WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:03.200 We're gonna be in Mark chapter 14 today. 00:00:03.359 --> 00:00:10.160 So please go ahead and turn to there as we've been working our way through the Gospel of Mark. 00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:11.519 It's fun to be able to do this. 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:18.879 It's an interesting intersection because we're like a few days from Christmas, and yet we're talking about passages that are a few days from when we normally celebrate Easter. 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:20.719 And you start to ask yourself, can we do that? 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:22.559 Can we like read this? 00:00:22.719 --> 00:00:36.640 Yes, because it turns out it's all connected, it's all intertwined, and it's a beautiful reminder that it wasn't just, even in the season, we're not just like, hey, look, it's a baby and presents, but rather that this child came with a purpose as the savior of mankind. 00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:39.359 And so it's a beautiful thing to have that all tied together. 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:41.920 So we're gonna be in Mark chapter 14. 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:45.039 If you are able to stand, please do so for the reading of God's word. 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:47.039 Starting in verse one. 00:00:50.719 --> 00:00:54.880 It was two days before the Passover and the festival of unleavened bread. 00:00:55.119 --> 00:00:58.960 The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a cunning way to arrest Jesus and kill him. 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:02.640 Not during the festival, they said, so there won't be a riot among the people. 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:12.239 While he was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume of pure nard. 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:14.400 She broke the jar, poured it on his head. 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:16.640 But some were expressing indignation to one another. 00:01:16.799 --> 00:01:18.400 Why has this perfume been wasted? 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:21.840 This perfume might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor. 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:23.599 And they began to scold her. 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:26.000 Jesus replied, Leave her alone. 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:27.120 Why are you bothering her? 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:28.719 She's done a noble thing for me. 00:01:28.879 --> 00:01:32.319 You always have the poor with you, and you can do what is good for them whenever you want. 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:33.680 You don't always have me. 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:34.959 She has done what she could. 00:01:35.120 --> 00:01:37.519 She's anointed my body in advance for burial. 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:44.480 Truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her. 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:48.640 Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priest to betray Jesus to them. 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:51.840 And when they heard this, they were glad and promised to give him money. 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:55.120 So he started looking for a good opportunity to betray him. 00:01:55.760 --> 00:02:02.560 On the first day of unleavened bread when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, his disciples asked him, Where do you want us to go and prepare the Passover so that you may eat it? 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:07.680 So he sent two of his disciples and told them, Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:08.479 Follow him. 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:11.759 Whenever he enters, wherever he enters, tell the owner of the house. 00:02:11.919 --> 00:02:15.199 The teacher says, Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples? 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:18.479 He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. 00:02:18.639 --> 00:02:20.400 Make the preparations for us there. 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:25.360 So the disciples went out, entered the city, found it just as he told them, and they prepared the Passover. 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:27.759 When evening came, he arrived with the twelve. 00:02:27.919 --> 00:02:33.199 When they were reclining and eating, Jesus said, Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me, one who is eating with me. 00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:36.800 They began to be distressed and say to him one by one, Surely not I. 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:41.759 He said to them, It's the one of the twelve, the one who is dipping bread in the bowl with me. 00:02:41.919 --> 00:02:46.879 For the Son of Man will go just as it's been written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:49.680 It would have been better for him if he had not been born. 00:02:49.919 --> 00:02:55.520 And as they were eating, he took bread, blessed it, broke it, gave it to them, and said, Take it, eat, this is my body. 00:02:55.680 --> 00:03:01.919 And he took a cup, after that, giving thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it, and he said, This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many. 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:07.919 Truly I tell you, I will no longer drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I eat, drink at new in the kingdom of God. 