Class 2 from this series was used in GCT Episode 272.<\/p>\n
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\nI’m really happy to be here with
\nyou. <\/p>\n
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\nAll the four of the world’s
\nmajor religions are based on <\/p>\n
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\nwhat we might call philosophical
\npropositions. <\/p>\n
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\nSo they have something to say,
\nyou know, about morality and and<\/p>\n
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\nmaybe who we should be and how
\nwe should act. <\/p>\n
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\nBut they don’t really make a
\nbolder claim about the state of <\/p>\n
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\nthings, about the state of the
\nworld. <\/p>\n
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\nBut there are four of the
\nworld’s major religions that do <\/p>\n
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\nhave something a little bit
\nbolder to say about God, about <\/p>\n
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\nthe universe, about what we
\nshould believe in. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd those four religions are
\nJudaism, Buddhism, Islam and <\/p>\n
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\nChristianity.
\nAnd of those four religions that<\/p>\n
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\ntake a stronger stance, well,
\nwithin Judaism, somebody of the <\/p>\n
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\nJudaistic faith today would tell
\nyou that that their founding <\/p>\n
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\nfather, Abraham, is dead and
\nburied. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Buddhists would tell you
\nthat Guatemala Buddha died and <\/p>\n
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\nwas buried and that was it.
\nAnd those of the Islamic faith <\/p>\n
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\nwould tell you that their
\nfounder of the great Prophet <\/p>\n
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\nMuhammad died and was buried.
\nAnd that’s the last we saw of <\/p>\n
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\nhim.
\nAnd of those four, perhaps of <\/p>\n
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\nthe most major world religions,
\nonly Christianity makes a bolder<\/p>\n
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\nclaim, says something that seems
\ncrazy, that seems unbelievable. <\/p>\n
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\nIt puts it right out there for
\nus to test the accuracy of it, <\/p>\n
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\nbecause only Christianity claims
\nthat at a point in history a man<\/p>\n
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\nwas raised from the dead.
\nAnd not only that, but that a <\/p>\n
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\nlot of people saw it.
\nAnd it puts it out there so that<\/p>\n
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\nwe can examine it, look at the
\nevidence for or against it. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd of course we know that man
\nwas was our Lord Jesus the <\/p>\n
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\nChrist.
\nAnd the fact that he really <\/p>\n
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\nlived, that he was a real live
\nhuman being, is is really beyond<\/p>\n
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\ndispute today.
\nAnd scholarly circles among <\/p>\n
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\nhistorians, even among atheist
\nhistorians, everybody who knows <\/p>\n
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\nanything who’s looked at the
\nfacts would acknowledge that <\/p>\n
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\nthat as much as any historical
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\nwas a true person, Jesus was.
\nAnd here’s a quote from from an <\/p>\n
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\natheist historian named Michael
\nGrant about Jesus. <\/p>\n
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\nHe says to sum up, modern
\ncritical methods fail to support<\/p>\n
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\nthe Christ myth theory.
\nSo as you may guess, the Christ <\/p>\n
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\nmyth theory says that Jesus is
\njust a made-up person. <\/p>\n
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\nHe wasn’t real at all.
\nNow this is an atheist historian<\/p>\n
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\nwho wrote this in his review of
\nthe Gospels. <\/p>\n
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\nHe says it has again and again
\nbeen answered and annihilated by<\/p>\n
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\nfirst ranked scholars.
\nIn recent years no serious <\/p>\n
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\nscholar has ventured to
\npostulate the non historicity of<\/p>\n
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\nJesus, or at any rate very few,
\nand they have not succeeded in <\/p>\n
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\ndisposing of the much stronger,
\nindeed very abundant, evidence <\/p>\n
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\nto the contrary.
\nAnd at the end of our class last<\/p>\n
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\nnight we saw that debate, a part
\nof the debate where the well <\/p>\n
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\nknown atheist Richard Dawkins is
\nforced to admit that yes, Jesus <\/p>\n
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\nreally did live.
\nIt’s a fact, It’s a historical <\/p>\n
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\nfact as much as any other piece
\nof history that we know about. <\/p>\n
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\nBut he goes on to say, but if
\nyou want to say that the <\/p>\n
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\nmiracles that he performed
\nreally happened and that he <\/p>\n
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\nreally was raised from the dead,
\nhe said all of that. <\/p>\n
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\nI can’t believe it.
\nHe says it defies logic. <\/p>\n
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\nBut come with me To 1st
\nCorinthians chapter 15. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is how important the
\nresurrection of Jesus is to the <\/p>\n
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\nChristadelphian faith.
\nAnd when Paul’s writing here to <\/p>\n
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\nthe Corinthians, it would seem
\nthat that in their ecclesia they<\/p>\n
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\nhad a problem.
\nThe problem was some people were<\/p>\n
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\nteaching that there’s no
\nresurrection of the dead and so <\/p>\n
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\nPaul is is combating that idea.
\nHere I’m going to start reading <\/p>\n
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\nto you in in verse 12 First
\nCorinthians chapter 15. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Paul says now if Christ is
\nproclaimed as raised from the <\/p>\n
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\ndead, how can some of you say
\nthat there is no resurrection of<\/p>\n
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\nthe dead?
\nBut if there is no resurrection <\/p>\n
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\nof the dead, then not even
\nChrist has been raised. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd if Christ has not been
\nraised then our preaching is in <\/p>\n
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\nvain and your faith is in vain.
\nWe are even found to be <\/p>\n
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\nmisrepresenting God, because we
\ntestified about God that he <\/p>\n
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\nraised Christ, whom he did not
\nraise. <\/p>\n
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\nIf it is true that the dead are
\nnot raised, for if the dead are <\/p>\n
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\nnot raised, not even Christ has
\nbeen raised, And if Christ has <\/p>\n
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\nnot been raised, your faith is
\nfutile and you are still in your<\/p>\n
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\nsins, then those also who have
\nfallen asleep in Christ have <\/p>\n
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\nperished.
\nIf in Christ we have hope in <\/p>\n
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\nthis life only, we are of all
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\nBut in fact Christ has been
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\nfruits of those who have fallen
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\nAnd Paul says, look, if there’s
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\nthen Jesus wasn’t raised from
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\nAnd if Jesus wasn’t raised from
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\nforgiveness of sins.
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\nsins, then what are we doing
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\nAll of our preaching, all of our
\ngood works, all of it is for <\/p>\n
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\nnothing because we’re just going
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\nAnd the point is that the entire<\/p>\n
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\nentirety of the Christian faith <\/p>\n
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\nin the Bible, hangs in the
\nbalance based on whether or not <\/p>\n
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\nat a point in history a man
\nreally was raised from the dead.<\/p>\n
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\nBecause if it’s not true, then
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\neverything else that we read in
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\nSo in this class we want to ask
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\nWhy do we think it’s true?
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\nThis was, if you will, sort of
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\nIt was the beginning of the end
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\nNow it seemed like gone and <\/p>\n
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\ngathered the council and said,
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\nFor this man performs many
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\nIf we let him go on like this,
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\nnation.
\nBut one of them, Caiaphas, who <\/p>\n
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\nwas high priest that year, said
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\nit is better for you that one <\/p>\n
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\nman should die for the people
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\nNow, the argument that Caiaphas <\/p>\n
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\nafter them, and they’ve risen up
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\nAnd now here is this Jesus, and
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\nBecause the Romans had let the
\nJews continue to govern <\/p>\n
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\nthemselves, continue to worship
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\nBut, he said, now that won’t be
\nthe case. <\/p>\n
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\nThey’ll take all that away from
\nus. <\/p>\n
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\nWe won’t be able to to live the
\nway we’ve always lived. <\/p>\n
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\nWe won’t be able to worship the
\nGod we’ve always worshipped. <\/p>\n
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\nOur nation will be taken away if
\nwe let this continue. <\/p>\n
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\nSo he says, for the good of our
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\nto it.
\nAnd yes, it might be wrong to <\/p>\n
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\nmurder a man, but don’t the
\nneeds of the many outweigh the <\/p>\n
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\nneeds of the few?
\nOr in this case, the needs of <\/p>\n
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\nWe’ve got to preserve our
\nnation. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we’ve got to do this thing,
\nas uncomfortable as it might <\/p>\n
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\nmake you feel, We’re going to
\nhave to kill this man. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd from this point on, the
\nJewish leaders make it known <\/p>\n
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\nthat they’ll be very pleased if
\nanybody comes to them with any <\/p>\n
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\ninformation that leads to the
\nrest of Jesus. <\/p>\n
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\nEssentially, when we read into
\nit, they put a bounty on the <\/p>\n
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\nhead of Jesus.
\nIf anybody can help us out, give<\/p>\n
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\nus information that leads to the
\nrest of this man, we’ll be very <\/p>\n
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\nhappy with you and we’ll reward
\nyou. <\/p>\n
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\nBut they had a problem.
\nThey couldn’t just go and arrest<\/p>\n
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\nhim.
\nThey had a lot of fears. <\/p>\n
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\nCome back with me.
\nJust a few pages to John, <\/p>\n
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\nChapter 7.
\nThey had sent their own Temple <\/p>\n
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\nGuard, who was on their payroll
\nto go arrest Jesus, and those <\/p>\n
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\nguards came back empty handed.
\nAnd that’s the context for when <\/p>\n
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\nwe start in verse 45 of John
\nChapter 7. <\/p>\n
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\nThe officers then came to the
\nchief priests and Pharisees who <\/p>\n
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\nsaid to them, Why did you not
\nbring him? <\/p>\n
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\nThe officers answered.
\nNo one ever spoke like this man.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Pharisees answered them.
\nHave you also been deceived? <\/p>\n
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\nHave any of the authorities or
\nthe Pharisees believed in him? <\/p>\n
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\nBut this crowd that does not
\nknow the law is accursed. <\/p>\n
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\nNicodemus, who had gone to him
\nbefore, and who was one of them,<\/p>\n
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\nsaid to them, does our law judge
\na man without first giving him a<\/p>\n
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\nhearing and learning what he
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\nThey replied, Are you from
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\nTwo search and see that no
\nprophet arises from Galilee. <\/p>\n
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\nNow in their response to these
\nsoldiers, they actually said two<\/p>\n
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\nthings that we know we’re wrong.
\nFirst, they they say to him, <\/p>\n
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\nlook, none of the leaders, none
\nof us has believed on him, and <\/p>\n
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\nwe’re the people who know
\neverything. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, they were wrong, weren’t
\nthey? <\/p>\n
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\nBecause the man who just spoke,
\nNicodemus, we’re in on the <\/p>\n
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\nsecret at this point, although
\nthey don’t know Nicodemus was <\/p>\n
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\none of them, and he was a secret
\nfollower of Jesus. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we’ll find out later there
\nwas another man, Joseph of <\/p>\n
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\nArimathea, in their midst.
\nThey did have people who were <\/p>\n
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\nperhaps secretly following
\nJesus. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd not only that, they say,
\nlook, he comes from the filthy <\/p>\n
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\nregion of Galilee.
\nThere’s never been a prophet <\/p>\n
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\nthat’s come from there.
\nBut both Jonah and Nahum had <\/p>\n
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\ncome from the region of Galilee.
\nBut the point is this. <\/p>\n
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\nThey had a problem.
\nThey couldn’t even get their own<\/p>\n
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\nsoldiers to go and arrest this
\nman. <\/p>\n
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\nSo how were they going to be
\nable to do it successfully? <\/p>\n
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\nThey were afraid.
\nThey were afraid that wherever <\/p>\n
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\nthey went to try to find him,
\nthe people would be there to <\/p>\n
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\nstop them.
\nAnd perhaps more than that, it’s<\/p>\n
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\nnot written in the New
\nTestament, but but it’s an <\/p>\n
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\nassumption maybe we can make.
\nThey might have been afraid of <\/p>\n
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\nJesus himself, because this man
\nhad undeniably power of God. <\/p>\n
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\nHe had performed miracles.
\nMany of these leaders had <\/p>\n
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\nwatched it happen.
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\nBut who knew if when backed up <\/p>\n
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\nagainst the corner, he might
\nlash out and what he could do <\/p>\n
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\nand what he might be capable of.
\nSo they needed somebody to <\/p>\n
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\ndeliver him, not only away from
\nthe people when there were <\/p>\n
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\ncrowds around him that could
\nprotect him, they needed <\/p>\n
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\nsomebody to deliver him when he
\nwas in the right state of mind. <\/p>\n
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\nNow we don’t have time to turn
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\nmight normally end this story,
\nbecause we’re going to be <\/p>\n
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\nlooking at the events leading up
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\nwe’re going to be looking at his
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\nWe know that Jesus was there in
\nthe upper room with Judas, the <\/p>\n
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\nman who would betray him, and I
\nwant you to come with me now, <\/p>\n
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\nback to Luke chapter 22.
