April 7 - 13

Here are the scriptures for this week's podcast:

April 7 - Matthew 26: 31-35

April 8 - Mark 14: 32-42

April 9 - Matthew 26: 47-56

April 10 - Mark 14: 53-61a

April 11 - Mark 14: 61b-65

April 12 - Matthew 26: 69 -75

April 13 - Luke 23: 1-12

Transcript

Martha 0:18

Welcome to Flip Devotional the Podcast, where each week Martha Shannon, the author of Flip Devotional of the Book, and Steve Shannon discuss the readings from the week. If you haven't gotten Flip Devotional of the Book, you can get as an ebook on Barnes and Noble or as a book on Amazon and Bar or the Barnes and Noble. So welcome to this week's podcast. We are in April, doing April 7th through April 13th, and we are going through the Easter story.

Steve 0:54

We just celebrated Easter. Right?

Martha 0:57

Yes. Yes. So but we celebrate Easter. We're still going to continue the Easter story.

Steve 1:05

Correct. Because it's we haven't finished it yet.

Martha 1:07

Right. So and that's okay.

Steve 1:09

It is okay.

Martha 1:10

It's good. Um so yeah. You ready to jump in?

Steve 1:15

Ready. Let's do this.

Martha 1:17

All right. We're starting with April 7th. Uh the passage is Matthew 26, verses 31 through 35. This is when Jesus predicts Peter's denial.

Steve 1:30

Yeah.

Martha 1:32

If you don't know, I love Peter.

Steve 1:35

You do love Peter.

Speaker 1 1:36

He's he's one of my favorites, I think, because he's very relatable. Um he's he's just, you know, kind of a good old guy. He's trying to do his best and he messes up, but he's really trying.

Speaker 1:52

Keeps at it. And he's sometimes, I don't know if it's impulsive, but impulsive or bold or something.

Speaker 1 2:00

Impulsive is probably the better. Yeah. I would like to say bold because that seems more positive.

Speaker 2:06

Yeah.

Speaker 1 2:06

But yeah, you're right.

Speaker 2:07

But sometimes as you read about Peter, is especially after Jesus' resurrection, he becomes a leader. He's a leader now, but he he's different. He he sometimes I would think he's an example of someone who kind of acts without thinking.

Speaker 1 2:27

Yeah, yeah. He's the one who, when Jesus was walking on the water, said, Well, if it's you, t tell me to come walk with you. And Jesus said, Okay, come on. And he did.

Speaker 2:37

And he did.

Speaker 1 2:38

It's like, okay.

Speaker 2:40

And he did. He took two or three steps.

Speaker 1 2:41

Yeah. And you know, I'm I really think everyone else was a little jealous.

Speaker 2:46

Yes. Yes.

Speaker 1 2:48

Oh man, he got to do it.

Speaker 2:49

Yeah. I mean, there's not a record of everyone else doing it.

Speaker 1 2:52

But in this, no one is jealous of him.

Speaker 2:55

No. Um, I'm Jesus says But in some of this, he is the example of this, but not the only one. Right.

Speaker 1 3:05

Right. Yeah. As we said in the last podcast, really pretty much everyone betrayed Jesus.

Speaker 3:13

Yes. It's just the degree of betrayal, the method of betrayal, but yeah, some were more passive where they just didn't show up. Correct.

Speaker 1 3:22

But yeah. So poor, poor Peter, but um you know, Jesus saying what's gonna happen, you know, that they're gonna strike the shepherd, and meaning him.

Speaker 3:37

Meaning him. And the flock, the sheep of the flock.

Speaker 1 3:42

Yes.

Speaker 3:42

Where all everybody was, you know, at the dinner, the twelve disciples were all right.

Speaker 1 3:47

Yeah, they're all gonna be scattered. Yeah. And Peter, you know, you could just kind of see him puffing up his chest and going, aha, even if everyone falls away, I never will.

Speaker 4:01

Right. Thinking, acting, you know, boom. Yes. And not un you know.

Speaker 1 4:07

He's like, I'm here. I got your back, buddy.