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:11.120 After singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:12.639 Go ahead and have a seat. 00:03:12.879 --> 00:03:25.919 And Lord, I thank you for this morning, and I ask that you'll be glorified as we study your word, as we uh just see what you have to say, just fill me with your spirit to speak and let me say everything you want to, and nothing you don't, and be glorified this morning. 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:26.719 Amen. 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:31.919 So obviously, with the uh children's program, we have a little bit of a shorter message today. 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:37.199 So I have a target time that I'm hitting, but nobody told me what day I can stop. 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:43.840 So that's the good news is that it'll end sometime, but you know, you're good for tomorrow. 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:44.560 Tomorrow's good. 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:45.919 So, okay. 00:03:46.240 --> 00:04:01.840 So this is a fun passage as a whole because we got some timestamps, we're jumping back and forth, we're doing a whole lot of action in these in this passage, and so it also has this in all of the gospels back and forth interspersed between them. 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:07.199 We want to get a good picture of what's going on with all of them, just all together. 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:16.879 And so this is the fun thing about scripture is that um on one side we have it's all too uniform, it's all too similar, it's gotta be a fake, because it's all the same thing. 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:20.879 And on the other side, we have there are too many discrepancies, it's gotta be fake. 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:26.000 It's not, and it's one of those things of like I can't win, I'll be in my trailer. 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:33.920 And uh it's just that that idea that there's a beauty in the way that it's described in four different ways, the picture of it all intertwining, which is cool to see. 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:38.399 And so I want you to be able to see that, and I don't want to have to say all of it. 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:42.079 So I'm gonna put we're gonna put it up on the screen, if you can put the first one up, Joshua. 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:47.040 We're just gonna have the differences with the four displayed here. 00:04:47.279 --> 00:04:51.040 The things that are in yellow are the things that are unique to that passage. 00:04:51.199 --> 00:05:12.879 So that way you can look at that and you can see uh what is unique between that and the different perspectives, which is cool, because you have one disciple who's a tax collector, you have Mark who's getting it from Peter, you have Luke, a historian, who's trying to get it all written down, and John the one who is close to Jesus and hearing all of the teachings firsthand, right up front and center, all together with that. 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:15.519 And so the things have been highlighted are things unique to that. 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:22.319 That also means that if I know that I know that if you guys are staring above my head, you might not be listening to me. 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:28.959 So, chunk number one, we have a timestamp in 14, verse 20. 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:31.920 It was two days before the Passover in the festival of unloved and bread. 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:34.959 We're gonna be jumping back and forth time-wise a little bit, and that's okay. 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:41.279 So the first chunk we see here, the chief priests and the scribes were looking for a cunning way to arrest Jesus and kill him. 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:44.959 Not during the festival, so that there won't be a riot among the people. 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:51.920 And so, I mean, once again, we like to pick on the Pharisees and the scribes and say, well, like, you know, those cowards, they don't, they're afraid of the people. 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:57.040 It's like if the people riot, Rome gets involved, they don't want to get Rome involved. 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:00.319 They have an awkward relationship with Rome, to say the least. 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:01.199 It's tense. 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:09.439 And so they're really, especially during a festival and a feast, they really don't want Rome interjecting and breaking in. 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:21.199 And so we see that, but we also see an interesting thing in the Matthew passage that Jesus straight up tells them he's going to be handed over to be crucified in Matthew 26. 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:26.000 So it's interesting again, he is this whole way preparing them for what's going to happen. 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:27.680 This is going to happen, this is gonna happen. 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:33.519 He straight up says here, we're gonna go two days, I'm gonna be handed over to be crucified. 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:39.839 So that's spoiler alert, they're expecting this to happen, even if they're not fully understanding the grasp of that. 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:41.600 So, but why do I point this out? 