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Speaker 1: Welcome to Christian Natural Health with naturopathic doctor Lauren Deville.

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Speaker 1: Christian Natural Health is the podcast on how to get

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Speaker 1: and stay healthy God's Way. You'll hear topics on nutrition, exercise, sleep,

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Speaker 1: avoiding toxicity, meditating on scripture, what supplements to take, stress management,

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Speaker 1: defeating anxiety and worry, how to reconcile Eastern medicine, approaches

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Speaker 1: with Christianity, and a whole lot more. Now here's your host,

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Speaker 1: doctor Lauren.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to another episode of Christian Natural Health. For

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Speaker 2: this good Friday, I have a treat for you. I

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Speaker 2: am including the retellings that the retelling for the Resurrection

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Speaker 2: from my book Messiah Biblical Retellings read for you by

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Speaker 2: James ar Cheatham, who did my entire Biblical Retellings series.

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Speaker 2: He's very talented, so I hope you enjoy happy Easter.

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Speaker 3: Chapter twenty three, The resurrec the Guard. I do what

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Speaker 3: I'm told, that's all. I don't have opinions. I was

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Speaker 3: present at the brief trial of this man Jesus. I

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Speaker 3: had heard of the so called miracles he had performed.

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Speaker 3: I watched eagerly as the soldiers tried to goad him

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Speaker 3: but was not surprised when he refused. I suspected it

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Speaker 3: had all been hearsay. Anyway, I knew that the chief

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Speaker 3: priest had him killed out of jealousy, though why they

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Speaker 3: would have been jealous of a fraud, EYE did not know.

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Speaker 3: Religious politics were not my area of interest. I did

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Speaker 3: not personally drive in the nails or administer the whipping.

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Speaker 3: It is a grotesque way to die, but I had

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Speaker 3: seen enough gruesome deaths in my time as a soldier

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Speaker 3: that mere gore had ceased to move me. I will

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Speaker 3: say this, though, there was something about the man Jesus

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Speaker 3: that unnerved me. The way he spoke, the way he

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Speaker 3: bore the taunts, the way he endured such unimaginable suffering

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Speaker 3: was unnatural. I even heard him whisper through cracked and

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Speaker 3: they do. That statement, it would haunt me all my life.

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Speaker 3: I sat at the foot of the cross with the

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Speaker 3: other soldiers and gambled for his clothing as he gasped

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Speaker 3: When I lost the roll, I got away from there

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Speaker 3: as fast as I could, never looking directly at him.

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Speaker 3: I was with fellow soldiers in pilots halls, joking and

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Speaker 3: A wealthy religious man named Joseph of Arimathea came and

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Speaker 3: Pharisees were apparently not satisfied with the brutal murder of

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Speaker 3: I did not see why that was necessary. No ragtag

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Speaker 3: Everyone will know, even if they deny it. Deep down,

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Speaker 3: the truth was the tomb was empty, Mary Magdalene. Ever

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Speaker 3: the Messiah. How was that possible? How could the true

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Speaker 3: at the very thought the image of him hanging on

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Speaker 3: was nothing more that I could do for him. Besides,

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Speaker 3: me to walk with him, as he had some things

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Speaker 3: he would like to discuss with me. I knew what

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Speaker 3: they were. He had heard Mary's story and wished to

432
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Speaker 3: know what I thought. If I only knew, I gratefully accepted, though,

433
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Speaker 3: as I needed to get out. I had been shuttered

434
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Speaker 3: indoors for three days, except for the brief run this

435
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Speaker 3: morning to the empty tomb. Fresh air in a listening

436
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,160
Speaker 3: ear would do me good. Perhaps I might be able

437
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Speaker 3: to think straight again. Mary believes he lives, Cliaphus told me,

438
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Speaker 3: shaking his head. She is utterly convinced of it, though

439
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Speaker 3: she herself did not see him. What do you believe,

440
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Speaker 3: I asked him. Once we were outside the city. He

441
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Speaker 3: opened his mouth, shut it again, then replied, I don't

442
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Speaker 3: know what to BELI we all watched him die. It

443
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,159
Speaker 3: was no trick. He could not have survived it. His

444
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Speaker 3: sadness irked me. I did not want him to be sad.

445
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 3: I suddenly realized that I wanted him to convince me

446
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Speaker 3: that his wife was right. But then, we've seen the

447
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:21,639
Speaker 3: dead raised, I argued, he was the one who raised them. Yes,

448
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 3: but who was there to raise him? Cliaphus countered, I

449
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:31,000
Speaker 3: shrugged himself, the father. Would he need another? If he

450
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Speaker 3: was who he claimed to be. Silence fell between us

451
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 3: at this as my question hung in the air. If

452
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Speaker 3: he was who he claimed to be, that was the question.

453
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Speaker 3: Wasn't it wasn't the messiah supposed to sit on the

454
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Speaker 3: throne of David and destroy our enemies? But why? I

455
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Speaker 3: responded to my own question, surprising myself with my sudden vehemence.

456
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Speaker 3: If he intended to raise himself from the dead, why

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Speaker 3: let himself be crucified in the first place? He said,

458
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Speaker 3: and get some money that he could have called twelve

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Speaker 3: legions of angels to deliver him if he chose to,

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Speaker 3: and he didn't do it, Why not? What was the point?

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Speaker 3: What is this conversation that you were holding with each

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Speaker 3: other as you walk. Both Cleophas and I started at

463
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Speaker 3: the third voice and turned to look at the stranger

464
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Speaker 3: we had not seen approach. He smiled and seemed friendly enough,

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Speaker 3: heavily scarred in face. I noted and wondered what had

466
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Speaker 3: happened to him. Cleophas and I exchanged a look, and

467
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Speaker 3: Cleophus answered him somewhat guarded. Are you the only visitor

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Speaker 3: to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have

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Speaker 3: happened there in these days? What things? The stranger prompted,

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Speaker 3: still wearing that strange smile, I almost felt exasperated. The

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Speaker 3: man had no right to be so pleasant in such

472
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Speaker 3: dark times as this, I said, concerning Jesus of Nazareth,

473
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Speaker 3: a man who was a prophet mighty indeed, and word

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Speaker 3: before God and all the people. And how our chief

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Speaker 3: priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to

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Speaker 3: death and crucified him. But we had hoped that he

477
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Speaker 3: was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, And besides all this,

478
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Speaker 3: Cleophus cut him. It is now the third day since

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Speaker 3: these things happened. Also, some women of our company, my

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Speaker 3: wife among them, amazed us. They were at the tomb

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Speaker 3: early in the morning, and when they did not find

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Speaker 3: his body, they came back saying that they had even

483
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Speaker 3: seen a vision of angels who said that he was alive.

484
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Speaker 3: I and one of my brothers went to the tomb

485
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Speaker 3: and found it just as the women had said, I continued,

486
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Speaker 3: but him. We did not see the stranger's expression. What

487
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Speaker 3: was it about that face? Took on what felt an

488
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Speaker 3: oddly familiar combination of compassion and exasperation. Oh, foolish ones

489
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Speaker 3: and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets

490
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Speaker 3: have spoken? Was his startling reply? Was it not necessary

491
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Speaker 3: that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into

492
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Speaker 3: his glory? I blinked, and my mouth hung open. I

493
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Speaker 3: probably should have been affronted. I'd been one of the

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Speaker 3: man's closest disciples. Who was this stranger to presume to

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Speaker 3: instruct me about the Christ? And yet the burning in

496
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Speaker 3: my heart held my tongue. I wanted to hear more.

