saw.
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  Speaker 1: Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight
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  Speaker 1: into the tomb. He saw the strips of Lynn lying there,
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  Speaker 1: as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: Jesus's head. The cloth was still lying in its place,
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  Speaker 1: separate from the linen. The other disciple followed Peter inside,
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  Speaker 1: and John twenty eight tell finally the other disciple, who
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  Speaker 1: had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw
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  Speaker 1: and believed the grave clothes weren't scattered as they would
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  Speaker 1: be if thieves had stolen the body. They were neatly arranged,
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  Speaker 1: as if Jesus had simply passed through them. The disciples
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  Speaker 1: went back to where they were staying, but Mary remained
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  Speaker 1: at the tomb, weeping. As she bent over to look
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  Speaker 1: into the tomb, she saw two angels in white seated
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  Speaker 1: where jesus body had been. John twenty thirteen records their question, Woman,
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  Speaker 1: why are you crying? She answered, they have taken my
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  Speaker 1: lord away, and I don't know where they have put him.
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  Speaker 1: When she turned around, she saw a man standing there,
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  Speaker 1: but she didn't recognize him as Jesus. John twenty fifteen
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  Speaker 1: shows us the conversation. He asked her, woman, why are
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  Speaker 1: you crying? Who is it you are looking for? Thinking
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  Speaker 1: he was the gardener, she said, Sir, if you have
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  Speaker 1: carried him away, tell me where you have put him,
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  Speaker 1: and I will get him. Then Jesus spoke her name Mary.
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  Speaker 1: She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic raboni,
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  Speaker 1: which means teacher. Jesus told her in John twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: do not hold on to me, for I have not
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  Speaker 1: yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers
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  Speaker 1: and tell them I am ascending to my Father and
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  Speaker 1: your father, to my God and your God. Mary Magdalen
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  Speaker 1: became the first witness to the resurrection, running to tell
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  Speaker 1: the disciples, I have seen the Lord. That evening, the
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  Speaker 1: disciples were gathered together with the doors locked for fear
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  Speaker 1: of the Jewish leaders. Suddenly Jesus came and stood among them.
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  Speaker 1: John twenty nineteen records on the evening of that first
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  Speaker 1: day of the week, when the disciples were together, with
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  Speaker 1: the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: came and stood among them and said, peace be with you,
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  Speaker 1: after showing them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus breathed on them and said in John twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: two twenty three, receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive
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  Speaker 1: any one's sins, their sins are forgiven. If you do
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  Speaker 1: not forgive them, they are not forgiven. But Thomas, one
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  Speaker 1: of the twelve, wasn't with them when Jesus appeared. When
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  Speaker 1: the others told him they had seen the Lord, he
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  Speaker 1: responded in John twenty twenty five. Unless I see the
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  Speaker 1: nail marks in his hands and put my finger where
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  Speaker 1: the nails were and put my hand into his side,
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  Speaker 1: I will not believe. A week later, Jesus appeared again,
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  Speaker 1: when Thomas was present. John twenty twenty six to twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven tells us though the doors were locked, Jesus came
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  Speaker 1: and stood among them and said, peace be with you.
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  Speaker 1: Then he said to Thomas, put your finger here, see
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  Speaker 1: my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into mine.
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  Speaker 1: He'd say, stop doubting and believe. Thomas answered in John
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight, My Lord and my God. Jesus said
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  Speaker 1: to him in John twenty twenty nine, because you have
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  Speaker 1: seen me, you have believed. Blessed of those who have
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  Speaker 1: not seen and yet have believed. Some time later, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: appeared to his disciples by the Sea of Galilee. Seven
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  Speaker 1: of them were together, Simon, Peter, Thomas, Nathaniel, the sons
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  Speaker 1: of Zebedee, and two others. Peter, perhaps feeling restless, announced
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  Speaker 1: in John twenty one three, I'm going out to fish.
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  Speaker 1: The others said we'll go with you. They went out
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  Speaker 1: and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Early in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but
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  Speaker 1: the disciples didn't recognize him. John twenty one five records
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  Speaker 1: his question, friends, haven't you any fish? When they answered no,
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  Speaker 1: he told them in John twenty one six, throw your
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  Speaker 1: net on the right side of the boat and you
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  Speaker 1: will find some. They did, and were unable to haul
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  Speaker 1: the net in because of the large number of fish.
