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The Week That Changed the World · Abide Meditation App

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  Speaker 1: Zechariah chapter nine. See your King comes to you, righteous
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  Speaker 1: and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt,
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  Speaker 1: the foal of a donkey Matthew chapter twenty one. As
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  Speaker 1: they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount
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  Speaker 1: of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, go
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  Speaker 1: to the village ahead of you, and at once you
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  Speaker 1: will find a donkey tied there with her cold by
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  Speaker 1: her Untie them and bring them to me. If anyone
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  Speaker 1: says anything to you, say that the Lord needs them,
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  Speaker 1: and he will send them right away. This took place
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  Speaker 1: to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet, Say to
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  Speaker 1: Dora to Zion, see your king comes to you, gentle
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  Speaker 1: and riding on a donkey, and on a colt, the
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  Speaker 1: foal of a donkey. The disciples went and did as
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  Speaker 1: Jesus had instructed them. They brought the donkey and the
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  Speaker 1: colt and placed their cloaks on them for Jesus to
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  Speaker 1: sit on. A very large crowd spread their cloaks on
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  Speaker 1: the road, while others cut branches from the trees and
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  Speaker 1: spread them on the road. The crowds that went ahead
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  Speaker 1: of him and those that followed shouted, Hosanna to the
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  Speaker 1: son of David. Bless it is he who comes in
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  Speaker 1: the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest heaven.
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  Speaker 1: When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked,
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  Speaker 1: who is this. The crowds answered, this is Jesus, the
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  Speaker 1: prophet from Nazareth. In Galilee, Jesus entered the temple courts
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  Speaker 1: and drove out all all who were buying and selling. There.
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  Speaker 1: He overturned the tables of the money changes and the
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  Speaker 1: benches of those selling doves. It is written he said
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  Speaker 1: to them, my house will be called a house of prayer,
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  Speaker 1: but you are making it a den of robbers. The
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  Speaker 1: blind and the lame came to him at the temple,
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  Speaker 1: and he healed them. But when the chief priests and
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  Speaker 1: the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did,
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  Speaker 1: and the children shouting in the temple courts Hosanna to
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  Speaker 1: the son of David, they were indignant. Do you hear
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  Speaker 1: what these children are saying? They asked him. Yes, replied Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: have you never read from the lips of children and infants?
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  Speaker 1: You Lord have called forth your praise, And he left
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  Speaker 1: them and went out of the city to bethany where
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  Speaker 1: he spent the night. Early in the morning, as Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was on his way back to the city, he was hungry.
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  Speaker 1: Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up
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  Speaker 1: to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. Then
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  Speaker 1: he said to it, may you never bear fruit again.
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  Speaker 1: Immediately the tree withered. When the disciples saw this, they
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  Speaker 1: were amazed. How did the fig tree wither so quickly?
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  Speaker 1: They asked. Jesus replied, truly, I tell you, if you
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  Speaker 1: have faith and do not doubt, not only can you
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  Speaker 1: do what was done to the fig tree, but also
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  Speaker 1: you can say to this mountain, go throw yourself into
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  Speaker 1: the sea, and it will be done. If you believe,
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  Speaker 1: you will receive whatever you ask for. In prayer, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: entered the temple courts, and while he was teaching, the
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  Speaker 1: chief priests and the elders of the people came to him.
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  Speaker 1: By what authority are you doing these things? They asked,
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  Speaker 1: And who gave you this authority? Jesus replied, I will
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  Speaker 1: also ask you one question. If you answer me, I
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  Speaker 1: will tell you by what authority I am doing these things.
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  Speaker 1: John's baptism, Where did it come from. Was it from
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  Speaker 1: heaven or of human origin? They discussed it among themselves
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  Speaker 1: and said, if we say from heaven, he will ask
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  Speaker 1: then why didn't you believe him? But if we say
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  Speaker 1: of human origin, we are afraid of the people, for
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  Speaker 1: they all hold that John was a prophet. So they
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  Speaker 1: answered Jesus, we don't know. Then he said, neither will
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  Speaker 1: I tell you by what authority I am doing these things?
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  Speaker 1: What do you think? There was a man who had
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  Speaker 1: two sons. He went to the first and said, son,
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  Speaker 1: go and work today in the vineyard. I will not,
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  Speaker 1: he answered, But later he changed his mind and went.
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  Speaker 1: Then the father went to the other son and said
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. He answered, I will, sir, But he
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  Speaker 1: did not go. Which of the two did what his
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  Speaker 1: father wanted? The first? They answered? Jesus said to them, truly,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are
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  Speaker 1: entering the Kingdom of God ahead of you. For John
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  Speaker 1: came to you to show you the way of righteousness,
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  Speaker 1: and you did not believe him. But the tax collectors
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  Speaker 1: and the prostitutes did, And even after you saw them,
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  Speaker 1: you did not repent and believe him. Listen to another
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  Speaker 1: parable there was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He
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  Speaker 1: put a wall around it, dug a wine press in it,
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  Speaker 1: and built a watch tower. Then he rented the vineyard
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  Speaker 1: to some farmers and moved to another place. When the
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  Speaker 1: harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants
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  Speaker 1: to collect his fruit. The tenants seized his servants. They
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  Speaker 1: beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. Then he
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  Speaker 1: sent other servants to them, more than the first time,
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  Speaker 1: and the tenants treated them the same way. Last of all,
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  Speaker 1: he sent his son to them. They will respect my son,
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  Speaker 1: he said. But when the tenants saw the sun, they
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  Speaker 1: said to each other, this is the heir. Come. Let's
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  Speaker 1: kill him and take his inheritance. So they took him
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  Speaker 1: and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he
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  Speaker 1: do to those tenants. He will bring those wretches to
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  Speaker 1: a wretched end, they replied, And he will rent the
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  Speaker 1: vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share
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  Speaker 1: of the crop. At harvest time, Jesus said to them,
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  Speaker 1: have you never read in the scriptures? The stone the
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  Speaker 1: builders rejected has become the cornerstone the Lord has done this,
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  Speaker 1: and it is marvelous in our eyes. Therefore, I tell
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  Speaker 1: you that the Kingdom of God will be taken away
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  Speaker 1: from you and given to a people who will produce
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  Speaker 1: its fruit. Anyone who falls on this stone will be
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  Speaker 1: broken to pieces. Anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.
