1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 1: Life Audio The Bible Study Podcast, Episode nine fifty nine. Today, 2 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 1: The Bible Study Podcast continues the study of the Gospel 3 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 1: of Luke as we finish up chapter twenty two. Welcome 4 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 1: to the Bible Study Podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. 5 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 1: I hope I'm not getting too ahead of myself that 6 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:30,600 Speaker 1: I say we're going to finish up chapter twenty two today, 7 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: but we're going to finish up Monday Thursday and start 8 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 1: getting into good Friday. But first a word from this sponsor. 9 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:40,519 Speaker 1: So we left off with the last Supper, so we're 10 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:43,159 Speaker 1: going to pick this up. In verse thirty nine, Jesus 11 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 1: prays on the Mount of Olives. Jesus went out as 12 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 1: usual to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him. 13 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,239 Speaker 1: On reaching the place, he said to them, pray that 14 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: you will not fall into temptation. He withdrew about a 15 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: stone's throw behind them, knelt down and prayed, Father, if 16 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 1: you were willing take this cup from me, yet not 17 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 1: my will, but yours be done. An angel from heaven 18 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 1: appeared to him and strengthened him, and, being in anguish, 19 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:12,760 Speaker 1: he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops 20 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 1: of blood. Falling to the ground. But he rose from 21 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: prayer and went back to the disciples. He found them asleep, 22 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 1: exhausted from sorrow. Why are you sleeping? He asked them, 23 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: get up and pray so that you will not fall 24 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 1: into temptation. And so this is one of those very 25 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:36,119 Speaker 1: famous stories from Luke from this particular week here where 26 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 1: Jesus is about to face the cross. And we'd say 27 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: that Jesus is fully God and fully man, and fully God. 28 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 1: He knows that he will defeat death, but fully ban 29 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 1: he knows that going through it is going to be agony. 30 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 1: It's going to be a particular type of agony. The 31 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 1: Romans used crucifixion because it was cruel and it was torture. 32 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 1: As he is looking for it in time to that, 33 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 1: he is certainly not looking forward to that, And so 34 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:10,360 Speaker 1: he asks God, is there some other way if you 35 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,920 Speaker 1: are willing take this cup from me? Otherwise not my will, 36 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 1: but yours be done. If there's any other way we 37 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: can do this, if there's any other way we can 38 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,920 Speaker 1: get to what we're trying to do to restore the 39 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: relationship between God and man, let's do that. But there wasn't. 40 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:33,640 Speaker 1: This was the only thing that would solve that, that 41 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 1: would close that rift. And so he says, Father, you're 42 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 1: will be done, and an angel comes and strengthens him. 43 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 1: He will need that strength, and Luke the physician, points 44 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: out that as he prays earnestly, he's literally sweating blood. 45 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: That's how much stress he is in in this moment. 46 00:02:57,600 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 1: And of course he's not getting a lot of help 47 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 1: from the disciple, who he finds have fallen asleep. They're exhausted. 48 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:08,680 Speaker 1: It's interesting in Luke's account, they're exhausted from sorrow, which 49 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 1: is interesting. He said, some sorrowful things at the last Supper? 50 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: Have they sunk in? Do they have some clue what's 51 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 1: going to happen? So get up and praise that you 52 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 1: may not fall into temptation. Jesus arrested. While he was 53 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: still speaking. A crowd came up, and the man who 54 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 1: was called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. 55 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 1: He approached Jesus to kiss him, but Jesus asked, Judas, 56 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 1: are you betraying the son of Man with a kiss. 57 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 1: When Jesus' followers saw that what was going to happen, 58 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 1: they said, Lord, should we strike with our swords? And 59 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 1: one of them struck the servant of the high priest, 60 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: cutting off his right ear. But Jesus answered, no more 61 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 1: of this, and he touched the man's ear and healed him. 62 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 1: Then Jesus said to the chief priests and officers of 63 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: the temple guard and the elders who had come for him, 64 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 1: am I leading a rebellion? That you have come with 65 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 1: swords and clubs. Every day I was with you in 66 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 1: the temple courts, and you did not lay a hand 67 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: on me. But this is your hour when darkness reigns. 