Speaker 4:10

Yeah, I'm solid.

Speaker 1 4:11

I, you know, I would die for you. I would no, I am here.

Speaker 4:16

Yeah.

Speaker 1 4:16

It's like, mm, yeah. No, and and we, you know, we know the rest of the story. We know he does exactly what Jesus said.

Speaker 4:24

Jesus said, You will disown me three times, not just once, but three times before the rooster crows, meaning tonight. Before the comes, right? He will do it three times. And he says, I will never disown you. You don't have to die, I will never disown you. And all the other disciples said the same thing. Now it's interesting, if you look at this from a short-term or long-term perspective, right? In the short term, Peter did exactly what Jesus said.

Speaker 1 4:56

Right?

Speaker 4:57

Exactly. No doubt whatsoever, this is what he did. Right. But in the long term, even if I have to die, wasn't with you, even if I have to die, I will never disown you. And in the long term, that is true, right? I mean, we don't know, but but someone I read, Saul, that he was crucified upside down. Uh-huh. And and the story, no evidence of this is, you know, what this means, but but he didn't seem worthy of being crucified the same way as Jesus. So he asked to be crucified. So he was hanging upside down.

Speaker 1 5:43

Yeah, which I I can't even figure out how they did that and how you die from that.

Speaker 5:53

So in the short time, he did exactly what Jesus said. But in the long run, you know Yeah, he did what he said. Yeah.

Speaker 1 6:01

Yeah.

Speaker 6:02

But it's still, you know, you'll disown me. And he did. Obviously, he did that, right?

Speaker 1 6:09

Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 6:13

So yeah. And some of these are stories are going to be kind of quick this week because it's, you know, real specific events.

Speaker 1 6:20

Right, right. So the next one, April 8th, is Mark chapter 14, verses 32 through 42. Uh, and this is the the Garden of Gethsemane. This is when uh Jesus goes with his disciples and he says, All right, you all sit here, but then he took Peter, James, and John, which are the three he typically took.

Speaker 6:47

Yes.

Speaker 1 6:48

If if someone was gonna get to go a little closer, a little further. Yeah, it was a bigger event.

Speaker 6:54

Yeah. Transfiguration. He they they were there, right?

Speaker 1 6:57

Right. So he takes them a little bit further with them. And and he's he says, My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow.

Speaker 7:08

Yeah.

Speaker 1 7:09

To the point of death. Stay here and keep watch. So they're I mean they're getting to know the very heart of Jesus.

Speaker 7:23

And they're seeing him, right? Being overwhelmed with sorrow. I don't think we've seen that before.

Speaker 1 7:31

Right. We've seen him angry, we've seen him sad, um, or at least crying when Lazarus. Jesus died. Jesus wept.

Speaker 7:39

Yeah, yeah. Um but that was always for someone else. This was about overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow. So I think he's yeah, understands. And he also says, he prays, right? Abba, Father, very, you know, everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me, yet not what I will, but what you will, right? He's he's says, but no, let's do, and and again, this is where we get a hard time because what you will almost could be we gotta remember, it's will as like his intention, his desire. It's not what will happen. It's not like a verb, it's it's will as in so it's not what I would like, it's what you want to have happen. And again, that's the relationship. That's that's in those one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine words. That's our relationship with God, right? We need to have that same, not what I will or what I want, but what you want, what you will.

Speaker 1 8:51

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 8:53

So yeah.

Speaker 1 8:56

And they're they're at the Garden of Gethsemane, which I I looked up is part of the Mount of Olives.

Speaker 9:04

Uh-huh.

Speaker 1 9:05

So last week they were at the Mount of Olives. Um, they're they're there again. Yeah. Um so this is a familiar place for them.

Speaker 9:20

Yes. And I think they've gone there before. Yes.

Speaker 1 9:23

Yes. Um, yeah. This was uh, and it was a common place for Jesus to go to. Um so the disciples, um, he came back to them, and here it says, he says, Simon. So he's talking to Peter. Are you asleep?

Speaker 9:46

Yeah.

Speaker 1 9:48

Couldn't you keep watch for one hour?

