Jesus' Many Teachings

Today we pick up in Mark 11 as Jesus and His disciples are coming back into town. It’s a longer episode today as we look into many teachings Jesus spoke that are recorded in the gospels for us to see. He and the religious leaders seem to go on a constant back and forth as we look at lots of exchanges today, and then close out with Jesus teaching the disciples of His second coming and His crucifixion. As well Judas and the religious leaders began their plot to betray and kill Jesus. 

Scripture Study today:

Matthew 21:18 - 26:16

Mark 11:20 - 14:10

Luke 20:1 - 22:6

John 12

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Transcript

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Well welcome back uh with us uh here as we go through Passion Week and here on day three and and day three and four is how this will unfold because there won't be another drop tomorrow. And you know, just uh while we're on that and and and and unfolding this this week in a chronological type timeline, um, you know, it's fair to note that in the Gospels, though maybe everything's not recorded exactly chronologically. So lots of teaching, especially in this episode that we're gonna cover, that maybe happened uh in a in a bit different timeline than just all today or or as it unfolds there in the Gospel of Matthew. So um, you know, just a thought to keep in mind as we as we go through today and this week of uh there are things uh within this week that we can certainly nail down in a timeline specifically, but also uh certain teachings that maybe aren't unfolded just exactly chronologically as we work through the Gospels. So, with that, there's lots of information we're gonna go through today, lots of scripture we're gonna look at today, lots of teachings of Christ that we're gonna look at today. Um, as today we'll get uh through many parables that Jesus uh taught uh as he came to the Pharisees, as he taught to his disciples, as he taught to the people in Jerusalem, as he made some very big, bold, open, broad concepts and some very specific details about topics that he teaches on today. So there's gonna be lots as we go through uh of the first three days of what we've done this week. This will by far be the longest episode, but it's certainly worth uh taking the time and taking the attention to each passage of scripture that we'll look at. And though we'll look at many, we still will not cover it all for sake of time. So as always, I'll encourage you uh get into the word, get into each of the gospels and go through these patiently, slowly, prayerfully, and as let the Lord speak to you through the scripture. So as we get into today, we're gonna be, and I'll go ahead and give you the where we'll be at scripture-wise, uh, and Matthew is chapter 21, verse 18 through chapter 26, verse 16, Mark chapter 11, verse 20, which is where we'll start today uh in our readings. Mark 11, verse 20, through chapter 14, verse 10, and then Luke chapter 20, verse 1, through chapter 22, verse 6, uh, and again, John 12. Um, we'll have some references today as we go. So uh very excited to look at uh at all of these different teachings today of Christ. Man, what an exciting time as we look at the last um public ministry, public teaching of Jesus in this week as we build up uh towards what's gonna be at at Passover on Friday as Christ goes to the cross. But the things that he continues to just impact in these last few days of his ministry on earth as he walked uh as fully God and fully man, what an exciting time. So as as we left off yesterday, uh the disciples in Christ, as we talked about going out into Bethany out of the city in the evenings, we'll pick right back up this morning in Mark 11, verse 20, as they're coming back into town. So with that, we'll start uh start away at Mark 11, verse 20. So in verse 20, uh in Mark it says, as they were passing by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots up. Being reminded, Peter said to him, Rabbi, look, the fig tree which you've cursed has withered. Now, as you reread this in Matthew, it it compacts the timeline just a bit. In Matthew 21, uh it says uh at once the fig tree withered in verse 19. And either way, uh of either account, uh I think it's it's clear that yesterday or as Jesus came up and and cursed the fig tree, it died. Um, and possibly the next morning, as Mark reads here, is when it was able to be noticed that it withered completely. So in verse 22 it says, And Jesus answered them answered, saying to them, Have faith in God. Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, be taken up and cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted to him. Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted to you. Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your father who is in heaven will also forgive you for your transgressions. But if you do not forgive, neither will your father forgive Father who is in heaven forgive your transgressions. So this passage is we as we look at it in Mark 11, of them passing by the fig tree, and then Jesus taking that opportunity to talk about real prayer and genuine prayer that's in the Father's will, that anything you ask uh within his will will be answered. Now that's not just uh an automatic of anything that we as believers ask for will will automatically happen because everything that happens is within the Father's will. One of the best ways I've heard this put is that uh if you're not seeing much answered prayer in your life, then your will and God's will maybe aren't as aligned as as they need to be or as you would like for them to be, which then again gives us another prayer to specifically you know petition to him to align our will with his will. Um and in that and in that context, as we pray in the will of the Father, uh, we will naturally have more answered prayer as we align what what we desire with what he desires. So um as as Jesus takes this time of genuineness, forget and then and and sends it up and seals it up with a forgive others before you stand, or whenever you stand praying, forgive if you have anything against anyone. So your father will also forgive you, not holding grudges against one another, not holding uh just as he has forgiven us, we are to forgive others, and and and everything works uh in that circular fashion. So we'll move from there to Matthew uh chapter twenty-one, verse twenty-three, and that'll pick up as Jesus and the disciples are are heading into town and entering the temple