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  Speaker 1: When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus's parables,
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  Speaker 1: they knew he was talking about them. They looked for
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  Speaker 1: a way to arrest him. But they were afraid of
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  Speaker 1: the crowd, because the people held that he was a
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  Speaker 1: prophet Matthew, chapter twenty three. Then Jesus said to the
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  Speaker 1: crowds and to his disciples, the teachers of the law
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  Speaker 1: and the Pharisees sit in Moses seat. So you must
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  Speaker 1: be careful to do everything they tell you. But do
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  Speaker 1: not do what they do, for they do not practice
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  Speaker 1: what they preach. They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and
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  Speaker 1: put them on other people's shoulders, but they themselves are
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  Speaker 1: not willing to lift a finger to move them. Everything
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  Speaker 1: they do is done for people to see. They make
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  Speaker 1: their philacteries wide, and the tassels on their garments long.
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  Speaker 1: They love the place of honor at banquets and the
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  Speaker 1: most important seats in the synagogues. They love to be
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  Speaker 1: greeted with respect in the market places, and to be
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  Speaker 1: called rabbi by others. But you are not to be
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  Speaker 1: called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are
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  Speaker 1: all brothers. And do not call any one on earth father,
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  Speaker 1: for you have one father, and he is in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have
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  Speaker 1: one instructor, the Messiah. The greatest among you, will be
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  Speaker 1: your servant. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled,
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  Speaker 1: and those who humble themselves will be exalted. Woe to you,
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  Speaker 1: teachers of the Law and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You shut
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  Speaker 1: the door of the Kingdom of Heaven in people's faces.
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  Speaker 1: You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those
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  Speaker 1: enter who are trying to. Woe to you, teachers of
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  Speaker 1: the Law and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You travel over land
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  Speaker 1: see to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded,
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  Speaker 1: you make them twice as much a child of Hell
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  Speaker 1: as you are. Woe to you blind guides. You say,
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  Speaker 1: if anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing. But
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  Speaker 1: anyone who swears by the gold of the temple is
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  Speaker 1: bound by that oath, you blind fools, Which is greater
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  Speaker 1: the gold or the temple that makes the gold sacred.
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  Speaker 1: You also say, if anyone swears by the altar, it
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  Speaker 1: means nothing. But anyone who swears by the gift on
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  Speaker 1: the altar is bound by that oath, you blind men,
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  Speaker 1: Which is greater the gift or the altar that makes
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  Speaker 1: the gift sacred. Therefore, anyone who swears by the altar
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  Speaker 1: swears by it and by everything on it, And anyone
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  Speaker 1: who swears by the temple swears by it and by
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  Speaker 1: the one who dwells in it. And anyone who swears
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  Speaker 1: by Heaven swears by God's throne, and by the one
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  Speaker 1: who sits on it. Woe to you, teachers of the
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  Speaker 1: law and pharisees, you hypocrites. You give a tenth of
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  Speaker 1: your spices mint, dill, and cumin, but you have neglected
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  Speaker 1: the more important matters of the law, justice, mercy, and faithfulness.
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  Speaker 1: You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former,
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  Speaker 1: You blind guides. You strain out a gnat, but swallow
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  Speaker 1: a camel. Woe to you, teachers of the law and pharisees,
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  Speaker 1: you hypocrites. You clean the outside of the cup and dish,
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  Speaker 1: but inside they are full of greed and self indulgence.
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  Speaker 1: Blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and dish,
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  Speaker 1: and then the outside also will be clean. Woe to you,
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  Speaker 1: teachers of the law and pharisees, you hypocrites. You are
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  Speaker 1: like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but
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  Speaker 1: on the inside are full of the bones of the
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  Speaker 1: dead and everything unclean. In the same way, on the
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  Speaker 1: outside you appear to people as righteous, but on the
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  Speaker 1: inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. Woe to you,
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  Speaker 1: teachers of the law and pharisees, you hypocrites. You build
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  Speaker 1: tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.
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  Speaker 1: And you say, if we had lived in the days
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  Speaker 1: of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with
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  Speaker 1: them in shedding the blood of the prophets. So you
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  Speaker 1: testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those
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  Speaker 1: whom the prophets. Go ahead, then, and complete what your
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  Speaker 1: ancestors started. You snakes, you brood of vipers. How will
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  Speaker 1: you escape being condemned to hell? Therefore I am sending
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  Speaker 1: you prophets and sages and teachers. Some of them you
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  Speaker 1: will kill and crucify. Others you will flog in your
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  Speaker 1: synagogues and pursue from town to town. And so upon
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  Speaker 1: you will come all the righteous blood that has been
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  Speaker 1: shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Able to
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  Speaker 1: the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered
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  Speaker 1: between the temple and the altar. Truly, I tell you
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  Speaker 1: all this will come on this generation. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you
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  Speaker 1: who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you.
