Did Jesus Really Die on Good Friday?

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Welcome back to Conversations with a Calvinist.

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My name is Keith Foskey and I am a Calvinist, and I'm joined today by one of my fellow elders at Sovereign Grace Family Church, Mike Collier.

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Mike, thank you for being on the show today.

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Glad to be here.

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Absolutely, and thankful to have you with us.

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And we're going to be doing something today that I think is very important.

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It is Easter week.

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This is what some people call Holy Week, beginning with the Palm Sunday celebration of the triumphal entry, ending with the celebration of the resurrection on Easter Sunday.

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And this video is going to be going out that week because what we are going to do today is we're going to be walking through the days of Holy Week, beginning with the Sunday prior to Easter, with the triumphal entry going all the way to the resurrection.

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And the reason why I've asked Brother Mike to do this is because years ago, Brother Mike had produced a document, he has it with him now, of what happened on each of the days.

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This is the week to change the world.

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This is the most important week in world history, not just Christian history, not just in our history, but in world history, this is the most important week.

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Outside of Creation Week, this is it.

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And so we look at this week, and we know there's a lot of controversy that surrounds it.

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There are people who believe that we shouldn't celebrate things like Good Friday, because they would say, well, Jesus didn't die on Good Friday.

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He died on Thursday or Wednesday.

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And I've heard all kinds of arguments for celebrating different days or looking at this from different perspectives.

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And you did a study years ago where you outlined, based upon the scriptures, your understanding of what happens on each day.

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Can I ask you what motivated you to do this? Was it the controversy or just something you wanted to do in your own exegetical state? You know, when I was an elder at another church, and every year since I had gotten saved, I had read through the accounts, through the Gospels, as the week that Jesus, well, I called it Passion Week.

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I still call it Passion Week.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Passion Week, Holy Week.

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Yep, yep.

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And I would read through those accounts, like I would read Matthew, or then on another day I would read part of Mark, and then on another day I would read, and then I was like, this will take a little bit of time, but I've got until next year, the following year, I want to put them better in a chronological order.

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So I can read what happened on the triumphal entry, and then what happened on Monday, what happened on Tuesday, what happened on Wednesday, Thursday, obviously on Friday, the crucifixion, and then the sealing of the tomb on Saturday, resurrection Sunday.

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Actually, at one point, I was going to put the day before triumphal entry, because that is a significant event that takes place, where Jesus is anointed, and it tells you the date, six days before Passover.

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So if it's six days before Passover, that means that happened on the day before the triumphal entry, and would be six days before the sun went down on that Friday that Jesus was crucified, or once the sun went down, it was the Sabbath.

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So we'll talk about that part.

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Yeah, and that's what we're going to do.

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We're going to walk through your outline here, and again, there are people who may take issue with some of this, but this is based upon your own study, your own exegetical examination of the text, based upon what you know about history, even what you just mentioned about the events that were occurring up until there.

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And we're going to walk through that in just a moment.

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We're going to go all the way, start to finish.

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And there's how many pages there? It looks like there's three.

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One, two, three, four.

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Yeah.

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So we'll be able to walk through.

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And it has each, what happened on day one, it's got, in one column, it's got Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and then on day two, it tells you what happened from those accounts.

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Would you be willing for us to make that available for people, if we could photocopy it? Yeah, sure.

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Yeah, okay.

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Well, I'll try to do that, and I can put that in the show notes at the bottom.

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So if somebody is watching this on YouTube or whatever, they can go in, and maybe we'll post that on our website.

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And I would suggest the week of Passion Week, or Holy Week, that if you read it by the day, even if it's for devotion, just get up that morning, okay, starting on a triumphal entry, read on Sunday morning what took place, and read each one of those, and you can see some of the different details that are put in each account, which brings some of it together.

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And if you put all of them together towards the end, it's without doubt that Jesus was crucified on Friday.

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Yeah, and again, that's something that people take issue, but I agree with you, and we've long celebrated what we call Good Friday.

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Now, we wouldn't, and we talked about this before the show, we wouldn't say that a person has to celebrate Good Friday any more than we would say any other special day.

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The day we would say is necessary is the Lord's Day.

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Correct.

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That's a day we gather to worship.

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That's mandated.

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Yeah, yeah, but we're not mandated for other holidays.

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So, Good Friday, or Maundy Thursday, or any of these other days that churches may do, nothing wrong with that, and I just preached about that this morning, was that if somebody wants to celebrate Passover, if a Christian wants to hold a feast, they're within their right to do that.

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Yep.

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And if we want to celebrate Good Friday, our church chooses to do that, but we certainly don't look down upon anyone who doesn't come to the service or something like that.

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And so, these are things that are important, but when it comes to what's mandated, we're mandated to worship together, gather on the Lord's Day, and after that, we're not mandated for any of this.

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But it's important to know, and again, like I said, I appreciate the studies that you do, especially on historical things.

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So, without wasting any more time, I do want to jump right into it.

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And so, yours begins on Triumphal Entry.

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On Triumphal Entry.

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On the Sunday.

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Yeah, because that actually would be eight days before Jesus resurrected.

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Okay.

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So, we always begin the Passion Week or Holy Week on the Triumphal Entry, and here he enters, and you have the accounts in Matthew 21, verses 1 through 11, and then verse 17, and then obviously it's a parallel account would be in Mark chapter 11, verses 1 through 11, Luke's account in 19, verses 29 through 44, and then John's account, which picks up at chapter 12, verses 12 through 19.

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But like I was saying, right before that, the day before the Triumphal Entry takes place, Jesus is anointed in Bethany.

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Yeah.

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Before he comes in, and it specifically says that happened six days before Passover.

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Then, the following day, Jesus gets on a donkey, and he heads on into Jerusalem, and they're laying palm trees on the ground.

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So, those are your timeframes.

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Yeah.

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It's specific days, six days before.

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Yeah.

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And then we start, that's where we can start the time.

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Yeah.

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One distinction, and we'll probably talk more about when we get to Friday and Thursday, is under our Gregarion or Julian calendar, however you want to see it, our days are based on sunrise.

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Theirs is based on moon.

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So, when the sun went down, that's the beginning of a new day.

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Yeah.