\nI imagine that the Pharisees and<\/p>\n
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\nthe leaders of the Jews and
\ntheir wildest dreams never <\/p>\n
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\nJesus’s inner circle of
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\nBut that’ll be exactly what
\nhappens when Judas hears about <\/p>\n
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\nthe bounty that’s on the head of
\nJesus. <\/p>\n
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\nI’m going to start reading at
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\nThen Satan entered into Judas
\ncalled Iscariot, who was of the <\/p>\n
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\nHe went away and conferred with <\/p>\n
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\nthe chief priests and officers
\nhow he might betray him to them.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd they were glad and agreed to
\ngive him money. <\/p>\n
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\nSo he consented and sought an
\nopportunity to betray him to <\/p>\n
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\nthem.
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\nhim when this happened.
\nSo Judas goes away from that <\/p>\n
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\nmeeting with them, looking for
\nthe right opportunity. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so Judas is sitting there
\nwith Jesus in the upper room at <\/p>\n
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\nthat Last Supper with the other
\ndisciples. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Jesus is talking about his
\ndeath. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Judas realizes what’s going
\nto happen next. <\/p>\n
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\nHe knows where they’re going to
\ngo. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Jesus turns to Judas, and he
\nsays that what you’re about to <\/p>\n
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\ndo, do it quickly.
\nYou remember that and the other <\/p>\n
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\ndisciples don’t understand what
\nJesus means by that. <\/p>\n
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\nBut Judas knows and he leaves.
\nHe walks out into the night, and<\/p>\n
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\nat that point we lose track of
\nhim. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat happened between when we
\nsee him there and when we next <\/p>\n
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\nsee him at the arrest of Jesus?
\nBecause you would think Jesus <\/p>\n
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\nsaid what you’re about to do, do
\nit quickly. <\/p>\n
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\nYou can imagine him running
\nthrough the streets of the city,<\/p>\n
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\nbut it will be hours and hours
\nuntil the arrest party arrives <\/p>\n
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\nwith Judas to actually arrest
\nJesus. <\/p>\n
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\nIf he was supposed to do it
\nquickly, how come it took so <\/p>\n
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\nlong?
\nHow can we explain that? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we’re going to look at this
\nstory now with more of a <\/p>\n
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\ncritical eye.
\nWe’ve got to be able to explain <\/p>\n
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\nthese gaps that the Bible
\ndoesn’t go to any lengths to <\/p>\n
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\nexplain for us.
\nWe know that it was late at <\/p>\n
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\nnight by the time that Judas and
\nthe arrest party came to to <\/p>\n
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\narrest Jesus for a number of
\nreasons because the disciples <\/p>\n
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\nwere exhausted.
\nJesus went to the garden and was<\/p>\n
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\npraying in the garden of
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\nAnd there are three separate
\noccasions where he goes back and<\/p>\n
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\nfinds the disciples sleep and he
\nsays asleep. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he says can you not wait
\nwith me one hour? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd they say OK, OK And he goes
\nand they fall asleep again three<\/p>\n
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\ndifferent times.
\nIt was well past their bedtime, <\/p>\n
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\nand we know that it must have
\nbeen quite dark by the time they<\/p>\n
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\ngot there, because Jesus can see
\na little bit far away the <\/p>\n
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\ntorches of the arrest party as
\nthey come in the darkness of the<\/p>\n
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\nnight.
\nAnd John chapter chapters <\/p>\n
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\n14\/15\/16 and 17 all take place
\nin the upper room after Judas <\/p>\n
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\nhas left the room where Jesus
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\nhis disciples.
\nAnd then he gives this great, <\/p>\n
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\npowerful prayer with them.
\nAnd then they sing hymns before <\/p>\n
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\nthey even leave the upper room
\nto go and walk out. <\/p>\n
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\nIt would have taken them
\nprobably 20 to 30 minutes to <\/p>\n
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\nwalk out to the Garden of
\nGethsemane. <\/p>\n
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\nHours and hours go by before
\nJudas actually comes back. <\/p>\n
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\nHow can we explain that?
\nSo let’s just imagine for a <\/p>\n
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\nsecond what it might have been
\nlike for Judas, what he would <\/p>\n
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\nto set this up. <\/p>\n
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\nSo let’s say he walks out the
\ndoor. <\/p>\n
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\nJesus said what you’re about to
\ndo, do quickly, and he’s running<\/p>\n
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\nthrough the streets of the city
\nto meet someone we don’t know. <\/p>\n
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\nHe must have had a contact.
\nHe knocks on somebody’s door. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is at night and the door
\nopens. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat must Judas have said to
\nwhoever his contact was? <\/p>\n
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\nHe must have said something like
\nnow is the time. <\/p>\n
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\nI can tell you exactly where
\nhe’s going to be tonight. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s going to be in a place away
\nfrom the city, away from the <\/p>\n
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\ncrowds, and he is thinking and
\ntalking about death. <\/p>\n
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\nYou’ll never find him in a
\nbetter state of mind. <\/p>\n
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\nHe is depressed.
\nThis is what they were waiting <\/p>\n
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\nfor.
\nBut now they had a problem. <\/p>\n
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\nYou see, they had no idea when
\nthe moment was going to come. <\/p>\n
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\nThey had this man now on their
\npayroll, but they didn’t know <\/p>\n
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\nmoment.
\nAnd all of a sudden he’s <\/p>\n
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\nknocking on their door.
\nAnd the very next day the feast <\/p>\n
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\nis about to start.
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\nthem, have already arrived in
\nthe city. <\/p>\n
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\nThe city would be busier at this
\ntime of year than almost any <\/p>\n
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\nother time of the year.
\nSo they were afraid of the <\/p>\n
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\ncrowds.
\nBut more than that, according to<\/p>\n
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\nthe law, they could not try a
\nman for this kind of a crime <\/p>\n
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\nduring the feast.
\nSo they had to either convict <\/p>\n
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\nhim tonight where the moment
\nwould be lost, it would be gone.<\/p>\n
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\nThey had to make a choice.
\nThey had to make a decision. <\/p>\n
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\nBut if they were going to go
\nthrough with this, there were a <\/p>\n
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\nlot of things they were going to
\nhave to arrange very, very <\/p>\n
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\nquickly because they were going
\nto do some things that were <\/p>\n
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\nillegal.
\nWe’re going to find they didn’t <\/p>\n
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\ncare if they had to break the
\nlaw to make this happen. <\/p>\n
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\nThey just didn’t want to anger
\nthe people. <\/p>\n
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\nThey were willing to do whatever
\nit took to get rid of this man. <\/p>\n
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\nThere were a lot of things that
\nwere illegal about what they’re <\/p>\n
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\nabout to do.
\nFor example, under Jewish law, <\/p>\n
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\nit was illegal for the Temple
\nGuard to arrest somebody who was<\/p>\n
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\naccused of a crime.
\nUnder Jewish law is the <\/p>\n
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\nresponsibility of the person or
\npersons who witnessed the crime <\/p>\n
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\nto go and and bring that person
\nto the Sanhedrin Council and to <\/p>\n
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\nbring them before the judge.
\nIt was illegal for them to just <\/p>\n
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\nsend the soldiers out to get
\nhim. <\/p>\n
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\nBut when Judas arrives, John
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\nus that the Temple guard is
\nthere with him. <\/p>\n
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\nThat was against the law, but of
\ncourse the leaders of the Jews <\/p>\n
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\nwere going to take no chances.
\nThis man had power. <\/p>\n
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\nThey wanted to make sure they
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\nback and to if his disciples
\nwere there to to beat them back <\/p>\n
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\nas well.
\nIt was illegal under Jewish law <\/p>\n
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\nto try a capital charge By
\nnight. <\/p>\n
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\nA capital charge is 1, which if
\nthe person is is convicted, they<\/p>\n
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\nwould be put to death.
\nIt’s illegal to do that. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was illegal to do that under
\nJewish law at night. <\/p>\n
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\nBut they’re about to hold this
\ntrial at night and it was <\/p>\n
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\nillegal for the judges of the
\ntrial to cross examine the <\/p>\n
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\nprisoner after the testimony of
\nthe witnesses had broken down. <\/p>\n
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\nCome with me to mark chapter 14
\nand have a look at this. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is now we’re in the trial
\nof Jesus. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I’m going to start reading
\nto you from verse 55 of Mark <\/p>\n
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\nchapter 14.
\nNow the chief priests and the <\/p>\n
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\n00:20:18,240 –> 00:20:22,160
\nwhole council, we’re seeking
\ntestimony against Jesus to put <\/p>\n
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\n00:20:22,160 –> 00:20:26,080
\nhim to death.
\nBut they found none, for many <\/p>\n
341
\n00:20:26,120 –> 00:20:30,440
\nbore false witness against him,
\nbut their testimony did not <\/p>\n
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\n00:20:30,440 –> 00:20:33,560
\nagree.
\nYou see, here’s how it works. <\/p>\n
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\n00:20:34,120 –> 00:20:37,400
\nDuring a trial under Jewish law,
\nyou’re probably familiar with <\/p>\n
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\n00:20:37,400 –> 00:20:40,520
\nthe biblical law that somebody
\ncould not be convicted if there <\/p>\n
345
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\nwas just one witness.
\nThere had to be at least two and<\/p>\n
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\npreferably 2 or more witnesses.
\nAnd so if they had more than one<\/p>\n
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\nwitness, those witnesses would
\nbe, we call it, sequestered. <\/p>\n
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\n00:20:51,360 –> 00:20:53,680
\nThey’d be kept somewhere in a
\nseparate room, away from <\/p>\n
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\n00:20:53,680 –> 00:20:56,240
\neverybody else.
\nYou didn’t want them talking to <\/p>\n
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\n00:20:56,240 –> 00:20:57,480
\neach other.
\nYou wanted to make sure you were<\/p>\n
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\n00:20:57,480 –> 00:21:00,320
\ngetting the truth of the matter.
\nNo collaboration between the <\/p>\n
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\n00:21:00,320 –> 00:21:02,720
\nwitnesses.
\nSo the judges, which would be <\/p>\n
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\n00:21:02,720 –> 00:21:04,880
\nthe members of the the
\nleadership council, the <\/p>\n
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\n00:21:04,880 –> 00:21:08,320
\nSanhedrin Council of the Jews,
\nwould call the first witness out<\/p>\n
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\n00:21:09,640 –> 00:21:12,960
\nand that witness would give his
\ntestimony of what he had seen. <\/p>\n
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\n00:21:12,960 –> 00:21:15,200
\nIt had to be, you know, of
\nsomething that was a criminal <\/p>\n
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\n00:21:15,200 –> 00:21:18,120
\nact.
\nAnd at this point there are <\/p>\n
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\n00:21:18,120 –> 00:21:21,360
\nthree types of testimony under
\nJewish law. <\/p>\n
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\n00:21:22,760 –> 00:21:25,200
\nAnd the first kind of testimony
\nis called a vain testimony. <\/p>\n
360
\n00:21:25,200 –> 00:21:27,000
\nA vain testimony looks like
\nthis. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:21:27,200 –> 00:21:29,560
\nA single witness comes out and
\nthey give their testimony. <\/p>\n
362
\n00:21:29,560 –> 00:21:33,520
\nAnd for whatever the reason, the
\njudges throw that testimony out.<\/p>\n
363
\n00:21:33,520 –> 00:21:35,800
\nThey say no, that, you know, the
\nfacts don’t line up. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:21:35,960 –> 00:21:38,440
\nWe don’t believe you.
\nWe find this to be not a <\/p>\n
365
\n00:21:38,440 –> 00:21:40,800
\ncredible witness, a vain
\ntestimony. <\/p>\n
366
\n00:21:40,920 –> 00:21:44,080
\nThat witness is dismissed and
\nthey don’t accept his testimony.<\/p>\n
367
\n00:21:45,120 –> 00:21:47,640
\nThe second type of testimony
\nunder under Jewish law is called<\/p>\n
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\n00:21:47,640 –> 00:21:50,800
\na standing testimony.
\nSo that means the first witness <\/p>\n
369
\n00:21:50,800 –> 00:21:53,960
\ncomes out, they testify as to
\nwhat they have seen. <\/p>\n
370
\n00:21:54,720 –> 00:21:58,120
\nAnd the council says, OK, fair
\nenough, thank you very much. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:21:58,120 –> 00:22:00,840
\nAnd they dismiss that witness
\nand call out the next one. <\/p>\n
372
\n00:22:01,120 –> 00:22:04,920
\nHis testimony stands, but it
\nremains for it to be confirmed <\/p>\n
373
\n00:22:04,920 –> 00:22:07,680
\nby the other witnesses.
\nThis is why the witnesses are <\/p>\n
374
\n00:22:07,680 –> 00:22:10,160
\nkept sequestered, so they can’t
\nhear what the other one is <\/p>\n
375
\n00:22:10,160 –> 00:22:14,480
\nsaying when they’re testifying.