497
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Speaker 3: From the beginning, the Father gave authority on the earth

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Speaker 3: to men. Men obeyed Satan in the garden rather than God,

499
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Speaker 3: making Satan the god of this world for a time.

500
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Speaker 3: The Father then gave progressive covenance with men who chose

501
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Speaker 3: to obey him, giving him authority to bless them in

502
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Speaker 3: accordance with his will. First to Noah to never again

503
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Speaker 3: destroy the earth for its wickedness in a flood. Then

504
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Speaker 3: to Abraham, God blessed him for his faith and all

505
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Speaker 3: his seed after him what became the nation of Israel.

506
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Speaker 3: The Mosaic Covenant formalized the idea that man was subject

507
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Speaker 3: to the God he chose to obey. When he obeyed

508
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Speaker 3: the Lord God, he was sheltered under the shadow of

509
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Speaker 3: his wings with all the blessings and abundance that the

510
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Speaker 3: Lord always longed to bestow upon his children. When he

511
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Speaker 3: sinned and obeyed Satan, that protection lifted by man's own choice,

512
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Speaker 3: giving Satan access to steel, kill, and destroy. These were

513
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Speaker 3: the curses of Deuteronomy. Inevitably, the children of Israel sinned,

514
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Speaker 3: and the wages of sin is death. To restore Israel

515
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Speaker 3: to the right side of the covenant, yearly blood sacrifices

516
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Speaker 3: were necessary of that which was sinless, spotless, and perfect.

517
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Speaker 3: Yet these animal sacrifices in themselves carried no power to

518
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Speaker 3: remit sins. They were only a type and a shadow

519
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Speaker 3: of the true sacrifice, which was to come. This meant

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Speaker 3: that except for those few who were true children of Abraham,

521
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Speaker 3: those who looked forward to the Messiah and understood that

522
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Speaker 3: they were already justified through him, there was no real

523
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Speaker 3: fellowship with the Father. As David wrote, he revealed his

524
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Speaker 3: ways to Moses, yet only his deeds to the people

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Speaker 3: of Israel. Fellowship was the Father's desire to restore what

526
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Speaker 3: had been lost in the garden all those generations ago.

527
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Speaker 3: But there can be no communion between light and darkness.

528
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Speaker 3: The darkness had to first be swallowed up once and

529
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Speaker 3: for all time, for all who would accept it. So

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Speaker 3: for generations, the Father sent prophets to speak of the

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Speaker 3: coming Messiah. You have understood him to be a great king,

532
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Speaker 3: the King of kings, and so he is and shall be.

533
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Speaker 3: But first he had to become the sacrificial Lamb of God,

534
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Speaker 3: as he was identified by John the Baptist, that last

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Speaker 3: and greatest of the prophets. For this to occur, a

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00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 3: few criteria had to be met. He had to be

537
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Speaker 3: as of man that he might die as a representative sacrifice.

538
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Speaker 3: He had to be guiltless of his own sin, so

539
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Speaker 3: that he could bear the iniquities and transgressions of others.

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Speaker 3: As Isaiah wrote, he had to lay down his life willingly,

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Speaker 3: like a lamb that has led to the slaughter, and

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Speaker 3: like a sheep that before its shearers is silent. So

543
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 3: he opened not his mouth. Finally, he had to be

544
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Speaker 3: eternal God himself, that he might cover all sin that

545
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Speaker 3: ever was and ever will be, in one single sacrifice.

546
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Speaker 3: As Isaiah wrote, the Lord has laid on him the

547
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Speaker 3: iniquity of us all. Yet the Father would not abandon

548
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 3: his soul to siol or let his holy One see decay.

549
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 3: Death could not hold the King of Glory, the creator

550
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:55,439
Speaker 3: of life itself. And so it shall be for all

551
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Speaker 3: who believe. Just as the first Adam introduced death, so

552
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 3: the second Adam introduced life from the grave. And now

553
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 3: the payment is made, declared the stranger. There is no

554
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Speaker 3: more curse for the true children of Abraham. There is

555
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Speaker 3: no more curtain to shield the holy of holies. Those

556
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Speaker 3: who believe may now at last go boldly into the

557
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 3: throne of grace before the Father, for he himself loves

558
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:30,800
Speaker 3: them who have believed in his Son, his Lamb, his Messiah.

559
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Speaker 3: We had reached Tomaeis, and I had not even realized

560
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Speaker 3: it was I even breathing. As this stranger opened the

561
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Speaker 3: scriptures to us. Cleaphus turned toward the village, where he

562
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Speaker 3: intended to rest for the night, but the stranger did

563
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Speaker 3: not follow us. He stayed on the main road, as

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Speaker 3: if he intended to go farther. Stay with us, I

565
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 3: blurted to the stranger, begged him, really, for it is

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Speaker 3: toward evening and the day is now far spent. The

567
00:35:57,239 --> 00:36:00,359
Speaker 3: stranger met my eyes with that piercing gaze of his.

568
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 3: It was as if he could see clear through to

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Speaker 3: my soul. He smiled, nodded his ascent, and followed us. Inside.

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Speaker 3: We climbed to the upper room of an inn, and

571
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Speaker 3: the owner brought us bread, wine, and meat for supper.

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00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 3: This stranger was clearly the authority in the room. So

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Speaker 3: clioph has asked if he would break bread and bless

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Speaker 3: it for us. His eyes twinkled with amusement was at

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Speaker 3: the expression, but he agreed and reached across the table

576
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Speaker 3: to the bread in the basket. Then I saw his hands,

577
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 3: I saw where they had been pierced. I looked up

578
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 3: sharply to his face as he broke the bread and

579
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 3: said a prayer of thanks to the father. He passed

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Speaker 3: half to cleoph Us and half to me. It was him.

581
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Speaker 3: He grinned at me, so full of mirth that he

582
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 3: could hardly contain himself. Then he vanished. I dropped the bread.

583
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Speaker 3: Cliaph has shoved back his chair and jumped to his feet.

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Speaker 3: I think both of us exclaimed loudly, but I'm not

585
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:08,879
Speaker 3: really sure. How did we not know? I shouted at

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Speaker 3: some point between the dinner table and the road, as

587
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Speaker 3: we gathered our close How did we not recognize him?

588
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,400
Speaker 3: There was no question that we had to go straight

589
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,879
Speaker 3: back to Jerusalem and tell everyone else. Didn't your heart

590
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 3: burn within you? While he talked to us on the road,

591
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:28,360
Speaker 3: While he was explaining to us the scriptures, Cleiophus exclaimed,

592
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Speaker 3: I probably should have grabbed some of the bread for

593
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 3: the road. Fourteen miles round trip with no food was

594
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 3: not the best idea I ever had. But I suddenly

595
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:40,760
Speaker 3: had more energy than I had ever had in my life.

