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Speaker 1: requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of

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Speaker 1: them and of the chief priests prevailed Luke twenty three

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Speaker 1: twenty three. With every breath I take to day, I

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Speaker 1: am in awe at the abuse you suffered on my behalf, Jesus,

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Speaker 1: when I was knee deep in my sin and far

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Speaker 1: As the Nine tales whip rip through your flesh. I

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Speaker 1: am forever grateful that with each strip placed on your body,

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Speaker 1: it represented the sin that you would free me from.

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Speaker 1: I praise you because it was through your pain and

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Speaker 1: chains and bondage of Satan. When life begins to deal

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Speaker 1: me hard blows, let me look to you, Jesus as

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Speaker 1: the encouragement to my faith. Let me look to you, Jesus,

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Speaker 1: to remind me that my pain and troubles are only momentary,

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Speaker 1: and that they will pale in comparison to the glory

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Speaker 1: that awaits me. Thank you for standing trial so that

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Speaker 1: I can stand in my new life, free from Satan

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Speaker 1: and free from the sting of death. In Jesus's name. Amen.

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Speaker 1: Listening to these daily prayers strengthens your relationship with God.

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Speaker 1: Continue hearing from the Lord by listening to today's Bible

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Speaker 1: in a Year, brought to you by Bible in a

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Speaker 2: Jesus on trial. In our last story, Jesus was taken

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Speaker 2: to the chief priests to be questioned. Jesus was beaten,

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Speaker 2: handed over to Pilot. Jesus now stands on trial to

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Speaker 2: be killed. Pilot is to decide whether Jesus of Nazareth

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Speaker 2: should be put to death as inspired by the Gospels.

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Speaker 3: This is Jack Graham with today's episode of the Bible

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Speaker 3: in a Year. In our last time together, we heard

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Speaker 3: how Jesus was beaten, cursed, and mocked before he appeared

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Speaker 3: before the Jewish Sanhedron. He was asked if he claimed

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Speaker 3: his words would cost him, he did not walk away

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Speaker 3: from the truth. Jesus is in fact and claimed to

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Speaker 3: be the Savior, the Son of God, the world's Messiah,

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Speaker 3: the Jewish Messiah, and the Savior of the world. This

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Speaker 3: was the very thing that the Jewish leaders needed to

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Speaker 3: hand him over to the Romans for execution. This, in

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Speaker 3: their minds, was blasphemy that he claimed to be God.

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Speaker 3: We also learned that Peter denied the Lord three times,

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Speaker 3: just as Jesus had predicted. And we learned how Judas,

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Speaker 3: filled with shame and sin, made a tragic decision to

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Speaker 3: as the son of Perdition. Today we'll hear about the

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Speaker 3: trial of Jesus before Pilate, the Roman ruler, seems reluctant

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Speaker 3: to put Jesus to death, but the religious leaders and

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Speaker 3: the crowds cry out for his death while demanding a

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Speaker 3: murderer to be released. And while Jesus is clearly innocent,

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Speaker 3: there's now no stopping what is about to happen that

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Speaker 3: our Lord would be condemned to dial across a brutal,

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Speaker 3: Let's listen now to the reading of the Word of God.

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Speaker 2: Jesus was placed for ponscious pilot with an angry mob

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Speaker 2: So is it as they say? He said. Underneath Pilot's

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Speaker 2: Are you king of the Jews? He asked? Did you

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Speaker 2: Jesus replied, am I at you? Pilot answered you people

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Speaker 2: Yet they brought you here to me to have you killed.

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Speaker 2: What did you do to make them so angry? Jesus

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Speaker 2: So you are a king, Pilot asked again, this time

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Speaker 2: Have you had enough, he yelled, I find no more

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Speaker 2: Pilot asked, where are you from? Jesus was silent. Why

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Speaker 3: As we begin today's scripture, Pilot is asking the crowds

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Speaker 3: The angry crowd yelled that Jesus claimed to be a

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Speaker 3: His truthfulness and gentleness and boldness certainly intrigued even confused Pilot.

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Speaker 3: Jesus continued and said it was for this reason that

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Speaker 3: But we do know that he saw no fault in

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Speaker 3: He was completely innocent as he stood before the crowd,

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Speaker 3: of Isaiah that said the Messiah would stand like a

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Speaker 3: lamb led to the slaughter, not opening his mouth. Pilot

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Speaker 3: he says in Luke twenty three, verses twenty two and

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Speaker 3: what evil has he done? I have found in him

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Speaker 3: no guilt deserving death. I will therefore punish and then

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Speaker 3: release him. But they were urgent, demanding with loud christ

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Speaker 3: that he should be crucified, and their voices prevailed. Finally,

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Speaker 3: who stood before him was innocent. Jesus endured all of this,

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Speaker 3: including the cross, because of God's unending and measurable love

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Speaker 3: for us. This was the cup of suffering and pain

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Speaker 3: that he cried out and asked the Father to take

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Speaker 3: of God, the perfect will, and the lamb of God

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Speaker 3: You could have this relationship with God through Jesus Christ

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Speaker 3: by believing in him that he died for you and

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Speaker 3: rose again so that you could have eternal life. Let's

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Speaker 3: pray together, Lord, we thank you for your love for us.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for Jesus who gave your life on the

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Speaker 3: Lord for us that we might be saved and given

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Speaker 3: eternal life. Thank you for what you did for us

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Speaker 3: and dying that we might live. And we pray this

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Speaker 3: in your saving name. Amen. Thank you for listening to

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Speaker 3: today's Bible in a Year podcast. I'm Jack Graham of Dallas, Texas.

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