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So we're continuing our study through the book of Matthew, and we're getting into the most important, well I don't want to say most important, the whole Bible is important, but this is really the central vocal point of the whole Bible is coming down to these three chapters here, we're dealing with the betrayal, the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and so a lot of the stuff when we were going through Matthew we were dealing with the fact of just some hard sayings and different types of things to kind of figure out, but really this is just the story of what happened to Jesus and what he did to pay for our sins, and so it's a beautiful story, and this is a very long chapter so I'm just going to try to hit on each topic that's being said here, because you're dealing with like 76 verses I believe, or it's in the 70s anyway, 75 verses, so it's a lot to try to pack into one sermon here, but starting there in verse 1, the one thing that I want you to see is that they took Jesus by subtlety, by subtlety, so in verse 1 there it says, and it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples, ye know that after two days is the feast of the Passover, and the Son of Man is betrayed to be crucified, then assembled together the chief priests and the scribes and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest who was called Caiaphas, and consulted that they might take Jesus by subtlety and kill him, but they said, not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people, so what we see first of all is how did they take Jesus, they take him with subtlety, okay, and that's how these people work, that's how these children of the devil and these people that hate God, they do it subtly, and they do it behind the scenes, they're cowards most of the time, but they do it because they feared the people, and that's a lot of cases why they didn't take Jesus, because they feared the people, even with Paul, you know, they didn't take Paul, or with John the Baptist, you know, they feared the people, and even Herod the King feared the people because of, they called John as a prophet, and so, go to Acts chapter 13, Acts chapter 13, now subtlety is not always wrong, meaning that it's good to be subtle about things sometimes, right, you know, when it comes to, you know, how you deal with certain situations sometimes, you don't want to be harsh, you want to be a little subtle on how you bring across something, but what we're dealing with here is subtlety to deceive, and subtlety to basically take, you know, to kill, and that's what they're doing with Jesus, but in Acts chapter 13 verse 8, we see this a lioness, the sorcerer, it says, but a lioness, the sorcerer, for so is, so is his name by interpretation, withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith. Then Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him, and said, O full of all subtlety and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord. So what is this guy trying to do? He's trying to cause, he's trying to withstand the deputy from believing, from getting saved, and this guy, Paul's calling him out as a child of the devil, but notice how he says he's full of all subtlety, okay, so Romans 1, you know, obviously dealing with that, with that progression, and they're filled with all unrighteousness, all fornication, all that stuff, well here you see full of all subtlety and all mischief, so add those to the list, okay, but who is more subtle than anything? The devil, so Genesis chapter 3, you don't have to turn there, but in Genesis chapter 3, the first verse about the devil, it says, Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made, and he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden. So notice how he's subtle, you know, he's basically saying, he's questioning, did he say that, did he say that you couldn't eat of every tree, and, you know, just questioning God's Word, putting that question mark where it was, you know, a very well-known statement, and so I see that, first of all, with these people that are trying to take out Jesus, they are not gonna do it openly, they said not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar, so what they do, they did it by night, you know, they did it by night because they're a bunch of cockroaches that love the darkness rather than light, and they need to do their evil deeds at night because it's not gonna be seen of men, you know, so, but going on with verse 6 there of chapter 26, we see Mary, and it doesn't say in this passage, but I'm gonna show you that, this woman, who I believe is Mary, the sister of Martha and, you know, her brother Lazarus and all that, so, but in verse 6 there it says, Now when Jesus was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, there came unto him a woman having alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, and as he sat at meat, but when his disciples saw it, they had indignation saying, to what purpose is this waste, for this ointment might have been sold for much and given to the poor, when Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman, for she hath wrought a good work upon me, for ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always, for in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial, verily I say unto you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this that this woman had done be told for a memorial of me. Well that's true because it's in here, we're reading it right now, so even thousands of years later we're reading the story about her anointing the head of Jesus with this ointment. Now if you go to John chapter 12 we see the same story, but it actually tells us who it is, okay, as far as who the woman is. It also tells us, you know, one of the disciples that was leading this dispute, I believe, and basically that was that was mad about the fact that she was using this ointment on Jesus. So in verse 3 of John chapter 12 it says, Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his his feet with her hair, and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment. Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him. Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence and given to the poor? So obviously other disciples said something about it, but we see that Judas right here is really the one, you know, basically saying, you know, it could have been given to the poor. Well we know that Judas had the bag, and Judas was a thief, and Judas is a devil, right, so he didn't care for the poor, you know, and it's interesting too that Mary, it calls out who she is, it does this, it talks about her wiping his feet with her hair. Well that sounds like a, you know, a similar story. There's actually another story where Mary does this to Jesus, okay, go to John 11, and this isn't the story, this is calling back to it, but John 11, just a chapter before that, is talking about Lazarus, Mary, and Martha, and then basically saying this is the Mary that did this, okay, where she came in and wiped his feet with her, you know, tears, and wiped it with her hair and stuff. So in verse one there it says, Now a certain man was sick named Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with an ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. So if you remember the story, that was where, you know, the Pharisee or Simon, you know, was saying, you know, if he were a prophet he would know what man or woman this is, and Jesus rebukes him and says, I have something to say unto thee, Simon, and basically talking about how she anointed his head and anointed his feet, and, you know, wiped, you know, that she kissed his feet, she was weeping and wiped his feet with her hair. Well, she does the same thing again for his burial, but remember that her sins are many, they're forgiven, you know, because she loved much, and it goes into that, and so, but it's just interesting to see that who this woman is, okay, so Mary, the sister of Martha, that's who's taking this costly ointment and using it on Jesus, and the thing that's interesting here is that Jesus says, For ye have the poor