596
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 3: I could have run the whole way back. I did

597
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:47,760
Speaker 3: run as much of it as Cleophus allowed. We found

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Speaker 3: the rest of the disciples still in my home as

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00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:53,319
Speaker 3: they had been that morning. Cliophus burst out before I

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00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 3: had the chance. The Lord has risen indeed, and has

601
00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:00,760
Speaker 3: appeared to Simon and you. I cried, and we hurried

602
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:03,840
Speaker 3: to get our story out. The disciples all watched us

603
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:07,360
Speaker 3: with a look of amazement and skepticism, and I suddenly

604
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,400
Speaker 3: realized how frustrated the women must have been that morning

605
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 3: at our reception of their tidings. I wanted to shake them.

606
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Speaker 3: This is the best news in the history of the world.

607
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 3: What is wrong with you? Then I noticed that none

608
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 3: of them were looking at us anymore. They had all

609
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:26,359
Speaker 3: suddenly turned to look at something behind us. Many had

610
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 3: turned white. I turned around. There he was peace to you,

611
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:37,240
Speaker 3: Jesus declared, looking at each of the faces in the room.

612
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:42,240
Speaker 3: His eyes met mine with warmth. Yet suddenly I was ashamed.

613
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 3: I had not felt it before, since I had not

614
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,839
Speaker 3: known him until the very last moment. Now I knew

615
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 3: it was him, and he knew I knew my betrayal

616
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 3: stood between us. He knew of that too, he had

617
00:38:56,520 --> 00:39:00,239
Speaker 3: prophesied it. I had failed him in the motion most

618
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 3: despicable way. I dropped my eyes. Jesus said to the rest,

619
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Speaker 3: all of whom looked frightened, except for John, why are

620
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 3: you troubled? And why do doubts arise in your hearts.

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Speaker 3: See my hands and my feet. He spread them out

622
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 3: for all to see, those hands that had tipped me off.

623
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Speaker 3: At last, see that it is I myself. Touch me,

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Speaker 3: and see a spirit does not have flesh and bones

625
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:33,840
Speaker 3: as you see I have. James the Less and Bartholomew

626
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:38,359
Speaker 3: were the courageout ones. They went forward very tentatively, as

627
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:40,760
Speaker 3: if to see for themselves that his words were true.

628
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 3: He watched them with tender amusement, as one might watch

629
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Speaker 3: a small child. Then he added, have you anything here

630
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,839
Speaker 3: to eat? Matthew ran to fetch something left over from

631
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Speaker 3: their supper last night, a piece of broiled fish. He

632
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 3: handed it to Jesus, still weary. Jesus picked it up

633
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 3: with his fingers, ate it and swallowed it in silence.

634
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 3: The group stared at him, as if half expecting to

635
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Speaker 3: see the flaky whitefish fall straight through him. When it

636
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 3: did not, the disbelief grew gradually to joy. These are

637
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Speaker 3: my words that I spoke to you while I was

638
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:23,319
Speaker 3: still with you, that everything written about me in the

639
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 3: Law of Moses and the prophets and the Psalms must

640
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Speaker 3: be fulfilled. John sat at the Lord's feet as he

641
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:34,440
Speaker 3: opened the scriptures to my brothers as well, as he

642
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Speaker 3: had done with Cleophus and me on the road. Thus

643
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 3: it is written he concluded that the Christ should suffer

644
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Speaker 3: and on the third day rise from the dead, and

645
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Speaker 3: that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in

646
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Speaker 3: his name to all nations beginning from Jerusalem. You were

647
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 3: witnesses of these things. And behold, I am sending the

648
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 3: promise of my Father upon you, you the Holy Spirit.

649
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 3: But stay in the city until you were clothed with

650
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:09,760
Speaker 3: power from on high. I wished, and yet did not wish,

651
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 3: for a moment alone with the Lord that night. I

652
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:16,440
Speaker 3: wanted to fall at his feet in begus forgiveness. I

653
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:19,440
Speaker 3: knew this was absurd. I knew he forgave me, but

654
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:23,879
Speaker 3: I wanted to ask for it anyway. I simultaneously never

655
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 3: wanted to discuss my failure ever again. Yet it hung

656
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:32,799
Speaker 3: between us, an insurmountable wall of shame, between me and

657
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 3: the one I loved most. When the sermon finished, he

658
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 3: vanished again, just as he had appeared. I did not

659
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 3: get my moment that night, for which I was both

660
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:49,600
Speaker 3: relieved and disappointed. I did love him, didn't I he

661
00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 3: had said just before the cross, that greater love has

662
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:56,360
Speaker 3: no one than this, that someone laid down his life

663
00:41:56,440 --> 00:42:00,880
Speaker 3: or his friends. My love for him clearly was not

664
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 3: so great as that. It was not the agape he

665
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 3: had for me, however much I wished it might be.

666
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 3: I had only FILEO for my lord and master, and

667
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 3: could claim no more. My actions had shown the truth

668
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 3: of it. Peter John approached me, placing a hand on

669
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 3: my shoulder as the others shouted and toasted and celebrated

670
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 3: behind us. Are you not rejoicing? It was a gentle admonishment,

671
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 3: but it hit me like a blow, shocking me out

672
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:35,840
Speaker 3: of my selfishness. Who cared about my little failure? Jesus

673
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:41,359
Speaker 3: was alive. Yes, brother, I declared, Yes, of course, I

674
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:46,440
Speaker 3: accepted a glass, joining the celebration. Yet once again I

675
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 3: did not sleep that night, my mind a whirl with

676
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:54,319
Speaker 3: both joy and questions. I pondered the things Jesus had

677
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 3: said on the road and with the other disciples that night.

678
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 3: I wondered what it would mean to be his witnesses

679
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 3: in all nations. I wondered what it would feel like

680
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 3: to be clothed with power from on high, and how

681
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 3: we would know when it had happened. I remembered when

682
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:13,800
Speaker 3: Jesus had said, those who believe may now at last

683
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 3: go boldly into the throne of grace before the Father,

684
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:20,239
Speaker 3: for he himself loves them who have believed in his son,

685
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:25,360
Speaker 3: his Lamb, his Messiah. I opened my mouth and whispered

686
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 3: into the night one tentative word, Father. I swallowed, cringing

687
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 3: for a moment, as if waiting to be struck down

688
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:36,359
Speaker 3: for my insolence, and using the same word for him

689
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:40,080
Speaker 3: that Jesus himself had used. When it did not come,

690
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:44,919
Speaker 3: I went on, I don't know how much longer your

691
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:48,720
Speaker 3: son will be with us physically, so before he returns

692
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:51,480
Speaker 3: to you for good, please give me a chance to

693
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 3: make it right. Tears slipped down my cheeks as I spoke.

694
00:43:56,760 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 3: I knew that he heard me. He was my father. Afterward,

695
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 3: the most important event in scripture can't be told through

696
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 3: just one set of eyes, and so the gospel writers

697
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:12,239
Speaker 3: seem to think.

698
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 1: Also.