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:45.279 Because this is a bit of a sobering passage and a walk here. 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:47.759 You can you can see the weight of this. 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:56.319 Looking back 2,000 years at this passage, it's very easy to go, okay, cool, this and this and this and this, and resurrection, yay, Easter eggs. 00:06:56.800 --> 00:07:00.079 But this is a very heavy time. 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:05.680 This is there's a weight, there's a heaviness in Jesus throughout all of these different things. 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:11.040 And so he's starting this whole thing out with saying, in two days, I'm gonna be handed over to be crucified. 00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:16.160 And you see that the chief priests and the elders are gathering together in Caipha's courtyard to figure out how we can do this. 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:23.839 And they're also basically putting out a hit on him that if anyone knows where he is, he should report it, according to John 11, 57, so that they could arrest him. 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:30.800 So you can see why, again, Jesus is going in Jerusalem during this week and then going out of the city to Bethlehem. 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:32.079 Going in, going out. 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:34.480 It's not a safe place to be during the night. 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:40.160 So, then we have this interesting passage, 3 through 9, the anointing at Bethany. 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:43.360 He's in the Bethany at the house of Simon the leper. 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:48.480 If ever there was a nickname that came from Junior High, I'm pretty sure it's Simon the Leper. 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:50.240 Like, that's not cool. 00:07:50.399 --> 00:07:53.680 Like, you got this guy that's basically like, hey, there's that guy with the skin disease. 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:57.040 But apparently that stuck. 00:07:57.279 --> 00:07:59.279 And they're there. 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:07.439 He's reclining at the table, which is interesting, but for some reason, up until this point, I've always pictured this to where like they're all, you know, sitting in chairs and hanging out. 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:10.560 They're reclining as they do, as they do during meals. 00:08:10.639 --> 00:08:19.600 And so, once again, I have three amazing children, but my first thought was like, how do you teach children to eat when you all recline at a short table? 00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:22.240 They don't have the little like cool clip-on seats. 00:08:22.399 --> 00:08:25.759 They don't have it's one of those things of like, thank God for modern infances. 00:08:25.920 --> 00:08:28.000 But here they're all reclining here. 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:36.799 We see an interesting time stamp in the Gospel of John, which I'll get to in a second, because there is a bit of a question of how many times was Jesus anointed? 00:08:36.879 --> 00:08:37.519 What's going on with that? 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:41.039 Because there's a passage in Matthew, in Mark, in Luke, and in John. 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:43.840 Matthew and Mark are nearly identical, as you can see. 00:08:44.879 --> 00:08:49.679 John is pretty identical except for some key things, but the point is the same. 00:08:49.840 --> 00:09:00.960 And so I am inclined to believe that this is the same event because same place, uh, same thing took place, even if the anointing is a little different, and Jesus' message and response is exactly the same. 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:03.120 So I am inclined to believe that's the same. 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:06.240 And if that's the case, we're now six days before Passover. 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:11.120 So we just took a little bit of a time travel back to before the triumphal entry. 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:17.039 So, having that said, there's a point, and there's a reason why that's happening, which I'll get to in a second. 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:21.200 But ultimately, I believe this is the same event that's happening. 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:30.960 And then, Luke, there's a passage in Luke 7 that is an anointing, but everything's different except for the fact that there's anointing meant involved. 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:33.919 And so that leads me to believe that that's not the same event. 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:41.200 Also, because in Luke 8, he's out and traveling again, and here, obviously, he's in Jerusalem for this last week before he dies. 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:48.480 So, my personal belief is that the Luke passage in 7 is a different anointing, and these three are the same. 00:09:48.639 --> 00:09:52.799 You're welcome to believe otherwise, it doesn't change nothing. 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:55.840 So, but we have that information at least. 00:09:55.919 --> 00:10:04.559 And so, six days before Passover, he's reclining, and then we see the person identified in John as Mary. 00:10:04.720 --> 00:10:06.240 Martha is serving. 00:10:06.799 --> 00:10:07.679 No surprise there. 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:09.039 That's kind of what that's her gig. 