always with you. Okay, that's a very important phrase, you know, and it even talks about how the poor shall never cease out of the land, because there's this whole war on poverty, you ever hear that, it's kind of the war on terror, the war on, you know, blue skies, I don't know, you know, like it's basically things that can't, that aren't gonna stop, right, and so this whole war on poverty, you know, I'm obviously for people not living in poverty, but you know what, a lot of people that are in poverty is because they don't work, okay, and, you know, if you don't work, neither should you eat, the Bible says, but Jesus saying, Hey, listen, the poor is gonna always be with you, so there's not gonna be a time where there's not gonna be any poor people, obviously we should help the poor, help the fatherless, help the widows, and all that, but to think that we're gonna get rid of it completely would go against what Jesus said, they're always gonna be with you until, until the new heaven, new earth, right, so going on from that passage, again, I'm trying to just go through the stories and just hit on some of the stuff as far as different things that are going on, Judas, you know, is rebuked there, so it's interesting, right, and Mark, it talks about how it was Judas Iscariot that was rebuked by Jesus, and saying, leave her alone, this story or what she's doing right now is gonna be preached, you know, it's gonna be, it's gonna be known wherever this gospel is preached, right, and isn't that the truth, it's in the Bible, but notice what happens right after this, in verse 14 of Matthew 26, it says, then one of the 12 called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests and said unto them, what will you give me, and I will deliver him unto you, and they covenanted with him for 30 pieces of silver, and from that time he sought opportunity to betray him, so notice that the Bible is saying here that it's only until this point that he sought to betray him, okay, and notice what just happened before that, he got rebuked, okay, so he stomped off, and was going out to betray Jesus, now, this is something that the Bible teaches a lot as far as rebuking a scorn or rebuking a fool, and talking about the fact that, you know, basically, they're not gonna receive instruction, so Judas didn't take that and be like, oh yeah, right, you're right, you know, we have the poor, and this is for a purpose, and you know, just took construction, took rebuke, no, he didn't take it, you know, he went out and actually went to go betray Jesus because of that, right, and I've seen people take Judas and try to like, make, be sympathetic to Judas, okay, Judas is a devil, he's a wicked person, and he got upset because he got rebuked by Jesus for this, and then he goes out and covenants for 30 pieces of silver, okay, I don't, I don't mourn for Judas, I don't, I'm not feeling sorry for him in here, listen, he should know better, and you know, obviously, he's a devil, and he never did believe, but I don't feel sorry for him, and people that are constantly like, well, Judas, he just, you know, he just thought it was supposed to be this way, and then he got caught up in something, you know, and people are always trying to downplay the fact that he's a devil, okay, now in Proverbs nine and verse seven, it says, he that reproveth a scorn, or giveth himself shame, he that rebuketh a wicked man, getteth himself a blot, reprove not a scorn, or lest he hate thee, reprove a wise man, and he will love thee, give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser, teach a just man, and he will increase in learning, and so, you know, this is true in day and day out, it says, but a scorn, it says, a wise son heareth his father's instruction, but a scorn hereth not rebuked, and that's what it comes down to, and this goes into the, you know, he that hath shall be given, and he that hath not shall be taken away, even which he hath, and you kind of think about, it doesn't seem right, you think, well, you know, someone that doesn't have wisdom, you know, they're gonna take it in, right, and someone that has wisdom is gonna be like, I already have enough wisdom, right, you kind of have that mentality, like, I already have wisdom, you know, but someone that's really wise is saying, I want more, I want more, I want more, you know, give me instruction, rebuke, you know, exhortation, reprove, I need it, because I want to learn more, I want to be wiser, right, but the fool that doesn't have wisdom is saying, I don't want to hear it, and just shuns that person, hates that person for rebuking them, you know, open rebuke is better than secret love, the Bible says, so, you know, for Jesus rebuking them, he loves them to rebuke them, to rebuke his disciples, and guess what, the rest of the disciples took it on the chin, you know, and took instruction, why, because they're wise, Judas, on the other hand, who is a scorner, and obviously a devil, didn't take it on the chin, he actually went out to go betray Jesus, right, now going on here, we see the Lord's Supper, so in verse 17, and remember at the beginning of the chapter here, we saw that it was two days before the Passover, so we're getting right down to the line, as far as when he's going to be betrayed, so you see that Judas went out and covenant, so there's obviously some time, like a day or so in between that and the Lord's Supper, and what's going on, right, so in verse 17, it says, Now the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, his disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the Passover? Now, some people, this is where they get confused with timeline, because they say, well, it's the first day of Unleavened Bread, you know, that's the 15th day of the week, well, what you have to understand is that, well, in Luke, for example, Luke 22, it defines the Feast of Unleavened Bread as the Passover, so it basically takes that whole thing and says, this is the Passover, this is the Feast of Unleavened Bread, whereas when you look at it in Exodus, it's basically you think of, like, the Passover as the 14th day, and then from the 15th day on, you know, for those seven days, that's the Feast of Unleavened Bread, but New Testament basically just links it all together, okay, so it's basically all one thing, and so in Luke 22, in verse 1, it says, Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover, okay, so, you know, when it says this, basically what you're dealing with is you're dealing with the 14th day is starting there, okay, and I've done the timeline as far as, I'm not going to go into that in depth, I've already done that, as far as at even, when the sun is basically, you know, even with the earth, right, that would be the beginning of the 14th day, okay, and they would kill the Passover at even on the 14th day, which would be that next even, right, so basically they're eating the Lord's Supper on the 14th day, but it's the other even, right, it's the even that's beginning the 14th day, and then he's going to be betrayed, scourged, and crucified at the eve of the 14th day, going into the 15th day of the month, okay, so, but this will kind of throw you off, because you're like the first day of Unleavened Bread, that sounds like it's the 15th, you know, not the 14th, and I thought he died on the Passover and stuff like that, so that's why, because they basically meld those two together as far as the 14th and the 15th day, and that whole week, and basically just call it all the Passover. So that's why when you look in Acts chapter 12, where it talks about how it was in the days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and then they'll wait until after Easter, well, that's talking about the Passover, okay, so Easter was used in a lot of places, you know, talk about Jesus being our Easter Lamb, you know, instead of Christ our Passover, so it just kind of links those together in the New Testament, so don't let that confuse you when you see that. Verse 18, it says, and he said, go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, the master saith, my time is at hand, I will keep the Passover at thy house with my disciples, and the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them, and they made ready the Passover. Now when the even was come, he sat down with the 12, and as they did eat, he said, verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me, and they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I? And he answered and said, he that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me. The son of man goeth as it is written of him, but woe unto that man by whom the son of man is betrayed. It had been good for that man if he had not been born. Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, master, is it I? He said unto him, thou hast said. And as they were eating, Jesus took bread and blessed it, and break it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, take ye, this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, drink ye all of it, for this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine until that day, when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom. So we see this, what's interesting here, is one thing that I was seeing when I was reading through this is, later on, they're going to say, tell us plainly, art thou the Christ, the son of God? And what does Jesus say? Thou hast said. Now, in Mark, it's very clear he says, I am. So there's no doubt that he told them, I am. But in this, it says, thou hast said. So basically, what he said is, thou hast said, I am. Basically, if you want to link it all together, he said both those things. But it's interesting, because Judas is saying, is it I? And he says, thou hast said. So what's he doing? He's confirming it by saying that. Because it's kind of a different phrase. It'd be kind of like, if you asked me something, I said, you said it. It's like, OK, are you agreeing with me? And you kind of wonder what that means. But I'll say this, if it confirmed Judas, then it obviously confirmed that he is the Christ, the son of God. And so it's just interesting that it's in the same passage with that and just the terminology that he uses there. But we also see that Christ is our Passover. When it comes to this, he's going to eat the Passover. But in this, you see them eating bread and drinking juice, the fruit of the vine, exactly what the Bible says. And so you can see how the Lord's Supper is replacing the Passover feast, because Christ is our Passover. Go to 1 Corinthians chapter 5. 1 Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 7. And verse 7, it says, purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. Therefore, let us keep the feast, not with the old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. So notice how it's coupling leaven and unleavened. They were eating unleavened bread with keeping the Passover. But here it's kind of using that as an illustration of unleavened bread, meaning sincerity and truth, and leaven, meaning wickedness and malice, and kind of showing how we're supposed to keep the Passover. But it's really what did Jesus, what was the Passover that Jesus was keeping here? It was his supper, right? And so we see that transition. Obviously, he's about to die. And what was the whole Lord's Supper about? Him dying. And so that's when the New Testament is taking force, OK? So if you want some kind of transition, that's it. You have from one night to the next of keeping the Passover. And he was actually the lamb that was killed. So there was a lamb that was killed, and that's the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, also, it talks about this is my blood, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. And we see many places in the Bible that it talks about this. And even in the Old Testament, the famous one is in Isaiah 53. But go to Leviticus chapter 17. I know I've showed you this before, but it's very, obviously, a good verse for the subject. But in Isaiah 53 and verse 5, it says, but he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed. So think about that. With his stripes, what is a stripe? How do you get a stripe? It's when, obviously, you're getting beat, but blood is coming out. That's the stripe it's talking about. And so it's alluding to the blood of Christ with his stripes. And people are always attacking him for not saying every little thing that's involved in what he did for us, right? He didn't mention the blood. It's like, yeah, it's a part of it. Notice with his stripes, it wasn't just the blood. It wasn't just the death. It wasn't just the resurrection. It wasn't just all. It's all of it, right? But with his stripes, we are healed. So it's not just the blood. It's all of it. It's everything that he did. But if he didn't shed his blood, obviously, we wouldn't have got saved, right? Now, I know that we sing the song Nothing But The Blood, right? But that's in tune with the fact that we're saying it has nothing to do with our works and anything like that, right? We're not saying it's nothing but the blood, not the death and burial and resurrection, okay? No one is saying that, right? So, but anyway, in Leviticus chapter 17 in verse 11, it says, for the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls. For it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. So it is very important, right? The blood. And I preached a whole sermon on the blood of sprinkling and how he sprinkled his own blood on the mercy seat in heaven. And how he, it says, I have given it. It just as much as in Genesis chapter 22, where it says the Lord will provide himself a lamb. And that terminology that's used is saying I'm going to be the lamb, right? And if you think about it, you say, well, he provided, on the hill there, he provided a ram. It's a little different than a lamb, right? A lamb is obviously a young, obviously a male, obviously Jesus was a male, but it does show you a little bit of a difference there as far as that goes. But anyway, obviously the importance of the blood and why we keep the Lord's supper because he says to do this until I come, remember his death. Now we don't have a crucifix. We're not Catholic. We don't have some fake Jesus hanging on a cross, but we do remember his death, okay? I don't need a picture of that. I can read the Bible. This is my picture right here to remember what he did for me. And so we're getting into that. We haven't got to the crucifixion, which is in chapter 27, but we're going to get into some of the stuff that he went through. But going on there, talking about foretelling of Peter's denial in verse 30. So chapter 26, verse 30 says, and when they had sung in him, they went out into the Mount of Olives. So this is why, you know, like you say, why did we sing him after the Lord's supper? Well, that's what they did. So we didn't go into a garden afterwards, but you know, there's not much about the Lord's supper, but I'm going to try to pick whatever I can out of there as far as what they did, right? But in verse 31, there says, then said Jesus unto them, all ye shall be offended because of me this night, for it is written, I will smite the shepherd and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad. And so he's just making, he's just foretelling saying, you're all going to offend me, or you're all going to be offended. Meaning that you're all going to flee, okay? And this is from Zechariah. Go to Zechariah chapter 13. I just want you to see where this is quoted from. Zechariah chapter 13, verse seven. There's a lot of prophecies in Zechariah dealing with Jesus. That's where you get that he's coming meek and lowly upon an ass, the foal, the cold of an ass. And then this one right here, smite the shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered. It says in verse seven, so Zechariah chapter three and verse seven, it says, awake, O sword against my shepherd and against the man that is my fellow, set the Lord of hosts, smite the shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered. And I will turn my hand upon the little ones. And so he's quoting Zechariah and saying, smite the shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered. And that's what happens here. And we know that's true, right? That's what happens at the end of