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#959 - Luke 22:39-71 – Jesus Arrested · The Bible Study Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Life Audio The Bible Study Podcast, Episode nine fifty nine. Today,
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  Speaker 1: The Bible Study Podcast continues the study of the Gospel
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  Speaker 1: of Luke as we finish up chapter twenty two. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to the Bible Study Podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen.
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  Speaker 1: I hope I'm not getting too ahead of myself that
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  Speaker 1: I say we're going to finish up chapter twenty two today,
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  Speaker 1: but we're going to finish up Monday Thursday and start
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  Speaker 1: getting into good Friday. But first a word from this sponsor.
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  Speaker 1: So we left off with the last Supper, so we're
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  Speaker 1: going to pick this up. In verse thirty nine, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: prays on the Mount of Olives. Jesus went out as
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  Speaker 1: usual to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him.
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  Speaker 1: On reaching the place, he said to them, pray that
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  Speaker 1: you will not fall into temptation. He withdrew about a
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  Speaker 1: stone's throw behind them, knelt down and prayed, Father, if
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  Speaker 1: you were willing take this cup from me, yet not
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  Speaker 1: my will, but yours be done. An angel from heaven
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  Speaker 1: appeared to him and strengthened him, and, being in anguish,
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  Speaker 1: he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops
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  Speaker 1: of blood. Falling to the ground. But he rose from
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  Speaker 1: prayer and went back to the disciples. He found them asleep,
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  Speaker 1: exhausted from sorrow. Why are you sleeping? He asked them,
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  Speaker 1: get up and pray so that you will not fall
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  Speaker 1: into temptation. And so this is one of those very
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  Speaker 1: famous stories from Luke from this particular week here where
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is about to face the cross. And we'd say
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus is fully God and fully man, and fully God.
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  Speaker 1: He knows that he will defeat death, but fully ban
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  Speaker 1: he knows that going through it is going to be agony.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a particular type of agony. The
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  Speaker 1: Romans used crucifixion because it was cruel and it was torture.
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  Speaker 1: As he is looking for it in time to that,
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  Speaker 1: he is certainly not looking forward to that, And so
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  Speaker 1: he asks God, is there some other way if you
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  Speaker 1: are willing take this cup from me? Otherwise not my will,
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  Speaker 1: but yours be done. If there's any other way we
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  Speaker 1: can do this, if there's any other way we can
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  Speaker 1: get to what we're trying to do to restore the
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  Speaker 1: relationship between God and man, let's do that. But there wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: This was the only thing that would solve that, that
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  Speaker 1: would close that rift. And so he says, Father, you're
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  Speaker 1: will be done, and an angel comes and strengthens him.
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  Speaker 1: He will need that strength, and Luke the physician, points
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  Speaker 1: out that as he prays earnestly, he's literally sweating blood.
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  Speaker 1: That's how much stress he is in in this moment.
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  Speaker 1: And of course he's not getting a lot of help
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  Speaker 1: from the disciple, who he finds have fallen asleep. They're exhausted.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting in Luke's account, they're exhausted from sorrow, which
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  Speaker 1: is interesting. He said, some sorrowful things at the last Supper?
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  Speaker 1: Have they sunk in? Do they have some clue what's
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  Speaker 1: going to happen? So get up and praise that you
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  Speaker 1: may not fall into temptation. Jesus arrested. While he was
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  Speaker 1: still speaking. A crowd came up, and the man who
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  Speaker 1: was called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them.
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  Speaker 1: He approached Jesus to kiss him, but Jesus asked, Judas,
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  Speaker 1: are you betraying the son of Man with a kiss.
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  Speaker 1: When Jesus' followers saw that what was going to happen,
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  Speaker 1: they said, Lord, should we strike with our swords? And
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  Speaker 1: one of them struck the servant of the high priest,
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  Speaker 1: cutting off his right ear. But Jesus answered, no more
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  Speaker 1: of this, and he touched the man's ear and healed him.