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Ours is not like that.

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Yeah, that's how they, even with fasting, you fasted from sundown to sundown, and that was a day.

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That was a day.

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Yeah.

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Absolutely.

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Even when they slaughtered the Passover lambs, they were killing them at twilight, because that was the new day.

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Yeah.

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That was the starting of the new day.

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Yeah.

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Absolutely.

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Yeah.

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See, all this is good stuff.

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Let's begin, then, with what actually happens on the day of the triumphal entry.

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Oh, and real quick, for the viewer, and just as a reminder, how does this fit in with the resurrection of Lazarus? Because this is also an event that had happened.

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Yeah.

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As far as time frame, we don't have the exact time.

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We know it was close enough to the time of Jesus' crucifixion that the Pharisees wanted to kill Lazarus, too.

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Yeah.

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Because he had raised him from the dead.

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And he was testimony.

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That's testimony of Jesus.

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Yeah.

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And the way it takes place in order, as far as how it's revealed to us in Scripture, I think it's in chapter 11, it takes place at the resurrection of Lazarus, but then it goes right into chapter 12 of Jesus being anointed in Bethany.

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Yeah.

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And halfway through.

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And preparing for this.

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And preparing for this.

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So they're making the connection.

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Why did they want to go kill Jesus? Because it specifically said, this man has raised a man from the dead.

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They will all follow after him.

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Yeah.

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And that is exactly what people were doing.

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Yeah.

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And we can talk about some of the… No, absolutely.

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I just wanted to kind of, for people who may not know, there's a connection there.

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Yeah.

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Jesus raised a man from the dead, and then he… In Bethany.

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Yeah.

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And then he's about… Two miles outside Jerusalem.

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Yeah.

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Mm-hmm.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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So let's go, let's begin again with the triumphal entry.

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This is day one.

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This is Sunday prior to Resurrection Sunday.

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Yep.

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He comes in.

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He is riding on a donkey.

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In Matthew's account, it gives the people approaching saying, Jehovah, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

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And most of those accounts in Matthew and Mark and John is about the same.

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It's Luke's account that give us a little more information of Jesus.

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As he was coming, he began to weep over the city.

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Yeah.

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And he made the proclamation of, man, if you would have just… You people would have just known that the visitation of the Lord had come.

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You would have known.

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And he weeps because he says that there will be armies that are going to surround you.

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They're going to block you in from all sides, and they're going to lay you flat.

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And he eventually goes on the Olivet Discourse to say… Yeah, that's Prophesying 87.

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Oh, yeah.

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Sure.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Absolutely.

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And that's what takes place.

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And he goes into the city.

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He goes.

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He looks around into the temple, sees what's going on.

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That's where they always go.

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And he goes back out to Bethany.

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It's interesting that he goes to the temple, and he just looks around because that sets the stage for what takes place on that Monday.

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Okay.

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Because as he goes in, if you want me, we can continue on to that.

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He goes right out to Bethany.

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Yeah, his triumphal entry didn't last long.

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He goes in.

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Yep.

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Looks around.

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Yep.

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If you remember, the Pharisees try to squash the children from singing that.

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They try to, hey, don't do this, don't do that.

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They'll take away our holy place.

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And there is a historical event, not to get too far off track, but there is a historical event that took place with the rededication of the temple and the overthrowing of Antiochus Epiphanes, and those things that took place that you can read of in historical books, not inspired, but the historical books of the Maccabees, which talks about when Judas Maccabeus, after dropping the hammer on the Seleucid Empire, which is Antiochus Epiphanes, Antiochus the madman, after liberating the city, as he came into the city, he was Hosanna, blessed be the Lord.

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And the same thing.

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They were putting down branches on the ground.

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So there was a historical event that the Jewish people could point back to and go, man, if they see, if Rome sees this man as the one to deliver the Jews, they'll crush us.

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And from a humanistic standpoint, you could understand that part.

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Yeah.

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We don't want this guy doing this.

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Now, from Caiaphas' prediction in prophecy, if it's better for one man to die than the whole nation perish, that's from a different perspective.

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Sure.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And it says that was given to him by the spirit.

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Yeah.

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Doesn't say that.

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Given him as prophecy and he didn't know it.

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Yeah, that's what I mean.

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It was prophesied that one man would die so the nation wouldn't perish and that nation being the true Israel, which would be all of those whom he would gather into himself.

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So Jesus has gone into Jerusalem.

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He's looked around.

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He's now gone back to Bethany.

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We're now on day two, which would be Monday.

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Monday.

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Monday.

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So as he goes in into the city, he is coming from Bethany.

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He goes to a fig tree.

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And if you can read these accounts, do you want me to get these? Yeah, you can just read this.

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If people want to get the scripture that way, you're not having to read every single one.

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This will be available for people to go look at.

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But this is all the different accounts harmonized.

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Yeah, it's harmonized.

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Go ahead.

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I'm sorry.

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I was going to say, a harmony is when you take the various accounts of Jesus' life from the four different gospels and put them into one.

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So that's what you've done.

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Yeah.

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And you'll also, if you can read them chronologically, how I have set them up, you'll see to it that the event with the fig tree looks like as they were coming in, it's cursed.

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It immediately dries up.

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The fig tree, well, it doesn't.

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It's on their way back the next morning.

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Remember, when they're leaving, heading back, it's most likely dark.

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They're heading back to Bethany.

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They can't pass by the same fig tree that Jesus cursed because it didn't have fruit, which I believe was a prophetic thing of how the nation should have been producing fruit, had everything it had given to it, and it still didn't.

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Well, and Jesus is Him going in.

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Hey, He's hungry.

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He's wanting some food.

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This fig tree has nothing on it.

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Jesus curses it as an object lesson.

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Yeah.

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And some people think Jesus is unfair.

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I've heard people say, look how mean Jesus is cursing this tree just because it didn't bear fruit.

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And it's like, this is...

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And you make it an object lesson for the next day.

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Exactly.

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It's a lesson.

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He's setting it up for the next day.

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So on day two, which would have been that Monday, you can read from Matthew 21, 12 through 16, and then 18 through 19, Mark 11, 12 through 19, Luke 19, 45 and 46.

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And if you read them, it'll fill in some of the pieces.