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  Speaker 1: How often I have longed to gather your children together
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  Speaker 1: as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and
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  Speaker 1: you were not willing. Look, your house is left to
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  Speaker 1: you desolate, For I tell you you will not see
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  Speaker 1: me again until you say, Blessed is he who comes
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  Speaker 1: in the name of the Lord. John chapter fourteen. Do
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  Speaker 1: not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God,
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  Speaker 1: believe also in me. My father's house has many rooms.
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  Speaker 1: If that were not so, would I have told you
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  Speaker 1: that I am going there to prepare a place for you.
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  Speaker 1: And if I go and prepare a place for you,
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  Speaker 1: I will come back and take you to be with me,
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  Speaker 1: that you also may be where I am. You know
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  Speaker 1: the way to the place where I am going. Thomas
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  Speaker 1: said to him, Lord, we don't know where you are going,
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  Speaker 1: so how can we know the way. Jesus answered, I
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  Speaker 1: am the Way and the truth and the life. No
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  Speaker 1: one comes to the Father except through me. If you
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  Speaker 1: really know me, you will know my father as well.
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  Speaker 1: From now on. You do know him and have seen him.
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  Speaker 1: Philip said, Lord, show us the Father, and that will
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  Speaker 1: be enough for us. Jesus answered, don't you know me, Philip,
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  Speaker 1: even after I have been among you such a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How
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  Speaker 1: can you say, show us the Father? Don't you believe
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  Speaker 1: that I am in the Father and that the Father
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  Speaker 1: is in me? The words I say to you, I
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  Speaker 1: do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is
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  Speaker 1: the Father living in me who is doing his work.
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  Speaker 1: Believe me when I say that I am in the
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  Speaker 1: Father and the Father is in me, or at least
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  Speaker 1: believe on the evidence of the works themselves. Very truly,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the
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  Speaker 1: works I have been doing, and they will do even
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  Speaker 1: greater things than these, because I am going to the Father,
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  Speaker 1: and I will do whatever you ask in my name,
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  Speaker 1: so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
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  Speaker 1: You may ask me for anything in my name, and
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  Speaker 1: I will do it. If you love me, keep my commands,
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  Speaker 1: and I will ask the Father, and he will give
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  Speaker 1: you another advocate to help you and be with you forever,
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him because
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  Speaker 1: it neither sees him nor knows him, but you know him,
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  Speaker 1: for he lives with you and will be in you.
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  Speaker 1: I will not leave you as orphans. I will come
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  Speaker 1: to you. Before long. The world will not see me
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  Speaker 1: any more, but you will see me. Because I live,
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  Speaker 1: you also will live. On that day, you will realize
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  Speaker 1: that I am in my Father, and you are in me,
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  Speaker 1: and I am in you. Whoever has my commands and
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  Speaker 1: keeps them is the one who loves me. The one
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  Speaker 1: who loves me will be loved by my Father, and
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  Speaker 1: I too will love them and show myself to them.
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  Speaker 1: Then Judas not judas Is. Gariot said, but Lord, why
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  Speaker 1: do you intend to show yourself to us and not
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  Speaker 1: to the world. Jesus replied, anyone who loves me will
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  Speaker 1: obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we
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  Speaker 1: will come to them and make our home with them.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching.
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  Speaker 1: These words you hear are not my own. They belong
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  Speaker 1: to the Father who sent me. All this I have
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  Speaker 1: spoken while still with you. But the advocate, the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: whom the Father will send in my name, will teach
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  Speaker 1: you all things and will remind you of everything I
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  Speaker 1: have said to you. Peace I leave with you. My
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  Speaker 1: peace I give you. I do not give to you
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  Speaker 1: as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled.
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  Speaker 1: And do not be afraid. You heard me say I
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  Speaker 1: am going away and I am coming back to you.
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  Speaker 1: If you loved me, you would be glad that I
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  Speaker 1: am going to the Father. For the Father is greater
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  Speaker 1: than I. I have told you now before it happens,
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  Speaker 1: so that when it does happen, you will believe. I
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  Speaker 1: will not say much more to you, for the Prince
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  Speaker 1: of this world is coming. He has no hold over me,
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  Speaker 1: but he comes so that the world may learn that
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  Speaker 1: I love the Father and do exactly what my Father
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  Speaker 1: has commanded me. Come now, let us leave. John chapter
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  Speaker 1: fifteen I am the true vine, and my father is
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  Speaker 1: the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that
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  Speaker 1: bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit
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  Speaker 1: he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.
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  Speaker 1: You are already clean because of the word I have
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  Speaker 1: spoken to you. Remain in me as I also remain
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  Speaker 1: in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself. It
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  Speaker 1: must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit
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  Speaker 1: unless you remain in me. I am the vine. You
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  Speaker 1: are the branches. If you remain in me and I
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  Speaker 1: in you, you will bear mine much fruit. Apart from me,
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  Speaker 1: you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me.
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  Speaker 1: You are like a branch that is thrown away and withers.
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  Speaker 1: Such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire, and burned.
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  Speaker 1: If you remain in me and my words remain in you,
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  Speaker 1: ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
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  Speaker 1: This is to my father's glory that you bear much fruit,
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  Speaker 1: showing yourselves to be my disciples. As the Father has
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  Speaker 1: loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in
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  Speaker 1: my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain
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  Speaker 1: in my love, just as I have kept my Father's
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  Speaker 1: commands and remain in his love. I have told you
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  Speaker 1: this so that my joy may be in you, and
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  Speaker 1: that your joy may be complete. My command is this,
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  Speaker 1: love each other as I have loved you. Greater love
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  Speaker 1: has no one than this, to lay down one's life
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  Speaker 1: for one's friends. You are my friends if you do
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  Speaker 1: what I command. I no longer call you servants, because
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  Speaker 1: a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I
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  Speaker 1: have called you friends. For everything that I learned from
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  Speaker 1: my father, I have made known to you. You did
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  Speaker 1: not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you
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  Speaker 1: so that you might go and bear fruit, fruit that
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  Speaker 1: will last, and so that whatever you ask in my name,
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  Speaker 1: the Father will give you. This is my command. Love
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  Speaker 1: each other. If the world hates you, keep in mind
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  Speaker 1: that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world,
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  Speaker 1: it would love you as its own. As it is.