699
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 3: Each gospel gives a slightly different angle, which might seem

700
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:21,799
Speaker 3: contradictory at first on some minor details, but which I

701
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 3: believe all harmonize. Matthew says, two women went to the

702
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 3: tomb Mary Magdalene and Marry the wife of Cliophus, and

703
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:33,360
Speaker 3: there was only one angel. This was the first encounter

704
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:38,360
Speaker 3: with the resurrected christ. Mark concurs that they were both there,

705
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:41,800
Speaker 3: but as a third woman, Salome, and in his version

706
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:45,719
Speaker 3: they saw only one angel and not Jesus himself. Yet

707
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 3: Luke includes Joanna among the women as well, and says

708
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:53,880
Speaker 3: there were an unspecified number of women, so it's possible

709
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:58,839
Speaker 3: there were more. Besides, his version includes two angels, and

710
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:02,360
Speaker 3: there too, the women did not see Jesus, but only

711
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 3: the angels. In John's version, only Mary Magdalene goes to

712
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 3: the tomb, and she goes twice. The first time she

713
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:13,839
Speaker 3: sees the empty tomb, then tells Peter and John, who

714
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:16,240
Speaker 3: returned with her, to see the empty tomb as well

715
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:20,600
Speaker 3: and then leave. It's after that that Mary sees both

716
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 3: the angels and then encounters Jesus himself. With help from

717
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 3: Andrew Womack's Living Commentary, here's how I'm synthesizing all this.

718
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:34,480
Speaker 3: Mary and the other women who in my retellings I

719
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 3: just list as Mary, wife of Cleophus, Joanna, and Salome

720
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,959
Speaker 3: all planned to meet at the tomb, which was why

721
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 3: Mary was alone, but also why she was listed with

722
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:49,760
Speaker 3: the others. According to some gospels, if she went first,

723
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 3: saw the empty tomb, went and got Peter and John

724
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:57,280
Speaker 3: and Luke, only Peter is mentioned, and then lingered after

725
00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 3: they left, she still could be the first and only

726
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:05,439
Speaker 3: one to see the resurrected Jesus. The other women could

727
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:09,720
Speaker 3: have arrived before or after this. I'm assuming when Matthew

728
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 3: says the women saw Jesus, he was again lumping them

729
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 3: all together. Mark tells us the other women did not

730
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:20,640
Speaker 3: see Jesus, and John tells us that Mary Magdalene did so.

731
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:23,279
Speaker 3: In my retelling, I err on the side of the

732
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 3: writers who are most specific, assuming the omissions are merely

733
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:32,240
Speaker 3: less detailed. Likewise, it's possible that the two angels versus

734
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:35,879
Speaker 3: one is really just a matter of detail. Only one

735
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 3: angel spoke, even though there were two, so perhaps because

736
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 3: of that, Matthew and Mark only bothered to mention one.

737
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 3: Only in Matthew's gospel do we get the specifics about

738
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 3: the guard that was set to watch over Jesus's tomb.

739
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:54,319
Speaker 3: Jesus had told the disciples plainly on a number of

740
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 3: occasions that he would die and then rise again. Apparently

741
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 3: he'd done it in the hearing of the chief priests,

742
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:05,279
Speaker 3: Pharisees and Sadducees too, and they were the ones who

743
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:07,920
Speaker 3: seemed to be expecting at least something that happen on

744
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:12,960
Speaker 3: the third day. A Roman guard included fifty soldiers, and

745
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:16,400
Speaker 3: typically four of them at a time worked four hour shifts,

746
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:19,720
Speaker 3: so there would have been four guards watching the tomb

747
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:24,080
Speaker 3: at the time of the resurrection. Also, the stone sealing

748
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:28,160
Speaker 3: the tomb was very large, according to Mark, Yet in

749
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 3: Matthew chapter twenty seven, verse sixty six, were told that

750
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:36,440
Speaker 3: the Romans actually sealed the stone in place two. This

751
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:40,319
Speaker 3: reminds me of Elijah on Mount Carmel telling the spectators

752
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:43,400
Speaker 3: to pour as much water on the sacrifice as they please.

753
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 3: It won't make a bit of difference. Only Matthew records

754
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:51,440
Speaker 3: the earthquake before the angel descends and rolls the stone

755
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 3: away from the tomb. There's an earthquake the moment Jesus dies,

756
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:58,640
Speaker 3: during which the curtain in the Holy of Holies is

757
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:01,799
Speaker 3: torn from top to bottom, a woven curtain which was

758
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 3: eight centimeters thick. That's a thick curtain and thirty feet high.

759
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:10,480
Speaker 3: There's an eclipse and tombs split open. A bunch of

760
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:12,959
Speaker 3: saints who had died are seen walking around the city

761
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:16,719
Speaker 3: right after this. This is never really explained, but I

762
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:19,239
Speaker 3: assumed these were the saints who had died and were

763
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 3: waiting in Abraham's bosom, only really mentioned in the Parable

764
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:25,840
Speaker 3: of Lazarus and the rich Men in Luke chapter sixteen

765
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 3: as a subdivision of Schiol to be taken to Heaven.

766
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 3: As soon as Jesus paid the price to set the

767
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 3: captives free, Presumably they were on their way to Heaven

768
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:39,399
Speaker 3: and just stopped over on Earth briefly, like Jesus did

769
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 3: when Mary encountered him before he had ascended to the Father.

770
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:47,160
Speaker 3: Then when Jesus rises from the dead, there's another earthquake.

771
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:51,239
Speaker 3: I imagine this much like Paul describes in Romans chapter eight,

772
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:55,839
Speaker 3: verse twenty two. The Earth itself groaning and quaking at

773
00:48:55,920 --> 00:49:02,240
Speaker 3: two unnatural events. How can its creator die? Yet it happens,

774
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:05,760
Speaker 3: and the Earth cries out in protest, and then again

775
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:09,200
Speaker 3: as the curse from the Garden is reversed, the earth

776
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:13,920
Speaker 3: cannot keep silent. This reminds me of Aslan's resurrection in

777
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:16,719
Speaker 3: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which c s

778
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:20,560
Speaker 3: Lewis describes as even deeper magic from before the dawn

779
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 3: of time, and the stone table where he was sacrificed

780
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 3: splits right down the middle, So so awesome. Luke's gospel

781
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:31,839
Speaker 3: is the one that tells the story of two disciples

782
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:35,359
Speaker 3: on the Road to Immaeus, though Mark also alludes to it.

783
00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:39,800
Speaker 3: Luke names one of the two disciples as Cleopus. I'm

784
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 3: just assuming this is the same person as Cleophus, the

785
00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 3: husband of Mary, though the spelling is slightly different, so

786
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 3: it's possible at someone else. The other disciple is not named,

787
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:54,120
Speaker 3: but Cleopus and the other disciple rush back to tell

788
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 3: the rest of the disciples that they have seen the Lord.