68 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 1: And we talk about dark deeds being done in the dark, 69 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 1: and this is one of those where they have been 70 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 1: afraid to arrest Jesus during the day because of fear 71 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 1: of how the crowds will react. They wait until they 72 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 1: can get him alone. And they get him alone with 73 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 1: the help of Judas, Judas who has sold him out 74 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: for pieces of silver. Judas comes up and goes to 75 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: kiss Jesus. Now this would be a kiss on the cheeks. 76 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 1: It's a very common thing in those days, as it 77 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:49,040 Speaker 1: still is in some other cultures. And Jesus says, will 78 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 1: you betray me with a kiss? And remember Jesus had 79 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:58,039 Speaker 1: just told the disciples the apostles to take swords and 80 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:01,160 Speaker 1: take bags and things. So they got two swords with him, 81 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 1: which we learned at the Last Supper, and so one 82 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:07,560 Speaker 1: of them thinks, oh, we must be supposed to use it, 83 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:09,839 Speaker 1: or maybe a couple of them do, because they say, 84 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 1: should we strike with our swords, and one of them 85 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 1: does before they even get an answer, cutting off the 86 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 1: ear of a servant. And so the last public healing 87 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: that Jesus does in scripture is this healing of one 88 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: of the people who has come to arrest him, the 89 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 1: servant of the High Priest, and he heals his ear, 90 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:40,800 Speaker 1: restores it, and then allows himself to be arrested. But 91 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 1: now without pointing out to these people that you're doing 92 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: these dark deeds in the dark. You're doing this when 93 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:51,360 Speaker 1: darkness reigns. I'm not leading a rebellion. You didn't have 94 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:55,159 Speaker 1: to come with clubs and swords, and you could have 95 00:05:55,360 --> 00:06:01,679 Speaker 1: just arrested me in the temple. Continuing on, Peter disowns Jesus, 96 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 1: then seizing him, they led him away and took him 97 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 1: into the house of the High Priest. Peter followed at 98 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 1: a distance when some there had kindled a fire in 99 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 1: the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together. 100 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 1: Peter sat down with them. A servant girl saw him 101 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 1: seated there in the firelight. She looked closely at him 102 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:23,559 Speaker 1: and said, this man was with him, but he denied it. Woman, 103 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 1: I don't know him, he said. A little later, someone 104 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:29,799 Speaker 1: else saw him and said, you are also one of them. Man, 105 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:33,719 Speaker 1: I am not, Peter replied. About an hour later, another asserted, 106 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 1: certainly this fellow was with him, for he is a Galilean. 107 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:40,800 Speaker 1: Peter replied, man, I don't know what you're talking about. 108 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:44,359 Speaker 1: Just as he was speaking, the rooster crowed. The Lord 109 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 1: turned and looked straight at Peter. Then Peter remembered the 110 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:51,600 Speaker 1: word that the Lord had spoken to him before the 111 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 1: rooster crows. Today you will disown me three times, and 112 00:06:55,080 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 1: he went outside and wept bitterly. Peter is a two 113 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:02,799 Speaker 1: minds here. Peter wants to know what's going to happen 114 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 1: with Jesus, and so he's following on trying to learn this. 115 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 1: But he doesn't want to be arrested. He doesn't want 116 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 1: to go through whatever Jesus is going to go through, 117 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 1: and so he is trying to do it, sneaking in 118 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: and pretending like he is not associated with Jesus, and 119 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 1: he has called on it. He's called on it three 120 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 1: times by people who recognize that he's from Galilee. Some 121 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: who recognize him apparently and say, this is somebody who 122 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 1: I've seen with Jesus, and Peter denies it. And we 123 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: understand why Peter did that. But remember this is the 124 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 1: same Peter who said to Jesus just a few hours 125 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 1: ago that I'm ready to go with you to prison 126 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 1: and to death. It is an easy thing to say, 127 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 1: it is a hard thing to do, and so Peter 128 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 1: falls short of his expectations for himself. Jesus never said 129 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 1: Peter today, you need to be willing to go with 130 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 1: me to prison and death. Now he will eventually follow 131 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 1: Jesus in that fashion. It was Peter who set those expectations. 