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But as He goes in, the fig tree doesn't have any figs on it.

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It's got everything that it should have been producing and was not.

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Jesus curses it.

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They go on into the city.

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They go into the temple.

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And that's where Jesus just...

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He sees all the corruption, the selling of animals by Caiaphas at that time.

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Caiaphas had moved.

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It used to be up on the Mount of Olives where they would have the selling of the animals.

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Well, the temple didn't make any money if it was up there.

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So He moved it into the temple in the court of the Gentiles where they could extort it.

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They could sell offerings.

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They could make more money.

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Well, Jesus comes in there.

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He sees what's happening.

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He sees His people being extorted, made a den of thieves and a house of robbers.

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And Jesus just says, hey, this is a house of prayer, makes whip, runs everybody out.

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Whether you believe that happened in John in the beginning and there was two, this one is specifically that He cleans the clock of the temple money changers because once it's done, they don't come back.

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Caiaphas was very angry because of what he had done.

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Who gives you the authority to do this? Yeah.

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And all those bits and pieces are filled in chronologically.

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So He cleanses the temple.

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He cursed the fig tree.

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He cleanses the temple.

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And then He returns that night back to Bethany.

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The next morning, Jesus going back into Jerusalem with His disciples from Bethany.

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And this is chapter 21 of Matthew 20 through 22.

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And then Mark's account is 11, 20 through 26.

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Luke and John don't have any account of this what took place.

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But at this point, we're on Tuesday.

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We're on Tuesday.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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Tuesday.

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Jesus is going back from Bethany with His disciples.

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And they noticed on their way back, because it's daylight, it's in the morning, they go, wow, that fig tree is withered and dead.

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And they ask Him a question.

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Well, how did you do that? Me, from our perspective, of course, He's God.

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I was going to say, didn't you see Him calm the storm? Like, didn't you see Him walk on water? Do all this stuff.

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Maybe months ago, see Him raise a dead man? Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Lose His clothes and let Him go? Yeah.

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And then they go, how did He wither this tree? Yeah, exactly.

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Because He has absolute authority over everything.

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And He used it as a platform to let them know that this only comes through prayer and fasting.

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And He uses that great faith and how you have faith and belief.

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And He was basically encouraging His men to continue to trust in God.

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And we know what He was saying.

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Because they were going to be, very shortly, how can we trust when our leader is gone? Yeah.

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Because Jesus obviously would be crucified.

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And what do they do for three days? They're trembling, wondering what's next.

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Hiding.

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Yeah.

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And so He goes in and He teaches on prayer and faith.

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He talks to His disciples on prayer and faith.

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But day three is what I call the day of questioning.

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This is where Jesus spends all day at the temple teaching and preaching, healing.

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And you can read every one of these accounts.

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He has all of His interactions with the Sadducees, with the Pharisees.

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Whether it is, who will be in this resurrection? Whose image is this? Money, taxes, all these things.

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And they're constantly trying to trip Jesus up.

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This is the longest scripture reading of that week when you read it.

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It's long.

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And He teaches in the temple.

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He's challenged by His authority.

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And if anybody remembers, they came to Him and said, Who's authority have you been doing what you're doing here? You don't have authority to run these people out.

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And Jesus gives them a question.

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Well, whose baptism was John? Was it from God or was it from man? Yeah, then why do you question me? Well, He said, I'll answer your question once you answer mine.

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And He says, which one was it? And He puts them in a conundrum.

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Well, if they say it's of men, then they don't know.

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He's the man of our God.

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If we say it's of God, then it's been done by a man.

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And they just say, we don't know.

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And Jesus says, well, I ain't got to answer your question then.

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Yeah.

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He then goes on.

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He gives the parable of the two sons in the vineyard.

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You have the lawless vinedressers.

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And that is a great parable of how God sent.

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There was a parable of the vine, I mean, the vineyard.

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He had rented it out.

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These people were making money off of it, provided everything.

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They were misusing it.

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And basically it points to Himself because He says, hey, they were the vineyard.

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And that they had all these things that they could do.

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And that God had provided them.

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And they wanted to do it for their own.

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And God says, I sent them prophet after prophet after prophet.

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And which were to be the servants.

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And eventually they would, He would send His son.

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And they would kill Him saying, we want to be the heir instead of.

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So anyway.

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Then He teaches on marriage.

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He gives a marriage feast.

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He teaches on the Herodians and how they tried to trap Jesus.

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Then the parable of, I mean, not the parable.

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But the illustration of, hey, do we pay taxes to Caesar? Were we not supposed to pay the temple tax, the poll tax, all this.

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And Jesus asked Him for a coin.

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And it's interesting that the very ones that hated Rome.

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And didn't want to have Roman money on the temple mount.

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Because it was defiled.

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He asked them for a coin.

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And the coin that they handed Him had Tiberius on it.

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Yeah.

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And He says, well, whose image is on there? Yeah, Caesar.

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Yeah.

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Give Caesar what Caesar.

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And then you give to God what is God.

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And then He baffles them concerning what was the greatest commandment.

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And all this is take place in chapter 21, 22 and beginning of 23.

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And it says that they asked Jesus, you know, who is greater? The Christ that was coming or David? Yeah.

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Well, if David was the greater son.

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I mean, if the Christ is the greater son.

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They were just trying to catch Jesus in some type of error.

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That was their plan always.

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Then in chapter 23 of Matthew.

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So where are we at now? They're still in day three.

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It's long.

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Day three is long.

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Gotcha.

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Day three is very long.

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Now we get into chapter 23 of Matthew.

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And in Mark's account, it is verses 38 and 40 of chapter 12.

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And Luke has an account of this as well.

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In chapter 20 verses 45 to 47.

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Very small.

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But this is the declaration.

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He blasts the scribes and Pharisees.

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Calls them broods and vipers.

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Yeah.

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He really blasts them.

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Sure.

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All the woes.

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And he doesn't hold anything back.

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He even tells them, you know, you tithe your mill and comb and your mint and comb.

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And you forget the weightier things of the gospel.

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Justice and peace and loving kindness and mercy.

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And he also tells them that, you know, you travel land and water and sea to make up one proselyte.