789
00:49:57,480 --> 00:50:01,320
Speaker 3: They announce the Lord has indeed risen and has appeared

790
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 3: to Simon. This seems a strange thing to say, right then,

791
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:09,759
Speaker 3: unless the other disciple was named Simon, I'd assume that

792
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:13,480
Speaker 3: means Simon Peter, since we don't know of another Simon,

793
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 3: though why suddenly call him Simon rather than Peter. Also,

794
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:21,240
Speaker 3: if Peter wasn't the other disciple on the road to Emmaus,

795
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:24,759
Speaker 3: then he must have encountered Jesus another time that day

796
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:29,280
Speaker 3: and it just wasn't recorded. I doubt this only because

797
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:32,680
Speaker 3: it isn't until John chapter twenty one, when Peter is

798
00:50:32,719 --> 00:50:37,080
Speaker 3: surrounded by other disciples, that Jesus specifically restores him after

799
00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:40,760
Speaker 3: his denial. Seems to me that if Jesus had encountered

800
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 3: Peter alone and earlier, he'd have done it. Then, on

801
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:47,400
Speaker 3: the flip side, when the two disciples returned from Emmaus,

802
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:50,319
Speaker 3: it says they found the eleven and those who were

803
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:54,440
Speaker 3: with them gathered. Peter was one of the eleven, so

804
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:57,240
Speaker 3: if he was the other disciple, shouldn't it have said

805
00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 3: they found the other ten gathered. I'm not sure how

806
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:04,279
Speaker 3: to harmonize this. I've heard another speculation that the other

807
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:08,360
Speaker 3: disciple on the way to Emmaeas was actually Cleopus's wife Mary,

808
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:12,040
Speaker 3: but that doesn't make sense to me either, because Cleopis

809
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:14,840
Speaker 3: tells the stranger some of the women of our company

810
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 3: were at the tomb. Mary would have said hello, I'm

811
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:23,319
Speaker 3: right here. Anyway, for the purposes of my retelling, I

812
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:26,319
Speaker 3: found it more poignant to make the second disciple Peter.

813
00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 3: This also makes sense to me because Jesus spent quite

814
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 3: a few hours opening the scriptures to those two disciples,

815
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:37,640
Speaker 3: and unfortunately Luke doesn't record what he said, so I

816
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:42,320
Speaker 3: inserted my own theological understanding in Jesus's mouth there. Peter

817
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 3: then turns around and presumably gives the same sermon on

818
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:50,800
Speaker 3: Pentecost in Acts chapter two, just after the Holy Spirit falls,

819
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:56,200
Speaker 3: when Jesus prophesied his death and resurrection many times, in

820
00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:59,880
Speaker 3: my opinion, the disciples can be forgiven for not understanding

821
00:51:59,920 --> 00:52:04,200
Speaker 3: that he meant this literally. He so often spoken metaphor,

822
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 3: and Jesus knew that their worldview was that the Messiah

823
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:11,400
Speaker 3: would come as an earthly king. This was patently obvious

824
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 3: when James and John asked to sit on his right

825
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:16,879
Speaker 3: and his left when he came in to his kingdom,

826
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:19,760
Speaker 3: and when they argued about which of them was the greatest?

827
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:23,439
Speaker 3: Why did he not disabuse them of this notion? Then?

828
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:27,759
Speaker 3: Why when he predicted his death and resurrection did he

829
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:31,799
Speaker 3: not open the scriptures to explain why it was necessary beforehand?

830
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:35,560
Speaker 3: All I can figure is that Jesus knew they would

831
00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:38,640
Speaker 3: not receive it in advance. Perhaps they would not have

832
00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:42,040
Speaker 3: understood if he told them what he knew they would

833
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:44,719
Speaker 3: not receive. Perhaps he would have been subject to more

834
00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:48,640
Speaker 3: opposition from them. Similar to Peter's attempt to dissuade him

835
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:52,960
Speaker 3: from the cross. I suspect this was a temptation to Jesus.

836
00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:56,400
Speaker 3: Of course, he knew what he was in for and

837
00:52:56,520 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 3: desperately did not want to go through it. If there

838
00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:02,600
Speaker 3: was any other way, if all his disciples understood that

839
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:06,279
Speaker 3: he really meant to die, how much more opposition might

840
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:10,080
Speaker 3: he have had to endure. Het was God, but he

841
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:13,960
Speaker 3: was also man, subject to like temptations as we are.

842
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:17,759
Speaker 3: Another possibility is that Jesus knew that Satan, in all

843
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:22,280
Speaker 3: the kingdom of darkness, was also listening. Had they truly

844
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:26,239
Speaker 3: understood his mission, they would never have crucified the King

845
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:30,040
Speaker 3: of Glory. If Jesus really spelled it all out for

846
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 3: the disciples, maybe Satan never would have enticed Judas to

847
00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:37,919
Speaker 3: betray him. So instead Jesus spoke in parables, so that

848
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:41,720
Speaker 3: they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed

849
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:47,799
Speaker 3: hear but not understand. Consistently post resurrection, those who knew

850
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 3: Jesus best did not recognize him at first. He must

851
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 3: have looked very different somehow. I am assuming in my

852
00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 3: retellings that this is because the scarring, which evidently was

853
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 3: still present in his hands feet inside as He specifically

854
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:05,600
Speaker 3: shows these to the disciples to convince them it's him.

855
00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:10,600
Speaker 3: Is also still present on his face. Jesus was brutalized

856
00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:14,200
Speaker 3: before he was crucified for us. By his stripes we

857
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 3: are healed. Almost certainly his face was not spared. He

858
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 3: could have healed his scars too, but he chose to

859
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:26,000
Speaker 3: keep at least those mentioned above. Was this to serve

860
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:28,239
Speaker 3: as a reminder of what he had suffered for us?

861
00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:34,000
Speaker 3: Another possibility is that even pre resurrection, Jesus could blend

862
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:37,319
Speaker 3: into a crowd without being noticed, even a crowd that

863
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:41,400
Speaker 3: specifically sought to kill him. Perhaps he merely allowed a

864
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:43,880
Speaker 3: veil over the eyes of those who saw him until

865
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 3: it suited him to remove it. Finally, I want to

866
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:51,959
Speaker 3: point out one very strange statement Jesus makes in John

867
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:57,040
Speaker 3: chapter twenty, verse twenty two. He breathes on the disciples

868
00:54:57,040 --> 00:55:02,720
Speaker 3: and says, receive the Holy Spirit. What They don't receive

869
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:06,640
Speaker 3: the Holy Spirit until Pentecost, forty days later in Acts

870
00:55:06,760 --> 00:55:11,439
Speaker 3: chapter two. One interpretation here is that, as in Luke

871
00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:15,359
Speaker 3: chapter twenty four, verse forty nine, Jesus is telling them

872
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 3: to wait in Jerusalem until Pentecost, when they will receive

873
00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:22,960
Speaker 3: the Holy Spirit. But the way John writes this that

874
00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:28,120
Speaker 3: he breathed on them seems more significant. God breathed life

875
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:32,400
Speaker 3: into the first atom. Jesus now breathes life back on

876
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:35,600
Speaker 3: his disciples the very first time he appears to them

877
00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 3: post resurrection. Is this the born again experience, the moment

878
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:44,920
Speaker 3: when the Holy Spirit first dwells within them, as distinct

879
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:47,359
Speaker 3: from the baptism of the Holy Spirit in power that

880
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:51,920
Speaker 3: they receive in Acts chapter two. After all, Jesus himself

881
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:55,000
Speaker 3: was God, so he had the Holy Spirit from birth

882
00:55:55,560 --> 00:56:00,160
Speaker 3: if ever anyone did. Yet he still required the baptism

883
00:55:59,920 --> 00:56:02,920
Speaker 3: of the Holy Spirit after his water baptism in the

884
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:07,759
Speaker 3: Jordan River prior to beginning his ministry. This seems to

885
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:10,080
Speaker 3: me a good argument for the idea that the two

886
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 3: experiences of being born again and the baptism of the

887
00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:22,799
Speaker 3: Holy Spirit are separate. The scriptures Matthew chapter twenty eight. Now,

888
00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:25,359
Speaker 3: after the Sabbath, as the first day of the week

889
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:28,839
Speaker 3: began to dawn, Mary Magdalen and the other Mary came

890
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:33,000
Speaker 3: to see the tomb, and behold, there was a great earthquake,

891
00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:36,040
Speaker 3: for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and

892
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:38,359
Speaker 3: came and rolled back the stone from the door and

893
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:42,400
Speaker 3: sat on it. His countenance was like lightning, and is

894
00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 3: clothing as white as snow. And the guard shook for

895
00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:49,279
Speaker 3: fear of him and became like dead men. But the

896
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:52,560
Speaker 3: Angel answered and said to the women, do not be afraid,

897
00:56:52,960 --> 00:56:55,879
Speaker 3: for I know that you seek Jesus, who was crucified.