um in Jerusalem, and in Matthew twenty-one, verse twenty-three, it says, When he entered the temple, the chief priest and the elders of the people came to him while he was teaching and said, By what authority are you doing these things? And who gave you this authority? Jesus said to them, I will also ask you one thing, which if you tell me, I will also tell you by what authority I do these things. So as he's gonna answer, he's gonna answer their question with a question, and in verse twenty-five, he says, Jesus says, The baptism of John was from what source? From heaven or from men? And they began reasoning among themselves, saying, If we say from heaven, he will say to us, Then why did you not believe him? But if we say from men, we fear the people, for they all regard John as a prophet. And in verse twenty-seven, the the chief priest and the elders answer Jesus that says, In answering Jesus, they said, We do not know. He also said to them, Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things. So Jesus reveals a few things in this little passage with the Pharisees as they ask, and obviously they're asking him by what authority, uh, wanting him to tell them the authority that he is doing it by, uh, that he is the Son of God, um, so they can then accuse him of blasphemy and and charge to kill him. And and Jesus had had not uh pushed this claim off, he had not um and not claim, but but fact that he is the son of God and by the by his own authority, as he's done all of his miracles and all of his works uh and and all of his teaching. But uh Jesus reveals the hardness of their hearts and their their rejection um as they rejected his forerunner John the Baptist, uh, just as they're going to reject him, uh, which is what we're about to get into of how he goes on and expands on that. But he gives them a chance um to answer that and another side note of the Pharisees or the chief priest here, and uh their response of not being worried about offending God on either side, uh, but worried about offending the people and fearing the people and what they might do. So uh it sets up a bit of of where their mindset was here as well. So we're gonna continue on and we're gonna pick up and keep going here in Matthew 21 as as Jesus continues this conversation and this teaching uh to the chief priest and the elders and the people here uh in the temple uh with a couple of parables, and in verse 28 it says, But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, Son, go to work today in the vineyard. And he answered, I will not. But afterward he regretted it and went. So the son said, No, I'm not going to go work in the vineyard, but then he regret regretted it later and went. The man came to the second and said the same thing, and he answered, I will, sir. But he did not go. And Jesus asked, Which of the two did the will of his father? They said the first, and Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and prostitutes will get into the kingdom of God before you. For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him. But the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him, and you, seeing this, did not even feel remorse afterwards so as to believe him. So you know of the what they just talked about before that, Jesus takes a parable and just makes an egg uh the perfect example and analogy of the hardness of the heart and the unrepentance and the not turning to him and giving in to him and following him of the religious leaders, and he makes that clear in that parable. But he doesn't leave it there, and and you know, as the transitions work in the way it's written, uh you can just think of Jesus sitting here having this conversation with these guys, and then in thirty three he says, Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard and put a wall around it, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and rented it out to vine growers and went on a journey. When the harvest time approached, he sent his slaves to the vine growers to receive his produce. The vine growers took his slaves and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third. Again he sent another group of slaves larger than the first, and they did the same thing to them. But afterward he sent his son to them, saying, They will respect my son. And when the vine growers saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir, come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance. They took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vine growers? They said to them, He will bring those wretches to a wretched end, and will rent out the vineyard to other vine growers who will pay him the proceeds at the proper seasons. So he asked them a question about the parable he just uh talked, and they answered it ex correctly. And in forty two it says, Jesus said to them, Did you never read in the scriptures the stone which the builders rejected, this became the chief cornerstone. This came about from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes. Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people, producing the fruit of it, and he who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it falls it will scatter him like dust. When the chief priest and the Pharisees heard his parables, they understood that he was speaking about them. When they sought to seize him, they feared the people, because they considered him to be a prophet. So again, in two parables, Jesus makes it very clear to the Pharisees and to the religious leaders that he's talking about them in those parables. Uh that uh he quotes Psalm 118, an old testament reference that they would definitely know and and it continues to go in and uh and be fulfilled as this all comes together of another prophecy. So um Jesus leaves no no doubt that that he's speaking about them. They're clear about that. Yet again, as they said about as we said about John in verse 46, their fear was of the people. So as we go on from there, uh it's clear that the Pharisees understand Jesus' teaching and the point of it. And he and he finishes uh this portion um in one more parable, in the parable of the marriage feast in Matthew 22. And um it not to read all of it, but uh again he makes another parable here that highlights that the the ones who were invited, the the house of Israel that was first invited uh to the wedding feast and to the marriage feast, uh, declined the invitation. In twenty-two, chapter twenty-two, verse five, it says, But they paid no attention and