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  Speaker 1: You do not belong to the world. But I have
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  Speaker 1: chosen you out of the world. That is why the
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  Speaker 1: world hates you. Remember what I told you. A servant
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  Speaker 1: is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me,
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  Speaker 1: they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching,
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  Speaker 1: they will obey yours. Also. They will treat you this
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  Speaker 1: way because of my name, for they do not know
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  Speaker 1: the one who sent me. If I had not come
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  Speaker 1: and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin.
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  Speaker 1: But now they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever
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  Speaker 1: hates me hates my father as well. If I had
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  Speaker 1: not done among them the works no one else did,
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  Speaker 1: they would not be guilty of sin. As it is
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  Speaker 1: they have seen. And yet they have hated both me
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  Speaker 1: and my father. But this is to fulfill what is
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  Speaker 1: written in their law. They hated me without reason. When
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  Speaker 1: the advert comes, whom I will send to you from
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  Speaker 1: the Father, the spirit of truth, who goes out from
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  Speaker 1: the Father, he will testify about me. And you also
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  Speaker 1: must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: John chapter sixteen. All this I have told you so
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  Speaker 1: that you will not fall away. They will put you
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  Speaker 1: out of the synagogue. In fact, the time is coming
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  Speaker 1: when anyone who kills you will think they are offering
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  Speaker 1: a service to God. They will do such things because
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  Speaker 1: they have not known the Father or me. I have
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  Speaker 1: told you this so that when their time comes, you
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  Speaker 1: will remember that I warned you about them. I did
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  Speaker 1: not tell you this from the beginning, because I was
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  Speaker 1: with you. But now I am going to him who
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  Speaker 1: sent me. None of you asks me where are you going. Rather,
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  Speaker 1: you are filled with grief because I have said these things.
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  Speaker 1: But very truly I tell you it is for your
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  Speaker 1: good that I am going away. Unless I go away,
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  Speaker 1: the Advocate will not come to you. But if I go,
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  Speaker 1: I will send him to you. When he comes, he
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  Speaker 1: will prove the world to be in the wrong about
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  Speaker 1: sin and righteousness and judgment. About sin because people do
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  Speaker 1: not believe in me. About righteousness because I am going
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  Speaker 1: to the Father, where you can see me no longer.
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  Speaker 1: And about judgment, because the prince of this world now
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  Speaker 1: stands condemned. I have much more to say to you,
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  Speaker 1: more than you can now bear. But when he, the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit of Truth, comes, he will guide you into all
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  Speaker 1: the truth. He will not speak on his own. He
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  Speaker 1: will speak only what he hears, and he will tell
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  Speaker 1: you what is yet to come. He will glorify me
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  Speaker 1: because it is from me that he will receive what
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  Speaker 1: he will make known to you. All that belongs to
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  Speaker 1: the Father is mine. That is why I said, the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit will receive from me what he will make known
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  Speaker 1: to you. Jesus went on to say, in a little while,
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  Speaker 1: you will see me no more, and then after a
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  Speaker 1: little while you will see me. At this, some of
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  Speaker 1: his disciples said to one another, what does he mean
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  Speaker 1: by saying, in a little while you will see me
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  Speaker 1: no more, and then after a little while you will
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  Speaker 1: see me. And because I am going to the father,
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  Speaker 1: they kept asking, what does he mean by a little while?
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  Speaker 1: We don't understand what he is saying. Jesus saw that
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  Speaker 1: they wanted to ask him about this, so he said
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  Speaker 1: to them, are you asking one another what I meant
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  Speaker 1: when I said, in a little while, you will see
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  Speaker 1: me no more, and then after a little while you
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  Speaker 1: will see me. Very truly, I tell you, you will
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  Speaker 1: weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve,
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  Speaker 1: but your grief will turn to joy. A woman giving
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  Speaker 1: birth to a child has pain because her time has come,
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  Speaker 1: but when her baby is born, she forgets the anguish
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  Speaker 1: because of her joy that a child is born into
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  Speaker 1: the world. So with you, now is your time of grief.
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  Speaker 1: But I will see you again, and you will rejoice,
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  Speaker 1: and no one will take away your joy. In that day,
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  Speaker 1: you will no longer ask me anything, very truly. I
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  Speaker 1: tell you my Father will give you whatever you ask
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  Speaker 1: in my name. Until now you have not asked for
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  Speaker 1: anything in my life. I name ask, and you will receive,
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  Speaker 1: and your joy will be complete. Though I have been
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no
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  Speaker 1: longer use this kind of language, but will tell you
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  Speaker 1: plainly about my Father. In that day, you will ask
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  Speaker 1: in my name. I am not saying that I will
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  Speaker 1: ask the Father on your behalf. No, the Father himself
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  Speaker 1: loves you because you have loved me and have believed
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  Speaker 1: that I came from God. I came from the Father
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  Speaker 1: and entered the world. Now I am leaving the world
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  Speaker 1: and going back to the Father. Then Jesus's disciples said,
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  Speaker 1: now you are speaking clearly and without figures of speech.