898
00:56:56,400 --> 00:56:59,440
Speaker 3: He is not here, for he has risen. As he said,

899
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:02,680
Speaker 3: Come see the place where the Lord lay, and go

900
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:05,080
Speaker 3: quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from

901
00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:07,319
Speaker 3: the dead. And indeed he is going before you went

902
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:10,200
Speaker 3: to Galilee. There you will see him. Behold, I have

903
00:57:10,239 --> 00:57:13,399
Speaker 3: told you. So they went out quickly from the tomb

904
00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:16,640
Speaker 3: with fear and great joy, and ran to bring his

905
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:20,680
Speaker 3: disciples word. And as they went to tell his disciples, behold,

906
00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:25,120
Speaker 3: Jesus met them, saying rejoice. So they came and held

907
00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:28,120
Speaker 3: him by the feet and worshiped him. Then Jesus said

908
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:31,160
Speaker 3: to them, do not be afraid. Go and tell my

909
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 3: brethren to go to Galilee, and there they will see me. Now,

910
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:38,240
Speaker 3: while they were going, behold, some of the guard came

911
00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:41,000
Speaker 3: into the city and reported to the chief priest all

912
00:57:41,040 --> 00:57:44,040
Speaker 3: the things that had happened when they had assembled with

913
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:47,120
Speaker 3: the elders and consulted together. They gave a large sum

914
00:57:47,200 --> 00:57:50,960
Speaker 3: of money to the soldiers, saying, tell them his disciples

915
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:53,840
Speaker 3: came at night and stole him away while we slept,

916
00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:56,800
Speaker 3: And if this comes to the governor's ears, we will

917
00:57:56,800 --> 00:58:00,760
Speaker 3: appease him and make you secure. They took the money

918
00:58:00,760 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 3: and did as they were instructed, And this saying is

919
00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:07,840
Speaker 3: commonly reported among the Jews until this day. Then the

920
00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 3: eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain which

921
00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:14,800
Speaker 3: Jesus had appointed for them. When they saw him, they

922
00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:18,320
Speaker 3: worshiped him, but some doubted, and Jesus came and spoke

923
00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:21,360
Speaker 3: to them, saying, all authority has been given to me

924
00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:26,160
Speaker 3: in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples

925
00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:29,040
Speaker 3: of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of

926
00:58:29,040 --> 00:58:32,080
Speaker 3: the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

927
00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:35,400
Speaker 3: teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you.

928
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:39,320
Speaker 3: And lo I am with you always, even to the

929
00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:46,760
Speaker 3: end of the age. Amen. Mark chapter sixteen. Now, when

930
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:50,960
Speaker 3: the Sabbath was passed, Mary Magdalen married the mother of James,

931
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:54,400
Speaker 3: and Salome bought spices that they might come and anoint

932
00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:57,680
Speaker 3: him very early in the morning on the first day

933
00:58:57,680 --> 00:58:59,800
Speaker 3: of the week. They came to the tomb when the

934
00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:03,840
Speaker 3: had risen, and they said among themselves, who will roll

935
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:06,160
Speaker 3: away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?

936
00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:09,760
Speaker 3: But when they looked up, they saw that the stone

937
00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:13,160
Speaker 3: had been rolled away, for it was very large. And

938
00:59:13,400 --> 00:59:15,880
Speaker 3: entering the tomb, they saw a young man clothed in

939
00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:19,160
Speaker 3: a long white robe, sitting on the right side, and

940
00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:22,680
Speaker 3: they were alarmed. But he said to them, do not

941
00:59:22,760 --> 00:59:26,760
Speaker 3: be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified.

942
00:59:27,360 --> 00:59:30,200
Speaker 3: He has risen. He's not here see the place where

943
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:33,520
Speaker 3: they laid him. But go tell us disciples and Peter

944
00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:36,479
Speaker 3: that he is going. Before you went to Galilee. There

945
00:59:36,520 --> 00:59:39,680
Speaker 3: you will see him, as he said to you. So

946
00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:42,040
Speaker 3: they went out quickly and fled from the tomb. For

947
00:59:42,120 --> 00:59:46,440
Speaker 3: they trembled and were amazed. And they said nothing to anyone,

948
00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:49,800
Speaker 3: for they were afraid. Now. When he rose early on

949
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:52,480
Speaker 3: the first day of the week, he appeared first to

950
00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:56,040
Speaker 3: marry Magdalen, out of whom he had cast seven demons.

951
00:59:56,760 --> 00:59:59,000
Speaker 3: She went and told those who had been with him.

952
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:02,360
Speaker 3: As they mourned, an wept, And when they heard that

953
01:00:02,440 --> 01:00:05,160
Speaker 3: he was alive and had been seen by her, they

954
01:00:05,200 --> 01:00:09,760
Speaker 3: did not believe. After that, he appeared in another form

955
01:00:09,920 --> 01:00:12,000
Speaker 3: to two of them as they walked and went into

956
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:14,880
Speaker 3: the country, and they went and told it to the rest,

957
01:00:15,240 --> 01:00:18,720
Speaker 3: but they did not believe them either. Later he appeared

958
01:00:18,720 --> 01:00:21,120
Speaker 3: to the eleven as they sat at the table, and

959
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:24,640
Speaker 3: he rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart because they

960
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:27,000
Speaker 3: did not believe those who had seen him. After he

961
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:30,840
Speaker 3: had risen, and he said to them, go into all

962
01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:34,360
Speaker 3: the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. He

963
01:00:34,400 --> 01:00:37,600
Speaker 3: who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he

964
01:00:37,680 --> 01:00:41,120
Speaker 3: who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs

965
01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:44,240
Speaker 3: will follow those who believe in my name. They will

966
01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:47,360
Speaker 3: cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues. They

967
01:00:47,360 --> 01:00:50,240
Speaker 3: will take up serpents, and if they drink anything deadly,

968
01:00:50,560 --> 01:00:52,919
Speaker 3: it will by no means hurt them. They will lay

969
01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:56,320
Speaker 3: hands on the sick, and they will recover. So then,

970
01:00:56,640 --> 01:00:59,600
Speaker 3: after the Lord had spoken to them, he was received

971
01:00:59,640 --> 01:01:02,040
Speaker 3: up into heaven and sat down at the right hand

972
01:01:02,080 --> 01:01:05,920
Speaker 3: of God. And they went out and preached everywhere, the