went their way, one to his own farm, another to his business, and the rest seized his slaves and mistreated them and killed them. Verse 7 it says, But the king was enraged, and he sent his armies and destroyed those murderers and set their city on fire. Again, this parable's one that that teaches that Jesus uses to see God's patience. As he had the wedding feast, he sent out the invitation, uh, he called for them to come, told them everything is ready, but they didn't come, and and then it finishes it out. Um and the last line of it says, For many are called, but few are chosen, uh, after he talks about those that are declined the invitation and declined coming to him, uh being speechless and thrown out into outer darkness. So he he finishes up this um discussion, this conversation, or at least this portion of it in the parable teachings, uh, again with a clear, direct message that those that decline to come to him uh will not inherit the kingdom of God. So after that, uh those parable teachings, things have gotten pretty stirred up. And in twenty-two, Matthew twenty-two, fifteen it says, Then the Pharisees went and plotted together how they might trap him in what he said. Um so obviously not being a big fan of of what Jesus had just uh got through teaching, uh especially as they know it's directly about them. Uh the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the religious leaders are are none too happy uh and go away to scheme some more of how can they trap Jesus and what he's saying. And I think that the thing that they'll continue to run into, as we'll look at here, um, is uh is that Jesus obviously never contradicts himself and never contradicts the scripture. Um so with that they kind of run into a wall every time they try to trap him, um, which is what leads eventually to the fact that they had to try to bring false witnesses uh and and the phony sham of a trial that's going to come here in a few chapters and a few days as well. So um in Matthew twenty two, fifteen it says, Then the Pharisees went and plotted together how they might trap him in what he said, and they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that you are truthful and teach the way of God in truth, and defer to no one, for you are not partial to any. So they kind of, you know, for lack of a better term, butter him up there, um, though they don't mean it, and it says, Tell us then what do you think? Is it lawful to give a poll tax to Caesar or not? So here they're asking the question uh basically if Jesus says not to give the tax to try to get him um in a bad view with the Romans. If he does say pay the tax, obviously the Jewish people didn't appreciate and enjoy paying taxes to the Romans, so they think here's a question that we can trap him with. Um but Jesus perceived their malice and said, Why are you testing me, you hypocrites? Show me the coin used for the poll tax. And he goes on and he takes the Daenerys and he asks him whose likeness and inscription is on here. They say Caesar's, and he and he tells them, Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's. And hearing this, they were amazed, and leaving him they went away. Um so uh as we keep going and we keep looking at this, so that that that happens, and they try to trap him uh and they're and they fail. Uh and as we continue to read, we'll see as another group the Sadducees come back to try to do the same thing. And it says, So on that day some Sadducees who say there is no resurrection came to Jesus and questioned him, asking, Teacher, Moses said, If a man dies having no children, his brothers next of kin shall marry his wife and raise up his brother. And they go on and give this analogy or give this example of if uh if there were seven brothers and they all died and they have no children, and the each each of the brothers leaves his wife to the next brothers. Moses commanded, and they said uh at the end of that, last of all the woman died, and they said, In the resurrection, which they don't believe in, uh, but in the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had married her. And then Jesus again says, But Jesus answered and said to them in verse twenty nine, You were mistaken, not understanding the scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels. So again, uh Jesus comes right back with the the right answer, obviously, but with a solid, biblical, truthful, scriptural based answer, and it says, goes on in thirty-one, says, But regarding the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God? I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. And when the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching. So again, he takes a teaching moment to teach to the Sadducees that the fact that they do not believe in the resurrection um as a is wrong based on the scriptures and based on Moses' writings. Um again, j just as always, Christ points back to the scripture. Have you not read? Do you not know? You should know this as the religious religious leaders of this time. Uh though you study the scriptures to to to search for them, you don't believe what they're actually telling you. As Jesus goes over and over as they go through these different questions and answers, trying to trap him. All he does is lean right back on the word of God that that proclaims him and prophesies him to be there that they continually deny in almost every fashion. So um as we look at those instances, again it's a back and forth, uh, and every time it comes right back down to the same of Christ never wavering the truth from the truth, never wavering from who he is, um, and the religious leaders that continue to deny him. Now, as we just continue on uh in Matthew twenty-two and verse thirty-four it says, uh, but when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, so what we just talked about, they gathered themselves together. One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him, Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law? And he said to him, You shall love the Lord your God. He Jesus said to back to the Pharisees, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the greatest and foremost commandment. And the second is like it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend the whole law and the prophets. And if you take and you and you look at the Ten Commandments and put 'em under those two headings, um everything falls into those two categories, which is why Jesus simplifies it as he puts that out right here in