Speaker 9:50

Yeah, and Simon's significant, right? Because it was Simon, and then Jesus said, You'll be called Peter, and you know, be the rock of my fountain, you know, and it's very interesting. Uh, if you go to French-speaking countries, they have signs on the highway, the equivalent of falling rocks, that has the word Pierre. And in French, there's many men called Pierre, right? Uh-huh. So it apparently in French is the same word as rock. You know, so it was the same thing. But I think this Simon reference, right? Because right before, uh he's Peter, right?

Speaker 1 10:41

Well, I was just looking back.

Speaker 10:44

He's not called Peter.

Speaker 1 10:45

I think other times Jesus says Peter.

Speaker 10:53

But he changed his name way back to the other. He did change it, right?

Speaker 1 10:57

But but did he use it or was it going to be his name?

Speaker 11:04

Later.

Speaker 1 11:04

Yeah. So I I hadn't thought of that, so I didn't look to see if there's a place where Jesus called Peter Peter. Yeah. But here he calls him Simon later when we have the after his resurrection and he comes and speaks to Peter. Uh you know, when they're fishing and says, you know, will you feed my sheep? Yeah, I'm glad I said that real quick. He's he calls them Simon there also. So that's kind of interesting. I don't know. He did say he would be called Peter, uh-huh. But I don't know if anyone actually called him Peter.

Speaker 11:59

Yeah.

Speaker 1 12:00

Till later. So that's kind of interesting.

Speaker 12:05

Yeah, but throughout, like when he walks on water, Lord if it's you, Peter replied.

Speaker 1 12:12

Yeah, but that's the that's the writer saying Peter.

Speaker 12:16

Yeah, but but he's always referred to as Peter.

Speaker 1 12:19

Yes.

Speaker 12:19

Not Simon. But these were also written. Yeah, afterwards. But this is an event that reported that took place, right? So it is, they all recognize him as Peter, and we don't know when, but he was, you know, you will be called Peter, so maybe it's just not.

Speaker 1 12:34

No, I think is I think it's really interesting.

Speaker 12:37

Yeah.

Speaker 1 12:38

No one else probably does.

Speaker 12:39

No, I think it doesn't.

Speaker 1 12:41

I could totally get into researching and and seeing if there's anything that that holds that up. Um, but he you know, he he goes to Peter and says, Are you asleep? And one thing I I found interesting is the very last line in this passage says, the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. In the past, I always thought that was Peter saying that. You know, Jesus comes, hey, are you why are you sleeping? And I thought Peter said the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. That's why I was sleeping. But Jesus says this.

Speaker 13:32

Yeah.

Speaker 1 13:34

So yeah, I don't I don't really know what to do with that. Um I I think it's interesting. Um, I'm not sure, yeah, where where to go with that. So maybe I can find And interesting.

Speaker 13:55

You return, are you asleep? Are you asleep? Once more he came back, prayed the same thing. You found him again sleeping, right? Returning a third time. Are you still sleeping? He's gonna deny him three times, he's sleeping three times. He asks him Peter, do you love me?

Speaker 1 14:20

Three times.

Speaker 14:20

Three times. Three times.

Speaker 1 14:23

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I sorry, I said the last line. Well, it was the last line on that page. I forgot to turn the page in my book.

Speaker 14:35

Yeah.

Speaker 1 14:36

Um yeah. And then he says, Rise, let's go. Here comes my betrayer.

Speaker 14:43

Yeah.

Speaker 1 14:44

I mean, he he knows what's gonna happen.

Speaker 14:47

He knows, yeah, yeah. He knows the dipper.

Speaker 1 14:52

So April 9th is Matthew 26, 47 through 56. And this is when Judas comes with a large crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priest and the elders. And says, now the betrayer had arranged a signal that the one I kiss is the man, arrest him. Yeah. Like they didn't know who well, I don't know. Maybe it was. Right. Right, yeah, since it's not the head people, it's right.

Speaker 15:30

And it wasn't the six o'clock news.