the story where he's taken, but all his disciples fled, right? And as we go on here, you can see Peter's zeal, okay? Peter's like, no, I'm not gonna be offended. And his heart's in the right place. And you think of John 16. John 16 starts off saying, I've written these things that you should not be offended. What ends John 16? You know, I am coming to give you peace in the world, but I'm gonna give you peace, but in the world, you shall have tribulation, but be a good cheer, I have overcome the world. So in that chapter, he's basically saying, don't be offended when tribulation comes, okay? And you need to be ready for that. And what it comes down to is that Peter, he's ready spiritually, he's ready mentally, you know, as far as like he was willing to, but he just wasn't there in the state that he needed to be. He was, his spirit was willing, but his flesh was weak. And that's what we see that's said later on in the Garden of Gethsemane. But first it says in verse 32, it says, but after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee. Peter answered and said unto him, though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended. Jesus said unto him, verily I say unto thee that this night before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. Peter said unto him, though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples. So notice all the disciples are saying that, we're not gonna deny thee, but he's saying you're gonna deny me three times, okay? So you can see the mindset of like, I'm not gonna do that, I'm not gonna do that, I'm gonna stay true to you, but then when the time comes, you drop the ball. And it comes down to this, you know, not being rooted enough, right? And Peter's very zealous and he's, you know, his heart's in the right place, but obviously there's a lot of things that he said that were out of place, right? Where it's like, he knew not what he said when he said it. And so he's got a lot of zeal, but he doesn't have a lot of roots that go with that. And that's what it's talking about. Those that are in stony ground, you know, when trial and tribulation come, by and by they are what? Offended. Why? Because they don't have a deep root, okay? So that's why it's good to be rooted and grounded. When trials and tribulations come, and people are questioning you on what you believe, you know, if you're rooted and grounded, then, yeah, I mean, it doesn't feel good, you know, to get persecution and for people to, like, attack you and all that stuff. But at the same time, you're like, yeah, but they're wrong, right? Because you just know that that's true. You know from experience. You know from all that you've read. You know that what they're saying is a bunch of garbage and all this other stuff. And so you're rooted, you're grounded, you have the doctrines. And I liken this onto somebody that knows doctrine, but doesn't know where it's at. Does that make sense? Like, they know good doctrine. They're saved. They know good doctrine. But they couldn't prove it. They need, like, their pastor to prove it, right? And so you think of, like, you know, the thing that people always hate us for, right? The Rubber Bay Doctrine, or our stance on capital punishment, right? And, you know, but let me ask you a question. Do you know where those verses are at? Now, I just preached a sermon on that, so you should probably know. Like, it should be pretty fresh. But, you know, that's the question, because when they come after you and say, you know, you're full of hate. You should never, you know, God's not for that. You'd be like, I read two chapters full of that. So what are you talking about, right? And you just kind of like, you look at them like dumbfounded, like, what are you talking about? You know, when people say, you know, that's not what God teaches. And then you're just like, I'm constantly, have you never read? Have you not read Jeremiah? Have you not read Isaiah? Have you not read Revelation? And you're just constantly thinking to yourself, it's like, that is the Bible. These people are believing in some other God. And so that's the difference though. And I see that with Peter and the disciples, where they're, they're zealous, you know, and they're wanting to do right. And they're wanting to follow God, but they're not rooted and grounded yet. Okay, so obviously they're going to be. But he goes into the garden of Gethsemane. And notice in verse 36, it says, then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane. And saith unto the disciples, sit ye here while I go and pray yonder. And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. So notice how he takes those three with them. So he's got that inner circle. So, you know, that's, you know, you want to strive to be, you want to strive to be that inner circle with Jesus. You know, if we talk about pressing toward the mark for the prize, the high calling of God in Christ Jesus, you know, what's your goal? Are you, are your goal just to be a, you know, just a everyday Christian, you know, just a typical Christian? Or do you want to be the Peter, James, and John, you know, as far as if God, just think of God in heaven saying, you know, I need a work done. He was going to do it. Who do we want to send, right? Who do we know is going to do it? Don't you want to be like, well, I know brother Dave's going to do it. I know brother Charles is going to do it. I know brother Anthony's going to do it. And, you know, you just think of like these men that you would be ready to call on, right? Don't you want to be those guys? Don't you want to be those guys where if God's going through something, you know, or like Jesus is going through a hard time, he's saying I need you three to come with me. You know, that's the inner circle. And we know that Peter, James, and John all had flaws, right? They're not perfect. Obviously, Peter's not perfect. But Peter's kind of like the number one guy if you think about it. It's always Peter, James, and John. And, you know, John was the disciple whom Jesus loved, you know, and it talks about him and that light. And he kind of talked to him, you know, about himself that way. But Jesus obviously loved all his disciples minus Judas. So, but just something I see with that constantly throughout the Gospels is Peter, James, and John. And how they're close to him. They're on the Mount of Transfiguration with him. When he's talking about the end times of Matthew 24, who was there? Peter, James, and John and Andrew. Andrew is Peter's brother, by the way. And so obviously he tagged along in there a little bit. But anyway, going on from there, it says in verse 38, it says, then saith he unto them, my soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. Tear ye here and watch with me. And so just think about what Jesus is going through here when it comes to, you know, thinking about the cross, what he's about to do, and how he was exceeding sorrowful, right? It says in verse 39, it says, and he went a little further and fell on his face and prayed, saying, oh my father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me, nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt. And he cometh unto the disciples and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, what can ye not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray that ye enter not in temptation. Notice this, the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. And then it says in verse 42, and he went away unto the second, again, the second time and prayed, saying, oh my father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done. And he came and found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy, and he left them and went away again and prayed the third time, saying the same words. Then cometh he to his disciples and saith unto them, sleep on now, and take your rest. Behold, the hour is at hand, and the son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise, let us be going. Behold, he is at hand that doth betray me. And so notice that three times he's going and just, you know, talk to the father and weeping, and it talks about how his soul was sorrowful even