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But then you make them twice as much of the son of hell as yourself.

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He's saying, hey, you're just trying to make a convert basically to Judaism.

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Yeah.

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And he's saying you're making them twice the son of hell than yourself.

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What is he saying that about them? Yeah.

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They're sons of hell.

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Yeah, indeed.

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And there's no other harsher language in all of Scripture towards the scribes and the Pharisees.

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It's interesting that this is in Matthew 23 than Jeremiah 23.

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Yeah.

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And, you know, a lot of people say that, oh, Jesus was the weeping prophet.

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I mean, Jesus was Jeremiah because he was the weeping prophet.

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And I don't know where they get that from because Jesus was not the weeping prophet.

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Jeremiah was.

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Yeah.

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Jeremiah was.

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He took what he took on a stiff upper.

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He didn't take what he took on a stiff upper lip.

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He was a frail man.

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Yeah.

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But what he did do is the same thing that Jesus did.

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He constantly called out Aaron, the scribes, and the Pharisees.

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That's why he was like Jeremiah.

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Yeah.

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Constantly called out the false teachers and the false shepherds.

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And that's what Jesus did as well.

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He then makes a comment on the widow's might, her giving all that she had.

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And then in chapter 24, this is all the same day still, day three, which would have been that Wednesday.

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I'm sorry.

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Tuesday.

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Tuesday.

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Yep.

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That's Tuesday.

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Tuesday.

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Chapter 24, verses 1 through 44 in Matthew, Mark 13, 1 through 37, and Luke 21, 5 through 36.

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And this here is when Jesus foretells on the Olivet Discourse, he has now left the temple complex.

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The son of God, the typological picture of the temple, it was that there would be a true temple that would come and that would be Christ.

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This is the last time that Jesus Christ would ever put feet on the temple complex.

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He walks out.

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This is it.

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And as he walks out, his disciples say, look at these buildings.

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Look how grand and beautiful they are.

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And Jesus says, yeah, but not one stone will be left on another.

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And then they want specific questions asked.

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And Jesus answers those questions.

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And they're in the Olivet Discourse.

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And my position is preteristic.

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I believe that Jesus is not speaking of 2,000 plus years reserved.

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He was speaking of, go ahead.

23:43

I just want to clarify, partial preteristic.

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There's a big thing going on right now about we're not full preterist.

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We're not full preterist.

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But I'm preteristic in the sense that the vast majority of what Jesus was saying at the Olivet Discourse had to do with destruction of the temple, the destruction of Judaism, and God shutting basically the 40-year delay.

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But after Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection, he basically closed the coffin on Judaism.

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Nails it shut.

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There's no more.

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Why? No temple, no priesthood, no sacrifice.

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Why? Because the true temple has come.

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And we've got a better temple.

24:18

Oh, man.

24:18

Better sacrifice.

24:19

I almost said this morning, better priests, better sacrifice, Papa John's.

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I said that.

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I said, we've got a better priest.

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We've got a better sacrifice.

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I said that in my mind because I'm so dumb.

24:34

One of my friends, he called me a couple weeks ago.

24:37

And I guess his church is going through Hebrews.

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And I had taught through Hebrews in a home Bible study.

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And he came.

24:45

He says, man, if he'll just say what your title was at the beginning and mine was, it's better.

24:52

Everything about the book of Hebrews is better.

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Why? Because Jesus is better than everything.

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Angels, the Arianic priesthood, the order of Melchizedek, the sacrifices, the blood of bulls and goats.

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He's better than all these things.

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Why? Because he was God in human flesh who fulfilled all of the types and shadows that the Mosaic legislation had come.

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So.

25:19

Amen.

25:20

He foretells a destruction.

25:22

He gives a couple more parables about the faithfulness and the wise servant, evil servants, you know, the ten virgins.

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He gives on the use of talents.

25:31

And then he his final instructions was in a parable of separating the sheep from the goats and the dragnet.

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And there's coming a day when he will he will he will bring it all into himself.

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He's going to separate the sheep from the goats.

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And there'll be those that are on the left and those are on the right and ones on the left.

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Outer condemnation, whether weeping and gnashing of teeth and those on the right will enter the blessed of the Lord.

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He's prepared for them before the foundation of the world.

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And I'm speaking of his elect.

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And it even talks about that.

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He'll grab his elect from the four corners of the earth and he'll bring them to himself.

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And that's where we end on on that Tuesday.

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And then we pick up on Wednesday.

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And it specifically says these are the on in Matthew's account and chapter 26, Mark's account, 14 and Luke's account and 22.

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And they are all in the first few verses.

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And then in John's account, chapter 12, verses 37 through 50, two days before Passover.

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Those are our markers so that we have no doubt when these things took place.

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Two days before the Passover.

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He announces this time on this day that he will be crucified and there will be a betrayal of him.

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That he will be crucified because of the betrayal.

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And imagine what the disciples were thinking.

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What? We're going for a feast, man.

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And you're talking about dying.

27:03

But it did.

27:04

They had been thinking, wow, this is the first time he has said this.

27:08

And this is and he's saying, this is the time.

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Yeah.

27:10

So it's at this time that the Sanhedrin approaches Judas.

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Would he betray him? And then it says that many would not believe in Christ at that time.

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I mean, he turned away.

27:21

Now, I do want to.

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Before we get into the next section, where Jesus come in, he was Hosanna to Hosanna.

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Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

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And as he is coming in, he is coming in with people that are singing for him.

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Remember, they're migrants from the Galilee.

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The people that on the night that he has turned, he has turned over to Caiaphas and stands before Pilate and says, hey, crucify him, crucify him.

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I do not believe those are the same crowd.

27:53

OK.

27:54

And reason being is because here it is, you had the ones that were coming from Galilee that were with him, had been traveling with them to get there for the for the Passover.

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But at the member at the when we'll talk about a little bit more when we get to his his his trials, they have to stir up people in the night to do that.

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And the city may have been busting at the seams.

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But there wasn't a vast majority of people up and about that late at night.

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Yeah, they were sleeping.

28:24

They were from party in there in the day.

28:27

Yeah.

28:27

So but it's a it would be now.

28:30

Well, just before you go on, I do want to mention because I've probably said it and I know I've heard a thousand pastors say it and you're you're kind of challenging it.