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  Speaker 1: Then Jesus said to the chief priests and officers of
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  Speaker 1: the temple guard and the elders who had come for him,
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  Speaker 1: am I leading a rebellion? That you have come with
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  Speaker 1: swords and clubs. Every day I was with you in
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  Speaker 1: the temple courts, and you did not lay a hand
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  Speaker 1: on me. But this is your hour when darkness reigns.
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  Speaker 1: And we talk about dark deeds being done in the dark,
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  Speaker 1: and this is one of those where they have been
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  Speaker 1: afraid to arrest Jesus during the day because of fear
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  Speaker 1: of how the crowds will react. They wait until they
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  Speaker 1: can get him alone. And they get him alone with
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  Speaker 1: the help of Judas, Judas who has sold him out
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  Speaker 1: for pieces of silver. Judas comes up and goes to
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  Speaker 1: kiss Jesus. Now this would be a kiss on the cheeks.
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  Speaker 1: It's a very common thing in those days, as it
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  Speaker 1: still is in some other cultures. And Jesus says, will
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  Speaker 1: you betray me with a kiss? And remember Jesus had
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  Speaker 1: just told the disciples the apostles to take swords and
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  Speaker 1: take bags and things. So they got two swords with him,
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  Speaker 1: which we learned at the Last Supper, and so one
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  Speaker 1: of them thinks, oh, we must be supposed to use it,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe a couple of them do, because they say,
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  Speaker 1: should we strike with our swords, and one of them
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  Speaker 1: does before they even get an answer, cutting off the
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  Speaker 1: ear of a servant. And so the last public healing
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus does in scripture is this healing of one
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  Speaker 1: of the people who has come to arrest him, the
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  Speaker 1: servant of the High Priest, and he heals his ear,
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  Speaker 1: restores it, and then allows himself to be arrested. But
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  Speaker 1: now without pointing out to these people that you're doing
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  Speaker 1: these dark deeds in the dark. You're doing this when
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  Speaker 1: darkness reigns. I'm not leading a rebellion. You didn't have
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  Speaker 1: to come with clubs and swords, and you could have
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  Speaker 1: just arrested me in the temple. Continuing on, Peter disowns Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: then seizing him, they led him away and took him
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  Speaker 1: into the house of the High Priest. Peter followed at
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  Speaker 1: a distance when some there had kindled a fire in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together.
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  Speaker 1: Peter sat down with them. A servant girl saw him
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  Speaker 1: seated there in the firelight. She looked closely at him
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  Speaker 1: and said, this man was with him, but he denied it. Woman,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know him, he said. A little later, someone
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  Speaker 1: else saw him and said, you are also one of them. Man,
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  Speaker 1: I am not, Peter replied. About an hour later, another asserted,
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  Speaker 1: certainly this fellow was with him, for he is a Galilean.
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  Speaker 1: Peter replied, man, I don't know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Just as he was speaking, the rooster crowed. The Lord
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  Speaker 1: turned and looked straight at Peter. Then Peter remembered the
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  Speaker 1: word that the Lord had spoken to him before the
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  Speaker 1: rooster crows. Today you will disown me three times, and
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  Speaker 1: he went outside and wept bitterly. Peter is a two
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  Speaker 1: minds here. Peter wants to know what's going to happen
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  Speaker 1: with Jesus, and so he's following on trying to learn this.
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  Speaker 1: But he doesn't want to be arrested. He doesn't want
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  Speaker 1: to go through whatever Jesus is going to go through,
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  Speaker 1: and so he is trying to do it, sneaking in
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  Speaker 1: and pretending like he is not associated with Jesus, and
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  Speaker 1: he has called on it. He's called on it three
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  Speaker 1: times by people who recognize that he's from Galilee. Some
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  Speaker 1: who recognize him apparently and say, this is somebody who
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  Speaker 1: I've seen with Jesus, and Peter denies it. And we
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  Speaker 1: understand why Peter did that. But remember this is the
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  Speaker 1: same Peter who said to Jesus just a few hours
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  Speaker 1: ago that I'm ready to go with you to prison
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  Speaker 1: and to death. It is an easy thing to say,
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  Speaker 1: it is a hard thing to do, and so Peter
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  Speaker 1: falls short of his expectations for himself. Jesus never said
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  Speaker 1: Peter today, you need to be willing to go with
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  Speaker 1: me to prison and death. Now he will eventually follow
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  Speaker 1: Jesus in that fashion. It was Peter who set those expectations.