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:17.519 She's sitting there, she's doing the work, and then Mary comes in, a woman here, with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume. 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:22.480 A pound of pure and expensive nard. 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:25.360 Okay, everybody on the count of three say nard. 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:26.720 One, two, three. 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:30.000 Okay, you all sound as weird as I do now. 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:35.519 So every time I say nard and you guys giggle, remember that that's what I'm gonna do on the inside. 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:37.279 I'm hearing you say it too. 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:41.600 So, having that said, what's going on here? 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:46.799 She comes in with a pound of perfume, pure and expensive nard. 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:51.039 Nard is a plant indigenous to the Himalayas, turns out. 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:57.840 I will never understand how somebody looked at a plant and said, I bet if I break that up, that'll make me smell fancy. 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:00.240 But that's that happened at one point in time. 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:03.279 The Himalayas are not in Israel. 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:05.519 There's your geography lesson for the day. 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:13.120 And therefore, having this in Israel, very expensive thing to have at that point in time. 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:16.559 And it's in an alabaster vessel, sealed up. 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:27.840 So we gotta do a little bit of work here with this because I've heard a lot of uh teaching about how this is, you know, historically scholars say this is about this is her dowry and her bride price. 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:31.120 I could not find out where that came from, except that scholars say it. 00:11:31.279 --> 00:11:35.919 So if you can find what scholars exactly say that, you get 10 Jesus points. 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:38.080 But I literally cannot find that anywhere. 00:11:38.159 --> 00:11:40.879 So and I it's ultimately, so I'm not gonna be going that route. 00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:44.480 So if you if you hear, if you're like, hey, he didn't go that route, there's a reason for that. 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:47.840 I just couldn't find that beyond uh scholarly legend. 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:49.360 So it's possible it's true. 00:11:49.440 --> 00:11:52.559 But ultimately, what it is is really expensive. 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:53.519 We'll see you later. 00:11:53.679 --> 00:11:57.279 300 denarii, which is 300 days' wages. 00:11:57.440 --> 00:12:00.799 So she has like a year's wages in a box. 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:02.399 And what does she do? 00:12:02.639 --> 00:12:11.200 She pours it on his head and on his feet, and she anoints uh his head and his feet and wipes his feet with her hair. 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:14.399 So the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:19.120 Okay, so we're gonna stop there for one moment before we get to the reaction of what's happening. 00:12:19.440 --> 00:12:23.519 Do you think that this was a spur of the moment improv thing? 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:27.519 Jesus is there, they're eating, and she's like, I have an idea. 00:12:27.759 --> 00:12:31.840 Boom, dump, there goes a year's salary worth of stuff. 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:40.720 I'm inclined to believe there's premeditation involved in this, because that's also not only expensive, that's a weird thing to do. 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:44.399 That's not how you normally behave. 00:12:44.799 --> 00:12:49.679 And so I would assume, though I can't prove it, that there is thought behind this. 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:51.679 There's premeditation behind this. 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:53.360 There's a buildup to this. 00:12:53.600 --> 00:12:57.919 Once again, she's really kind of putting herself out there because this is not normal behavior. 00:12:58.000 --> 00:12:59.840 And think about this for a second. 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:09.679 How, what it takes to grab the stuff and to enter the room full of people and to take this act. 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:15.360 She breaks the jar in Mark, which indicates it's all getting used. 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:18.799 So it's all getting dumped out. 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:26.480 A pound of it, pouring it on Jesus' head, pouring it on his feet, wiping his feet with her hair. 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:28.320 Servants don't even do that. 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:31.600 That's grotesque, unless it's in this context. 00:13:32.320 --> 00:13:36.399 It's an intense thing at that point in time, what she's doing here. 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:47.200 I look at that, and what I see is worship, which is interesting in that sense. 00:13:48.960 --> 00:14:00.080 It's weird, it's unexpected, it's vulnerable, but she is placing a whole bunch of worth upon the one to whom it's due. 