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  Speaker 1: Now we can see that you know all things, and
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  Speaker 1: that you do not even need to have any one
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  Speaker 1: ask you questions. This makes us believe that you came
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  Speaker 1: from God. Do you now believe? Jesus replied, A time
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  Speaker 1: is coming, and in fact has come, when you will
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  Speaker 1: be scattered each to your own home. You will leave
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  Speaker 1: me all alone. Yet I am not alone, for my
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  Speaker 1: Father is with me. I have told you these things
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  Speaker 1: so that in me you may have peace. In this
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  Speaker 1: world you will have trouble, But take heart, I have
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  Speaker 1: overcome the world. John chapter seventeen. After Jesus said this,
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  Speaker 1: he looked toward heaven and prayed, Father, the hour has come.
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  Speaker 1: Glorify your son, that your son may glorify you, for
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  Speaker 1: you granted him authority over all people, that he might
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  Speaker 1: give eternal life to all those you have given him.
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  Speaker 1: Now this is eternal life that they know you, the
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  Speaker 1: only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
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  Speaker 1: I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the
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  Speaker 1: work you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify
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  Speaker 1: me in your presence, with the glory I had with
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  Speaker 1: you before the world began. I have revealed you to
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  Speaker 1: those whom you gave 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: obeyed your word. Now they know that everything you have
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  Speaker 1: given me comes from you. For I gave them the
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  Speaker 1: words you gave me, and they accepted them. They knew
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  Speaker 1: with certainty that I came from you, and they believed
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  Speaker 1: that you sent me. I pray for them. I am
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  Speaker 1: not praying for the world but for those you have
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  Speaker 1: given me, for they are yours. All I have is yours,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: and all you have is mine, and glory has come
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  Speaker 1: to me through them. I will remain in the world
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  Speaker 1: no longer. But they are still in the world, and
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  Speaker 1: I am coming to you, Holy Father. Protect them by
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  Speaker 1: the power of your name, the name you gave me,
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  Speaker 1: so that they may be one as we are one.
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  Speaker 1: While I was with them, I protected them and kept
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  Speaker 1: them safe by that name you gave me. None has
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  Speaker 1: been lost, except the one doomed to destruction, so that
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  Speaker 1: scripture would be fulfilled. I am coming to you now,
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  Speaker 1: but I say these things while I am still in
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  Speaker 1: the world, so that they may have the full measure
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  Speaker 1: of my joy within them. I have given them your word,
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  Speaker 1: and the world has hated them, for they are not
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  Speaker 1: of the world any more than I am of the world.
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  Speaker 1: My prayer is not that you take them out of
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  Speaker 1: the world, but that you protect them from the evil one.
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  Speaker 1: They are not of the world, as I am not
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  Speaker 1: of it. Sanctify them by the truth. Your word is truth.
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  Speaker 1: As you sent me into the world, I have sent
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  Speaker 1: them into the world. For them I sanctify myself, that
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  Speaker 1: they too may be truly sanctified. My prayer is not
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  Speaker 1: for them alone. I pray also for those who will
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  Speaker 1: believe in me through their message, that all of them
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  Speaker 1: may be one. Father, just as you are in me
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  Speaker 1: and I am in you, may they also be in us,
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  Speaker 1: so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
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  Speaker 1: I have given them the glory that you gave me,
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  Speaker 1: that they may be one as we are one, I
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: in them and you in me, so that they may
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know
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  Speaker 1: that you sent me and have loved them, even as
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: you have loved me. I want those you have given
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  Speaker 1: me to be with me where I am, and to
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  Speaker 1: see my glory, the glory you have given me because
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  Speaker 1: you loved me before the creation of the world. Righteous Father.
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  Speaker 1: Though the world does not know you, I know you,
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  Speaker 1: and they know that you have sent me. I have
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  Speaker 1: made you known to them and will continue to make
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  Speaker 1: you known, in order that the love you have for
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  Speaker 1: me may be in them, and that I myself may
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  Speaker 1: be in them. Matthew chapter twenty six. When Jesus had
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  Speaker 1: finished saying all these things, he said to his disciples,
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  Speaker 1: as you know, the Passover is two days away, and
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  Speaker 1: the son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Then the chief priests and the elders of the people
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: assembled in the palace of the high priest, whose name
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: was Kais, and they schemed to arrest Jesus secretly and
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  Speaker 1: kill him. But not during the festival, they said, or
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  Speaker 1: there may be a riot among the people. While Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was in Bethany, in the home of Simon the Leper,
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  Speaker 1: a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of
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  Speaker 1: very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as
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  Speaker 1: he was reclining at the table. When the disciples saw this,
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  Speaker 1: they were indignant. Why this waste? They asked. This perfume
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  Speaker 1: could have been sold at a high price, and the
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  Speaker 1: money given to the poor. Aware of this, Jesus said
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  Speaker 1: to them, why are you bothering this woman? She has
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  Speaker 1: done a beautiful thing to me. The poor you will
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  Speaker 1: always have with you, but you will not always have me.
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  Speaker 1: When she poured this perfume on my body, she did
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  Speaker 1: it to prepare me for burial. Truly, I tell you,
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  Speaker 1: wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she
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  Speaker 1: has done will also be told in memory of her.
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  Speaker 1: Then one of the twelve, the one called Judas is Scariot,
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  Speaker 1: went to the chief priests and asked, what are you
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  Speaker 1: willing to give me if I deliver him over to you.
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  Speaker 1: So they counted out for him thirty pieces of silver.
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  Speaker 1: From then on, Judas watched for an opportunity to hand
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  Speaker 1: him over. On the first day of the festival of
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  Speaker 1: unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, where
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  Speaker 1: do you want us to make preparations for you to
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  Speaker 1: eat the passover. He replied, go into the city to
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  Speaker 1: a certain man and tell him. The teacher says, my
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  Speaker 1: appointed time is near. I am going to celebrate the
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  Speaker 1: Passover with my disciples at your house. So the disciples
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  Speaker 1: did as Jesus said directed them and prepared the passover.