unto death, and just the agony that it was in. Go to Luke chapter 22. Luke chapter 22 really kind of put some gravity on how, you know, sorrowful Jesus was here. Luke chapter 22 in verse 44. Luke 22 in verse 44, it says, and being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly and his sweat, whereas it were great drops of blood, falling down to the ground. Now, this could be that it's just talking about, like, the viscosity of the sweat, okay? And you're like, what does that mean? Basically, it's just kind of like the texture. You know, you think of something like water has not that much of viscosity, whereas oil has more viscosity. It's thicker, right? So maybe just talking about that, it's just like, it's just so, he's so stressed out that his sweat is just really, you know, kind of like blood, right? But, you know, I was actually looking at this. I said, is that a thing? Do people actually, you know, could they actually sweat blood? And there was this medical article, and listen, this medical article is not a Baptist site, by the way. It talks about the mythology of the Bible, okay? So we're not talking fundamental Baptist, like, making this stuff up, okay? But there's this condition, and I should have asked Holly to pronounce it before I came up here, but it's called hematidrosis, hematidrosis, or something like that. And basically, it's when, like, blood vessels, let's say, in your face, would burst, but they're, like, connected to your sweat glands. Like, they're really close to your sweat glands. And so basically, the blood vessels burst, and then when you're sweating, the blood, it's kind of like sweaty blood, okay? And basically, they don't really know, it's so rare that they don't really know what causes it, but they basically say it's due to a lot of stress, or like some kind of like high intense kind of psychology of something that would be just, you know, obviously mentally hard on you, right? And so you can think about, well, obviously, that's what's going through Jesus here. So is it that he actually, you know, had blood dripping from his face? I believe it's possible there's actually people that are on record that have done that, that that's happened to, okay? And so you can definitely see, you know, when people get really upset, or, you know, like, they get really angry, or something like that, they can burst blood vessels, right? You know, I know because my children have anger issues, you know, they inherited that from, that's the Robinson gene, right? And you know, you're like, you're gonna burst the blood vessel. I did it when I was a kid, right? And my mom was like embarrassed. She thought it looked like she would beat me up, or something like that. Anyway, that's another story for another day. But all I have to say is that it can definitely happen, you know, under high stress, okay? So that's anger, but think about high stress and sorrow, and where you're, you know, bursting blood vessels, you're in so much agony. Go to, go to Hebrew chapter five, because Hebrew chapter five actually gives you a little more information as far as what was going on, because obviously it says he was very sorrowful. He's in agony, agony. And he was sorrowful, like, unto death. I mean, basically just ready to die. I mean, he was just so much in agony. And in Hebrew chapter five and verse seven, notice what it says. And it's talking about Jesus, for sake of time, right before this, it's talking about how he's gonna be the priest forever at the order of Melchizedek. But it says in verse seven, it says, who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears, so we can see this is definitely true, it says unto him that was able to save him from death and was heard and that he feared, though he were a son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered. Now, one thing I want you to see there is obviously the strong crying and tears. So obviously that just adds a little more to the agony, the pain, the sorrow that he's going through while he's talking to God, talking to the Father, saying, you know, if this cup is, if it's possible, let it pass from me. But he said, not my will, but thine be done. And, you know, people wanna say, well, that's the man, Jesus. It says his soul was in agony. His soul was sorrowful. And it says here that he was heard and that he feared. That's interesting. If we're gonna say that this is just the flesh, we have a problem. Because notice, go to Matthew chapter 10. Matthew chapter 10, Matthew chapter 10. Did you say, well, why is he so sorrowful? Well, obviously the cross is going to be bad, but there's something else that's gonna be, I believe, worse. And that's the fact that his soul is gonna be made an offering for sin. And he shall see his soul, you know, and be satisfied, it talks about. She shall see the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption, right? And so we believe, obviously, Jesus' body was put into the tomb, and then his soul was in hell for three days and three nights. Well, think about this. If he feared, his soul was in agony, his soul was sorrowful unto death, right? Notice in Matthew 10, verse 28, it says, and fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul, but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Who do you think he was fearing? Do you think he was fearing the Romans? Do you think he was fearing, you know, the death of his body? Because the Bible says that we're not supposed to fear what man can do unto us. Isn't that said throughout the Bible, from, you know, Psalms, the Hebrews, that we're not supposed to fear what man can do unto us? So you're supposed to, you expect me to believe that Jesus feared what they would do to him, what man would do unto him? How about he feared the wrath of God that was gonna be on him when he took the sins of the world on him? That's what he feared, right? And rightfully so, right? Because we're supposed to fear God. So he feared that, you know, what he had to go through in order to take away our sins. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? That's what he was sorrowing about, thinking about that, right? And obviously everything that he went through before that was horrible, right? We're gonna get started into what things that happened to him before he even was crucified, but think about your Savior and how much he loves you. So he's sitting there in the garden and just saying, Lord, if it's possible. Father, if it's possible, let this cup pass from me. And he's in agony and his sweat may be blood, but it's at least as blood dropping from down as he's giving up strong crying and tears. And he was hurt and that he feared, but he was, you know, a son being obedient. It's as though he were a son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered. He was obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. And he was obedient unto the Father. He did the Father's will and he did it. Why? Because he loved us. He loved us and he knew what he had to do. This was the only way. You know what that shows you is that's the only way. If there was any other way, then there would have been some other way. So anytime anybody wants to tell you, well, you know, you need to do this and that. Tell me that that wasn't enough. Tell me what Jesus did on the cross wasn't enough because that's why you're going to hell. When you say that what he did was not enough to save you. And going on from that passage, you know, obviously it talks about how, you know, he tells his disciples, you know, the hours come, you know, and basically he knew that they were coming to arrest him and all that. In verse 47, we see Judas is the one that is calling him out and, you know, calling out who Jesus is and stuff like that. So in Matthew 26 and verse 47, it says, And while he yet spake, lo Judas one of the twelve, came and with him a great multitude with swords and staves from the chief priests and elders of the people. Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same as he, hold him fast. And forthwith he came to Jesus and said hail master and kissed him. Now I've always, you know, it is true though, I mean, if Jesus is the only long-haired hippie in this whole group, you know, like he's a Nazareth, he's from Nazareth, right, and so therefore everybody else, you know, everybody else has short hair but him, just say it's a guy with long hair, right, but he looked like everybody else, you know, that's what shows you, because you see these movies and doesn't, isn't it always the case where Jesus looks like this like angelic being of some sort, like he just kind of levitates, doesn't have like the same mannerisms as a normal person. I don't know how else to really explain it, right, but you've seen those movies, right, he's just kind of like floating around, like he doesn't have the same mannerisms or something like that, you're just like, you don't look normal, okay, but Jesus was just a normal, you know, I'm sure he just acted like a normal person, right, to the point where he had to be pointed out who he was, okay, he didn't stick out. The Bible says that too, is that he doesn't have any beauty that you desire him, you know, I don't think he was like Quasimodo, right, I mean, he didn't like look like, you know, like crazy ugly or something like that, but I think he was just an average looking person, just kind of blended in and didn't have like these features where you're just like, that's Jesus, he just sticks out from everybody else, right, and you know, it just shows you that that's true, because he had to tell them who it was, and you know, and all that stuff, so he wasn't wearing some crazy garment that everybody else wasn't wearing, anyway, I just kind of see that kind of stuff when you look at that, now in verse 50 there, it says, and Jesus said unto him, friend, wherefore art thou come, then came day, and laid hands on Jesus and took him, now this is, I don't have the scripture written down, but I should have written it down, in Psalm it talks about, you know, I have betrayed in the house of my friend, or you know, it talks about like my, the heel of him that's sitteth with me, has rised up against me, and it talks about, basically how a friend has betrayed me, right, you think of Psalm 55, where it says, break their teeth oh God in their mouth, well it says, you know, it was mine own friend and acquaintance, you know, or basically it talked about it was my own acquaintance that did this, right, and it says, break their teeth oh God in their mouth, and it, you know, and obviously you're dealing with Judas in a lot of these cases, right, because he's obviously, why is he calling him a friend, because he was supposed to be his friend, right, and you see this throughout the parables, we saw that, right, where it's saying friend, how cameest then and hither, you know, not having a wedding garment, or friend, did we not, did I not covenant with you for one, for a penny for the day, you know, and he uses that terminology friend, and it uses that here, and so that's a very good key to see that, when you're looking at those parables, to say, okay, well, what was Judas called, and why was he called that, because he's a pretender, right, he was supposed to be a friend, you know, he pretended to be a friend, and he looked like a friend, but he wasn't, he was an imposter, right, now going on from there, it says in verse 51, it says, and behold one of them, which were with Jesus, stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priests, and smote off his ear, said Jesus unto him, put up again thy sword into his place, for all that they that take the sword shall perish with the sword, thinkest thou, thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my father, and he shall presently give me more than 12 legions of angels, but how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be, in that same hour, said Jesus to the multitudes, are you come out as against the thief, with swords and staves, forth to take me, I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and you laid no hold on me, but all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled, then all the disciples forsook him and fled, so there is smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered, it came true, and notice that he's saying daily I was teaching with you, you know, you didn't take me then, why, because they're coming subtly, because they're a bunch of cockroaches that don't like the light, and they're afraid of the people, that's why, right, they're gonna come in and sneak in, and try to, you know, kill them, you know, subtly, and deceive, and notice that he says too, you know, because Peter actually, you think about this, Peter kind of starts off, not betraying, you know, and not, not fleeing, not being offended, he's like ready to go to battle, and he chops off this guy's ear, and you go, Malchus, I'm gonna know that for the rest of my life, because I missed it on a Bible trivia question, or I didn't know it from a Bible trivia question, when the ladies beat the men, anyway, so Malchus got his ear chopped off, and Jesus healed that, but, but I don't think he was aiming for that ear, right, probably aiming for the head, and the guy ducked, and got the ear, right, just kind of lopped off the ear, and so, Peter kind of starts off strong here, but then Jesus is saying, you know, this has to be this way, okay, and he's basically saying, listen, if I wanted to, and if I called him to the father, he would send 12 legions of angels, remember legion, like the devils, right, how many were killed in that, how many were choked, I believe it's six thousand, I could be wrong on that, two thousand or six thousand, somewhere around there, was it two, two thousand, I'm just thinking six, because it's like devils, right, but two thousand, right, so you think of, you know, that's a lot, that's a lot of angels that he would send, but he's saying, but how then, so he's saying, I could do that, but how then will the scripture be fulfilled, so this has to be, it has to happen, and then they fled obviously after that, now in verse 57, we get into where he's brought before Caiaphas, and they're falsely accusing him, and is it coincidental, you know, that just dealing with some false accusations recently, you know, where people are sending me messages, and falsely accusing me of believing something, or saying something, or whatever, and you know, that's a light thing compared to what they did to Jesus, you know, and if you ever, that's one of the things that makes you more angry than anything, it's like, it's one thing if people are angry at you, for what you believe, it's another thing if they're falsely accusing you of something, right, and they're saying you're saying something that you're not, and then people think you believe that, or think that you're saying that, and then people, you know, people are angry at you for something you don't even believe, right, or something you've never even said, and so that angers me to no end, and these people that hate God, that's what they are, they're a bunch of false accusers, right, they just, they do it without even thinking, they're just like, you know, just falsely accusing you of everything, saying all kinds of crazy stuff, you know, just to get you in trouble, just to like, try to, you know, ruin, you know, either your career, or try to, you know, whatever, they're just trying to, they're out for you, and they'll just lie through their teeth, and they don't bat an eye at it, okay, and in Matthew chapter 26 and verse 57, what we're going to see is that, you know, they're basically bringing up false witnesses, and it's almost, the narrator's telling us that's what they're doing, obviously they were, I'm sure, under the guise of like, we got some witnesses against you, but they know that these are all false witnesses, they just want to, you know, on paper, have two people come up that say the same thing that he said, or whatever, right, and so in verse 57 it says, and they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas, the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled, but Peter followed him far off onto the high priest's palace, and went in and sat with the servants to see the end, now the chief priests and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus to put him to death, so that's narrator speaking, obviously they're not saying that, right, they're not up there like, we're finding false witness against you, right, no, no, they're obviously gonna look, it's gonna look like this is legit, and we're being, you know, all regal about it, and all this stuff, but obviously the whole point is to find false witness against them, now in verse 60 it says, but found none, so they found none, it says, yay, they, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none, at the last came two false witnesses, and said, this fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days, and so, but in Mark it says this, when they say that, it says, but neither so did their witness agree together, so it's basically saying, you know, they didn't even agree, right, so they brought up these false witnesses, they're like, both these guys are talking about him destroying the temple, and all this stuff, but they didn't say it right, like, you know, one person kind of said it one way, one person said it another way, so they didn't even agree, so even the one that they got him on, didn't even agree, okay, now, you know, that's a big deal, that's a big deal, because I preached on this, as far as, you know, with that sermon that got taken down, but in Deuteronomy 19, it talks about, you know, those that falsely testify against your brother, that you are to get the punishment that you sought for them to get, okay, in Deuteronomy 19 verse 18, it says, and the judges, shall make diligent inquisition, and behold, if the witness be a false witness, and have testified falsely against his brother, then shall you do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother, so shalt thou put the evil away from among you, so guess what, all those false witness, they found many, that they could not agree together, guess what, they should have all been put to death, because that's what the false witnesses were brought to do, of course, they didn't do that, do you see the injustice here, so if you ever feel like you're getting wronged, right, you know, you feel like you're just getting, you know, people are just lying about you, they're falsely accusing you, remember what happened to Jesus, I'm sure that didn't feel good, you know, for people to just lie through their teeth, and then they're getting away with murder, right, and just the hypocrisy, and just the blatant, you know, just wickedness that's being done here, and, you know, they supposedly got one against them, but obviously it was false too, and going on from that, it says, I lost my place, it says in verse 62, it says, and the high priest arose and said unto him, answers thou nothing, it's like, always, you know, like it's always false accusations, false accusations, don't you answer, aren't you getting an answer for this, it's like, what are you talking about, it's all, they're all a bunch of liars, right, all these people should be put to death for lying and trying to be putting me to death, you know, you can imagine what's going through Jesus's mind, you know, when this is going on, just the injustice, you can imagine what the father is thinking about how they're treating his son, and so, I always look at these type of things, and think about, you know, well you think you're going, it's hard for you, think about what Jesus went through, have you yet resisted on the blood striving against sin, were you completely innocent, sinless, Jesus had no sin, you know what I mean, like, I'm a sinner, okay, I've made mistakes, I've said things that are wrong, and when people, you know, falsely accuse you, it's kind of like, well I, I've made mistakes, that's not what I made, but think about the fact that Jesus never spoke anything false, there was no guile found in his mouth, he had no sin, he knew no sin, but yet they're accusing him of being this false prophet, bringing all these false witnesses against him, and so I just feel for him, when I'm like in this passion, just like, I just want to like, just smack these people across the face, you know that, or like saying this to my savior, because then it goes on, in verse, verse 63 it says, but Jesus held his peace, and the high priest answered, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us, whether thou be the Christ, the son of God, Jesus saith unto him, thou hast said, nevertheless I say unto you, hereafter shall you see the son of man, sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven, and so again, I believe he's, obviously in Mark it says, I am, when it says this, so he's, he's obviously admitting to it, and not only that, he's also saying, hey, I'm going to be sitting at the right hand of God, so obviously this, they get triggered, they lose their minds, right, because then it says in verse 65, then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, he hath spoken blasphemy, what further need have we of witnesses, behold now ye have heard his blasphemy, what think ye, they answered and said, he is guilty of death, then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him, and others smote him with the palms of their hands, saying prophesy unto us thou Christ, who is he that smote thee, and this is where they blindfold him, and they're like smacking him across the face with the palms of their hands, and just saying who hit you, prophesy unto us, and just the mockery, and just the humiliation, remember that Jesus despised the shame when this happened to him, you know, he didn't like this, it's not like he's enjoying this, and you know, you just think about what happened to your savior, and then add on the fact that he's, he's perfect and innocent, he is the innocent blood, so imagine an innocent person going through this, and then taking the guilt of the whole world, taking all those people that are smiting him, and spitting him in his face, he's about to take their sins on him, and pay for him, that's amazing love, you know, and it says for God to love the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believed in him, should not perish but everlasting life, but even, you know, you think about that in Ephesians 2, you know, as we're memorizing that right, it says, but God is, now I'm gonna misquote it, is it full of mercy, or is it rich in mercy, but God who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with him, I'm gonna mess it up, hath quickened us together, or with Christ, hath quickened us together with Christ, now I'm messing up, I'm messing up, anyway, what I was trying to get across there, is it's talking about, for his great love wherewith he loved us, okay, and you can read past that type of stuff, and say, okay, yeah, he loved us, but you can see it in the actions, you see it for what he did, and it's amazing love that he had for us, and that he would go through all of that, he hasn't even gone to the cross yet, think about all this stuff that's going on right now, he hasn't even been beaten yet, as far as the scourging, and just the magnificent love that he had for us, to go through all that, and to be smitten by the same people that he's dying for, and just think of, just, you know, obviously despising the shame, but he endured the cross, because of the joy that was set before him, because he knew that people would believe, and be saved, and just that selfless love that he had, and, you know, that's why I hate people that hate God, I hate people that hate Jesus, and people can be like, oh you shouldn't have hate, well, do not I hate them oh Lord that hate thee, am I not greed with them that rise up against them, I hate them with perfect hatred, why, because I think about what my savior did, and when they blast me my savior, you know, those are fighting words, right, you know, that, that's my savior, that's my life, Christ who is your life, right, now, and Matthew chapter 26 ending the chapter here, we see that Peter does deny Jesus three times, and it says in verse 69, it says now Peter, sat without in the palace, so earlier on it talks about how he followed them, so he fled, but he kind of followed, he followed along with them, and it says he sat without in the palace, and