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  Speaker 1: The disciple whom Jesus loved was the first to realize
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  Speaker 1: who was speaking to them. John twenty one to seven
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  Speaker 1: tells us then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter,
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  Speaker 1: it is the Lord. As soon as Simon Peter heard
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  Speaker 1: him say it is the Lord, he wrapped his outer
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  Speaker 1: garment around him, for he had taken it off, and
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  Speaker 1: jumped into the water. The other disciples followed in the boat,
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  Speaker 1: towing the net full of fish. They were not far
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  Speaker 1: from shore, only about a hundred yards. When they landed,
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  Speaker 1: they saw a fire of burning coals with fish on
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  Speaker 1: it and some bread. John twenty one ten eleven continues,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said to them, bring some of the fish you
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  Speaker 1: have just caught. So Simon Peter climbed back into the
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  Speaker 1: boat and dragged the net ashore. It was full of
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  Speaker 1: large fish, fifty three. But even with so many the
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  Speaker 1: net was not torn. Jesus invited them to have breakfast,
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  Speaker 1: saying in John twenty one twelve, come and have breakfast.
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  Speaker 1: None of the disciples dared ask him, who are you?
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  Speaker 1: They knew it was the Lord. John twenty one thirteen
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  Speaker 1: describes the scene. Jesus came, took the bread and gave
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  Speaker 1: it to them, and did the same with the fish.
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  Speaker 1: This was now the third time Jesus appeared to his
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  Speaker 1: disciples after he was raised from the dead. After breakfast,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus turned his attention to Peter. Three times Peter had
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  Speaker 1: denied knowing Jesus, and now Jesus would give him three
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  Speaker 1: opportunities to affirm his love John twenty one fifteen records
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  Speaker 1: the first exchange. When they had finished eating, Jesus said
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  Speaker 1: to Simon Peter, Simon's son of John, do you love
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  Speaker 1: me more than these? Be yes? Lord, he said, you
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  Speaker 1: know that I love you. Jesus said, feed my lambs. Again,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus asked John twenty one sixteen, Simon's son of John,
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  Speaker 1: do you love me? Peter answered yes, Lord, you know
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  Speaker 1: that I love you. Jesus said, take care of my sheep.
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  Speaker 1: The third time Jesus asked the question, Peter was hurt.
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  Speaker 1: John twenty one to seventeen shows us the third time
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  Speaker 1: he said to him, Simon's son of John, do you
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  Speaker 1: love me? Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the
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  Speaker 1: third time do you love me? He said, Lord, you
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  Speaker 1: know all things. You know that I love you. Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: feed my sheep. Jesus then spoke about Peter's future, saying
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  Speaker 1: in John twenty one to eighteen to nineteen, very truly,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, when you were younger, you dressed yourself
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  Speaker 1: and went where you wanted. But when you are old,
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  Speaker 1: you will stretch out your hands and some one else
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  Speaker 1: will dress you and lead you where you do not
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  Speaker 1: want to go. Jesus said this to indicate the kind
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  Speaker 1: of death by which Peter would glorify God. Then he
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  Speaker 1: said to him follow me. Peter turned and saw the
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  Speaker 1: disciple whom Jesus loved, following them. He asked Jesus in
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  Speaker 1: John twenty one twenty one, Lord, what about him? Jesus
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  Speaker 1: answered in John twenty one twenty two, if I want
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  Speaker 1: him to remain alive until I return, what is that
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  Speaker 1: to you? You must follow me. This statement led to
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  Speaker 1: a rumor among the believers that this disciple would not die,
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  Speaker 1: but John twenty one twenty three clarifies. But Jesus did
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  Speaker 1: not say that he would not die. He only said,
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  Speaker 1: if I want him to remain alive until I return,
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  Speaker 1: what is that to you? John concludes his gospel with
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  Speaker 1: a personal testimony in John twenty one twenty four. This
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  Speaker 1: is the disciple who testifies to these things and who
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  Speaker 1: wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true.
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  Speaker 1: And then, with a sense of the vastness of jesus works,
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  Speaker 1: he ends in John twenty one twenty five, Jesus did
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  Speaker 1: many other things as well. If every one of them
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  Speaker 1: were written down, I suppose that even the whole world
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  Speaker 1: would not have room for the books that would be written.
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  Speaker 1: The story of Jesus's passion, death, and resurrection was complete,
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  Speaker 1: but the impact of these events would continue to change
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  Speaker 1: lives forever. We've just walked through the most powerful chapters
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  Speaker 1: in all of human history, the final days of Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: from his willing surrender in the garden to his triumphant
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  Speaker 1: resurrection and restoration of his disciples. Every moment reveals the
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  Speaker 1: depth of God's love for you and me. This isn't
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  Speaker 1: just an ancient story. It's the foundation of hope for
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  Speaker 1: everyone who believes. Jesus didn't just die and rise again
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  Speaker 1: for the people of his time. He did it for
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  Speaker 1: you right where you are today. The same power that
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  Speaker 1: raised Jesus from the dead is available to transform your life.
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