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  Speaker 1: When evening came, Jesus was reclining at the table with
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  Speaker 1: the twelve, and while they were eating, he said, truly,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, one of you will betray me. They
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  Speaker 1: were very sad and began to say to him, one
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  Speaker 1: after the other, surely you don't mean me, Lord, Jesus replied,
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  Speaker 1: the one who has dipped his hand into the bowl
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  Speaker 1: with me will betray me. The son of Man will
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  Speaker 1: go just as it is written about him. But woe
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  Speaker 1: to that man who betrays the son of man. It
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  Speaker 1: would be better for him if he had not been born.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Then Judas, the one who would betray him, said, surely
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  Speaker 1: you don't mean me, Rabbi. Jesus answered, you have said so.
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  Speaker 1: While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he
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  Speaker 1: had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to
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  Speaker 1: his disciples, saying, take and eat. This is my body.
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  Speaker 1: Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks,
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  Speaker 1: he gave it to them, saying, drink from it, all
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  Speaker 1: of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which
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  Speaker 1: is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you I will not drink from this fruit
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  Speaker 1: of the vine from now on until that day when
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  Speaker 1: I drink it new with you in my father's kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: When they had sung a hymn, they went out to
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  Speaker 1: the Mount of Olives. Then Jesus told them, this very night,
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  Speaker 1: you will all fall away on account of me. For
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  Speaker 1: it is written I will strike the shepherd, and the
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  Speaker 1: sheep of the flock will be scattered. But after I
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  Speaker 1: have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.
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  Speaker 1: Peter replied, even if all fall away on account of you,
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  Speaker 1: I never will, truly, I tell you. Jesus answered, this
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  Speaker 1: very night, before the rooster crows, you will disown me
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  Speaker 1: three times. But Peter declared, even if I have to
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  Speaker 1: die with you, I will never disown you, and all
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  Speaker 1: the other disciples said the same. Then Jesus went with
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  Speaker 1: his disciples to a place called Gethsemone, and he said
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  Speaker 1: to them, sit here while I go over there and pray.
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  Speaker 1: He took Peter and the two sons of Zebede along
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  Speaker 1: with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled.
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  Speaker 1: Then he said to them, my soul is overwhelmed with
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep
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  Speaker 1: watch with me. Going a little farther, he fell with
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  Speaker 1: his face to the ground and prayed, my father, if
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  Speaker 1: it is possible, may this cup be taken from me?
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  Speaker 1: Yet not as I will, but as you will. Then
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  Speaker 1: he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. Couldn't
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  Speaker 1: you men keep watch with me for one hour? He
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  Speaker 1: asked Peter, watch and pray so that you will not
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  Speaker 1: fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh
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  Speaker 1: is weak. He went away a second time and prayed,
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  Speaker 1: my Father, if it is not possible for this cup
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  Speaker 1: to be taken away unless I drink it, may your
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  Speaker 1: will be done. When he came back, he again found
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  Speaker 1: them sleeping because their eyes were heavy. So he left
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  Speaker 1: them and went away once more and prayed the third time,
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  Speaker 1: saying the same thing. Then he returned to the disciples
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  Speaker 1: and said to them, are you still sleeping and resting? Look?
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  Speaker 1: The hour has come and the son of Man is
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  Speaker 1: delivered into the hands of sinners. Rise, let us go.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Here comes my betrayer. While he was still speaking, Judas,
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  Speaker 1: one of the twelve arrived. With him was a large
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  Speaker 1: crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent from the chief
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  Speaker 1: priests and the elders of the people. Now the betrayer
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  Speaker 1: had arranged a signal with them, the one I kiss
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  Speaker 1: is the man arrest him. Going at once to Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: Judas said, greetings, Rabbi, and kissed him. Jesus replied, do
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  Speaker 1: what you came for, friend. Then the men stepped forward,
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  Speaker 1: seized Jesus and arrested him. With that one of Jesus's
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  Speaker 1: companions reached for his sword, drew it out, and struck
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  Speaker 1: the servant of the High Priest, cutting off his ear.
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  Speaker 1: Put your sword back in its place, Jesus said to him,
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  Speaker 1: For all who draw the sword will die by the sword.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think I cannot call on my father and
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  Speaker 1: he will at once put at my disposal more than
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  Speaker 1: twelve legions of angels? But how then would the scriptures
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  Speaker 1: be fulfilled that say it must happen in this way?
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  Speaker 1: In that hour, Jesus said to the crowd, am I
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  Speaker 1: leading a rebellion? That you have come out with swords
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  Speaker 1: and clubs to capture me. Every day I sat in
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  Speaker 1: the temple courts teaching, and you did not arrest me.
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  Speaker 1: But this has all taken place that the writings of
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  Speaker 1: the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples deserted
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  Speaker 1: him and fled those who had arrested. Jesus took him
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  Speaker 1: to Caiaphas, the High Priest, where the teachers of the
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  Speaker 1: law and the elders had assembled, but Peter followed him
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  Speaker 1: at a distance right up to the court yard of
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  Speaker 1: the high Priest. He entered and sat down with the
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  Speaker 1: guards to see the outcome. The chief priests and the
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  Speaker 1: whole Sanhedrin were looking for false evidence against Jesus so
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  Speaker 1: that they could put him to death. But they did
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  Speaker 1: not find any. Though many false witnesses came forward. Finally
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  Speaker 1: too came forward and declared this fellow said, I am
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  Speaker 1: able to destroy the Temple of God and rebuild it
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  Speaker 1: in three days. Then the High Priest stood up and
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  Speaker 1: said to Jesus, are you not going to answer? What
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: is this testimony that these men are bringing against you?