a damsel came up to him, saying thou also was with Jesus of Galilee, but he denied before them all, saying I know not what thou sayest, now, you know, when you read through these passages, when you look at the parallels, sometimes it'll be a man saying, but notice how he says, you know, he denied before them all, okay, so basically there's multiple people asking them this, as far as saying, you know, you were with them, and all this stuff, right, and verse 71 it says, and when he was gone out into the porch, another maid said, saw him, and said unto them, that were there, that were there, this fellow also, or was also with Jesus of Nazareth, and again, he denied with an oath, I do not know the man, notice how it's always a girl in this case, I always just think that's funny, it's like some maid, right, some teenagers coming up to you, and saying, hey, you know, you were with them, and you're like, oh, I don't know the man, it's like you're afraid of a little girl, right, like you should be like, listen little girl, you need to sit down and shut up, you know, that's my savior over there, but obviously, you know, he's afraid that he's going to be called out, you know, put to death, so he's afraid for his life, is what's going on here, if you think about it, he's afraid that, you know, they're gonna be like, well, kill him too, and he's just not, he's not, he's not physically ready for that, right, that's why it says, you know, Peter, when you're converted, you know, strengthen the brethren, meaning that, you know, after all this goes down, you're gonna deny me, all these things are gonna happen, but you're gonna be strong after that, you're gonna be converted, meaning that you're gonna, you know, basically, gird up your loins like a man, is what's gonna happen, right, and going on from that, obviously, there's a third time that he denies him, it says in verse 73, and it says, after a while, came unto him, they that stood by, and said to Peter, surely thou also art one of them, for thy speech bereat thee, now bereat is another kind of like betray, so you'll see that word beret, that's what it's talking about, then began he to curse, and to swear, saying I know not the man, and immediately he, the cock crew, and Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which he, which he, which, I'm sorry, which said unto him, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice, and he went out, and wept bitterly, now I want you to look at another passage in Luke 22, same, same story, and all that stuff, but I believe this gives you a little more meat, onto Peter's situation, obviously, he remembered it, he heard the cock crow, right, and, you know, it's dawn, and he, he remembers that Jesus said to him, that this was gonna happen, and it came true, and obviously he's very upset about it, but this puts a little more meat on that, verse 20, verse 60, so Luke 22 verse 60 says, and Peter said, man, I know not what thou sayest, and immediately while he yet spake, the cock crew, and the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter, and that puts chills down your, I don't know, when I read that, I'm just like, oh man, you know, like you think about, like, he's that, he's close to where Jesus is at, all this stuff is going down, he wants to be there to hear, and see what happens, right, and when he denies him the third time, that cock crows, Jesus looks up at him, I mean, you can just imagine, and it just felt, you're just like, I betrayed him, and he's staring at me, like, just all that that's going on, and he went out, and wept bitterly, I mean, he was really upset about that, and obviously so, right, now, Jesus knew it was going to happen, and Jesus knew that from the beginning, right, that that was going to happen, and he knew that Peter's going to recover from this, and all that, but obviously it's a lesson learned, and all that, now go to John chapter 21, and this is the last thing I'm going to show you, because, you know, in John 21, it's just constantly like, well, back in the Greek, you know, Agape, and Fileo, and all this stuff, and trying to make up all this, you know, jargon, I love that, who saw the sermon that Pastor Anderson preached on going back to the Greek fraud, which I saw the article later on, he brought this article where this guy, who's a professor or something like that at some Baptist college, but he had like 30 professors in a class or whatever, and he gave them out a little quiz, and it was like pretty easy, I'm telling you that I could have done pretty well on that test, and I'm a beginner at learning the language, but I know the number nine, and I know to say hello, goodbye, like I know like certain things that are in there, like I'm just like, how did they not know that? I'm like one day on Duolingo, you'll know what a cat is, like you know dog, and cat, and like all these different things, right? It's like see, spot, run, you know, like you think of like the simple things that you learn as a child, and like no one could answer anything, like the average score was 0.4 out of 10, and the highest score was two, two, yes, okay, so the first question was yes, how do you not know how to do that, right? So that's one that you should have automatically, then there was nine, the number nine, how do you not know how to count to 10, and you claim to be a Greek scholar, right, and write books about this, I mean they should have always got two, I mean one lesson right here, if I gave you a lesson in Greek, you would know those two things, and you would never forget them, right? But they went through this whole line, and then like the bonus was like, say hello, goodbye, you know, of like how do you not know how to do that, that's like the first thing that you go through, when you like, when I go through Pimsleur it's like, share it there, yeah, you know, and you're just like, that's how you start off any type of Greek learning, is like hello, you think of Spanish, hola, adios, right? I don't know French, but I know Bonjour and Au Revoir, you know, like that's all I know, right, but all I say is that it's crazy that people do that, I don't know why I'm going on that tangent, John 21, what I really wanted to show you here, is that there is, I believe, a huge link to the story of, feed my lambs, feed my sheep, the story of, you know, do you love me, is linked to the fact that he denied them three times, notice in verse 17, I'm not gonna read the whole story, this whole story with it, in verse 17 it says, he saith unto him the third time, Simon son of Jonas loveth thou me, Peter was grieved, because he said unto him the third time, loveth thou me, now, what they'll say is, well that's a different type of love, that's why he was grieved, because the third time it was a different type of love, now it's because he said it to him three times, and how many times did Peter deny him? Three times, okay, he's making a point, he's driving it home, you know, he denied him three times, so what did Jesus do, he made him say he loves him three times, right, and so doesn't that fit a lot better, and guess what, you didn't have to go back to the Greek to figure that out, you know, you just had to read your Bible, okay, so, but I just want to end with that, obviously it's a long chapter, I know it's kind of hard to get through that, it's 75 verses, but I did want to kind of touch on each thing, when it comes to that story, but what a magnificent chapter, greatest story ever told, I love reading this passage, and all the gospels, when it comes to the death, burial, resurrection, and just dwelling on that, and thinking about what my Savior did for me, so let's end with a word of prayer, Heavenly Father, we thank you for today, and thank you for all those that came out, and pray to be with us with the fellowship after, pray to keep us all safe, and Lord just help us to have fun, but obviously to be safe, we don't want anybody to get hurt, that fireworks are not worth anything like that, and Lord we just pray that you'd be with us, and Lord praise you, deliver us from any unreasonable wicked men, we pray that you would get glory, for everything that we do,