Speaker 1 15:32

Right. This yeah, yeah, this is true. So um, and he says, do what you came for, friend.

Speaker 15:41

Friend.

Speaker 1 15:42

Whew.

Speaker 15:43

Yeah, yeah. And it's interesting, then one of his Jesus companions takes out his sword, cuts off the servant of the high priest, cuts off his ear, right?

Speaker 1 15:53

And one of the other gospels names as Peter.

Speaker 15:57

Right.

Speaker 1 15:58

Which kind of falls in place with him being action first.

Speaker 16:04

Impulsive. Yes.

Speaker 1 16:06

And it's like soup.

Speaker 16:08

And even that other gospels, Jesus picks up the ear and read and heals them.

Speaker 1 16:16

Yes. And and no one the people who have come to take him, yes.

Speaker 16:22

And and no one says, wow, that's that's uh I hadn't seen that before.

Speaker 1 16:27

Now one thing I wondered, and I've never used a sword. Yeah, I I don't know. Do you do you have to did he do that because he was very skilled? He just pulls out a sword and it's like shoom, just cuts the ear off, or was he just kind of sloppy and that's all he got?

Speaker 16:49

Or I I have no idea. But I wonder if it's a good thing.

Speaker 1 16:54

It had to be fast for no one else to go, wait, stop, don't do it.

Speaker 16:58

Right, right, right. And and surprise, people were kind of shocked, I guess it's happening. But but it's it's I would think, you know, I don't what do I know? Um if you're using a sword that Peter had, it's probably not the same caliber of sword a Roman soldier had, right? I mean something, and I would think it he just pulled it out and and went after the guy. I would think you'd have to be a very good person with a sword to cut an ear off. Right? Right. You know, without, you know. And I don't know which gospel it is, but one of them has Jesus putting it back on.

Speaker 1 17:39

You know, and it's like Yeah, do we not have that here?

Speaker 17:45

No. But it's just kind of interesting that that it's and that didn't cause anyone to re-evaluate.

Speaker 1 18:07

All right, something else I thought was interesting because Jesus um says, I mean he's he kind of reacts like um, you know, don't don't pull a sword out. Don't don't do that. He it kind of makes it feel like you know you you shouldn't be doing that. In Luke chapter 22.

Speaker 18:41

Yeah, that's where he puts the ear back on.

Speaker 1 18:44

So yeah, so he's arrested there. Well, if you go about 10 verses before he's arrested, he is talking with his disciples. This is in Luke, it's looks like it's part of the Last Supper. They're having conversation. Oh, it's right after he says, Oh, here's the answer to our question. According to Luke, Jesus said, I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.

Speaker 19:16

Okay.

Speaker 1 19:16

So he did call him Peter somewhere, according to Luke. Yeah, but then he says, Uh, when I sent you with without purse, bag, or sandals, did you lack anything? Nothing. He said, but now, if you have a purse, take it, also a bag. If you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. And says the disciple said, See, Lord, here are two swords. Said, that's enough. I I'm I'm thinking the sword that was cut the ear off is one of those two swords.

Speaker 19:56

Yeah. Sure. So And Peter would have one.

Speaker 1 20:00

He's kind of sounding like you shouldn't have a sword, but he he just said, You're gonna need a sword.

Speaker 20:07

Yeah, and and Luke, that same one, he puts put the sword back in place and he healed the servant's ear in his final miracle. Wow, final miracle.

unknown 20:19

Okay.

Speaker 20:20

Except the resurrection, I guess.

Speaker 1 20:21

Yeah.

unknown 20:22

I don't know.

Speaker 1 20:23

Maybe that was God's miracle. Yeah. Um another thing that I thought was interesting in this passage, um, he you know, he says, put the sword back. Do you think I cannot call on my father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels? Where else is that?

Speaker 20:46

Um he's being tempted? Yes. Bing bing bing force. Yes.

Speaker 1 20:51

So when he's being tempted, Satan says, you know, jump off. He'll send his angels to save you.

Speaker 20:59

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 21:02

I don't know. I just kind of like that.

Speaker 21:04

Yeah. But he didn't. Right.