\nAnd what they want to ensure is <\/p>\n
376
\n00:22:14,480 –> 00:22:16,920
\nthat the testimony of all the
\nwitnesses lines up. <\/p>\n
377
\n00:22:17,120 –> 00:22:19,680
\nThe judges were expected to be
\nvery critical of the testimony <\/p>\n
378
\n00:22:19,680 –> 00:22:21,920
\nof the witnesses and look at all
\nthe facts and look for any <\/p>\n
379
\n00:22:21,920 –> 00:22:25,560
\ninconsistencies in the story.
\nAnd if the testimony of the <\/p>\n
380
\n00:22:25,560 –> 00:22:28,600
\nwitnesses doesn’t line up, the
\nJewish law says you’ve got to, <\/p>\n
381
\n00:22:28,600 –> 00:22:31,520
\nyou’ve got to throw out the case
\nand set the set the prisoner <\/p>\n
382
\n00:22:31,520 –> 00:22:34,600
\nfree.
\nBut when all of the witnesses <\/p>\n
383
\n00:22:34,600 –> 00:22:37,080
\ncome and their stories are all
\nstand and they all agree <\/p>\n
384
\n00:22:37,080 –> 00:22:39,680
\ntogether and the judges say,
\nyes, these are acceptable <\/p>\n
385
\n00:22:39,680 –> 00:22:44,040
\ntestimonies, he is guilty.
\nThat’s what is referred to as an<\/p>\n
386
\n00:22:44,040 –> 00:22:46,840
\nadequate testimony.
\nWhen the testimony under the <\/p>\n
387
\n00:22:46,840 –> 00:22:49,560
\nJewish law, they say it’s when
\nthe testimony of the witnesses <\/p>\n
388
\n00:22:49,560 –> 00:22:53,280
\nagrees together.
\nSo did you notice? <\/p>\n
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\n00:22:53,800 –> 00:22:57,240
\nHave a look at this in verse 56
\nthat I that we just read. <\/p>\n
390
\n00:22:57,520 –> 00:23:02,920
\nMany bore false witness against
\nhim, but their testimony did not<\/p>\n
391
\n00:23:03,040 –> 00:23:08,280
\nagree.
\nSo they had multiple witnesses, <\/p>\n
392
\n00:23:08,280 –> 00:23:10,680
\nLots of witnesses that came
\nforward, but their stories were <\/p>\n
393
\n00:23:10,680 –> 00:23:13,440
\ncontradictory.
\nNow remember at this point there<\/p>\n
394
\n00:23:13,440 –> 00:23:16,120
\nwere at least a couple members
\non the Jewish Sanhedrin Council <\/p>\n
395
\n00:23:16,120 –> 00:23:17,960
\nwho were secret followers of
\nJesus. <\/p>\n
396
\n00:23:18,760 –> 00:23:21,080
\nSo while the rest of them might
\nhave been in on this, on this <\/p>\n
397
\n00:23:21,080 –> 00:23:24,600
\nscheme to arrest and kill this
\nman, there were a few that were <\/p>\n
398
\n00:23:24,600 –> 00:23:28,040
\ndoing their job, truly doing
\ntheir job and and saying no, <\/p>\n
399
\n00:23:28,040 –> 00:23:29,560
\nlook look the facts don’t add
\nup. <\/p>\n
400
\n00:23:29,560 –> 00:23:31,520
\nThese witnesses don’t have their
\nstory straight. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:23:32,720 –> 00:23:36,360
\nAnd at this point, by law, they
\nwere supposed to have thrown out<\/p>\n
402
\n00:23:36,360 –> 00:23:39,920
\nthe case, and it was illegal at
\nthis point, when the testimony <\/p>\n
403
\n00:23:39,920 –> 00:23:43,600
\nof the witnesses had broken
\ndown, for any of the judges to <\/p>\n
404
\n00:23:43,600 –> 00:23:49,800
\ncross examine the prisoner.
\nBut that’s exactly what is about<\/p>\n
405
\n00:23:49,800 –> 00:23:53,720
\nto happen.
\nNow, let me give you an example <\/p>\n
406
\n00:23:53,720 –> 00:23:57,400
\nof what this might look like in
\nthis specific trial in a case <\/p>\n
407
\n00:23:57,400 –> 00:24:00,040
\nwhere the testimony of the
\nwitnesses does not agree <\/p>\n
408
\n00:24:00,040 –> 00:24:04,320
\ntogether.
\nSo one of the things that Jesus <\/p>\n
409
\n00:24:04,320 –> 00:24:07,120
\nwill be charged with is that he
\nthreatened to destroy the <\/p>\n
410
\n00:24:07,120 –> 00:24:08,800
\nTemple.
\nThis was sacrilege. <\/p>\n
411
\n00:24:09,680 –> 00:24:12,480
\nIt could be, under Jewish law,
\npunishable by death. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:24:13,440 –> 00:24:16,600
\nNow these are three different
\nquotes from three different <\/p>\n
413
\n00:24:16,600 –> 00:24:21,000
\ngospels of what Jesus said.
\nTwo of them are from the trial <\/p>\n
414
\n00:24:21,000 –> 00:24:24,880
\nof Jesus and the third one and
\nJohn is is the actual account of<\/p>\n
415
\n00:24:24,880 –> 00:24:28,280
\nwhat Jesus said.
\nSo in Mark chapter 14 and verse <\/p>\n
416
\n00:24:28,280 –> 00:24:32,920
\n58 one of the witnesses said
\nJesus said I will destroy this <\/p>\n
417
\n00:24:32,920 –> 00:24:36,000
\ntemple that is made with hands
\nand within three days I will <\/p>\n
418
\n00:24:36,000 –> 00:24:37,960
\nbuild another made without
\nhands. <\/p>\n
419
\n00:24:39,160 –> 00:24:43,240
\nOK, so that’s the kind of
\ntestimony that might stand in a <\/p>\n
420
\n00:24:43,240 –> 00:24:46,360
\ntrial, he said I’m going to
\ndestroy this Temple, says the <\/p>\n
421
\n00:24:46,360 –> 00:24:48,880
\nwitness.
\nBut we look at a parallel <\/p>\n
422
\n00:24:48,880 –> 00:24:51,280
\naccount of the same story and
\nanother witness says in <\/p>\n
423
\n00:24:51,280 –> 00:24:56,720
\nMatthew’s account that Jesus
\nsaid I am able to destroy the <\/p>\n
424
\n00:24:56,720 –> 00:24:59,280
\ntemple of God and to build it in
\nthree days. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:24:59,720 –> 00:25:02,440
\nNow look at those two quotes and
\nare they the same? <\/p>\n
426
\n00:25:03,320 –> 00:25:07,360
\nAnd they’re not, Because in the
\nfirst quote Jesus said I’m going<\/p>\n
427
\n00:25:07,360 –> 00:25:09,200
\nto destroy this temple, said the
\nwitness. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:25:09,600 –> 00:25:12,920
\nBut in the second one, the
\nwitness says, he simply said I’m<\/p>\n
429
\n00:25:12,920 –> 00:25:16,160
\ncapable of destroying this
\ntemple. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:25:16,960 –> 00:25:21,800
\nNow the first one surely could
\nbe construed as as as sacrilege,<\/p>\n
431
\n00:25:22,400 –> 00:25:25,320
\nbut the second one, he’s just
\nsaying, you know, I could do it <\/p>\n
432
\n00:25:25,320 –> 00:25:26,880
\nif I wanted.
\nI’ve got the power to do it. <\/p>\n
433
\n00:25:26,880 –> 00:25:29,560
\nNow they might consider that to
\nbe a pompous claim, but it’s <\/p>\n
434
\n00:25:29,560 –> 00:25:32,880
\ncertainly not breaking the law.
\nThis is an example of where two <\/p>\n
435
\n00:25:32,880 –> 00:25:35,920
\nwitnesses would have a slight
\ndetail that’s different in the <\/p>\n
436
\n00:25:35,920 –> 00:25:38,160
\ntelling of their stories that
\nthe judges would be expected to <\/p>\n
437
\n00:25:38,320 –> 00:25:42,720
\nto to compare and say no, these
\ntestimonies don’t line line up. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:25:43,840 –> 00:25:46,520
\nAnd what did Jesus actually say?
\nIt’s recorded in John chapter 2,<\/p>\n
439
\n00:25:46,520 –> 00:25:49,320
\nverse 19.
\nJesus said destroy this temple, <\/p>\n
440
\n00:25:49,320 –> 00:25:53,200
\nYou destroy this temple.
\nAnd in three days I will raise <\/p>\n
441
\n00:25:53,200 –> 00:25:55,520
\nit up.
\nAnd the record adds that that <\/p>\n
442
\n00:25:55,600 –> 00:25:57,160
\nJesus was speaking
\nmetaphorically. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:25:57,160 –> 00:25:58,880
\nHe was talking about the temple
\nof his body. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:25:58,880 –> 00:26:01,600
\nWho’s saying, you kill me and
\nI’ll be raised in three days. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:26:02,240 –> 00:26:06,280
\nThat’s what he actually said.
\nDid you notice one interesting <\/p>\n
446
\n00:26:06,280 –> 00:26:08,400
\nthing that all three of these
\naccounts got right? <\/p>\n
447
\n00:26:08,400 –> 00:26:11,840
\nBecause consider this, If a
\nhistorian is looking at the <\/p>\n
448
\n00:26:11,840 –> 00:26:13,840
\ngospel accounts, they’re
\ntreating this like they treat <\/p>\n
449
\n00:26:13,840 –> 00:26:17,240
\nany other historical record when
\nthey’re trying to assess whether<\/p>\n
450
\n00:26:17,240 –> 00:26:20,200
\nor not these are accurate.
\nEach one of these gospels are <\/p>\n
451
\n00:26:20,200 –> 00:26:23,240
\ndifferent ancient manuscripts
\nthat were found written at <\/p>\n
452
\n00:26:23,240 –> 00:26:24,920
\ndifferent times by different
\npeople. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:26:24,920 –> 00:26:27,600
\nSo they compare them to each
\nother to line up the facts. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:26:28,040 –> 00:26:32,400
\nAnd in every single case, each
\nof the three writers got the <\/p>\n
455
\n00:26:32,400 –> 00:26:36,960
\nsame detail, the same they all
\nremembered were recorded, that <\/p>\n
456
\n00:26:37,000 –> 00:26:39,760
\nJesus said it was going to
\nhappen in three days. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:26:39,760 –> 00:26:42,320
\nEverybody remembers, Jesus said
\nbefore it ever happened. <\/p>\n
458
\n00:26:42,320 –> 00:26:45,360
\nHe said it’s going to be, it’s
\ngoing to be in three days that <\/p>\n
459
\n00:26:45,360 –> 00:26:49,000
\nthis will happen, isn’t that
\ninteresting that that should all<\/p>\n
460
\n00:26:49,000 –> 00:26:54,920
\nline up?
\nNow come with me to Matthew <\/p>\n
461
\n00:26:54,920 –> 00:27:00,440
\nchapter 26 and have a look
\ntowards the end of the chapter. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:27:04,240 –> 00:27:15,920
\nAt verse 63 the testimony of the
\nwitnesses has broken down and <\/p>\n
463
\n00:27:15,920 –> 00:27:19,120
\nthe high priest is beside
\nhimself because they put all <\/p>\n
464
\n00:27:19,120 –> 00:27:21,480
\nthis effort into convicting this
\nman and they’re going to have to<\/p>\n
465
\n00:27:21,480 –> 00:27:24,160
\nthrow out the trial.
\nHe doesn’t know what else to do.<\/p>\n
466
\n00:27:24,160 –> 00:27:27,960
\nAnd in verse 62 the high priest
\nstood up and said, have you no <\/p>\n
467
\n00:27:27,960 –> 00:27:30,400
\nanswer to make?
\nWhat is it that these men <\/p>\n
468
\n00:27:30,400 –> 00:27:35,080
\ntestify against you?
\nNow I mentioned it was against <\/p>\n
469
\n00:27:35,080 –> 00:27:38,440
\nthe law at this point for the
\njudges to cross examine the <\/p>\n
470
\n00:27:38,440 –> 00:27:41,920
\nprisoner after the testimony of
\nthe witnesses had broken down, <\/p>\n
471
\n00:27:42,280 –> 00:27:44,440
\nand Caiaphas is breaking the
\nlaw. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:27:44,440 –> 00:27:49,000
\nNow when he does that anyway,
\nverse 63. <\/p>\n
473
\n00:27:49,000 –> 00:27:53,880
\nBut Jesus remains silent, and
\nthe high priest said to him, I <\/p>\n
474
\n00:27:53,880 –> 00:27:58,200
\nadjure you by the living God,
\ntell us if you are the Christ, <\/p>\n
475
\n00:27:58,520 –> 00:28:02,160
\nthe Son of God.