28:41

And I'm good with that.

28:42

You're saying because I've heard people say the same people who shouted Hosanna or the same people who shouted crucify him.

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But you would say it's likely a different crowd.

28:51

I do believe that.

28:53

Okay.

28:54

And it seems very obscure and odd that the ones that were coming in with him were his disciples.

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Think about the ones that most likely they're making an inference.

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And so am I.

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Yeah, I was going to say, do you think there's any crossover? You think there's some that may have come in? I find that hard to believe because they were coming from Galilee.

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They were coming in as migrants in there.

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They had seen the that which Christ had done.

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And then to see all of the teachings and all of how Jesus had continually rebuked.

29:30

The Pharisees on the Temple Mount had continually healed people.

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Even when he was told you need to quit.

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He said he was healing healing everybody that was on the Temple Mount on that on that Tuesday.

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He was healing and teaching and healing and teaching and preaching and preaching of the kingdom.

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And it says that they were all astonished at his words.

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And then late at night for the mock trial, they had to stir up one.

29:54

They had to get false.

29:55

They had to get false witness against him.

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So they had to go talk to someone to get the false witness.

30:00

Yeah, they had.

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Hey, we got to get you to lie.

30:02

Well, then they had to stir up.

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It says they stirred up the people to crucify him.

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There's only we don't see anywhere.

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And the accounts when Jesus was out doing the things that he was doing that the people that were being healed, the ones that were being made to walk.

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The family members of those who had seen their families healed and dead people raised wanted to see Christ put to death.

30:25

Yeah.

30:26

So that's that's a good thought.

30:28

Yeah.

30:28

It seems very odd.

30:30

Now, does that preach well from the pulpit that the whole world turned on Christ? I guess.

30:36

Yeah.

30:36

I think that's the point they're trying to make.

30:39

Yeah.

30:39

It would be hard for me to say that, you know, remember, Jesus had more than the 12 disciples.

30:44

He had 70 at one time.

30:46

Yeah.

30:46

As I say, we don't know how many disciples he had.

30:48

We know that he had 12 apostles.

30:50

Correct.

30:50

And that's the distinction a lot of people don't think about.

30:53

Yeah.

30:53

So to say that all those that came with him then turned his back on them.

30:56

Well, that that's really not as accurate either, because we know that none of the disciples, with the exception of of Judas, said crucify him.

31:05

And I don't believe that Judas actually knew they were going to crucify him.

31:12

That's a good thought.

31:13

I don't know.

31:14

I don't know.

31:14

I know that he knew that maybe it was there was an intent to do harm, but to kill him.

31:20

I don't I don't know, because we know what says that once he knew that they had contend Jesus, he threw the money back.

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He threw the money back.

31:27

I mean, this is blood money.

31:28

And he hung himself.

31:29

Yeah.

31:29

I think there was I'm not saying he's not guilty of his crime.

31:32

Yeah, he's guilty.

31:33

And we would argue unrepentant.

31:35

Sure.

31:36

But remorseful.

31:37

Feeling sorry for what you did is not repentant.

31:39

Say that again.

31:40

Feeling remorseful is not repentant.

31:42

That that that by itself will preach because people think just because they feel bad, they've repented.

31:48

Yeah.

31:48

And that's not the same.

31:49

No, it's not.

31:50

There was never a there was never a turning to Christ.

31:52

There was never a turning to God and contrition.

31:56

I have sinned.

31:57

God, what what must I do to have this guilt removed from me? Yeah.

32:03

Amen.

32:03

So he goes on to his own place after he hangs himself.

32:06

So here we are.

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That's the end of Tuesday.

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I mean, on Tuesday, he had left the sheeps and goats.

32:14

We went through Wednesday where he which is two days before Passover.

32:18

He announces his betrayal, crucifixion.

32:20

The Sanhedrin then want to approach him, Judas, to to turn him over.

32:27

And then the day five, which would be that Thursday.

32:31

Jesus sends two disciples in to prepare for the Passover.

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And there are three small accounts of that.

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Matthew 26, verses 17 through 19.

32:42

Mark 14, 12 through 16.

32:45

And then Luke chapter 22, verses seven through 13.

32:49

And this is where they go and they find their upper room man with a jug and all that.

32:54

Now they go and find it.

32:57

It is at at sunset.

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That starts day six.

33:03

So as the sun went down, that's when they begin to observe the Passover.

33:08

Yes, that's our Thursday night.

33:11

Correct.

33:12

But for them, that's day six.

33:13

That's day six.

33:14

Gotcha.

33:15

Yeah.

33:15

Yeah.

33:15

So here it is.

33:18

Jesus.

33:19

He starts.

33:20

He enjoys the Passover with the disciples.

33:22

He identifies as Judas as being the one that will betray him.

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And more.

33:27

He says, hey, the guy that puts his hand in the dips, his hand in the sock with me is the one who will betray me.

33:32

It's interesting that they all look around and go, well, is it going to be me? Is it going to be me? And it's like, man, they all even question their own self.

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Are you going to be the one to betray him? Jesus demonstrates humility and love.

33:47

He washes their feet.

33:49

And that's only recorded in John's Upper Room Discourse account.

33:53

And that's in John 13.

33:54

Yeah.

33:56

He reveals Judas as the betrayer again in that passage.

34:01

So not once, twice he has now revealed Judas as being the betrayer.

34:06

Jesus then tells Peter that Satan desired to sift him.

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And tells Peter that he has interceded for him and he will be restored.

34:15

And he foretells the scattering of all the apostles.

34:19

Jesus then that night gives them instructions and encouragement.

34:23

And he gives the high priestly prayer that same night.

34:27

This whole account in John is from chapters 13 through 17.

34:34

That is the Upper Room Discourse.

34:35

Yeah.

34:36

Which is amazing that we get four chapters.

34:39

In John.

34:39

And he's not really had a whole bunch of his.

34:41

Well, five chapters.

34:42

I mean, 13, 14, 15.

34:43

Yeah.

34:43

I'm bad at math.

34:45

In John's account, he doesn't really deal with all these preparatory events that take place.

34:50

In John's mind, him being the son of God, God in human flesh.