973
01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:09,000
Speaker 3: Lord working with them and confirming the word through the

974
01:01:09,080 --> 01:01:16,360
Speaker 3: accompanying signs. Amen Luke chapter twenty four Now, on the

975
01:01:16,360 --> 01:01:18,840
Speaker 3: first day of the week, very early in the morning,

976
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:22,600
Speaker 3: they and certain other women with them came to the tomb,

977
01:01:22,640 --> 01:01:26,680
Speaker 3: bringing the spices which they had prepared. But they found

978
01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:30,040
Speaker 3: the stone rolled away from the tomb. Then they went

979
01:01:30,120 --> 01:01:33,480
Speaker 3: in and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

980
01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:37,080
Speaker 3: And it happened, as they were greatly perplexed about this,

981
01:01:37,560 --> 01:01:42,000
Speaker 3: that behold, two men stood by them in shining garments. Then,

982
01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:44,520
Speaker 3: as they were afraid and bowed to their faces to

983
01:01:44,560 --> 01:01:47,760
Speaker 3: the earth, they said to them, why do you seek

984
01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 3: the living among the dead? He is not here, but

985
01:01:51,120 --> 01:01:54,240
Speaker 3: has risen. Remember how he spoke to you when he

986
01:01:54,320 --> 01:01:57,000
Speaker 3: was still in Galilee, saying, the son of Man must

987
01:01:57,000 --> 01:01:59,760
Speaker 3: be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified,

988
01:02:00,120 --> 01:02:03,920
Speaker 3: and the third day rise again. And they remembered his words.

989
01:02:04,600 --> 01:02:07,440
Speaker 3: Then they returned from the tomb and told all these

990
01:02:07,480 --> 01:02:10,800
Speaker 3: things to the eleven and to all the rest. It

991
01:02:10,880 --> 01:02:15,200
Speaker 3: was Mary Magdalen, Joanna, Mary, the mother of James, and

992
01:02:15,280 --> 01:02:17,960
Speaker 3: the other women with them, who told these things to

993
01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:22,160
Speaker 3: the apostles. And their words seemed to them like idle tales,

994
01:02:22,200 --> 01:02:25,640
Speaker 3: and they did not believe them. But Peter arose and

995
01:02:25,720 --> 01:02:28,560
Speaker 3: ran to the tomb, and stooping down, he saw the

996
01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:32,920
Speaker 3: linen cloths lying by themselves, and he departed, marveling to

997
01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:37,200
Speaker 3: himself at what had happened. Now, behold, two of them

998
01:02:37,240 --> 01:02:40,120
Speaker 3: were traveling that same day to a village called Emaeus,

999
01:02:40,560 --> 01:02:44,480
Speaker 3: which was seven miles from Jerusalem, and they talked together

1000
01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:48,040
Speaker 3: of all these things which had happened. So it was

1001
01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:52,360
Speaker 3: while they conversed and reasoned that Jesus himself drew near

1002
01:02:52,440 --> 01:02:56,200
Speaker 3: and went with them. But their eyes were restrained so

1003
01:02:56,280 --> 01:02:59,160
Speaker 3: that they did not know them. And he said to them,

1004
01:02:59,640 --> 01:03:02,800
Speaker 3: what kind of conversation is this that you have with

1005
01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:06,080
Speaker 3: one another as you walk? And are said? Then the

1006
01:03:06,080 --> 01:03:09,120
Speaker 3: one whose name was Cleopus answered and said to him,

1007
01:03:09,720 --> 01:03:13,480
Speaker 3: are you the only stranger in Jerusalem? And have you

1008
01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:16,600
Speaker 3: not known the things which happened there in these days?

1009
01:03:17,480 --> 01:03:21,200
Speaker 3: And he said to them, what things? So they said

1010
01:03:21,200 --> 01:03:26,000
Speaker 3: to him the things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was

1011
01:03:26,040 --> 01:03:28,960
Speaker 3: a prophet mighty indeed in word before God and all

1012
01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:31,720
Speaker 3: the people, and how the chief priest and our rulers

1013
01:03:31,720 --> 01:03:35,080
Speaker 3: delivered him to be condemned to death and crucified him.

1014
01:03:35,520 --> 01:03:38,040
Speaker 3: But we were hoping that it was he who was

1015
01:03:38,080 --> 01:03:42,760
Speaker 3: going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, today is

1016
01:03:42,760 --> 01:03:46,600
Speaker 3: the third day since these things happened. Yes, and certain

1017
01:03:46,640 --> 01:03:48,960
Speaker 3: women of our company who arrived at the tomb early

1018
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:52,680
Speaker 3: astonished us when they did not find his body. They

1019
01:03:52,720 --> 01:03:55,120
Speaker 3: came saying that they had also seen a vision of

1020
01:03:55,240 --> 01:03:59,400
Speaker 3: angels who said he was alive. And certain of those

1021
01:03:59,520 --> 01:04:02,240
Speaker 3: who were with us went to the tomb and found

1022
01:04:02,240 --> 01:04:04,960
Speaker 3: it just as the women had said, But him they

1023
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:10,040
Speaker 3: did not see. Then he said to them, Ah, foolish ones,

1024
01:04:10,320 --> 01:04:12,760
Speaker 3: and slow of heart to believe in all that the

1025
01:04:12,800 --> 01:04:16,560
Speaker 3: prophets have spoken, ought not the Christ to have suffered

1026
01:04:16,600 --> 01:04:20,760
Speaker 3: these things and to enter into his glory, And beginning

1027
01:04:20,760 --> 01:04:24,080
Speaker 3: at Moses and all the prophets he expounded to them,

1028
01:04:24,080 --> 01:04:27,960
Speaker 3: and all the scriptures the things concerning himself. Then they

1029
01:04:28,040 --> 01:04:30,600
Speaker 3: drew near to the village where they were going, and

1030
01:04:30,680 --> 01:04:34,120
Speaker 3: he indicated that he would have gone farther, but they

1031
01:04:34,200 --> 01:04:37,560
Speaker 3: constrained him, saying, abide with us, for it is toward

1032
01:04:37,680 --> 01:04:40,680
Speaker 3: evening and the day is far spent. And he went

1033
01:04:40,680 --> 01:04:43,760
Speaker 3: in to stay with them. Now it came to pass,

1034
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:46,080
Speaker 3: as he sat at the table with them, that he

1035
01:04:46,160 --> 01:04:50,000
Speaker 3: took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.

1036
01:04:50,480 --> 01:04:53,200
Speaker 3: Then their eyes were opened, and they knew him, and

1037
01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:56,520
Speaker 3: he vanished from their sight. And they said to one another,

1038
01:04:57,320 --> 01:05:00,360
Speaker 3: did not our heart burn within us while he talked

1039
01:05:00,360 --> 01:05:02,200
Speaker 3: with us on the road, and while he opened the

1040
01:05:02,200 --> 01:05:06,160
Speaker 3: scriptures to us? So they rose up that very hour

1041
01:05:06,280 --> 01:05:09,720
Speaker 3: and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven and those

1042
01:05:09,760 --> 01:05:13,200
Speaker 3: who were with them gathered together, saying, the Lord is

1043
01:05:13,320 --> 01:05:17,280
Speaker 3: risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon. And they told

1044
01:05:17,360 --> 01:05:20,040
Speaker 3: about the things that had happened on the road, and

1045
01:05:20,080 --> 01:05:23,520
Speaker 3: how he was known to them in the breaking of bread. Now,

1046
01:05:23,560 --> 01:05:26,680
Speaker 3: as they said these things, Jesus himself stood in the

1047
01:05:26,720 --> 01:05:29,480
Speaker 3: midst of them and said to them, peace to you.