\nJesus said to him, You have said<\/p>\n
476
\n00:28:02,160 –> 00:28:05,400
\nso, But I tell you, from now on
\nyou will see the Son of Man <\/p>\n
477
\n00:28:05,400 –> 00:28:09,560
\nseated at the right hand of
\npower and coming on the clouds <\/p>\n
478
\n00:28:09,560 –> 00:28:14,080
\nof heaven.
\nThen the high priest tore his <\/p>\n
479
\n00:28:14,080 –> 00:28:16,600
\nrobes and said he has uttered
\nblasphemy. <\/p>\n
480
\n00:28:16,880 –> 00:28:19,000
\nWhat further witnesses do we
\nneed? <\/p>\n
481
\n00:28:19,280 –> 00:28:22,680
\nYou have heard his blasphemy.
\nWhat is your judgment? <\/p>\n
482
\n00:28:22,680 –> 00:28:25,320
\nAnd they answered, he deserves
\ndeath. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:28:26,320 –> 00:28:30,080
\nAnd at this point they had him.
\nThey had him under Jewish law. <\/p>\n
484
\n00:28:30,400 –> 00:28:33,640
\nBut even more importantly for
\nthem, they had him under Roman <\/p>\n
485
\n00:28:33,640 –> 00:28:36,760
\nlaw.
\nBecause a little bit later on, <\/p>\n
486
\n00:28:37,400 –> 00:28:41,600
\nwhen Pontius Pilate is standing
\nin front of them, they’ve <\/p>\n
487
\n00:28:41,600 –> 00:28:43,840
\nconvicted him of death.
\nBut now they need to convict him<\/p>\n
488
\n00:28:43,840 –> 00:28:47,880
\nin a Roman court.
\nAnd Pilate says, what is this <\/p>\n
489
\n00:28:47,880 –> 00:28:50,160
\nman done?
\nHe should go free. <\/p>\n
490
\n00:28:50,720 –> 00:28:53,480
\nPilate wanted nothing to do with
\nthe death of Jesus. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:28:54,200 –> 00:28:57,160
\nAnd they said, this man has made
\nhimself the Son of God. <\/p>\n
492
\n00:28:58,880 –> 00:29:01,200
\nHe’s impinging on the power of
\nCaesar. <\/p>\n
493
\n00:29:01,440 –> 00:29:04,240
\nHe’s claiming a power greater
\nthan that of your sovereign <\/p>\n
494
\n00:29:04,240 –> 00:29:07,600
\nleader.
\nYou see, when they had Jesus on <\/p>\n
495
\n00:29:07,600 –> 00:29:11,160
\nclaiming to be the Son of God,
\nthey had him not just under <\/p>\n
496
\n00:29:11,160 –> 00:29:14,600
\nJewish law, but Roman law.
\nAnd at that point, Pilate has <\/p>\n
497
\n00:29:14,600 –> 00:29:18,400
\nnothing he can say.
\nHe says, All right, turn him <\/p>\n
498
\n00:29:18,400 –> 00:29:20,240
\nover to you.
\nIt’s in your hands. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:29:22,520 –> 00:29:24,640
\nHe knew that they had him at
\nthis point. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:29:26,000 –> 00:29:33,840
\nAnd when he said what he said to
\nhim, I adjure you by the living <\/p>\n
501
\n00:29:33,840 –> 00:29:35,720
\nGod to tell us if you are the
\nChrist. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:29:35,920 –> 00:29:38,920
\nThat’s what’s known under Jewish
\nlaw as the oath of the <\/p>\n
503
\n00:29:38,920 –> 00:29:42,960
\ntestimony.
\nNow we talked about the Talmud <\/p>\n
504
\n00:29:42,960 –> 00:29:49,040
\nyesterday.
\nHere’s a quote from the Mishnah <\/p>\n
505
\n00:29:51,360 –> 00:29:54,680
\nabout the Oath of the Testimony.
\nThis is what the law says. <\/p>\n
506
\n00:29:55,560 –> 00:29:59,800
\nIf one shall say, I adjure you
\nby the Almighty, by Sabaya, by <\/p>\n
507
\n00:29:59,800 –> 00:30:02,480
\nthe gracious and merciful, by
\nthe long-suffering, by the <\/p>\n
508
\n00:30:02,480 –> 00:30:07,600
\nCompassionate, or by any of the
\nDivine titles, behold, they are <\/p>\n
509
\n00:30:07,600 –> 00:30:10,080
\nbound to answer.
\nThis is what was known as the <\/p>\n
510
\n00:30:10,080 –> 00:30:13,160
\nOath of the Testimony.
\nIf somebody invokes the any of <\/p>\n
511
\n00:30:13,160 –> 00:30:17,480
\nthe sacred titles of God to get
\nyou to to answer a question <\/p>\n
512
\n00:30:18,040 –> 00:30:20,520
\naccording to Jewish law, you had
\nto answer. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:30:21,280 –> 00:30:23,000
\nAnd that’s exactly what the high
\npriest had done. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:30:23,000 –> 00:30:25,960
\nHe was breaking the law and
\ncross examining the prisoner but<\/p>\n
515
\n00:30:25,960 –> 00:30:28,680
\ndemanding by the law that Jesus
\nanswered the question. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:30:28,840 –> 00:30:32,440
\nAnd the remarkable thing is,
\neven though his accusers and the<\/p>\n
517
\n00:30:32,440 –> 00:30:35,120
\nleaders of the Jews were
\nbreaking law after law and <\/p>\n
518
\n00:30:35,120 –> 00:30:42,400
\nconvicting him that night, Jesus
\nfollows the law and he answers <\/p>\n
519
\n00:30:42,400 –> 00:30:46,240
\nthe question because at that
\npoint, all he had to do was keep<\/p>\n
520
\n00:30:46,240 –> 00:30:49,480
\nhis mouth closed, and according
\nto the law, he could have been <\/p>\n
521
\n00:30:49,480 –> 00:30:52,200
\nset free.
\nHis fate was in his own hands, <\/p>\n
522
\n00:30:52,440 –> 00:30:56,080
\nand he could choose not to be
\ncrucified in that moment. <\/p>\n
523
\n00:30:57,640 –> 00:31:00,520
\nBut he follows their laws.
\nBut more importantly, he follows<\/p>\n
524
\n00:31:00,520 –> 00:31:04,000
\nthe will of God, and they had
\nhim. <\/p>\n
525
\n00:31:07,480 –> 00:31:09,800
\nSo let’s come back to our
\noriginal question that we asked <\/p>\n
526
\n00:31:10,000 –> 00:31:11,840
\nbefore examining this part of
\nthe story. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:31:13,200 –> 00:31:18,000
\nWhy did it take so long for
\nJudas and the arrest party to <\/p>\n
528
\n00:31:18,000 –> 00:31:20,600
\nget to the garden, to arrest
\nJesus? <\/p>\n
529
\n00:31:20,880 –> 00:31:23,880
\nWhy did it take hours and hours?
\nWhy didn’t it happen right away?<\/p>\n
530
\n00:31:24,800 –> 00:31:29,160
\nAnd the answer is, it had to.
\nThe leaders of the Jews had to <\/p>\n
531
\n00:31:29,160 –> 00:31:31,040
\nmake a split decision.
\nThis is the moment. <\/p>\n
532
\n00:31:31,040 –> 00:31:33,760
\nBut we’ve got to do it tonight.
\nWe’re going to break all of <\/p>\n
533
\n00:31:33,760 –> 00:31:35,280
\nthese laws.
\nHow are we going to do it and <\/p>\n
534
\n00:31:35,280 –> 00:31:37,280
\nget away with it?
\nWe need witnesses. <\/p>\n
535
\n00:31:37,400 –> 00:31:39,240
\nThey had to rustle up some
\nwitnesses. <\/p>\n
536
\n00:31:39,240 –> 00:31:42,360
\nThey got a lot of witnesses.
\nBut it would take time to do <\/p>\n
537
\n00:31:42,360 –> 00:31:43,960
\nthat.
\nThey’d have to rouse people from<\/p>\n
538
\n00:31:43,960 –> 00:31:46,280
\ntheir sleep that they knew would
\nhelp them out in the trial. <\/p>\n
539
\n00:31:47,080 –> 00:31:49,520
\nBut things were rushed, so by
\nthe time the trial actually <\/p>\n
540
\n00:31:49,520 –> 00:31:52,760
\nhappens, they hadn’t had time to
\nproperly prepare the witnesses. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:31:53,720 –> 00:31:56,000
\nAnd so their stories are all
\ndifferent and it doesn’t stand <\/p>\n
542
\n00:31:56,000 –> 00:31:57,760
\nup.
\nNevertheless, they had to make <\/p>\n
543
\n00:31:57,760 –> 00:31:59,800
\nall these arrangements.
\nThey had to get the trial set <\/p>\n
544
\n00:31:59,800 –> 00:32:00,880
\nup.
\nThey had to wake up all the <\/p>\n
545
\n00:32:00,880 –> 00:32:02,200
\nmembers of the Sanhedrin
\ncouncil. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:32:02,360 –> 00:32:06,080
\nThey had to get the Temple Guard
\nready to go with Judas to arrest<\/p>\n
547
\n00:32:06,080 –> 00:32:08,400
\nJesus before they finally went
\nthere. <\/p>\n
548
\n00:32:08,720 –> 00:32:11,240
\nAnd we find that knowing
\neverything that had to take <\/p>\n
549
\n00:32:11,240 –> 00:32:13,840
\nplace and all the considerations
\nthat would have been weighing <\/p>\n
550
\n00:32:13,960 –> 00:32:18,160
\ndown these Jewish leaders, it
\nonly could have taken hours and <\/p>\n
551
\n00:32:18,160 –> 00:32:21,960
\nhours.
\nIf you were one of the writers <\/p>\n
552
\n00:32:21,960 –> 00:32:25,840
\nof the gospels and you were
\nmaking up this store, but you <\/p>\n
553
\n00:32:25,840 –> 00:32:28,160
\nwanted people to believe it, but
\nit was fictional. <\/p>\n
554
\n00:32:29,400 –> 00:32:33,280
\nDon’t you think that you would
\nwrite it as if Judas left? <\/p>\n
555
\n00:32:33,720 –> 00:32:35,560
\nJesus said what you’re about to
\ndo, do quickly. <\/p>\n
556
\n00:32:35,560 –> 00:32:38,600
\nAnd then it did happen quickly.
\nBecause when you don’t think <\/p>\n
557
\n00:32:38,600 –> 00:32:41,080
\nthrough all the details and you
\ndon’t examine Jewish law and <\/p>\n
558
\n00:32:41,080 –> 00:32:44,440
\nJewish culture and all the
\nthings that had to happen, the <\/p>\n
559
\n00:32:44,440 –> 00:32:47,280
\ncasual reader would think, this
\nis strange. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:32:47,280 –> 00:32:51,680
\nWhy didn’t it happen right away?
\nBut when we look at all the <\/p>\n
561
\n00:32:51,680 –> 00:32:54,800
\ndetails and Jewish law and
\nJewish culture and we realize <\/p>\n
562
\n00:32:54,800 –> 00:32:57,840
\nwhat had to have happened, it
\nonly makes sense. <\/p>\n
563
\n00:32:58,360 –> 00:33:01,280
\nA detail like this one, that it
\ntook hours and hours for them to<\/p>\n
564
\n00:33:01,280 –> 00:33:04,080
\nget there just lines up
\nperfectly with real life. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:33:05,000 –> 00:33:07,800
\nAnd the Bible doesn’t go to any
\nlengths to explain why it took <\/p>\n
566
\n00:33:07,800 –> 00:33:11,680
\nso long, because the Bible isn’t
\neven trying to defend itself <\/p>\n
567
\n00:33:11,680 –> 00:33:13,160
\nhere.
\nIt’s just telling an accurate <\/p>\n
568
\n00:33:13,160 –> 00:33:17,160
\naccount of how things happened.
\nNow let’s jump forward to the <\/p>\n
569
\n00:33:17,160 –> 00:33:25,720
\nresurrection, because as we saw
\nlast night, ancient historians <\/p>\n
570
\n00:33:25,720 –> 00:33:28,440
\nand modern historians alike are
\nconfronted with a problem. <\/p>\n
571
\n00:33:28,440 –> 00:33:31,000
\nIf they don’t believe that the
\nresurrection really happened, <\/p>\n
572
\n00:33:31,000 –> 00:33:35,800
\nwhich many of them don’t,
\nbecause all accounts in our <\/p>\n
573
\n00:33:35,800 –> 00:33:37,800
\nhistory points to the fact that
\nit did. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:33:38,680 –> 00:33:40,400
\nAnd nothing has really come down
\nto us. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:33:40,400 –> 00:33:42,880
\nDespite all of the chances that
\npeople would have had and all <\/p>\n
576
\n00:33:42,880 –> 00:33:46,320
\nthe people that were opposed to
\nthe Christian religion to say <\/p>\n
577
\n00:33:46,320 –> 00:33:49,520
\nno, this didn’t really happen,
\nnothing has come down to us to <\/p>\n
578
\n00:33:49,520 –> 00:33:54,280
\nsay that that’s the case, that
\nthe tomb wasn’t empty. <\/p>\n
579
\n00:33:56,680 –> 00:33:59,520
\nAnd so there are a lot of
\ntheories that go into explaining<\/p>\n
580
\n00:34:00,280 –> 00:34:03,720
\nhow this might have happened.