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The word that became flesh to dwell among us.

34:57

He is dealing with his deity and his high priestly duties.

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And he deals with that.

35:04

Only one that deals with the Upper Room Discourse.

35:07

Then you get to him doing the giving of the new covenant.

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This is the blood of my covenant, which will be shed for you.

35:16

The breaking of the bread.

35:18

Then they leave.

35:19

Jesus is in the agony of pain and discomfort in his soul.

35:26

In the Garden of Gethsemane.

35:28

It is at this point where Jesus is betrayed by Judas.

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After praying even with his disciples, wait here.

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Watch.

35:36

Pray.

35:37

Interesting.

35:38

You go back and they ask Jesus, do we have a sword? He wants to take a sword.

35:42

If you know why Jesus wanted him to take that sword.

35:48

He wanted him to take that sword because he was going to put Malchus's ear back on.

35:54

He took the sword.

35:56

I'm fixing to demonstrate my power by putting a man's ear back on.

36:04

When they come and he's betrayed.

36:05

He's betrayed with a kiss.

36:09

Peter then strikes Malchus's ear.

36:15

I'm fully convinced if he would whack his head off that Jesus was very capable of putting that man's head back on.

36:22

That would be interesting to see.

36:24

The ear enough is enough.

36:26

He puts it back on.

36:27

Imagine Malchus.

36:29

Here it is.

36:31

I'm bleeding.

36:31

My ear's cut off.

36:32

He doesn't know where.

36:33

He's feeling warm blood all over his neck, running down his shoulders.

36:38

The Son of God reaches down there.

36:40

He's there to haul him off in chains.

36:44

Imagine Jesus is looking you in the face and putting your ear back on.

36:47

Yeah.

36:50

It's at that point the arrest takes place and then all the mock trials.

36:57

If anybody would like to, you have the link.

37:00

Last year, if you remember, on Good Friday, I did a chronological order, an exposition from his arrest to his crucifixion.

37:10

I'll link that in the show notes as well because that was, one, a fantastic sermon.

37:16

But it's also that for you to go through all that again would be way too much for right now.

37:20

Oh, yeah.

37:20

It's 89 verses.

37:22

Yeah, exactly.

37:24

But am I correct? And I've said this many times.

37:26

I hope I'm right.

37:26

If we count it all up, it would have been six trials, right? Because it would have been- Six times he stands before Pilate and Pilate declares his innocence and he doesn't let him go.

37:38

Six times he stands before Pilate.

37:40

Well, six times, what I was counting, because he goes before Caiaphas, then he goes to Annas, then he goes to Sanhedrin.

37:46

Correct.

37:47

Am I right in that order? Well, I have it here.

37:49

They take him.

37:52

He's taken to Caiaphas.

37:54

And in that, he goes to two places.

37:58

He goes to Annas as well.

37:59

He goes to Caiaphas, Annas, back to Caiaphas, then to Herod.

38:04

He goes to Herod.

38:05

Okay.

38:05

Herod wants to see him.

38:07

I thought that was after he saw- After he saw Pilate, though.

38:09

That's what I'm saying.

38:10

Okay.

38:10

The way I've always ordered it, and again, mine is not as detailed, but he saw Caiaphas, he saw Annas, he saw the Sanhedrin, he saw Pilate twice.

38:18

Yes.

38:18

And he saw Herod.

38:21

Herod, and then he goes back to Pilate.

38:23

That's what I'm saying.

38:24

Pilate, Herod, Pilate.

38:25

Yeah.

38:25

So it's six different audiences.

38:28

Yes, and six times, Pilate says, this man's done nothing wrong.

38:31

Yeah, that's crazy.

38:32

And he has the opportunity.

38:34

And I hadn't, I mean, it's up until last year, until you start putting it in order, you don't go, oh, wow, man, he stood, Jesus stood before Pilate that many times.

38:44

And that man said six times, dude, this guy's done nothing wrong.

38:47

This guy's done nothing wrong.

38:49

This guy's done nothing wrong.

38:51

And then he basically has him crucified anyway.

38:54

Yeah, for political expediency.

38:59

So that's what takes place on the night of the Passover.

39:05

He goes to Herod and he goes back to Pilate.

39:08

I'm sorry, then Pilate then demands the crucifixion, which takes place in chapter 27 of Matthew, verses 15 through 26.

39:18

And Mark 15, 6 through 15, Luke 23, 13 through 25.

39:25

And then John's account is in 18, verse 38 through 19, 6.

39:31

And it's at this time that Pilate has him scourged.

39:34

The Jews want Barabbas released instead.

39:36

Yeah.

39:37

And Pilate refuses to listen to his wife after she tells him in a dream, this man's righteous.

39:43

Don't do anything.

39:44

And he does it anyway.

39:45

So he's had opportunity.

39:47

Divine intervention.

39:48

Sure.

39:49

Yeah.

39:49

But we Passover Friday.

39:51

Just to clarify, because I know this is the big controversy.

39:53

We've passed.

39:54

We were at the Upper Room Discourse on what we would call Thursday night.

39:58

Yep.

39:59

And then in through the night.

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This is Thursday.

40:02

This is Thursday night.

40:04

Yeah.

40:05

This, the morning, becomes Friday morning when Jesus is.

40:10

It's Friday morning that Jesus is taken out.

40:12

Yeah.

40:12

Our Friday morning.

40:13

Yep.

40:14

Okay.

40:14

Yeah.

40:15

So that's where the confusion lies is their time starts at twilight.

40:21

Yeah.

40:22

Ours we see as being dawn.

40:24

And it's not.

40:25

They don't do theirs that way.

40:27

Yeah.

40:27

That's why when we get to the point of, well, Jesus, when he was crucified, he wasn't three days and three nights.

40:34

Yeah.

40:34

As Jonah was in the belly of the well, so it would be in the belly of the earth.

40:37

Well, if you understand how they saw that, Jesus being, and because we're to the crucifixion, he's mocked.

40:47

Judas has his, before the crown of thorns are put on him, Judas sees remorse once he knows he's condemned.

40:54

And you can read that in Matthew 27 verses three through 10.

40:58

Jesus carries his cross out.