Speaker 1 21:07

In the temptations, no.

Speaker 21:08

No, we didn't do it here either.

Speaker 1 21:10

No, no.

Speaker 21:11

Right?

Speaker 1 21:12

No, no, you're right. Yeah.

Speaker 21:14

Yeah. No. Right?

Speaker 1 21:19

Yeah.

Speaker 21:20

But this has all taken place that the writings of the prophets might be fulfilled.

Speaker 1 21:26

Right. I mean, this is why Jesus came.

Speaker 21:31

Yeah. Yeah. And the writing of the prophets, right?

Speaker 1 21:36

Yeah.

Speaker 21:37

Might be fulfilled. And then all the disciples deserted him and fled. So all the disciples deserted him and fled. But who's the one who always gets sighted?

Speaker 1 21:50

Peter.

Speaker 21:51

Peter.

Speaker 1 21:52

Peter, yeah. April tenth is Mark fourteenth. Verses 53 through 61A. And April 11th is Mark 14, 61B.

Speaker 22:09

And the A and B is 65. That verse is split. Yes. And that's that's just the correct protocol.

unknown 22:16

Yes.

Speaker 1 22:17

Right.

Speaker 22:17

First half of the verse is A, and I don't know if there's ever a C. I guess there could be, but.

Speaker 1 22:23

I don't think so. Yeah. No. So this is when Jesus has been arrested. This is when he's taken before the Sanhedrin, the high priest, the chief priest, the elders, the teachers, all the important people are there. And this first part, and it says Peter followed him at a distance.

Speaker 22:49

But he followed.

Speaker 1 22:50

He followed him. Where's all the others?

Speaker 22:52

Yeah, I don't see Luke, right? I don't see the other Judas, right? John.

Speaker 1 22:59

Well, there's somewhere.

Speaker 23:01

Um have a young man.

Speaker 1 23:04

Well, one of them says that John knew people so like he could get in so far, and he got Peter in.

Speaker 23:13

And one was a young man followed, and they grabbed his cloak and he ran down naked.

Speaker 1 23:20

I think that was back when he was arrested. Yeah.

Speaker 23:23

Yeah.

Speaker 1 23:23

Yeah.

Speaker 23:25

He was the first streaker.

Speaker 1 23:26

The first streaker, yes. Well, as far as we know.

Speaker 23:29

Well, I guess Add. I'm sorry, people. You have to hear that conversation.

Speaker 1 23:38

Um so this first part is where uh um sorry, glancing at real quick. So Peter is there, they have Jesus in front in front of all the important people. Um they have gotten testimonies from people. They're trying really, really hard to make a case.

Speaker 24:07

They're looking for evidence. And none.

Speaker 1 24:09

And they said some of the testimonies, you know, were like, oh, that would be good, but then they didn't agree. So like they couldn't use them. So they're they're really struggling to get a case against Jesus to merit uh getting rid of him. Um and and then they ask him, you know, are are you not gonna answer? And Jesus doesn't say anything. You know, I figure he can't because, well, uh later he says something and they're like, aha.

Speaker 24:45

Uh-huh. Right.

Speaker 1 24:46

That's what we'll use against him.

Speaker 24:48

Yes.

Speaker 1 24:49

Um, yeah.

Speaker 24:51

It's always been interesting to me that he doesn't answer here. He he doesn't answer, I guess, he says some things to Pilate, not a lot. He doesn't answer to whoever else, Herod, right? He's just, you know. But then as as I was thinking about this, he did pray, not my will, but your will. And maybe what you said about him answering, right? He would have been able to answer questions that may have not resulted in God's will.

Speaker 1 25:24

Right, right.

Speaker 25:26

You know, I don't know if that's true or not, but it's right.

Speaker 1 25:29

No, I thought the same thing. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 25:33

Because that was his prayer, right?

Speaker 1 25:37

So And then, you know, they don't really have a case against um, but he is is treated so badly. They it says the high priest tore. Oh, no, the high priest tore his own clothes. Yeah. Okay, never mind, sorry. Um because of what Jesus said, yes.