132 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:23,160 Speaker 1: This is who I am. I am somebody who is 133 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: that good a follower that I'm willing to follow you 134 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 1: to prison and to death. But he wasn't, not yet 135 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 1: at least, and he is heartbroken. It is difficult when 136 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:41,720 Speaker 1: we confront ourselves sometimes and we don't live up even 137 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 1: to our own expectations. When we realize we are flawed 138 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:52,720 Speaker 1: and we are broken, but we are. We are not perfect. 139 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 1: We do fall short of what God expects, and I 140 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 1: think more easily fall short sometimes of what we expect 141 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:03,680 Speaker 1: of ourselves. The guards mock Jesus. Then the men guarding 142 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 1: Jesus began mocking and beating him. They blindfolded him and 143 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: demanded prophesy, who hit you? And they said many other 144 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 1: insulting things to him. Now, these guards are not the 145 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 1: Roman guards. These would be the guards for the Jewish leaders. 146 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 1: And they are told by the Jewish leaders to go 147 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:26,800 Speaker 1: arrest this man. And they're told by the Jewish leaders 148 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 1: that this man is a false prophet. That's why they're 149 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 1: going to arrest them. And so they're getting with the 150 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:38,080 Speaker 1: program here. They're beating up Jesus because that's the thing 151 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 1: to do, because that is acceptable in the crowd they're in, 152 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 1: because they think that he is in the wrong. It 153 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:50,960 Speaker 1: is interesting to see what people will do in groups 154 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 1: that they wouldn't think about doing on their own, and 155 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 1: how being in a crowd can lower or resistant to 156 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 1: doing the wrong thing. I don't know what these guards 157 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:06,160 Speaker 1: were like normally, but I don't necessarily assume that they 158 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 1: were always bullies and always cruel. But maybe they were 159 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 1: we don't know Jesus before Pilate and Herod. And now 160 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 1: we're finally into Good Friday, into the morning of Good Friday. 161 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:22,800 Speaker 1: At daybreak, the counsel of the elders of the people, 162 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 1: both the chief priests and the teachers of the law, 163 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 1: met together, and Jesus was led before them. If you 164 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 1: are the Messiah, they said, tell us. Jesus answered, if 165 00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:35,080 Speaker 1: I tell you, you will not believe me, and if 166 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 1: I ask you, you would not answer. But from now on, 167 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 1: the son of Man will be seated at the right 168 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 1: hand of the Mighty God. They all ask, are you 169 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 1: the son of God? He replied, you say that I am. 170 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:50,599 Speaker 1: Then they said, why do we need any more testimony? 171 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 1: We have heard it from his own lips. Now granted 172 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 1: they haven't actually heard it from his own lips. He said, 173 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 1: you say that I am. But this was never going 174 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 1: to be a fair trial. You don't do a fair 175 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:09,720 Speaker 1: trial in the middle of the night or at daybreak, 176 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 1: or you don't arrest the person. This is not intended 177 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:15,440 Speaker 1: to be a fair trial. This is a kangaroo court. 178 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 1: Jesus was guilty before he walked in, and then they 179 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:23,240 Speaker 1: were just trying to figure out guilty of what. We'll 180 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:27,960 Speaker 1: leave Jesus there and we'll continue on next week with 181 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:32,080 Speaker 1: the rest of Good Friday, including his being before King 182 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 1: Herod and being before Pilot. But with that, we're going 183 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 1: to end this episode of the Bible Study Podcast. If 184 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 1: you have any questions, send an email to Chris two 185 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 1: x at gmail dot com, or, better yet, leave a 186 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:48,080 Speaker 1: comment on this episode at the Bible Study podcast dot com. 187 00:11:48,120 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 1: And as always, thanks so much for listening. 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