41:00

Simon of Cyrene is compelled to relieve him of his cross.

41:05

He helps him.

41:06

Jesus refused the sour wine.

41:09

Then we have the sayings of Christ on the cross.

41:14

His garments are divided.

41:16

And it is at this time that at some point in that Jesus then begins to, he gets himself up.

41:26

Yeah.

41:27

Done.

41:27

Yeah.

41:28

Okay.

41:28

Now I say, well, when did that happen? Well, based on the accounts of scripture happened on our calendar.

41:38

Okay.

41:39

That happened on Friday afternoon, three o'clock.

41:44

Yeah.

41:44

Yeah.

41:45

Three o'clock.

41:48

Meaning they were said, they asked Pilate for his body and he needed to be off before the Sabbath.

41:58

When would the Sabbath have started? Twilight, Friday night on our calendar.

42:04

Yeah.

42:04

So when the sun would have gone down, the Sabbath would have started.

42:08

I've been in, I've been in Israel.

42:10

Yeah.

42:10

Jerusalem come Friday evening.

42:15

Well, on the Muslim quarter, because, you know, they've got to, they've got to be separated from, they celebrate the Sabbath on Thursday.

42:22

So they shut down that on Thursday.

42:25

And then on Friday evening through Saturday evening, the Jerusalem itself, there's nothing going on.

42:33

I mean, you just walk wherever you want to go and there's nobody out because their Sabbath starts at sundown.

42:38

Yeah.

42:38

So when it says that they wanted to have Jesus's body off before sundown, it's because they would have been, been touching a body, trying to prepare a body after when the Sabbath had started.

42:50

They wanted his body in the ground so that they could observe the Sabbath.

42:54

Interesting note that, you know, you were considered unclean for touching a corpse.

43:00

Yeah.

43:00

And from a, from a Jewish perspective, Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea cared not about not being able to partake in the feast because of what they believed about Christ.

43:15

Yeah.

43:15

I mean, it would have made them supposedly ceremony unclean.

43:19

But from a Christian perspective, what do we know happened when Jesus said it is finished? Man, the whole covenant was abrogated.

43:27

They could know they were no longer unclean.

43:29

They could touch his dead body and they would be fine because the old covenant had been abrogated because of his death.

43:36

Yeah.

43:36

It was paid for.

43:37

All those things are gone.

43:38

We're saying a lot of controversies.

43:39

I agree a hundred percent.

43:41

I just preached on almost that very same thing, the old covenant being put away with the new covenant taking its place.

43:48

A lot of people see that differently, but that's it.

43:52

Yeah.

43:52

So it was done away with.

43:54

Were they unclean? Well, under the Mosaic law, which had now been abrogated, they were.

43:59

Yeah.

44:00

But that's gone.

44:01

Yeah.

44:01

And Jesus's body, he was dead while there was still daylight and when the dark comes.

44:09

So when it speaks of three days, three nights, he was dead.

44:12

That means no matter what part of that day there was sunlight, he was dead.

44:15

No matter what part of that night there was darkness, he was dead.

44:19

Yeah.

44:19

And that's how it's done.

44:20

Part of light, part of darkness.

44:22

That's what it means.

44:24

Yeah.

44:25

It doesn't say that Jesus was in the grave for 72 hours.

44:28

Yeah.

44:29

And I think that's what people want to believe.

44:32

Yeah.

44:32

When people are trying to find everything they can to find either a failure in the scripture, like the atheists who might be trying to find a contradiction.

44:44

Yeah.

44:44

Or the person who's trying to prove a different day, like Thursday, Jesus died on Thursday, to get the three days in.

44:50

I don't have to do that because the scripture doesn't require me to do that.

44:53

It didn't say that Jesus was going to be in the grave 72 hours.

44:56

That's right.

44:56

They say he was going to be there three days.

44:57

Yeah.

44:58

And that's what he was, three days, meaning part of daylight, part of sunlight.

45:02

This isn't mine.

45:03

This is Jewish.

45:04

Yeah.

45:04

This is Jewish culture that dictates that.

45:07

Yeah.

45:07

And when Jesus resurrected on the Lord's day, he had been three days and three nights in the grave.

45:15

And he made it the Lord's day.

45:16

Yes, he did.

45:17

It became the Lord's day.

45:18

Yeah, it became the Lord's day because of his resurrection.

45:21

Yeah, absolutely.

45:22

Yeah.

45:22

So he's in the ground or in the tomb rather on Friday.

45:28

Before Passover.

45:29

Yes.

45:29

I mean, before Sabbath.

45:30

Yeah, yeah, before Sabbath.

45:32

So what happens on Saturday? Saturday, they have an issue with, hey, his disciples may come and try to take him away and make a bigger deception than when he was alive.

45:42

So they put the temple guards, I mean, the cohort of Roman guards and a seal.

45:50

Yeah.

45:51

So that they wouldn't come steal his body.

45:53

Now here's a fun question.

45:54

Okay.

45:54

This may take you off a little bit.

45:57

And I've said this before, but then I got to thinking, I'm not sure if I'm right.

46:01

So I'm willing to say, you know, if I have been in error.

46:06

But, you know, the Roman guard, according to some sources, is 12 men.

46:15

And so when some people argue that the Roman guard was 12 different men at the tomb.

46:21

But then oftentimes when we depict it in art, it's one or two men at the tomb.

46:26

What are your thoughts? My thoughts are those that were there were whatever.

46:31

You don't know.

46:32

Yeah.

46:33

The thing is, I don't care if there was two or 12.

46:37

Yeah.

46:38

When the angel descended and rolled it away.

46:41

Yeah.

46:41

They became like what? Dead men.

46:44

Yeah, like dead men.

46:45

Yeah, they became like dead men.

46:46

I don't care if it was 12 or two.

46:48

Yeah.

46:48

And these men knew that they were most likely going to be put to death.

46:53

And it's interesting that they were not.

46:55

They were paid money to say, hey, they came and stole his body or whatever.

47:00

I think even in Josephus, another historical book, I think he even speaks of it.

47:06

The claim was that they had stolen the body.

47:10

But even in Josephus' account, the schism was not that his body was stolen, but that he had been risen.

47:15

Yeah.