\nWhy was it that the tomb of <\/p>\n
581
\n00:34:03,840 –> 00:34:05,920
\nJesus was empty?
\nBecause it seems to be a <\/p>\n
582
\n00:34:05,920 –> 00:34:09,480
\nhistorical fact that it was.
\nSo I’m going to, I’m going to <\/p>\n
583
\n00:34:09,480 –> 00:34:11,080
\ntell you about some of these
\ntheories now. <\/p>\n
584
\n00:34:11,800 –> 00:34:15,280
\nAnd the first four of them we’re
\ngoing to go through pretty <\/p>\n
585
\n00:34:15,280 –> 00:34:17,840
\nquickly because I think we can
\nexplain them away pretty <\/p>\n
586
\n00:34:17,840 –> 00:34:19,280
\nquickly.
\nThey’re not particularly <\/p>\n
587
\n00:34:19,600 –> 00:34:21,080
\nbelievable.
\nAnd then we’ll spend some more <\/p>\n
588
\n00:34:21,080 –> 00:34:24,480
\ntime on the fifth one.
\nSo the first theory is what’s <\/p>\n
589
\n00:34:24,480 –> 00:34:29,159
\nknown as the swoon theory.
\nThis theory goes something like <\/p>\n
590
\n00:34:29,159 –> 00:34:31,080
\nthis.
\nJesus didn’t actually die on the<\/p>\n
591
\n00:34:31,080 –> 00:34:33,639
\ncross.
\nHe did suffer crucifixion, but <\/p>\n
592
\n00:34:33,639 –> 00:34:36,920
\nhe just fainted at the end of
\nit, and the soldiers and <\/p>\n
593
\n00:34:36,920 –> 00:34:39,480
\neverybody else thought he was
\ndead, took him down from the <\/p>\n
594
\n00:34:39,480 –> 00:34:41,000
\ncross.
\nThey wrapped him up, put him in <\/p>\n
595
\n00:34:41,000 –> 00:34:44,520
\nthe tomb, and then he woke up
\nand left. <\/p>\n
596
\n00:34:46,400 –> 00:34:49,400
\nNow the incredible thing about
\nthis theory is that if, if it <\/p>\n
597
\n00:34:49,400 –> 00:34:54,520
\nwere true, everybody mistook
\nJesus for dead, he survives <\/p>\n
598
\n00:34:54,520 –> 00:34:58,520
\ncrucifixion.
\nHe’s wrapped tightly up into the<\/p>\n
599
\n00:34:58,520 –> 00:35:03,680
\nburial linens placed inside the
\ntomb and in his incredibly <\/p>\n
600
\n00:35:03,680 –> 00:35:06,160
\nweakened condition.
\nIn his emaciated state, having <\/p>\n
601
\n00:35:06,160 –> 00:35:09,680
\njust survived crucifixion, he
\nwakes up, is able to somehow <\/p>\n
602
\n00:35:09,680 –> 00:35:13,840
\nbreak free of the burial linens,
\nand then roll away the stone of <\/p>\n
603
\n00:35:13,840 –> 00:35:17,200
\nthe tomb, which weighed over a
\nton and took a team of soldiers <\/p>\n
604
\n00:35:17,200 –> 00:35:19,760
\nand horses with ropes and
\npulleys to pull it into place. <\/p>\n
605
\n00:35:20,240 –> 00:35:23,680
\nHe’s able to push that away by
\nhimself, just this regular guy, <\/p>\n
606
\n00:35:24,240 –> 00:35:28,840
\nand I think we can dismiss the
\nswoon theory out of hand now. <\/p>\n
607
\n00:35:28,840 –> 00:35:31,320
\nAnother theory is is the theft
\ntheory. <\/p>\n
608
\n00:35:31,560 –> 00:35:35,880
\nThe theft theory says either the
\nJews like the Jewish leaders or <\/p>\n
609
\n00:35:35,880 –> 00:35:40,880
\nthe Romans stole the body of
\nJesus, perhaps to keep it away <\/p>\n
610
\n00:35:40,880 –> 00:35:44,840
\nfrom his disciples.
\nMaybe that could explain why the<\/p>\n
611
\n00:35:44,840 –> 00:35:47,280
\ntomb was empty.
\nThey themselves took the body. <\/p>\n
612
\n00:35:48,320 –> 00:35:50,920
\nNow if that were true, you have
\nto ask yourself this question <\/p>\n
613
\n00:35:52,200 –> 00:35:54,400
\nimmediately.
\nThe leaders of the Jews had a <\/p>\n
614
\n00:35:54,400 –> 00:35:57,400
\nproblem on their hands.
\nThe tomb was empty. <\/p>\n
615
\n00:35:57,680 –> 00:35:59,760
\nThis was a big problem for them.
\nThey didn’t like it. <\/p>\n
616
\n00:36:01,200 –> 00:36:05,240
\nIf they had stolen the body of
\nJesus, it would be as simple as <\/p>\n
617
\n00:36:05,240 –> 00:36:08,240
\nsaying just several weeks after
\nthe resurrection, when the <\/p>\n
618
\n00:36:08,240 –> 00:36:12,400
\napostles are saying he has been
\nraised, the Lord has risen, The <\/p>\n
619
\n00:36:12,400 –> 00:36:14,880
\nJewish leaders could have said
\nno, here’s his body, we’ve got <\/p>\n
620
\n00:36:14,880 –> 00:36:17,120
\nit.
\nAnd Christianity would have died<\/p>\n
621
\n00:36:17,120 –> 00:36:19,480
\nright there.
\nDon’t you think they would have <\/p>\n
622
\n00:36:19,480 –> 00:36:22,240
\ndone it now?
\nThe same is true with the <\/p>\n
623
\n00:36:22,240 –> 00:36:25,000
\nRomans.
\nIt would take a few years for <\/p>\n
624
\n00:36:25,000 –> 00:36:27,880
\nthe Romans to really start to
\nhate Christianity, but they <\/p>\n
625
\n00:36:27,880 –> 00:36:29,160
\nwould.
\nWe’re going to talk about that a<\/p>\n
626
\n00:36:29,160 –> 00:36:31,240
\nlot in the last class tomorrow
\nmorning. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:36:31,240 –> 00:36:35,200
\nThe rapid spread of Christianity
\nafter just a few years went by. <\/p>\n
628
\n00:36:35,200 –> 00:36:38,200
\nThe Romans would really, really
\nlike to be able to just kill <\/p>\n
629
\n00:36:38,200 –> 00:36:41,600
\nChristianity.
\nDon’t you think If they had <\/p>\n
630
\n00:36:41,600 –> 00:36:44,080
\nstolen the body of Jesus, they
\nwould have just brought it out <\/p>\n
631
\n00:36:45,280 –> 00:36:48,680
\nand Christianity would have died
\nright there and they never did. <\/p>\n
632
\n00:36:49,640 –> 00:36:53,000
\nI don’t think the Jews or the
\nRomans stole the body of Jesus. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:36:53,680 –> 00:36:56,400
\nNow there’s also the
\nhallucination theory, which says<\/p>\n
634
\n00:36:56,400 –> 00:36:59,680
\nthat the disciples of Jesus and
\neverybody else who saw the risen<\/p>\n
635
\n00:36:59,680 –> 00:37:03,040
\nLord Paul tells us that over 500
\npeople saw him at one time. <\/p>\n
636
\n00:37:03,040 –> 00:37:07,000
\nEverybody was hallucinating.
\nThey all saw the same thing. <\/p>\n
637
\n00:37:07,720 –> 00:37:10,440
\nNow, if you know anything about
\nhallucination, then you can <\/p>\n
638
\n00:37:10,440 –> 00:37:13,880
\nprobably understand why.
\nThis is kind of an incredible <\/p>\n
639
\n00:37:14,200 –> 00:37:16,680
\ntheory.
\nThose who those people who are <\/p>\n
640
\n00:37:16,680 –> 00:37:19,720
\nprone to hallucinations tend to
\nhave certain characteristics. <\/p>\n
641
\n00:37:19,720 –> 00:37:22,480
\nThey tend to be high strung,
\nnervous, and have a <\/p>\n
642
\n00:37:22,480 –> 00:37:24,560
\npredisposition towards what they
\nwant to see. <\/p>\n
643
\n00:37:24,760 –> 00:37:27,120
\nNow you can certainly say that
\nmaybe about the disciples right <\/p>\n
644
\n00:37:27,120 –> 00:37:29,640
\nafter the death of Jesus, they
\nwould really like to have seen <\/p>\n
645
\n00:37:29,920 –> 00:37:33,840
\nthe risen Lord, but what about
\nall the 500 people at once? <\/p>\n
646
\n00:37:33,840 –> 00:37:38,240
\nYou see, hallucinations tend to
\nhappen in claustrophobic tight <\/p>\n
647
\n00:37:38,240 –> 00:37:43,280
\nspaces inside, in the dark, not
\nin broad daylight outside. <\/p>\n
648
\n00:37:44,920 –> 00:37:48,240
\nHow can you explain all 12
\ndisciples seeing the exact same <\/p>\n
649
\n00:37:48,240 –> 00:37:51,680
\nhallucination at the same time?
\nOr even more than that? <\/p>\n
650
\n00:37:51,800 –> 00:37:55,320
\n500 people at one time all
\nseeing the same thing at the <\/p>\n
651
\n00:37:55,320 –> 00:37:57,040
\nsame time, the same
\nhallucination? <\/p>\n
652
\n00:37:57,040 –> 00:37:59,920
\nThat’s not real.
\nAnd even if you’re willing to <\/p>\n
653
\n00:37:59,920 –> 00:38:02,760
\naccept that, how do you explain
\nthat all these people who <\/p>\n
654
\n00:38:02,760 –> 00:38:06,480
\ncontinue to hallucinate and see
\nJesus in various situations, all<\/p>\n
655
\n00:38:06,480 –> 00:38:10,200
\ntheir hallucinations stopped at
\nexactly the same time? <\/p>\n
656
\n00:38:11,520 –> 00:38:14,040
\nIf you don’t believe in God and
\nmiracles and Jesus being <\/p>\n
657
\n00:38:14,040 –> 00:38:16,480
\nanything other than a regular
\nhuman being, how do you explain <\/p>\n
658
\n00:38:16,480 –> 00:38:19,680
\nthat and you can’t?
\nI don’t think we can give any <\/p>\n
659
\n00:38:19,680 –> 00:38:21,560
\ncredence to the hallucination
\ntheory. <\/p>\n
660
\n00:38:22,200 –> 00:38:25,880
\nThere’s the wrong tomb theory
\nwhich says that when the women <\/p>\n
661
\n00:38:25,880 –> 00:38:30,680
\nfirst found the empty tomb, you
\nknow, they didn’t have GPS and <\/p>\n
662
\n00:38:30,680 –> 00:38:31,960
\nthey just were in the wrong
\nplace. <\/p>\n
663
\n00:38:31,960 –> 00:38:34,520
\nThey went to the wrong tomb
\nwhich happened to be empty and <\/p>\n
664
\n00:38:34,680 –> 00:38:38,680
\nit was just a geographical error
\nand and they never went to the <\/p>\n
665
\n00:38:38,680 –> 00:38:42,040
\nreal place.
\nBut we know for sure that that <\/p>\n
666
\n00:38:42,040 –> 00:38:44,160
\nthere are a couple people who
\nknew exactly where the body of <\/p>\n
667
\n00:38:44,160 –> 00:38:47,760
\nJesus was.
\nOne was Joseph of Arimathea. <\/p>\n
668
\n00:38:47,760 –> 00:38:51,280
\nIt was his tomb.
\nSo don’t you think as soon as he<\/p>\n
669
\n00:38:51,280 –> 00:38:55,080
\nheard the news that Jesus was
\nrisen he’d he’d say, oh run back<\/p>\n
670
\n00:38:55,080 –> 00:38:57,680
\nto his tomb and and the stone
\nwould be rolled away. <\/p>\n
671
\n00:38:57,880 –> 00:39:00,200
\nIf it wasn’t.
\nIf it was still there, the stone<\/p>\n
672
\n00:39:00,200 –> 00:39:02,320
\nwas still there.