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: But Jesus remained silent. The High Priest said to him,
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  Speaker 1: I charge you under oath by the Living God. Tell
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  Speaker 1: us if you are the Messiah, the Son of God.
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  Speaker 1: You have said so, Jesus replied, But I say to
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: all of you, from now on you will see the
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: son of Man sitting at the right hand of the
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Mighty One, and coming on the clouds of heaven. Then
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: the High Priest tore his clothes and said, he has
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: spoken blasphemy. Why do we need any more witnesses? Look
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: now you have heard the blasphemy. What do you think
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: he is worthy of death? They answered? Then they spit
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  Speaker 1: in his face and struck him with their fists. Others
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: slapped him and said, prophesy to us, Messiah, who hit you? Now?
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  Speaker 1: Peter was sitting out in the courtyard, and a servant
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: girl came to him. You also were with Jesus of Galilee,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: she said, But he denied it before them all. I
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: don't know what you're talking about, he said. Then he
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: went out to the gateway, where another servant girl saw
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: him and said to the people there, this fellow was
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: with Jesus of Nazareth. He denied it again with an oath,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: I don't know the man. After a little while, those
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: standing there went up to Peter and said, surely you
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: are one of them. Your accent gives you away. Then
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: he began to call down curses, and he swore to them,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know the man. Immediately a rooster crowed. Then
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken. Before the rooster crows,
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: you will disown me three times, and he went outside
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: and wept bitterly. Matthew chapter twenty seven. Early in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: all the chief priests and the elders of the people
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: made their plans how to have Jesus executed. So they
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: bound him, led him away, and handed him over to Pilot,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: the governor. When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Jesus was condemned. He was seized with remorse and returned
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: the elders. I have sinned, he said, for I have
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: betrayed innocent blood. What is that to us? They replied,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: that's your responsibility. So Judas threw the money into the
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: The chief priests picked up the coins and said, it
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: is against the law to put this into the treasury,
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: since it is blood money. So they decided to use
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: the money to buy the Potter's Field as a burial
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: place for foreigners. That is why it has been called
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: the field of Blood to this day. Then what was
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled. They took the
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: thirty pieces of silver the price set on him by
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: the people of Israel, and they used them to buy
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: the Potter's field, as the lord commanded me. Meanwhile, Jesus
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, are
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: you the king of the Jews. You have said so,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: Jesus replied, When he was accused by the chief priests
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: and the elders, he gave no answer. Then Pilot asked him,
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: don't you hear the testimony they are bringing against you?
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: But Jesus made no reply, not even to a single charge,
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: to the great amazement of the governor. Now, it was
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: the governor's custom at the festival to release a prisoner
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: chosen by the crowd. At that time they had a
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  Speaker 1: well known prisoner whose name was Jesus Barabbas. So when
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  Speaker 1: the crowd had gathered, Pilot asked asked them which one
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  Speaker 1: do you want me to release to you, Jesus Barabbas
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  Speaker 1: or Jesus who is called the Messiah. For he knew
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  Speaker 1: it was out of self interest that they had handed
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  Speaker 1: Jesus over to him. While Pilot was sitting on the
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  Speaker 1: judge's seat, his wife sent him this message, don't have
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  Speaker 1: anything to do with that innocent man, for I have
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  Speaker 1: suffered a great deal today in a dream because of him.
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  Speaker 1: But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd
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  Speaker 1: to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus executed. Which
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  Speaker 1: of the two do you want me to release to you,
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  Speaker 1: asked the governor Barabas. They answered, what shall I do
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  Speaker 1: then with Jesus, who is called the Messiah? Pilot asked,
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  Speaker 1: They all answered, crucify him. Why what crime has he committed?
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  Speaker 1: Asked Pilot, But they shouted all the louder, crucify him.
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  Speaker 1: When Pilot saw that he was getting nowhere, but that
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  Speaker 1: instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed
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  Speaker 1: his hands in front of the crowd. I am innocent
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  Speaker 1: of this man's blood, he said, It is your responsibility.
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  Speaker 1: All the people answered, his blood is on us and
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  Speaker 1: on our children. Then he released Barabbas to them, but
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  Speaker 1: he had Jesus flogged and handed him over to be crucified.
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  Speaker 1: Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the pretorium and
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  Speaker 1: gathered the whole company of soldiers around him. They stripped
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  Speaker 1: him and put a scarlet robe on him, and then
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  Speaker 1: twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on
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  Speaker 1: his head. They put a star in his right hand.
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  Speaker 1: Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him.
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  Speaker 1: Hail King of the Jews, they said. They spit on
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  Speaker 1: him and took the staff and struck him on the
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  Speaker 1: head again and again. After they had mocked him, they
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  Speaker 1: took off the robe and put his own clothes on him.
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  Speaker 1: Then they led him away to crucify him. As they
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  Speaker 1: were going out, they met a man from Syrene named Simon,
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  Speaker 1: and they forced him to carry the cross. They came
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  Speaker 1: to a place called Golgotha, which means the place of
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  Speaker 1: the skull. There they offered Jesus wine to drink mixed
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  Speaker 1: with gore, but after tasting it, he refused to drink it.
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  Speaker 1: When they had crucified him, they divided up his clothes
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  Speaker 1: by casting lots, and sitting down, they kept watch over him.
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  Speaker 1: There above his head they placed the written charge against him.