47:15

Yeah, it wasn't that his body had been stolen.

47:17

Yeah.

47:19

So whether it was two or 12.

47:21

We don't know.

47:22

We don't know.

47:23

And they weren't killed for it.

47:24

Yeah.

47:25

And it's just funny how oftentimes we hear, like you said, things are preached, right? It was 12 men versus, and that's God killed them all or made them all like that.

47:36

And so we don't know.

47:38

We don't know.

47:39

And we know that Caiaphas and the other, and even Pilate, were aware that Jesus said he would raise again.

47:51

Yeah.

47:51

And that they were doing everything that they could to make sure that that didn't happen.

47:55

And if it was a point of deception to make it look like they were going to put everything in place so that people couldn't be deceived, man, what God put his hand to, no man can stop it.

48:03

He made them like dead men.

48:04

Amen.

48:05

Amen.

48:06

So that takes us through Saturday.

48:08

Now we are to resurrection Sunday morning.

48:11

Yep.

48:12

That makes it Sunday.

48:13

That's Sunday.

48:14

Yeah.

48:14

And that's the...

48:16

I'm not sure if there are people who contend that.

48:19

I think pretty much everybody recognizes the resurrection was on Sunday.

48:22

It was the first day of the week.

48:23

Yeah.

48:23

Yeah.

48:23

Because it says it.

48:24

Yeah.

48:25

That's Sunday.

48:26

But again, there's amazing things people argue about.

48:28

And those that I have talked to, it's usually based on our calendar.

48:35

It's not based on an American calendar.

48:37

Yeah.

48:37

It's based on...

48:38

I mean, even I think this year we celebrate Easter, but...

48:42

And Passover is really not in the right order.

48:45

You know, I think this year Passover winds up being on like Wednesday.

48:52

Yeah.

48:52

I have to go back and look.

48:53

I'm not sure...

48:54

I always look at it and go just to see if the dates are off.

48:58

Yeah.

49:00

So when we look things at our perspective, well, we can say, oh, yeah, there's error.

49:04

But if we look at things, when they were written, who they were written to, and the time, and how they understood time taking place.

49:11

Yeah.

49:12

And it's based on sundown.

49:14

Sure.

49:15

Twilight.

49:15

Yeah.

49:16

But that puts it still...

49:17

We have the...

49:19

We can still say Good Friday.

49:22

And what do you call Saturday? Is there a day for Saturday? I just call it a Saturday.

49:25

No, but...

49:27

Want to make one up? Seal the tomb Saturday.

49:29

Yeah.

49:30

Sounds like a sale.

49:32

Come down to seal the tomb Saturday.

49:34

Special half off.

49:36

Half off all resurrections.

49:38

No, but liturgically, I think every day has a name.

49:44

But I'd have to look it up.

49:45

Because, of course, you have Palm Sunday.

49:47

Yeah.

49:48

And then you have Maundy Thursday, which comes from mandatum, which means command.

49:52

And it refers to Jesus giving the new command.

49:54

These love one another.

49:57

And then Good Friday, which people get confused why we call it Good.

50:01

Oh, man.

50:02

How good that Friday was.

50:03

Man, our sins were atoned for.

50:05

Amen.

50:06

It don't get no better than that.

50:08

That's right.

50:08

That's right.

50:09

Yeah.

50:09

And then...

50:10

But I think there is a name like Waiting Saturday or something.

50:14

Or the Day of Quiet Saturday.

50:17

There's a day for it.

50:18

If you know it in the comment section on YouTube, put it in the comment section and educate all of us.

50:22

Because there is...

50:24

The liturgies are so vast.

50:26

And everything has a name and a color.

50:29

You may...

50:30

I'm sure you know.

50:30

But did you know that each day has a...

50:33

Like the time has a color? Like you're supposed to put a purple cloth on the communion table on the week before.

50:41

You're supposed to put a white cloth on Easter Sunday, but you're supposed to have a black cloth on it for Good Friday.

50:48

Oh, wow.

50:49

Like all those colors.

50:50

I didn't know that.

50:50

Yeah.

50:51

It's all this.

50:51

Because the purple represents royalty.

50:54

Him coming in.

50:55

The white, resurrection.

50:56

There's all this.

50:56

Everything has a meaning.

50:57

And a lot of this is just through church history.

51:01

Things have happened.

51:03

But brother, I want to thank you for taking us through this week.

51:06

Very important.

51:08

Again, the most important week in all of human history.

51:12

So did you have anything else you wanted to add? No, I just remembered that it was the most heinous crime that had been committed on that Friday.

51:19

Amen.

51:19

An innocent man was crucified for things he did not do.

51:24

Amen.

51:24

So that he could save people that did not deserve to be saved and atone for sins that he had never committed.

51:31

And if that's not Good Friday, then what's good about Friday? Amen.

51:36

Amen.

51:36

Absolutely.

51:37

Absolutely.

51:38

Well, I want to also bring up the fact that this is going to go out the week of Holy Week.

51:44

This will probably go out that Sunday or Monday because I want to post it where people can actually go through the days with us.

51:50

But this coming Friday, based on when this recording is coming out, this coming Friday we do have a Good Friday service.

51:56

It's going to be at 7 o'clock at Sovereign Grace Family Church.

51:58

Brother Mike is going to be preaching.

52:01

And you told me you might be preaching Hebrews.

52:03

I'm going to.

52:04

You're going to preach Hebrews.

52:04

Can I make the announcement? You're going to be preaching on the newness of the new covenant in Hebrews chapter 8.

52:11

So if you are in the Jacksonville area and you're hearing this, we would love for you to come and be a part of what we're doing on Good Friday evening from 7 to about 8.15, depending on how long he preaches.

52:22

And then Sunday morning, Sunrise Service, Brother Andy's going to preach 7.30.

52:27

And then we're going to have our normal Sunday school at 9.30 and our worship at 10.30.

52:32

So we'd love for you to come and visit with us if you're nearby.

52:35

And if not, if you want to watch that service, you can watch it on our live stream, which is on youtube.com slash sgfcjacks.

52:43

Or you can just find us at sgfcjacks.org.

52:46

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52:49

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52:52

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52:59

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53:06

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53:16

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53:19

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