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:03.519 And pouring it out on him, praising him. 00:14:03.679 --> 00:14:07.919 And I just see this is just such a beautiful picture of worship. 00:14:08.320 --> 00:14:11.600 And worship is not just musical, although it's inclusive of that. 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:13.679 It's inclusive of a whole lot of things in life. 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:16.240 But isn't that a beautiful thing that that's happening? 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:21.440 A pound of this is dumped out, and it's here's the understatement of the year. 00:14:21.759 --> 00:14:24.720 The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 00:14:25.279 --> 00:14:28.559 Yes, this is like Bath and Body Works blew up. 00:14:29.759 --> 00:14:36.799 That's that, like, that that's there are very few stores where I'll tell my wife, I'm gonna be that husband sitting on the bench outside. 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:38.399 But I ain't doing that. 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:39.360 I'm sorry. 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:42.080 That's just that's a headache that I can't get rid of. 00:14:42.399 --> 00:14:46.080 So, but having that said, nobody is confused about what is happening here. 00:14:47.120 --> 00:14:48.639 Nobody can ignore this either. 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:53.519 This isn't one of those, like, they're all like, okay, I'm really uh gonna pretend this didn't happen. 00:14:53.679 --> 00:14:59.759 Everyone's just so you hear the record scratch, and then it's like okay. 00:14:59.919 --> 00:15:08.960 So, what happens next in this situation where she has just dumped out a year's worth of perfume on Jesus? 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:14.399 Well, the disciples break in, we get their reaction. 00:15:14.799 --> 00:15:17.279 Their response is indignation and scolding. 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:18.720 And again, once again, indignation. 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:20.879 I think the last time I get the indignation passages. 00:15:21.120 --> 00:15:24.320 It's weird, but uh, the last time I taught we talked about that as well. 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:25.840 This is not an intense work. 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:28.399 This is not just, they were mildly irritated. 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:29.200 They're mad. 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:43.600 So here, this woman, Mary, has put herself out there in that sense to worship the Savior in this very public way, and they are really upset about it. 00:15:44.080 --> 00:15:48.480 And they say, Why has this perfume been wasted? 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:54.000 It might have been sold for more than 300 denari and given to the poor, and they began to scold her. 00:15:54.159 --> 00:16:02.000 So here in this vulnerable situation, where she is just like poured out worship, they go, Oh gosh, what are you doing? 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:03.120 What is wrong with you? 00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:04.879 You're doing it wrong. 00:16:05.279 --> 00:16:11.039 Now I am confident that none of us ever have that reaction to the worship of others. 00:16:11.279 --> 00:16:13.679 Critical, going, they're doing it wrong. 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:15.519 Clearly, they're not doing it right. 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:17.360 I'm confident we never have that reaction. 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:19.360 So we're safe here, right? 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:20.799 Other people do, we don't. 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:33.279 But with that, we can see in the in John that Judas Isgariot, who was about to betray him, I think John's bitter, and it says, Why wasn't this perfume sold for 300 dollars and given to the poor? 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:35.120 So he's the ringleader in this. 00:16:35.360 --> 00:16:36.799 Basically, this is crazy. 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:41.200 Why wasn't this given to the poor? 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:45.519 And we'll get back to his motivation in a second. 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:53.519 This is not a good moment for Mary, obviously, when the followers of Jesus are disgusted by what she has just done. 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:57.200 That's gonna flip in just a second, because then Jesus responds. 00:16:57.440 --> 00:16:59.279 And he says, Leave her alone. 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:03.120 Just why are you bothering her? 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:06.480 Now that's a good moment if you're Mary at that point in time. 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:15.440 The bad moment of the disciples piling on her kind of dissipates when uh God actually defends you. 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:20.400 That's a good moment at that point in time when you can be like, when Jesus is saying, leave her alone, man. 00:17:20.480 --> 00:17:22.000 Why are you bothering her? 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:24.640 She's done a noble thing for me. 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:27.039 And he has a very interesting statement here. 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:32.319 You always have the poor with you, and you can do what's good for them whenever you want, but you don't always have me. 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:48.960 There's a strange passage, you can go many different ways with this, because um scripture is clear that taking care of one another and taking care of those who are in need is a natural byproduct of faith in Christ. 