Matthew twenty-two. Uh and again in forty one it says, Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question. So now he's turned back and again and going to ask them a question. They've been asking all of these questions, trying to trap him and catch him and turn things over. But now in chapter twenty-two of Matthew, verse forty one, it says, Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question. So he's going to ask them. Well it says, What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he? They said to him, The son of David. He said to them, Then how does David in the Spirit call him Lord? saying, The Lord said to my Lord, Set at my right hand until I put your enemies beneath your feet. And so there Jesus quoting David from Psalm one ten, and it goes on and he says, If David then calls him Lord, how is he his son? No one was able to answer him a word, nor did anyone dare from that day on to ask him another question. So after they, you know, off and on here as we went and bounced around, um, tried to trap him, tried to ask him questions to see where his answers would fall and lie, and he answers each one of them um to a T exactly correctly, uh, and that he would be able to give a false answer, um, but always back again to the scripture and everything backed up to where they had no excuse and no other way um of getting around the fact of his answers. It wasn't any contradictions uh or anything of that. So finally, as it just read in verse 46, no one was able to answer him a word, so they did not ask him any other questions from then on. And as we get to that, and we're just gonna keep sticking with Matthew as we go through this in chapter 23, um, then Jesus turns and is he doesn't just let it lie there, and he he gives a um a large warning to the crowd of the Pharisees and and a large warning of them following the Pharisees, and then he gives a uh a rebuke directly again to the Pharisees themselves, uh called the eight woes, uh, as it's subtitled here in Matthew 23. So instead of uh he wants to be perfectly clear to the people, he wants to be perfectly clear in the and the fact that it's written down in the Gospels um means he wanted to be perfectly clear to us two thousand years later as well. So as we read Matthew twenty three, it says that we'll read the first five verses, it said, Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, saying, The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses. Therefore, all that they tell you, do and observe. But do not do according to their deeds, for they say things and do not do them. They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men's shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as a finger. But they do all their deeds to be noticed by men. And then he goes on for the next few verses, to it again talking to the people of the ways that the Pharisees are are all talk, and they want to lay all these heavy burdens of the law on the people that they themselves really don't even have have a big desire or conviction to keep for their self. So he is very clear to the people that do what the Pharisees say to do, but don't follow them by their actions. And just as he he comes off of that in verse thirteen, it says, But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of heaven from people, for you do not enter in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites, because you devour widows' houses, and for pretense you make long prayers, therefore you receive greater condemnation. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel around on sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he becomes one you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves. Woe to you blind guides who say, Whoever swears by the temple that is nothing, but whoever swears by the gold of the temple is obligated. You fools and blind men, which is more important the gold or the temple that sanctified the gold? And whoever swears by the altar that is nothing, but whoever swears by the offering on it, he is obligated. You blind men, which is more important the offering or the altar that sanctifies the offering? Therefore whoever swears by the altar swears both by the altar and by everything on it, and whoever swears by the temple swears both by the temple and by him who dwells within it, and whoever swears by heaven swears both by the throne of God and by him who sets upon it. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you tithe mint and deal and coven, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law, justice and mercy and faithfulness. But these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others, you blind guides who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you clean the outside of the cup of the dish, but inside they are full of robbery and self indulgence. You blind Pharisee first, clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you are like whitewashed tombs, which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanliness, or all uncleanness. So you too outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, and say, If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in the shedding of the blood of the prophets, so you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up then the measure of the guilt of your fathers, you serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the senates of hell? Therefore, behold, I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, so that upon them you may fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Barekiah, whom you murdered, between the temple and the altar. Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation. So he doesn't let anything back or hold anything back as he's talking to the Pharisees, and he gives them the I would say that's one of the strongest rebukes that that you could you could give them. Uh and you know, in a sense, we could say in one last time, to to turn them to repent and to look back to him. Um but again, finalizing some back and forth all through uh the day, and there's more that we could read on that as we look at Mark 12 um of Jesus' last public teaching here. Um all of that coming out of Matthew 23. So uh not much more, I think, that a person could add on to that to close out Jesus' uh final public teaching. Um, you know, it was kind of a mic drug moment, you would say, uh, and he didn't leave any doubt or any confusion or any lack for clarity of what he was trying to get across to these guys as they kind of went back and forth here uh as we've kind of been going through today. So so after that, as they come towards uh what I assume is the later part of the day and go to again as as was their custom uh Jesus and his disciples to head out of the temple and out of to uh out of town um out to Bethany um for the evening, and and we're gonna switch over to Mark and chapter thirteen and verse one. It says, as he was going out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, Teacher, behold what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings. And Jesus said to him, Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left upon another, which will not be torn down. As he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew were questioning him privately, tell us when will these things be, and what will be the signs when all these things are going to be fulfilled? So as Jesus prophesies there what would have happened forty years later in AD seventy, if the the the everything being torn down by the Romans and and the temple, um, and you can read about that as well, but um a short term prophecy that that came true, like I say, in AD seventy, just uh about forty years from from when he looked back and said that. Um and then he picks on up from there and and says uh to his disciples privately, uh as him and James and John and Peter having this conversation, said, See to it that no one misleads you. Many will come in my name, saying, I am he, and will mislead many. So he goes on here to talk uh uh about his second coming and when he's going to return. He said, When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be frightened. Those things must take place, but that is not yet the end. For nation will rise up against nation and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, there will also be famines. These things are merely the beginning of birth pains. And he goes on to talk and says the gospel must first be preached to all the nations in verse ten. Um he talks about when they arrest you and hand you over, do not worry about what you're gonna say beforehand, um, because what you will need to be say the Holy Spirit will give you in that hour. Uh, he goes on to say, brothers will betray brothers, and a father is child, and children will rise up against their parents and put them to death. Uh, you'll be hated by all because of my name's sake, and verse 13. But the one who endures to the end, he will be saved. And then he goes on from there, talks about the abomination of desolation, um, standing where it should not be, and the false prophet claiming to be God in the temple, and he goes on to talk about the tribulation uh and his second coming and the things that are still yet to come that we haven't seen unfold yet, uh, when Christ will return, and then the tribulation will take place. So um as as that all kinds uh tends to wind down, he he lists out again um the parable of the fig tree, the parable of the ten virgins, the parable of the talents, the sheep and goat judgment, and and all those warnings to be ready. And if you've listened to our podcast as we've gotten to this part of scripture at the end of Matthew, of being ready for his second coming. Um he's very clear again, just as he was clear as we've looked at today, the Pharisees and the different conversations, he was very clear at his teaching of being ready. There can be some discussion and debate of when when Christ's return will be, that no one can tell us, uh none of us can tell you for sure Christ says even even the Son doesn't know that only the Father knows the exact time, but he's certainly very clear to tell us all to be ready for his coming, to be looking for his coming, to be waiting for his coming. So in Matthew twenty six, verse one it says, When Jesus had finished all these words, he said to his disciples, You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man is to be handed over for crucifixion. Then the chief priest and the elders and the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest named Caiaphas, and they plotted together to seize Jesus by stealth and kill him. But they were saying, Not during the festival, otherwise a riot might occur among the people. Somewhere around this same time in another setting, if you look across the page at Matthew twenty six, fourteen, it says then one of the twelve named Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priest and said, What are you willing to give me to betray him to you? And they weighed out thirty pieces of silver to him. From then on he began looking for an opportunity to betray Jesus. So here in the middle of the week, as we look at the close of this particular day of Jesus setting uh with his disciples in the Mount of Olives, having the conversation, uh teaching them about his second coming and the signs of his return, and the signs uh uh to be to come, uh and then again ending the day, telling them that two days from now the Passover is coming, and I must be handed over as as as I've said before to be crucified. Um obviously, as we'll get to that, the disciples maybe still didn't completely fully understand what he was trying to tell them, and then we can look in the other um angles or the other part of of this where the the chief priests and the elders were gathered together. Obviously, Judas approaches them uh and makes the deal for his betrayal uh of Jesus that's that's going to come um on Thursday. So uh a lot of teaching that went in, and and again I know today was uh a long episode compared to what we've had thus far this week, but so many things that Jesus put in uh here at the end of his public ministry, uh before he goes to the cross for us that that we have the opportunity and and that he's blessed us with to put in his word that we can go through such a blessing for that. But as we have uh off from a a new audio drop tomorrow, um I encourage you again to go back, get into the scriptures, all four of the gospels, and and study this week uh as we can look back at what uh what our Lord went through, uh through his teaching, uh through his rebukes, uh through what we what he left for us to learn as as as he goes through the week to go to the cross for me and for you. Uh this has been another another day, and we will be back on Thursday to pick back up in the same way as we work again through Passion Week here on the One Truth. Thank you very much again for joining in with us. We love y'all, and we'll see you here in a couple of days.