\nDon’t you think he would have <\/p>\n
673
\n00:39:02,320 –> 00:39:04,520
\nsaid no you guys are just at the
\nwrong tomb. <\/p>\n
674
\n00:39:05,800 –> 00:39:09,320
\nAnd more than that, the record
\ntells us that the women who who <\/p>\n
675
\n00:39:09,360 –> 00:39:13,520
\nfound the tomb empty before
\nanybody else, when Jesus was <\/p>\n
676
\n00:39:13,520 –> 00:39:18,040
\ntaken down from the cross and he
\nwas wrapped up and taken to his <\/p>\n
677
\n00:39:18,040 –> 00:39:21,720
\nburial place, to the tomb, they
\nmarked the place where he was <\/p>\n
678
\n00:39:21,720 –> 00:39:23,520
\nlaid.
\nThat’s how they knew to come <\/p>\n
679
\n00:39:23,520 –> 00:39:27,000
\nback to the right spot.
\nI don’t think we can give much <\/p>\n
680
\n00:39:27,000 –> 00:39:29,280
\ncredence to the wrong tomb
\ntheory either. <\/p>\n
681
\n00:39:29,840 –> 00:39:32,640
\nWhich brings us to the most
\ncredible theory of all to <\/p>\n
682
\n00:39:32,640 –> 00:39:38,000
\nexplain away why the tomb could
\nhave been empty, which is the <\/p>\n
683
\n00:39:38,000 –> 00:39:43,480
\nfraud theory, and this one
\nactually starts in the Bible. <\/p>\n
684
\n00:39:44,680 –> 00:39:48,160
\nFraud theory says the disciples
\nstole the body. <\/p>\n
685
\n00:39:49,240 –> 00:39:57,720
\nCome with me to Matthew chapter
\n28 and the Roman soldiers who <\/p>\n
686
\n00:39:57,720 –> 00:39:59,960
\nwere guarding the tomb.
\nI’m sure many of you are aware <\/p>\n
687
\n00:39:59,960 –> 00:40:02,600
\nof this.
\nThey had a problem because they <\/p>\n
688
\n00:40:02,600 –> 00:40:09,960
\nwoke up and the tomb was empty.
\nAnd the penalty for failing <\/p>\n
689
\n00:40:09,960 –> 00:40:13,120
\nguard duty in the Roman army was
\ndeath. <\/p>\n
690
\n00:40:14,200 –> 00:40:17,920
\nIf it became known to their
\nleaders, to their centurions <\/p>\n
691
\n00:40:17,920 –> 00:40:22,800
\nthat that their prisoner who was
\ndead had escaped, they would be <\/p>\n
692
\n00:40:22,800 –> 00:40:25,040
\nput to death.
\nThey know that. <\/p>\n
693
\n00:40:25,200 –> 00:40:27,880
\nSo they don’t go to their
\nleaders, They go to the Jewish <\/p>\n
694
\n00:40:27,880 –> 00:40:30,280
\nleaders who had paid them to be
\nthere in the 1st place. <\/p>\n
695
\n00:40:30,520 –> 00:40:32,280
\nAnd they say help us out, help
\nus out. <\/p>\n
696
\n00:40:32,280 –> 00:40:34,400
\nWe don’t know what to do here.
\nCan you please help us? <\/p>\n
697
\n00:40:37,840 –> 00:40:39,880
\nAnd this is what the leaders of
\nthe Jews say to them. <\/p>\n
698
\n00:40:39,880 –> 00:40:45,680
\nIn verse 13 of Matthew chapter
\n28, the Jewish leader said to <\/p>\n
699
\n00:40:45,680 –> 00:40:50,640
\nthese soldiers tell people his
\ndisciples came by night and <\/p>\n
700
\n00:40:50,640 –> 00:40:53,160
\nstole him away while we were
\nasleep. <\/p>\n
701
\n00:40:53,840 –> 00:40:57,040
\nAnd if this comes to the
\ngovernor’s ears, we will satisfy<\/p>\n
702
\n00:40:57,040 –> 00:41:02,840
\nhim and keep you out of trouble.
\nSo they say, look, this is a <\/p>\n
703
\n00:41:02,840 –> 00:41:05,600
\nproblem for us too.
\nSo here’s what we’ll do. <\/p>\n
704
\n00:41:06,240 –> 00:41:08,520
\nYou tell everybody that you fell
\nasleep on the job. <\/p>\n
705
\n00:41:08,920 –> 00:41:11,960
\nNow, we know normally you’d be
\nput to death for that, but we <\/p>\n
706
\n00:41:11,960 –> 00:41:14,840
\nbribed our leaders, so we’ll
\nmake sure, because they’re on <\/p>\n
707
\n00:41:14,840 –> 00:41:17,520
\nour payroll, that they won’t do
\nanything to you. <\/p>\n
708
\n00:41:17,880 –> 00:41:21,080
\nAnd you just tell this story for
\nus and everything will be fine. <\/p>\n
709
\n00:41:21,560 –> 00:41:23,320
\nAnd that’s the story that they
\ntell. <\/p>\n
710
\n00:41:23,720 –> 00:41:25,920
\nAnd we’ll see in a minute.
\nThat’s the story that the Jews <\/p>\n
711
\n00:41:25,920 –> 00:41:29,800
\nwould still be telling people
\nseveral 100 years later that the<\/p>\n
712
\n00:41:29,800 –> 00:41:33,280
\ndisciples stole the body.
\nNow the 1st and immediate <\/p>\n
713
\n00:41:33,280 –> 00:41:36,200
\nquestion that I would ask in
\nthis situation is if if <\/p>\n
714
\n00:41:36,200 –> 00:41:38,600
\nsomebody’s telling me that the
\ndisciples stole the body of <\/p>\n
715
\n00:41:38,720 –> 00:41:42,040
\nJesus and perpetrated a lie on
\nthe entire world to tell <\/p>\n
716
\n00:41:42,040 –> 00:41:45,160
\neverybody he has risen and
\nstarted a new religion based on <\/p>\n
717
\n00:41:45,160 –> 00:41:47,640
\nthis lie that Jesus was
\nresurrected from the dead. <\/p>\n
718
\n00:41:49,480 –> 00:41:54,320
\nI’d say if the soldiers never
\nactually fell asleep, they were <\/p>\n
719
\n00:41:54,320 –> 00:41:57,320
\nawake, then why didn’t they stop
\nthe disciples? <\/p>\n
720
\n00:41:58,400 –> 00:42:02,280
\nAnd if they had fallen asleep at
\nthe at their post, then how did <\/p>\n
721
\n00:42:02,280 –> 00:42:05,680
\nthey know it was the disciples?
\nYou see, there’s a conundrum <\/p>\n
722
\n00:42:05,680 –> 00:42:07,800
\nhere.
\nEither way, their story doesn’t <\/p>\n
723
\n00:42:07,800 –> 00:42:11,320
\nadd up logically, but I’m going
\nto give you some more evidence I<\/p>\n
724
\n00:42:11,320 –> 00:42:16,560
\nthink of of why we we can’t
\nreally trust in the fraud theory<\/p>\n
725
\n00:42:16,560 –> 00:42:18,800
\neither way.
\nIt doesn’t hold up some some <\/p>\n
726
\n00:42:18,800 –> 00:42:22,040
\nadditional evidence.
\nAnd the first one, the first <\/p>\n
727
\n00:42:22,040 –> 00:42:25,840
\npiece of evidence I’ll submit
\nfor you is is the life of the <\/p>\n
728
\n00:42:25,840 –> 00:42:31,720
\nhalf brother of Jesus, James,
\nknown by many at the time as <\/p>\n
729
\n00:42:31,720 –> 00:42:35,680
\nJames the Just.
\nHe would eventually be the de <\/p>\n
730
\n00:42:35,680 –> 00:42:38,720
\nfacto leader of the largest
\necclesia in the world, the <\/p>\n
731
\n00:42:38,720 –> 00:42:45,480
\nJerusalem Ecclesia.
\nBut while Jesus was alive and up<\/p>\n
732
\n00:42:45,640 –> 00:42:49,840
\nuntil he was crucified, James
\nwas not a believer. <\/p>\n
733
\n00:42:49,840 –> 00:42:53,040
\nHe was a skeptic.
\nYou remember that story when <\/p>\n
734
\n00:42:53,120 –> 00:42:57,240
\nJesus was was preaching to a
\ncrowd of people and his mother <\/p>\n
735
\n00:42:57,240 –> 00:42:59,240
\nand his brothers try to get to
\nhim. <\/p>\n
736
\n00:43:00,040 –> 00:43:02,200
\nThey want to give him a message.
\nAnd the message we presume they <\/p>\n
737
\n00:43:02,200 –> 00:43:05,160
\nwant to give to him is come down
\nfrom your soapbox and stop <\/p>\n
738
\n00:43:05,160 –> 00:43:08,840
\ntalking all this nonsense.
\nBut they can’t get to him <\/p>\n
739
\n00:43:09,440 –> 00:43:11,160
\nbecause the crowd is so tightly
\npacked. <\/p>\n
740
\n00:43:11,160 –> 00:43:13,280
\nSo they send a message up
\nthrough the crowd and the <\/p>\n
741
\n00:43:13,280 –> 00:43:15,720
\nmessage gets to Jesus and the
\nmessage is your mother and your <\/p>\n
742
\n00:43:15,720 –> 00:43:17,320
\nbrethren are outside and they
\nwant to speak to you. <\/p>\n
743
\n00:43:17,320 –> 00:43:20,240
\nDo you remember what Jesus said?
\nThe message that he said that <\/p>\n
744
\n00:43:20,240 –> 00:43:23,440
\nwent all the way back reached.
\nReach them on the outside of the<\/p>\n
745
\n00:43:23,440 –> 00:43:26,560
\ncrowd, he said March, chapter 3,
\nverse 35. <\/p>\n
746
\n00:43:27,000 –> 00:43:31,600
\nWhoever does the will of God is
\nmy brother and sister and <\/p>\n
747
\n00:43:31,600 –> 00:43:34,280
\nmother.
\nNow Can you imagine if you were <\/p>\n
748
\n00:43:34,280 –> 00:43:37,040
\nthe brother of Jesus and this is
\nthe message you got? <\/p>\n
749
\n00:43:39,600 –> 00:43:42,320
\nThey’re not my true family.
\nIf they’re not doing the will of<\/p>\n
750
\n00:43:42,320 –> 00:43:45,600
\nGod, how must that have made him
\nfeel? <\/p>\n
751
\n00:43:46,640 –> 00:43:50,440
\nAnd in Mark chapter 6 and verse
\nthree and four, the people said <\/p>\n
752
\n00:43:50,440 –> 00:43:52,880
\nthis about Jesus.
\nIs not this the Carpenter, the <\/p>\n
753
\n00:43:52,880 –> 00:43:56,480
\nson of Mary, the brother of
\nJames and Joseph, and of Judah <\/p>\n
754
\n00:43:56,480 –> 00:43:59,080
\nand Simon, and are not his
\nsisters here with us? <\/p>\n
755
\n00:43:59,640 –> 00:44:03,760
\nAnd they were offended at him.
\nBut Jesus said unto them, A <\/p>\n
756
\n00:44:03,760 –> 00:44:07,480
\nprophet is not without honor,
\nbut in his own country, and <\/p>\n
757
\n00:44:07,480 –> 00:44:11,560
\namong his own kin and in his own
\nhouse. <\/p>\n
758
\n00:44:12,040 –> 00:44:15,240
\nAnd Jesus could only say that
\nbecause his own family didn’t <\/p>\n
759
\n00:44:15,240 –> 00:44:17,440
\nbelieve that he was truly the
\nSon of God. <\/p>\n
760
\n00:44:18,640 –> 00:44:22,760
\nAnd if we doubt that at this
\npoint, then the nail in the <\/p>\n
761
\n00:44:22,760 –> 00:44:26,840
\ncoffin is John Chapter 7 verse 5
\nwhich says simply neither did <\/p>\n
762
\n00:44:26,840 –> 00:44:32,120
\nhis brethren believe in him.
\nJames did not believe that Jesus<\/p>\n
763
\n00:44:32,120 –> 00:44:35,720
\nwas who he said he was.
\nAll throughout Jesus ministry <\/p>\n
764
\n00:44:35,920 –> 00:44:41,040
\nJames did not believe.
\nAnd then Jesus dies and people <\/p>\n
765
\n00:44:41,040 –> 00:44:42,960
\nare saying he’s been resurrected
\nfrom the dead. <\/p>\n
766
\n00:44:43,720 –> 00:44:46,960
\nAnd Paul records this and 1st
\nCorinthians chapter 15 and those<\/p>\n
767
\n00:44:46,960 –> 00:44:49,280
\nfamous verses, verses five to
\nseven. <\/p>\n
768
\n00:44:49,280 –> 00:44:52,200
\nHe says that Jesus was seen of
\nof Cephas who is Peter. <\/p>\n
769
\n00:44:52,720 –> 00:44:57,040
\nThen of the 12 after that he was
\nseen of above 500 brethren at <\/p>\n
770
\n00:44:57,040 –> 00:45:00,600
\nonce, of whom the greater part
\nremain unto this present, but <\/p>\n
771
\n00:45:00,600 –> 00:45:04,880
\nsome are falling asleep.