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  Speaker 1: This is Jesus, the King of the Jews. Two rebels
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  Speaker 1: were crucified with him, one on his right and one
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  Speaker 1: on his left. Those who passed by hurled insults at him,
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  Speaker 1: shaking their heads and saying, you, who are going to
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  Speaker 1: destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Come down from the cross if you are the son
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  Speaker 1: of God. In the same way, the chief priests, the
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  Speaker 1: teachers of the law, and the elders mocked him. He
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  Speaker 1: saved others, they said, but he can't save himself. He
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  Speaker 1: is the king of Israel. Let him come down now
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  Speaker 1: from the cross, and we will believe in him. He
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  Speaker 1: trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he
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  Speaker 1: wants him, For he said, I am the son of God.
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  Speaker 1: In the same way, the rebels who were crucified with
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  Speaker 1: him also heaped insults on him. From noon until three
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  Speaker 1: in the afternoon, darkness came over all the land. About
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  Speaker 1: three in the afternoon, Jesus cried out in a loud voice,
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  Speaker 1: Eli Eli lemma sabachthani, which means, my God, My God,
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  Speaker 1: why have you forsaken me. When some of those standing
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  Speaker 1: there heard this, they said, he's calling Elijah. Immediately one
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  Speaker 1: of them ran and got a sponge. He filled it
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  Speaker 1: with wine vinegar, put it on a staff, and offered
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  Speaker 1: it to Jesus to drink. The rest said, now leave
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  Speaker 1: him alone, Let's see if Elijah comes to save him.
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  Speaker 1: And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice,
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  Speaker 1: he gave up his spirit. At that moment, the curtain
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  Speaker 1: of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
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  Speaker 1: The earth shook, the rocks split, and the tombs broke open.
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  Speaker 1: The bodies of many holy people who had died were
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  Speaker 1: raised to life. They came out of the tombs after
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  Speaker 1: jesus resurrection and went into the Holy City and appeared
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  Speaker 1: to many people. When the centurion and those with him
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  Speaker 1: who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that
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  Speaker 1: had happened, they were terrified and exclaimed surely he was
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  Speaker 1: the son of God. Many women were there watching from
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  Speaker 1: a distance. They had followed Jesus from Galilee to care
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  Speaker 1: for his needs. Among them were Mary Magdalen, Mary the
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  Speaker 1: mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebede's sons.
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  Speaker 1: As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea
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  Speaker 1: named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Going to Pilot, he asked for Jesus's body, and Pilot
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  Speaker 1: ordered that it be given to him. Joseph took the body,
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  Speaker 1: wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and placed it
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  Speaker 1: in his own new tomb that he had cut out
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  Speaker 1: of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front
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  Speaker 1: of the entrance to the tomb and went away. Mary
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  Speaker 1: Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.
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  Speaker 1: The next day, the one after preparation day, the chief
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  Speaker 1: priests and the Pharisees went to Pilot. Sir. They said,
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  Speaker 1: we remember that while he was still alive. That deceiver said,
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  Speaker 1: after three days, I will rise again. So give the
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  Speaker 1: order for the tomb to be made secure until the
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  Speaker 1: third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal the
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  Speaker 1: body and tell the people that he has been raised
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  Speaker 1: from the dead. This last deception will be worse than
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  Speaker 1: the first. Take a guard. Pilot answered, go make the
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  Speaker 1: tomb as secure as you know how. So they went
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  Speaker 1: and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on
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  Speaker 1: the stone and posting the guard Matthew, chapter twenty eight.
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  Speaker 1: After the Sabbath, a dawn on the first day of
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  Speaker 1: the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to
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  Speaker 1: look at the tomb. There was a violent earthquake, for
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  Speaker 1: an angel of the Lord came down from heaven, and,
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  Speaker 1: going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat
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  Speaker 1: on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes
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  Speaker 1: were white as snow. The guards were so afraid of
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  Speaker 1: him that they shook and became like dead men. The
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  Speaker 1: angel said to the women, do not be afraid, for
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  Speaker 1: I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.
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  Speaker 1: He is not here. He has risen, just as he said.
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  Speaker 1: Come and see the place where he lay. Then go
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  Speaker 1: quickly and tell his disciples. He has risen from the
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  Speaker 1: dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There
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  Speaker 1: you will see him. Now I have told you so.
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  Speaker 1: The women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled
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  Speaker 1: with joy, and ran to tell his disciples. Suddenly Jesus
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  Speaker 1: met them. Greetings, he said. They came to him, clasped
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  Speaker 1: his feet, and worshiped him. Then Jesus said to them,
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  Speaker 1: do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to
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  Speaker 1: go to Galilee. There they will see me. While the
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  Speaker 1: women were on their way, some of the guards went
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  Speaker 1: into the city and reported to the chief priests everything
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  Speaker 1: that had happened. When the chief priests had met with
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  Speaker 1: the elders and devised a plan, they gave the soldiers
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  Speaker 1: a large sum of money, telling them, you are to
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  Speaker 1: say his disciples came during the night and stole him
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  Speaker 1: away while we were asleep. If this report gets to
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  Speaker 1: the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out
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  Speaker 1: of trouble. So the soldiers took the money and did
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  Speaker 1: as they were instructed, and this story has been widely
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  Speaker 1: circulated among the Jews to this very day. Then the
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  Speaker 1: eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus
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  Speaker 1: had told them to go. When they saw him, they
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  Speaker 1: worshiped him, but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them
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  Speaker 1: and said, all authority in heaven and on earth has
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  Speaker 1: been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of
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  Speaker 1: all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father
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  Speaker 1: and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and
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  Speaker 1: teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And
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  Speaker 1: surely I am with you always to the very end
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  Speaker 1: of the age.