1048
01:05:30,200 --> 01:05:33,400
Speaker 3: But they were terrified and frightened, and supposed they had

1049
01:05:33,400 --> 01:05:36,720
Speaker 3: seen a spirit. And he said to them, why are

1050
01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:40,240
Speaker 3: you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts?

1051
01:05:41,080 --> 01:05:45,120
Speaker 3: Behold my hands and my feet that it is I myself.

1052
01:05:46,040 --> 01:05:49,200
Speaker 3: Handle me and see, for a spirit does not have

1053
01:05:49,320 --> 01:05:52,960
Speaker 3: flesh and bones, as you see I have. When he

1054
01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:55,760
Speaker 3: had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

1055
01:05:56,440 --> 01:05:59,800
Speaker 3: But while they still did not believe for joy and marveled,

1056
01:06:00,200 --> 01:06:03,640
Speaker 3: he said to them, have you any food here? So

1057
01:06:03,760 --> 01:06:06,240
Speaker 3: they gave him a piece of a broiled fish and

1058
01:06:06,280 --> 01:06:10,040
Speaker 3: some honeycomb, and he took it and ate in their presence.

1059
01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:13,720
Speaker 3: Then he said to them, these are the words which

1060
01:06:13,760 --> 01:06:15,840
Speaker 3: I spoke to you while I was still with you,

1061
01:06:16,640 --> 01:06:20,000
Speaker 3: that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in

1062
01:06:20,040 --> 01:06:22,960
Speaker 3: the Law of Moses and the prophets and the Psalms

1063
01:06:23,000 --> 01:06:27,200
Speaker 3: concerning me. And he opened their understanding that they might

1064
01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:31,320
Speaker 3: comprehend the scriptures. Then he said to them, thus it

1065
01:06:31,400 --> 01:06:34,640
Speaker 3: is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ

1066
01:06:34,720 --> 01:06:37,280
Speaker 3: to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

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Speaker 3: and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached

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Speaker 3: in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And

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Speaker 3: you are witnesses of these things. Behold, I send the

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Speaker 3: promise of my Father upon you. But terry in the

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Speaker 3: city of Jerusalem, until you are endued with power from

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Speaker 3: on high. And he led them out as far as

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Speaker 3: bet Anie, and he lifted up his hands and blessed them.

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Speaker 3: Now it came to pass while he blessed them, that

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Speaker 3: he was parted from them and carried up into heaven.

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Speaker 3: And they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,

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Speaker 3: and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God.

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Speaker 1: Amen.

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Speaker 3: John chapter twenty. Now the first day of the week,

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Speaker 3: Mary Magdalen went to the tomb early while it was

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Speaker 3: still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken

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Speaker 3: away from the tomb. Then she ran and came to

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Speaker 3: Simon Peter and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved,

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Speaker 3: and said to them, they have taken away the Lord

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Speaker 3: out of the tomb, and we do not know where

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Speaker 3: they have laid him. Peter therefore went out and the

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Speaker 3: other disciple and were going to the tomb. So they

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Speaker 3: both ran together, and the other disciple out ran Peter

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Speaker 3: and came to the tomb first, and he, stooping down

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Speaker 3: and looking in, saw the linen cloths lying there, Yet

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Speaker 3: he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came following

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Speaker 3: him and went into the tomb, and he saw the

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Speaker 3: linen cloths lying there, and the handkerchief that had been

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Speaker 3: around his head not lying with the linen cloths, but

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Speaker 3: folded together in a place by itself. Then the other disciple,

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Speaker 3: who came to the tomb first, went in also, and

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Speaker 3: he saw and believed, for as yet they did not

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Speaker 3: know the scripture that he must rise again from the dead.

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Speaker 3: Then the disciples went away again to their own homes,

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Speaker 3: but Mary stood outside by the tomb, weeping. And as

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Speaker 3: she wept, she stooped down and looked into the tomb,

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Speaker 3: and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at

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Speaker 3: the head and the other at the feet, where the

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Speaker 3: body of Jesus had lain. Then they said to her, woman,

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Speaker 3: why are you weeping? She said to them, because they

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Speaker 3: have taken away my lord, and I do not know

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Speaker 3: where they have laid him. Now, when she had said this,

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Speaker 3: she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, and did

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Speaker 3: not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, woman,

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Speaker 3: why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking. She, supposing

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Speaker 3: him to be the gardener, said to him, Sir, if

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Speaker 3: you have carried him away, tell me where you have

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Speaker 3: laid him, and I will take him away. And Jesus

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Speaker 3: said to her Mary. She turned and said to him, rabboni,

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Speaker 3: which is to say, teach her. Jesus said to her,

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Speaker 3: do not cling to me, for I have not yet

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Speaker 3: ascended to my father. But go to my brethren and

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Speaker 3: say to them I am ascending to my father, and

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Speaker 3: your Father, and to my God and your God. Mary

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Speaker 3: Magdalen came and told the disciples that she had seen

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Speaker 3: the Lord, and that he had spoken these things to her.

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Speaker 3: Then the same day, at evening, being the first day

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Speaker 3: of the week, when the doors were shut where the

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Speaker 3: disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, Jesus came

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Speaker 3: and stood in the midst and said to them, peace

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Speaker 3: be with you. When he had said said this, he

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Speaker 3: showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples

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Speaker 3: were glad when they saw the Lord. So Jesus said

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Speaker 3: to them again, peace to you. As the Father has

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Speaker 3: sent me, I also send you. And when he had

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Speaker 3: said this, he breathed on them and said to them,

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Speaker 3: receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any,

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Speaker 3: they are forgiven them. If you retain the sins of

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Speaker 3: any they are retained. Now Thomas, called the twin, one

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Speaker 3: of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came.

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Speaker 3: The other disciples therefore said to him, we have seen

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Speaker 3: the Lord. So he said to them, unless I see

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Speaker 3: in his hands the print of the nails, and put

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Speaker 3: my finger into the print of the nails, and put

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Speaker 3: my hand into his side, I will not believe. And

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Speaker 3: after eight days his disciples were again inside, and Thomas

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Speaker 3: with them. Jesus came the door is being shut, and

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Speaker 3: stood in the midst and said peace to you. Then

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Speaker 3: he said to Thomas, reach your finger here and look

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Speaker 3: at my hands. And reach your hand here and put

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Speaker 3: it into my side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing.

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Speaker 3: And Thomas answered and said to him, my Lord and

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Speaker 3: my God. And Jesus said to him, Thomas, because you

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Speaker 3: have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who

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Speaker 3: have not seen and yet have believed. And truly, Jesus

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Speaker 3: did many other signs in the presence of this disciples,

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Speaker 3: which are not written in this book. But these are

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Speaker 3: written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ,

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Speaker 3: the Son of God, and that believing you may have

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Speaker 3: life in His name.

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