\nAnd after that he was seen of <\/p>\n
772
\n00:45:05,400 –> 00:45:08,600
\nJames, and then of all the
\napostles. <\/p>\n
773
\n00:45:09,880 –> 00:45:13,160
\nNow I would ask you what can
\nexplain the conversion of this <\/p>\n
774
\n00:45:13,160 –> 00:45:16,440
\nman who is a historical figure
\noutside the Bible, James the <\/p>\n
775
\n00:45:16,440 –> 00:45:21,280
\nJust, the half brother of Jesus,
\na skeptic. <\/p>\n
776
\n00:45:21,360 –> 00:45:24,480
\nJesus has been crucified.
\nWhat could convince this man to <\/p>\n
777
\n00:45:24,480 –> 00:45:27,640
\nbelieve if Jesus wasn’t
\nresurrected from the dead? <\/p>\n
778
\n00:45:28,320 –> 00:45:31,360
\nBut Paul says that Jesus made a
\nspecial visit to James. <\/p>\n
779
\n00:45:31,360 –> 00:45:33,360
\nHe appeared unto him
\nspecifically. <\/p>\n
780
\n00:45:35,520 –> 00:45:38,720
\nI’d say there’s no good
\nexplanation other than that that<\/p>\n
781
\n00:45:38,720 –> 00:45:41,760
\nJesus really was raised from the
\ndead. <\/p>\n
782
\n00:45:42,560 –> 00:45:45,000
\nThe historian Josephus, who
\nlived just after the time of the<\/p>\n
783
\n00:45:45,000 –> 00:45:50,800
\napostles, wrote about James.
\nHe talks about the high priest <\/p>\n
784
\n00:45:50,800 –> 00:45:53,720
\nat the time and the fact that he
\nwas away at this time. <\/p>\n
785
\n00:45:53,720 –> 00:45:57,240
\nIt’s the context, this quote.
\nFestus was now dead, and Albinus<\/p>\n
786
\n00:45:57,240 –> 00:46:00,880
\nwas but upon the road.
\nSo he that is the acting High <\/p>\n
787
\n00:46:00,880 –> 00:46:04,400
\npriest.
\nAnanus assembled the Sanhedrin <\/p>\n
788
\n00:46:04,400 –> 00:46:07,480
\nof judges and brought before
\nthem the brother of Jesus, who <\/p>\n
789
\n00:46:07,480 –> 00:46:10,800
\nwas called Christ, whose name
\nwas James and some of his <\/p>\n
790
\n00:46:10,800 –> 00:46:13,440
\ncompanions.
\nAnd when he had formed an <\/p>\n
791
\n00:46:13,440 –> 00:46:16,960
\naccusation against them as
\nBreakers of the law, he <\/p>\n
792
\n00:46:16,960 –> 00:46:21,440
\ndelivered them to be stoned.
\nNow of course the Bible tells us<\/p>\n
793
\n00:46:21,440 –> 00:46:23,800
\nthat James James was a faithful
\nman. <\/p>\n
794
\n00:46:23,800 –> 00:46:27,400
\nOf course we have the the
\nepistle of James within the the <\/p>\n
795
\n00:46:27,400 –> 00:46:30,480
\nNew Testament Canon.
\nHe was the leader of the <\/p>\n
796
\n00:46:30,480 –> 00:46:35,400
\nJerusalem Ecclesia, it would
\nseem, and all but name and <\/p>\n
797
\n00:46:35,400 –> 00:46:37,960
\nhistorians outside the Bible
\ntells us he was put to death. <\/p>\n
798
\n00:46:37,960 –> 00:46:41,240
\nThe historian Josephus over and
\nabove, or Eusebius rather over <\/p>\n
799
\n00:46:41,240 –> 00:46:44,800
\nand above.
\nJosephus tells us that James was<\/p>\n
800
\n00:46:44,800 –> 00:46:51,080
\nkilled by the angry Jewish
\nleaders because he refused to <\/p>\n
801
\n00:46:51,080 –> 00:46:53,280
\nrefute what he had been saying
\nall along. <\/p>\n
802
\n00:46:53,280 –> 00:46:55,960
\nThat Jesus was the Son of God
\nand that he had been raised from<\/p>\n
803
\n00:46:55,960 –> 00:46:59,840
\nthe dead and he would lose his
\nlife because he refused to <\/p>\n
804
\n00:46:59,840 –> 00:47:03,840
\nrenounce that Jesus, Jesus of
\nNazareth, that he was the Son of<\/p>\n
805
\n00:47:03,840 –> 00:47:08,640
\nGod and he would die for it.
\nHow can we explain James the <\/p>\n
806
\n00:47:08,640 –> 00:47:12,680
\nJust and his conversion if Jesus
\nwasn’t raised from the dead? <\/p>\n
807
\n00:47:14,280 –> 00:47:20,000
\nNow also the writers of the
\ngospels agree that the first <\/p>\n
808
\n00:47:20,000 –> 00:47:24,720
\npeople who discovered that the
\ntomb of Jesus was empty were <\/p>\n
809
\n00:47:24,720 –> 00:47:28,320
\nwomen.
\nNow this might not seem like an <\/p>\n
810
\n00:47:28,320 –> 00:47:32,480
\nimportant detail to you, but you
\nhave to understand the culture <\/p>\n
811
\n00:47:32,480 –> 00:47:37,200
\nat the time.
\nBecause if this was, again, if <\/p>\n
812
\n00:47:37,200 –> 00:47:39,880
\nthis was a fictional story and
\nthe writers were making it up, <\/p>\n
813
\n00:47:39,880 –> 00:47:43,240
\nbut they wanted us to believe,
\nthe very last thing they would <\/p>\n
814
\n00:47:43,240 –> 00:47:45,920
\ndo is have this detail in the
\nstory. <\/p>\n
815
\n00:47:46,440 –> 00:47:49,280
\nWomen being the first people who
\ndiscovered the body. <\/p>\n
816
\n00:47:49,280 –> 00:47:53,360
\nBecause the Jewish mindset was
\npretty antiquated, it was pretty<\/p>\n
817
\n00:47:53,360 –> 00:47:55,400
\ndraconian.
\nThey didn’t have a lot of <\/p>\n
818
\n00:47:55,400 –> 00:47:57,320
\nrespect for the intelligence of
\nwomen. <\/p>\n
819
\n00:47:59,480 –> 00:48:02,360
\nThis is what it has to say about
\nthe right of a woman to testify <\/p>\n
820
\n00:48:02,360 –> 00:48:04,600
\nin a trial in the in the
\nJerusalem Talmud. <\/p>\n
821
\n00:48:05,840 –> 00:48:08,760
\nIt’s talking about in this case,
\nand I apologize that translation<\/p>\n
822
\n00:48:08,760 –> 00:48:12,840
\nin English isn’t great, but it’s
\ntalking about the if a thief, a <\/p>\n
823
\n00:48:12,840 –> 00:48:15,640
\nknown thief was to test to try
\nto testify as a witness in a <\/p>\n
824
\n00:48:15,640 –> 00:48:20,120
\ntrial, any evidence which a
\nwoman gives is not valid to <\/p>\n
825
\n00:48:20,120 –> 00:48:22,600
\noffer.
\nAlso they that is a thief are <\/p>\n
826
\n00:48:22,600 –> 00:48:24,960
\nnot valid to offer.
\nThis is equivalent to saying <\/p>\n
827
\n00:48:24,960 –> 00:48:28,040
\nthat one who is rabbinically
\naccounted a robber is qualified <\/p>\n
828
\n00:48:28,040 –> 00:48:31,520
\nto give the same evidence as a
\nwoman, which is to say none at <\/p>\n
829
\n00:48:31,520 –> 00:48:33,760
\nall.
\nThieves were not allowed to be <\/p>\n
830
\n00:48:33,760 –> 00:48:37,040
\nwitnesses in trials and neither
\nwere women. <\/p>\n
831
\n00:48:38,000 –> 00:48:42,360
\nIt was against Jewish law.
\nAnother place in the Talmud says<\/p>\n
832
\n00:48:42,360 –> 00:48:45,720
\nlet the law be burned rather
\nthan entrusted to a woman. <\/p>\n
833
\n00:48:45,840 –> 00:48:48,440
\nWomen were not to be educated,
\nthey were not to be trusted with<\/p>\n
834
\n00:48:48,440 –> 00:48:52,480
\nany kind of knowledge like this
\nin Jewish society at this time. <\/p>\n
835
\n00:48:52,800 –> 00:48:55,400
\nAnd if we want to know why,
\nlet’s just turn to Josephus and <\/p>\n
836
\n00:48:55,400 –> 00:48:57,760
\nlet him explain why he thinks
\nthat should be. <\/p>\n
837
\n00:48:58,160 –> 00:49:01,280
\nHe says, let not the testimony
\nof women be admitted on account <\/p>\n
838
\n00:49:01,280 –> 00:49:05,160
\nof the levity and boldness of
\ntheir sex, nor let servants be <\/p>\n
839
\n00:49:05,160 –> 00:49:07,600
\nadmitted to give testimony on
\naccount of the Igno ability of <\/p>\n
840
\n00:49:07,600 –> 00:49:11,360
\ntheir soul, since it is probable
\nthat they may not speak truth <\/p>\n
841
\n00:49:11,360 –> 00:49:13,840
\neither out of hope or gain or
\nfear of punishment. <\/p>\n
842
\n00:49:14,240 –> 00:49:16,760
\nSee, the general mindset at the
\ntime is that women are silly <\/p>\n
843
\n00:49:16,760 –> 00:49:19,920
\ncreatures, not to be trusted.
\nThey believe anything they hear.<\/p>\n
844
\n00:49:20,480 –> 00:49:24,400
\nSo the very last thing that
\nsomebody writing a fictional <\/p>\n
845
\n00:49:24,400 –> 00:49:27,040
\naccount in the Gospels of the
\ndiscovery of the empty tomb <\/p>\n
846
\n00:49:27,280 –> 00:49:30,880
\nwould would say is that the very
\nfirst witnesses of the empty <\/p>\n
847
\n00:49:30,880 –> 00:49:35,680
\ntomb were women.
\nAnd yet that’s what happened. <\/p>\n
848
\n00:49:36,240 –> 00:49:42,240
\nSo that’s what they wrote.
\nAnd generations later, that same<\/p>\n
849
\n00:49:42,240 –> 00:49:45,480
\nstory that the Jews told the
\ncenturions to tell everybody <\/p>\n
850
\n00:49:45,480 –> 00:49:49,600
\nthat the disciples had stole the
\nbody is what the Jews were still<\/p>\n
851
\n00:49:49,600 –> 00:49:53,080
\nsaying.
\nHere’s Justin Martyr, one of the<\/p>\n
852
\n00:49:53,080 –> 00:49:55,760
\nearliest Christian apologist.
\nA Christian apologist is <\/p>\n
853
\n00:49:55,760 –> 00:50:00,920
\nsomebody who defends the
\nChristian faith, and he says <\/p>\n
854
\n00:50:03,680 –> 00:50:06,840
\nsometime around 108 AD.
\nSo after the time of the of the <\/p>\n
855
\n00:50:06,840 –> 00:50:10,200
\napostles, about a generation
\nlater, the resurrection of <\/p>\n
856
\n00:50:10,200 –> 00:50:14,920
\nChrist did not convert the Jews,
\nbut through the whole world they<\/p>\n
857
\n00:50:14,920 –> 00:50:18,480
\nhave sent men to accuse Christ.
\nAnd though all the men of your <\/p>\n
858
\n00:50:18,480 –> 00:50:21,760
\nnation knew the incidents in the
\nlife of Jonah, and though Christ<\/p>\n
859
\n00:50:21,760 –> 00:50:26,200
\nsaid amongst you that he would
\ngive the sign of Jonah, yet you <\/p>\n
860
\n00:50:26,200 –> 00:50:29,640
\nnot only have not repented after
\nyou learned that he rose from <\/p>\n
861
\n00:50:29,640 –> 00:50:32,120
\nthe dead.
\nBut, as I said before, you have <\/p>\n
862
\n00:50:32,120 –> 00:50:35,800
\nsent chosen and ordained men
\nthrough all the world to <\/p>\n
863
\n00:50:35,800 –> 00:50:39,280
\nproclaim that a godless and
\nlawless heresy had sprung from <\/p>\n
864
\n00:50:39,280 –> 00:50:43,760
\none Jesus, a Galilean deceiver
\nwhom we crucified. <\/p>\n
865
\n00:50:44,000 –> 00:50:47,120
\nBut his disciples stole him by
\nnight from the tomb where he was<\/p>\n
866
\n00:50:47,120 –> 00:50:50,840
\nlaid when unfastened from the
\ncross, and now deceive men by <\/p>\n
867
\n00:50:50,840 –> 00:50:54,680
\nasserting that he has risen from
\nthe dead and ascended to heaven.<\/p>\n
868
\n00:50:55,400 –> 00:50:58,880
\nAnd a generation later this was
\nstill the only and the best <\/p>\n
869
\n00:50:58,880 –> 00:51:02,240
\nstory they had.