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  Speaker 1: This is who I am. I am somebody who is
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  Speaker 1: that good a follower that I'm willing to follow you
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  Speaker 1: to prison and to death. But he wasn't, not yet
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  Speaker 1: at least, and he is heartbroken. It is difficult when
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  Speaker 1: we confront ourselves sometimes and we don't live up even
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  Speaker 1: to our own expectations. When we realize we are flawed
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  Speaker 1: and we are broken, but we are. We are not perfect.
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  Speaker 1: We do fall short of what God expects, and I
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  Speaker 1: think more easily fall short sometimes of what we expect
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  Speaker 1: of ourselves. The guards mock Jesus. Then the men guarding
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  Speaker 1: Jesus began mocking and beating him. They blindfolded him and
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  Speaker 1: demanded prophesy, who hit you? And they said many other
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  Speaker 1: insulting things to him. Now, these guards are not the
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  Speaker 1: Roman guards. These would be the guards for the Jewish leaders.
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  Speaker 1: And they are told by the Jewish leaders to go
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  Speaker 1: arrest this man. And they're told by the Jewish leaders
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  Speaker 1: that this man is a false prophet. That's why they're
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  Speaker 1: going to arrest them. And so they're getting with the
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  Speaker 1: program here. They're beating up Jesus because that's the thing
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  Speaker 1: to do, because that is acceptable in the crowd they're in,
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  Speaker 1: because they think that he is in the wrong. It
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  Speaker 1: is interesting to see what people will do in groups
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  Speaker 1: that they wouldn't think about doing on their own, and
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  Speaker 1: how being in a crowd can lower or resistant to
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  Speaker 1: doing the wrong thing. I don't know what these guards
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  Speaker 1: were like normally, but I don't necessarily assume that they
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  Speaker 1: were always bullies and always cruel. But maybe they were
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  Speaker 1: we don't know Jesus before Pilate and Herod. And now
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  Speaker 1: we're finally into Good Friday, into the morning of Good Friday.
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  Speaker 1: At daybreak, the counsel of the elders of the people,
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  Speaker 1: both the chief priests and the teachers of the law,
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  Speaker 1: met together, and Jesus was led before them. If you
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  Speaker 1: are the Messiah, they said, tell us. Jesus answered, if
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, you will not believe me, and if
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  Speaker 1: I ask you, you would not answer. But from now on,
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  Speaker 1: the son of Man will be seated at the right
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  Speaker 1: hand of the Mighty God. They all ask, are you
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  Speaker 1: the son of God? He replied, you say that I am.
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  Speaker 1: Then they said, why do we need any more testimony?
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  Speaker 1: We have heard it from his own lips. Now granted
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  Speaker 1: they haven't actually heard it from his own lips. He said,
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  Speaker 1: you say that I am. But this was never going
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  Speaker 1: to be a fair trial. You don't do a fair
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  Speaker 1: trial in the middle of the night or at daybreak,
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  Speaker 1: or you don't arrest the person. This is not intended
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  Speaker 1: to be a fair trial. This is a kangaroo court.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was guilty before he walked in, and then they
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  Speaker 1: were just trying to figure out guilty of what. We'll
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  Speaker 1: leave Jesus there and we'll continue on next week with
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  Speaker 1: the rest of Good Friday, including his being before King
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  Speaker 1: Herod and being before Pilot. But with that, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to end this episode of the Bible Study Podcast. If
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