Speaker 26:02

Yeah. And that's getting on to April 11th. That's on to April 11th.

Speaker 1 26:06

Yes, yeah. I skipped on.

Speaker 26:08

Yeah, but April 10th, it's just really, you know, he doesn't answer, right?

Speaker 1 26:11

Right.

Speaker 26:11

And they tried false testimony and they couldn't get enough, right? So they had nothing, right?

Speaker 1 26:18

And so when he did answer, um, says, Are you the Messiah? He says, I am. And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the mighty one and coming on the clouds of heaven. And then the high priest tore his clothes, was like, Aha, we don't need any more witnesses, we've got it. And then they spit on him, they blindfolded him, they hit him, they beat him.

Speaker 26:46

Yeah, then the guards beat him. Right? Yeah, and they kind of mocked him. Prophecy, prophecy, prophecy, right? Prophesy, yeah, prophesy, prophesy, prophesy. Right? So they did that.

Speaker 1 26:58

Yeah, they're I mean, they're just mocking him. Yeah.

Speaker 27:00

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And they asked, Are you the Messiah, the son of the Blessed One? I am. Right. You know, and he says, I am. Then he says a whole sentence, and you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the mighty one coming on the clouds of heaven. That's when the high priest tours close. He didn't say when he said, I am. Right. Right. Right. I mean, it doesn't read that way.

Speaker 1 27:27

Yeah.

Speaker 27:28

And you've heard the blasphemy.

Speaker 1 27:30

Yep.

Speaker 27:31

Then they mocked him, spit on him, blindfolded.

Speaker 1 27:35

Right. April the April 12th is when Peter disowns Jesus.

Speaker 27:44

Three times. Just like he said.

Speaker 1 27:46

Yep. Yep. And one of the, I I think one of them, I I thought I looked back, but I couldn't find it. Uh, I think has where Peter uh after the third one, he and Jesus make eye contact.

Speaker 28:11

Correct. There is one of the gospels where they say that. That that ends up being that. That's the you know, Jesus kind of turns and looks. So Peter was very close.

Speaker 1 28:21

Yeah.

Speaker 28:21

And looks. And then he hears the rooster.

unknown 28:25

Yeah.

Speaker 28:25

You know. And his denial was when people said, Well, you were with him. No, no, no, I don't know what you're talking about. You know, then another one. That fell with Jesus, right? No, no, no, no. I don't know what they're talking about. No, it's not that. Sure, you were your accent gives you away. You sound like someone. No, no, no, no. And he throw down curses and he swore to them. I don't know what you mean. Then the rooster crowed. And he went outside and wept bitterly.

Speaker 1 28:48

Yeah, he remembered what Jesus said. He goes in and cries. And again, this is one of those times where we give Peter a hard time. We think, how could you? How could you do that?

Speaker 29:04

Oh, I would never do that.

Speaker 1 29:05

Right, right. But um, first of all, in in Peter's shoes, I I get it.

Speaker 29:14

Yeah.

Speaker 1 29:15

He was scared. They were all scared. Their their leader was taken and arrested, and they all know what's gonna happen. Right. And and they very well could come after them. Yes. And they're scared. I mean, yeah, who wouldn't be?

Speaker 29:32

Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 29:33

So it's probably why I like Peter so much. I just feel like he needs someone to he's also in some ways very human. Oh, yes.

Speaker 29:45

I mean, he he he he knows he wants to do the right thing, right? But even here he realizes this is what Jesus said I would do, right? And again, he he didn't stop after the first one, right? Think, oh, every time. You know, he heard that earlier. He just denied and denied and denied again because of the fear of what was going to happen. You know, it's it's in some ways, it's a very human moment, right?

Speaker 1 30:14

Oh, yes.

Speaker 30:15

Even all that time with Jesus, it's still a very human moment. When when Jesus said, your will, not mine, a very human moment, right? I think that's part of what we see is the people who became the foundation of Christianity, right? Who were there, right? Were human.

Speaker 1 30:33

Yes.