\nThey couldn’t dispute the fact <\/p>\n
870
\n00:51:02,240 –> 00:51:06,040
\nthat the tomb was empty, so they
\nhad to tell this story that the <\/p>\n
871
\n00:51:06,040 –> 00:51:10,320
\ndisciples stole the body.
\nAnd even a generation or two <\/p>\n
872
\n00:51:10,320 –> 00:51:13,920
\nafter him, another Christian,
\nhis Tertullian, is saying this <\/p>\n
873
\n00:51:13,920 –> 00:51:16,920
\nsarcastically, speaking for
\nsarcastically, from the tone of <\/p>\n
874
\n00:51:16,920 –> 00:51:20,680
\nvoice of a non believer at the
\ntime. <\/p>\n
875
\n00:51:21,240 –> 00:51:24,240
\nThis is he whom his disciples
\nsecretly stole away, that it <\/p>\n
876
\n00:51:24,240 –> 00:51:26,640
\nmight be said he had risen
\nagain, or the gardener <\/p>\n
877
\n00:51:26,640 –> 00:51:29,800
\nabstracted that his lettuces
\nmight come to no harm from the <\/p>\n
878
\n00:51:29,800 –> 00:51:35,640
\ncrowds of visitants.
\nThis was the message of the <\/p>\n
879
\n00:51:35,640 –> 00:51:38,360
\nJewish leaders who were not
\nChristians who despised <\/p>\n
880
\n00:51:38,360 –> 00:51:40,640
\nChristianity.
\nGenerations later, after the <\/p>\n
881
\n00:51:40,640 –> 00:51:44,800
\nfact, this was still the best
\nstory that they had to explain <\/p>\n
882
\n00:51:44,800 –> 00:51:48,880
\naway the resurrection that the
\ndisciples had stole the body, <\/p>\n
883
\n00:51:50,840 –> 00:51:54,400
\nand it’s all they had.
\nAnd as I’ve submitted to you, I <\/p>\n
884
\n00:51:54,400 –> 00:51:56,320
\ndon’t think that theory holds up
\neither. <\/p>\n
885
\n00:51:57,000 –> 00:51:59,880
\nAs much as anything is a
\nhistorical fact, is it? <\/p>\n
886
\n00:51:59,880 –> 00:52:04,360
\nIt is a historical fact that the
\ntomb of Jesus was empty and more<\/p>\n
887
\n00:52:04,360 –> 00:52:06,800
\nthan that, that he really was
\nraised from the dead. <\/p>\n
888
\n00:52:08,040 –> 00:52:11,480
\nAnd back in the 1930s, a man
\nnamed Albert Henry Ross set out <\/p>\n
889
\n00:52:11,480 –> 00:52:14,080
\nto write a book.
\nHe was a journalist with some <\/p>\n
890
\n00:52:14,080 –> 00:52:19,040
\ntraining in in as a as a lawyer
\nand he set out to write a book <\/p>\n
891
\n00:52:19,040 –> 00:52:22,480
\nthat he was going to use as a
\ncriticism of the New Testament. <\/p>\n
892
\n00:52:22,480 –> 00:52:25,640
\nThis is going to be a critical
\nin depth examination of of the <\/p>\n
893
\n00:52:25,640 –> 00:52:29,640
\nfour gospel accounts,
\nspecifically detailing the the <\/p>\n
894
\n00:52:29,640 –> 00:52:33,400
\ntrial and crucifixion story of
\nJesus. <\/p>\n
895
\n00:52:33,840 –> 00:52:36,440
\nHe was a skeptic.
\nHe had been a Christian, gone to<\/p>\n
896
\n00:52:36,440 –> 00:52:39,400
\na Christian Church when he had
\ngrown up, but as an adult he’d <\/p>\n
897
\n00:52:39,400 –> 00:52:42,040
\nstopped going, didn’t believe it
\nanymore, but was very interested<\/p>\n
898
\n00:52:42,040 –> 00:52:44,680
\nin the stories.
\nHe set out to look at all the <\/p>\n
899
\n00:52:44,680 –> 00:52:48,320
\ndetails of Jewish law and the
\nculture at the time, and to look<\/p>\n
900
\n00:52:48,320 –> 00:52:51,360
\nin depth at the original
\nlanguages and the Gospels to see<\/p>\n
901
\n00:52:51,360 –> 00:52:52,800
\nif the details of the story
\nlined up. <\/p>\n
902
\n00:52:52,800 –> 00:52:56,760
\nBut his intent was to pick it
\napart piece by piece, and at the<\/p>\n
903
\n00:52:56,760 –> 00:52:59,200
\nend he wrote a book called Who
\nMoved the Stone? <\/p>\n
904
\n00:53:02,000 –> 00:53:06,280
\nAnd he changed his mind because
\nhis book was the opposite of <\/p>\n
905
\n00:53:06,280 –> 00:53:09,320
\nwhat he intended it to be.
\nIt’s today one of the most <\/p>\n
906
\n00:53:09,320 –> 00:53:11,400
\nfamous Christian apologetic
\nworks. <\/p>\n
907
\n00:53:11,800 –> 00:53:15,600
\nIt goes piece by piece through
\nthe trial and crucifixion of <\/p>\n
908
\n00:53:15,600 –> 00:53:19,120
\nJesus, examining every part in
\ncritical detail. <\/p>\n
909
\n00:53:19,640 –> 00:53:25,000
\nAnd the conclusion is, from
\neverything that I can tell, this<\/p>\n
910
\n00:53:25,000 –> 00:53:29,680
\nreally did happen.
\nHere’s a quote from towards the <\/p>\n
911
\n00:53:29,680 –> 00:53:35,800
\nend of the book.
\nThis is what he has to say, he <\/p>\n
912
\n00:53:35,800 –> 00:53:37,840
\nwrote under the pen name Frank
\nMorrison. <\/p>\n
913
\n00:53:39,440 –> 00:53:42,440
\nHe said if it could be shown
\nthat there was a single <\/p>\n
914
\n00:53:42,440 –> 00:53:46,200
\ndocument, if of admittedly early
\ndate, dealing with the <\/p>\n
915
\n00:53:46,200 –> 00:53:50,080
\ncrucifixion and burial of Jesus,
\nand which it was even remotely <\/p>\n
916
\n00:53:50,080 –> 00:53:52,840
\nhinted that such was the case,
\nthat is to say that the <\/p>\n
917
\n00:53:52,840 –> 00:53:54,920
\ndisciples had stole the body of
\nJesus. <\/p>\n
918
\n00:53:55,640 –> 00:53:59,640
\nI for one should attach to that
\nhint very considerable weight. <\/p>\n
919
\n00:54:01,320 –> 00:54:04,280
\nYet in all the very literature
\nfrom that far off time, written <\/p>\n
920
\n00:54:04,280 –> 00:54:07,160
\nunder different skies by men of
\nvarying temperaments, possessed <\/p>\n
921
\n00:54:07,160 –> 00:54:10,280
\nof obviously divergent theories
\nof the true course of those <\/p>\n
922
\n00:54:10,280 –> 00:54:14,480
\nmemorable events, there has come
\ndown to us no hint or suggestion<\/p>\n
923
\n00:54:14,640 –> 00:54:16,920
\nthat the facts about the grave
\nwere other than those <\/p>\n
924
\n00:54:16,920 –> 00:54:21,240
\nsubstantially recorded in the
\nGospel According To Mark. <\/p>\n
925
\n00:54:22,440 –> 00:54:26,120
\nHowever disconcerting the fact
\nmay be, the literary verdict is <\/p>\n
926
\n00:54:26,120 –> 00:54:29,160
\nunanimous and must at least be
\ngiven its due weight by the <\/p>\n
927
\n00:54:29,160 –> 00:54:33,120
\nimpartial mind.
\nNow we showed a quote from an <\/p>\n
928
\n00:54:33,120 –> 00:54:36,080
\natheist who changed his mind
\nlast night and he said all my <\/p>\n
929
\n00:54:36,080 –> 00:54:40,880
\nlife I followed the evidence
\nwherever it leads and now I <\/p>\n
930
\n00:54:40,880 –> 00:54:45,120
\nfollowed it to believe in a God.
\nAnd here is a man who is a <\/p>\n
931
\n00:54:45,120 –> 00:54:50,640
\nskeptic who didn’t believe but
\nhe followed the evidence and it <\/p>\n
932
\n00:54:50,640 –> 00:54:53,760
\nled him to believe when he
\nlooked at every detail and <\/p>\n
933
\n00:54:53,760 –> 00:54:55,560
\ncompare the gospel accounts to
\neach other. <\/p>\n
934
\n00:54:55,920 –> 00:55:00,040
\nHe said this is a historical
\nfact that at a point in history <\/p>\n
935
\n00:55:00,040 –> 00:55:02,520
\na man really was raised from the
\ndead. <\/p>\n
936
\n00:55:02,520 –> 00:55:04,960
\nAnd you have to ask the question
\ntoo. <\/p>\n
937
\n00:55:05,200 –> 00:55:10,240
\nIf again, this was a made-up
\nstory, why would they have it in<\/p>\n
938
\n00:55:10,240 –> 00:55:14,960
\nJerusalem, where Jesus was most
\nstrongly opposed? <\/p>\n
939
\n00:55:15,080 –> 00:55:18,200
\nWhy, several weeks later we’ll
\nread about in Acts chapter 2, <\/p>\n
940
\n00:55:18,440 –> 00:55:21,880
\nwould Jerusalem be the place
\nwhere the apostles would go out <\/p>\n
941
\n00:55:21,880 –> 00:55:24,680
\nand and filled with the Holy
\nSpirit, preached that the the <\/p>\n
942
\n00:55:24,680 –> 00:55:30,160
\nLord was risen.
\nJerusalem was a place where <\/p>\n
943
\n00:55:30,160 –> 00:55:33,040
\nanybody, between dinner and
\nbedtime, could walk outside the <\/p>\n
944
\n00:55:33,040 –> 00:55:35,880
\ncity walls and look for
\nthemselves to see if the tomb <\/p>\n
945
\n00:55:35,880 –> 00:55:40,280
\nreally was empty.
\nIf this was all made-up, why not<\/p>\n
946
\n00:55:40,280 –> 00:55:43,280
\nspread this message starting
\nsomewhere else, like Galilee, <\/p>\n
947
\n00:55:43,280 –> 00:55:45,960
\nwhere Jesus had family, where he
\nwhere is all his enemies <\/p>\n
948
\n00:55:45,960 –> 00:55:48,920
\nweren’t, because all his enemies
\nwere right there in Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
949
\n00:55:50,080 –> 00:55:54,640
\nYet the Christian religion, now
\nspreading like wildfire, had its<\/p>\n
950
\n00:55:54,640 –> 00:55:58,440
\nheart in Jerusalem, the very
\nplace where anybody could have <\/p>\n
951
\n00:55:58,440 –> 00:56:01,920
\nwalked outside the gates just a
\nshort distance to visit the <\/p>\n
952
\n00:56:01,920 –> 00:56:06,040
\ntomb.
\nAnd as much as anything is a <\/p>\n
953
\n00:56:06,040 –> 00:56:09,920
\nhistorical fact.
\nThe resurrection of Jesus is <\/p>\n
954
\n00:56:10,080 –> 00:56:12,320
\nhistorical fact.
\nAnd if Jesus really was raised <\/p>\n
955
\n00:56:12,320 –> 00:56:15,560
\nfrom the dead, that’s proof,
\nsaid Paul, that we can and will <\/p>\n
956
\n00:56:15,560 –> 00:56:18,760
\nbe too.
\nAnd that’s proof too, that <\/p>\n
957
\n00:56:18,760 –> 00:56:21,480
\neverything he said was true,
\nthat he truly was the Son of <\/p>\n
958
\n00:56:21,480 –> 00:56:25,200
\nGod, that the Bible that we have
\nbefore us is the message of God.<\/p>\n
959
\n00:56:25,800 –> 00:56:28,040
\nIf that’s really true, then
\nshouldn’t we be taking this <\/p>\n
960
\n00:56:28,040 –> 00:56:31,240
\nextremely seriously?
\nIsn’t this a matter of life and <\/p>\n
961
\n00:56:31,240 –> 00:56:33,480
\ndeath?
\nIsn’t this book more important <\/p>\n
962
\n00:56:33,680 –> 00:56:36,240
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