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:57.920 You know, all the way up to James when he calls this pure and undefiled religion, is to take care of widows and orphans in needs and keep oneself from the world. 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:03.200 So this is actually an important aspect of what happens when you follow Christ. 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:07.279 So he's not saying care about the poor. 00:18:07.519 --> 00:18:07.920 Come on. 00:18:08.079 --> 00:18:12.480 Uh that's not the point here, because the rest of scripture tells us that that's a big deal. 00:18:12.880 --> 00:18:21.359 However, the king is in the room, and so therefore, this was the right thing to do in this context. 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:27.359 It would be wrong to elevate the poor above Christ. 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:30.559 However, it would also be wrong to discard the poor. 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:32.880 He says you have them, you need to take care of them. 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:36.000 However, this is the right thing to do now. 00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:40.079 So it's a good reminder because you know, we always pull back and forth, back and forth and back and forth. 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:41.359 Okay, what's the most important thing? 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:49.359 Most important thing is gathering together, um, devotion, taking care of one another, back and forth and back and forth. 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:51.599 And it's not an either or, that's a both and. 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:53.680 But Jesus is above all of that. 00:18:54.240 --> 00:18:59.119 So, with that in mind, he says, She has done what she could. 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:02.559 She has anointed my body in advance for burial. 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:05.599 That came out of nowhere. 00:19:05.680 --> 00:19:08.240 Like, so once again, I I see heaviness here. 00:19:08.559 --> 00:19:17.039 First, he says, hey, these in the first chunk, you're you're gonna be, I'm gonna suffer and I'm going to be handed over. 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:22.559 Here, flashing back to right before the triumphal entry, he's saying, Look, she's doing this for my burial. 00:19:22.960 --> 00:19:24.240 This is a good thing. 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:30.160 Truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done also will be told in memory of her. 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:31.119 One awesome thing. 00:19:31.200 --> 00:19:49.279 That like, you know, we go from being shamed by the disciples, Judas, to being uh praised by the Savior to whom she's worshiping, and saying, Look, wherever the gospel is proclaimed, this is going to be preached. 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:50.160 So I love that. 00:19:50.240 --> 00:19:51.599 That's so awesome to see that. 00:19:51.759 --> 00:19:56.400 Uh, they don't get to decide the quality and validity of her worship. 00:19:56.640 --> 00:19:58.640 The one being worshipped does. 00:19:58.880 --> 00:19:59.759 And that's cool. 00:19:59.920 --> 00:20:00.880 I love that. 00:20:01.200 --> 00:20:08.079 So, and this is obviously there's nuance to this, but clearly, clearly, she's directly worshiping Jesus here. 00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:11.119 So there's no con there's no controversy with that. 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:12.400 Next slide, buddy. 00:20:12.480 --> 00:20:13.519 Thank you very much. 00:20:15.359 --> 00:20:20.960 So then Judas, Iscaria, one of the twelve, went to the chief priest to betray Jesus to them. 00:20:21.200 --> 00:20:23.440 When they heard this, they were glad and promised to give him money. 00:20:23.519 --> 00:20:26.799 So he started looking for a good opportunity to betray him. 00:20:26.960 --> 00:20:28.880 Okay, think about this for a second. 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:33.759 Six days before Passover, we see the anointing, right? 00:20:34.319 --> 00:20:39.680 Or Jesus, or Judas is going, why wasn't this sold and given to the poor? 00:20:41.519 --> 00:20:45.839 Two days before Passover, the religious leaders are looking for a way to betray him. 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:48.480 So obviously they haven't found that way to betray him yet. 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:56.319 That would indicate the possibility that Judas has been stewing for like four days on this, on what just happened there. 00:20:56.480 --> 00:21:00.400 So it's it's easy for me to think it's like in vignettes. 00:21:01.039 --> 00:21:07.440 It's like when you have to go from point A to point B in Lord of the Rings, and they're just hopping along New Zealand, and you keep going there to there to there to there. 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:10.720 No, there's this is there's a lot that goes on in here that you don't always see. 00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:21.279 And so he's possibly stewing for like four days, and then he goes to the religious leaders and says, What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you? 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:23.920 That's intense. 00:21:24.160 --> 00:21:25.200 That's really intense. 00:21:25.279 --> 00:21:30.480 That's a that is a very visceral thing to have happen there. 00:21:31.039 --> 00:21:31.680 Why? 00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:40.480 Well, Luke says, Satan entered Judas, or the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas here. 00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:44.960 However, his heart had already turned before that. 