Speaker 30:34

They were just, you know, people. And and they, you know, and and and we hear about it, we think about that, but we need to remind ourselves, you know, we're all human. We're we're all gonna do things we regret. Uh and I'm sure Peter spent his life regretting this.

Speaker 1 30:53

Yeah. And and I'm sure while he was doing it, while he was denying, he he never thought, oh, this is what Jesus said.

unknown 31:04

Right.

Speaker 1 31:05

It didn't click till the end. Yeah. When the rooster crowed, that's like, yeah. Oh my gosh. That's yeah. He yeah, it was just it was nowhere.

Speaker 31:17

So and it's here, it says, You will disown me three times. Disown is worse than deny. Right? You know, I think.

Speaker 1 31:30

Yes, yeah.

Speaker 31:31

You know, so it's just and he realized, right? He realized.

Speaker 1 31:36

Yeah. All right, so the last day for this week is April 13th. Um it's Luke 23. And you know, I'm kind of kind of sorry about this because the next day, which we'll do on the next podcast, is the rest of the story. So they're both Luke chapter 23, starting at verse 1. Um, the 14th goes through the 25th. So we get the beginning of Jesus being before Pilate and Herod. And next week we will uh get the end of it.

Speaker 32:14

Yeah, and maybe we'll just give a brief recap of this one next week.

Speaker 1 32:17

Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 32:20

So um the whole assembly took him to Pilate. The whole crowd. Come on, we're going, right? And here he answers questions. Are you the king of the Jews? You have said so, right? Don't ask me. You've already said it, right?

Speaker 1 32:39

Yeah, and Pilate quickly says, I don't see anything.

Speaker 32:43

That's nothing. That was anything. He opposes payment of taxes to Caesar, right? But there's another story where they ask him about taxes to Caesar, and he says, Show me a coin. Whose pictures on the coin? Caesar, give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's, right? So that he didn't oppose that, but that would clearly be, and claiming to be the Messiah, which is a king, but not a king, you know. So they're they're they're kind of playing with the words, right? So, but Pilate.

Speaker 1 33:20

Yeah. And I almost wonder if these leaders are um passing the butt. You know, Pilate's like, oh, he's a Galilean. Oh, he should go to Herod.

Speaker 33:32

Right.

Speaker 1 33:33

It's like, okay, I'm done.

Speaker 33:35

Yeah.

Speaker 1 33:36

You take him to Herod.

Speaker 33:38

Yeah. Because, you know, from Pilate's perspective, he's he's the ruler. And his job is, I guess, is to keep the peace in that part of the Roman Empire as much as anything else. So he says that, right? Uh, and then they say he's from Galilee. Oh, that's not my deal. I don't do Galilee, right? Right, right. And fortunately, Herod's right here in town. Send him to Herod, right?

Speaker 1 34:01

Yeah. And it says Herod was he was pleased. He was like excited because he'd heard about Jesus and he was hoping to see him perform some side.

Speaker 34:14

Water the wine, or you know, help Herod walk on water.

Speaker 1 34:17

He should have come out when they arrested him. He could have seen them back. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 34:23

Um, no answer, no answer, no answer.

Speaker 1 34:25

They've no answers. Yeah.

Speaker 34:27

Then Herod again. Then Herod and soldiers ridiculed and mocked him.

Speaker 1 34:32

Dressed him in an elegant robe and sent him back to Pilate.

Speaker 34:36

Yeah. They were enemies, now they're friends.

Speaker 1 34:39

Yep.

Speaker 34:40

Little footnote there. But again, uh throughout what we read the last two weeks, he was mocked, he was ridiculed, he was beaten, right? All this stuff. We have spit on, right? We haven't even gotten to the worst part. Right. It gets worse, right? Right, right.

Speaker 1 35:01

He was betrayed and disowned by his friends.

Speaker 35:05

Betrayed by his closest friends, right?

Speaker 1 35:09

So yeah.

Speaker 35:12

It's it's a tough road.

Speaker 1 35:15

Yeah, yeah. So all right. We will continue with the Easter next week.

Speaker 35:24

Next week. Come back.

Speaker 1 35:27

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