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:47.119 We saw that in the previous passage in John. 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:53.839 Because he was asking about giving to the poor, not because he cared about them, because he was a thief and would steal from the money box. 00:21:54.160 --> 00:22:06.960 So when you get to the place where you see somebody healing, raising people from the Knowing people's thoughts, and you think you can steal from them, there is obviously a disconnect of belief there. 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:19.359 So this is a prime example of you can be in the bubble and yet still have no interest or investment in Jesus whatsoever. 00:22:20.160 --> 00:22:21.759 Because it involves faith. 00:22:22.319 --> 00:22:25.359 And clearly that's not the case because he's willing to betray. 00:22:25.599 --> 00:22:26.960 And says, What are you willing to give? 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:29.839 So they gave him 30 pieces of silver. 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:31.200 What are you willing to give? 00:22:31.599 --> 00:22:32.720 Name your price. 00:22:32.960 --> 00:22:35.119 Uh 30. 00:22:35.359 --> 00:22:41.680 I could see the the religious leaders be like, okay, easy, yes, totally. 00:22:41.839 --> 00:22:50.400 We were watching, uh, my family and I were watching this uh concert on YouTube, because that's what we do now, apparently, because hello, three kids. 00:22:50.480 --> 00:22:58.000 But uh with that, and it's like, you know, unparalleled, like there, it's like the ultimate pyrotechnics, lasers, all those different things. 00:22:58.160 --> 00:23:03.680 And my one of my amazing children was like, I hope whoever programmed those lights got paid$100. 00:23:04.400 --> 00:23:07.359 And this is like an hour. 00:23:08.319 --> 00:23:09.839 $100 an hour. 00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:10.960 That's probably how that works. 00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:21.200 And so it's just one of those things of like what you consider to be like really valuable, it could be like$100, okay, but that's that's a lot, but not at that scale. 00:23:21.279 --> 00:23:26.400 And so it's crazy that he's willing to do this for 30 pieces of silver. 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:39.119 So we see two very different valuations of Jesus dumping out a perfume worth a year's wage, basically. 00:23:39.920 --> 00:23:42.640 Just dumped out to anoint him. 00:23:42.880 --> 00:23:48.160 And then I get 30 bucks to betray my teacher. 00:23:48.799 --> 00:23:50.079 That's that crazy. 00:23:50.640 --> 00:23:52.799 There's an amazing disconnect there. 00:23:53.039 --> 00:24:01.920 But we see that he that obviously he had a heart filled with unbelief that he was willing to steal from Jesus in that sense, not him, but that thing. 00:24:02.160 --> 00:24:05.359 And then Satan entered Jesus. 00:24:05.519 --> 00:24:12.880 This is this is heavy because uh, contrary to what like they want you to think in movies and everything, Satan is not omnipresent. 00:24:13.119 --> 00:24:14.480 He can't be everywhere at once. 00:24:14.559 --> 00:24:15.519 There's only one of him. 00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:20.160 And so this is not a good moment to not a good person to be at this point in time. 00:24:20.559 --> 00:24:26.240 So he asks for a price and he finds it suitable to betray the one who's raised the dead. 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:28.160 That's that's heavy. 00:24:28.480 --> 00:24:30.880 So, next chunk. 00:24:31.839 --> 00:24:32.799 We're jumping again. 00:24:33.039 --> 00:24:36.559 First day of unleavened bread before the Passover. 00:24:36.640 --> 00:24:38.559 That's like the Thursday to our Sunday. 00:24:38.880 --> 00:24:41.839 And they say, What do you want me to do? 00:24:42.079 --> 00:24:44.640 Like, where do we want to uh do the festival? 00:24:44.880 --> 00:24:46.799 And he has it all prepared out. 00:24:47.039 --> 00:24:53.200 So I find it fun that he, according to the uh Luke passage, sends Peter and John to do it. 00:24:53.359 --> 00:24:56.240 I can imagine him being like, Hey, I want you guys to do this. 00:24:56.559 --> 00:24:58.400 Please try to get along. 00:24:58.799 --> 00:25:01.839 Just I just just it'll be okay. 00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:03.279 It's only an hour. 00:25:03.519 --> 00:25:11.440 And uh he goes and says, Hey, there's a guy carrying a jar, follow him wherever he enters. 00:25:11.599 --> 00:25:13.039 Say the teacher says, Where's the room? 00:25:13.119 --> 00:25:14.559 You'll find a room fully furnished. 00:25:14.720 --> 00:25:17.680 Okay, a few different views on this, and neither one of them are wrong. 00:25:17.759 --> 00:25:25.440 I have an inclination, but one of them is that this is a supernatural omniscience thing to where he just knew how it would work out. 00:25:26.079 --> 00:25:27.039 Very possible. 00:25:27.279 --> 00:25:33.920 Second thing is he has a whole lot of followers, and so it would make sense to me if this conversation had happened beforehand. 00:25:34.079 --> 00:25:34.480 Who knows? 00:25:34.559 --> 00:25:35.599 We don't know either way. 00:25:35.759 --> 00:25:40.640 I'm not going to get uh bent out of shape either way in that sense, but ultimately it happens just as he says. 00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:47.119 And this reminds me of the preparation for the triumphal entry where he said, go here and there's a donkey and a colt tied up, and then take it, and they say the master needs it. 00:25:47.279 --> 00:25:53.359 Similar idea to where clearly he has this prepared and set up and ready for them. 00:25:53.759 --> 00:26:02.480 And so they do that, which again, having a large room furnished and ready for the Passover ain't cheap. 00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:17.359 So whoever this unnamed dude is who's like, you know, in the rolling the credits at the end of the movie is like man-carrying jar, like invested a whole lot in this final Passover, which is really cool. 00:26:17.440 --> 00:26:19.119 That's awesome to see how that happens. 00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:22.799 So there's another great valuation and cost put in that. 00:26:23.599 --> 00:26:28.160 And so we come to the day and the Passover. 00:26:28.240 --> 00:26:31.359 When evening came, you arrived at the 12 when they were reclining. 00:26:31.519 --> 00:26:33.039 He said, Go ahead and go to the next one. 00:26:33.119 --> 00:26:33.599 Thank you, buddy. 00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:38.480 He says, Truly I tell you, one who one of you will betray me, one who is eating with me. 00:26:39.839 --> 00:26:41.519 Not a light-hearted topic. 00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:44.079 I don't recommend this at Christmas dinner. 00:26:44.960 --> 00:26:51.279 Just when you have your relatives together and it's all already a little bit weird, and you just stand up and it's like, one of you is gonna betray me. 00:26:51.920 --> 00:26:53.759 Pretty sure one of you already did. 00:26:57.680 --> 00:26:59.200 Don't recommend that. 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:07.440 So there's a heaviness here, and we see in the we see the passage in John having this really heaviness, he's troubled in spirit. 00:27:07.920 --> 00:27:08.880 And that's intense. 00:27:09.039 --> 00:27:10.079 One of you is gonna betray me. 00:27:10.160 --> 00:27:13.200 That's a big thing to say, right in the middle of this Passover. 00:27:13.680 --> 00:27:22.319 And lots of different reactions, going from questioning to distress to uncertain, to arguing among themselves about what's going to happen. 00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:25.039 And then they go, Who's gonna who's gonna do it? 00:27:25.200 --> 00:27:33.599 I love that John specifically points out one of his disciples, the one Jesus loved, who is John, was reclining close beside Jesus. 00:27:33.759 --> 00:27:38.799 He was won't mention his name, really right next to him. 00:27:38.960 --> 00:27:45.839 And then Peter, who was all the way down there, was mentioning, was motioning to him to find out who it was. 00:27:46.000 --> 00:27:55.440 So once again, you see Peter all the way down there and looking at John, going like, who is it? 00:27:56.880 --> 00:28:05.039 He says, the one who dips his hand with me in the bowl in these passages, or the one I dip and give the bread to. 00:28:05.279 --> 00:28:23.920 Passover has a lot of bread dipping imagery involved in that, whether it's the salt water of the tears, whether it is the bitterness of the horseradish, whether it is the sweetness of the harasset, which is like some weird mixture that we substitute with applesauce because we usually have kids involved. 00:28:24.079 --> 00:28:27.279 All these different things, there is a lot of dipping and handing. 00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:35.839 And so it's one, this is all just a colloquialism for somebody who is participating in the Passover with me, is going to betray me. 00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:38.319 Back and forth and back and forth. 00:28:38.400 --> 00:28:40.079 And this is what is intense to me. 00:28:40.400 --> 00:28:43.279 Judas actually asks him, surely not I. 00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:46.799 That's that's bold. 00:28:46.880 --> 00:28:50.960 And so clearly, there once again, there is a disconnect of belief. 00:28:51.279 --> 00:28:52.880 Clearly, he does not think that. 00:28:52.960 --> 00:29:05.759 I mean, because Jesus could have just been like, Yeah! Yeah, it's you! Um, but doesn't go for with that, and the and the disciple have no idea where he's doing. 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:08.720 He's gonna go, what you're about to do, do quickly. 00:29:08.960 --> 00:29:20.400 But I love how Jesus says that it is uh the one, it will go just as it is written about him in verse 21. 00:29:20.559 --> 00:29:24.480 This is not a shock, this is not plan B. 00:29:24.640 --> 00:29:26.640 This is what was known from the beginning. 00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:36.160 This was foretold in scripture in places like Psalm 41, 9, Zechariah, 11, 12 through 13, even the amount of money that Judas is going to take. 00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:42.960 Confirmed in Matthew 27, 9 through 10, that this is not, this is a part of the process, and Jesus isn't like thrown off guard by this. 00:29:43.119 --> 00:29:44.559 He just sat there and goes, like, what? 00:29:44.720 --> 00:29:45.680 Where'd Judas go? 00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:46.400 I don't know. 00:29:46.559 --> 00:29:51.759 Oh, look, Romans, he he knows that this is coming, and there's a heaviness involved in that. 00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:54.559 Woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. 00:29:54.640 --> 00:29:57.200 It would have been better for him if he had not been born. 00:29:57.839 --> 00:29:59.839 You can read this a few different ways. 00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:04.160 We like to read woe in this day and age as like righteous indignation. 00:30:04.400 --> 00:30:09.599 Woe to that person! But he created this guy. 00:30:09.839 --> 00:30:12.160 He walked with this guy for three years. 00:30:13.119 --> 00:30:18.000 Never cast him out, knew what was gonna happen, still kept him close. 00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:22.319 I I hear and assume that there is heartbreak involved in that. 00:30:22.880 --> 00:30:28.799