And welcome back,
we are in Chapter 18
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of the Gospel of John and
we are with Dr. Jon Paulien.
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Dr. Paulien, you know as we
were reading here in verse 5
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it says that or verse 6 it says
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that Jesus said, "I am He."
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You know, Jesus of Nazareth
and everybody draws back
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and falls to the ground so
it seems that just by His word,
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Jesus has the power to release
Himself and His disciples
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and here is Peter
whom you were talking about
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trying to make things
right here as he know,
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he takes out his sword
and did he just overlook
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that even the words of Jesus
could change everything around
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and here he is with
his little, you know,
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sword or pocket knife and
try to make the difference here.
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And you were saying, you know,
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how sometimes we
often won't don't allow God
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to take charge and
we here we are you know
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thinking that we will make
things better but we don't.
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Look at all the
way through history,
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how people have tried
to fix God's problems,
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you know, the inquisition.
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Well, you know God can't
handle all these heretics,
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so we've got to do
something about, the crusades.
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You know, God couldn't
possibly allow the Muslims
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to have Jerusalem, so we
got to do something about it.
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The suicide
bombers today somehow God
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has become small you see,
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he is not really
in control anymore.
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So we've got to do something
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really dramatic
to save his skin.
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And John would
just look at all of this
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and shake his head and
say, you know how silly?
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Why does Peter see
Jesus' divinity flashes here?
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We see the Father, you know,
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and God in every
full sense of the term.
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They fall back when
Jesus says, I am once again.
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Why does Peter
still whip his sword out?
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Evidently Jesus has made clear,
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let these guys go.
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Let my disciples go
but you can have me.
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And Peter, I think
felt little ashamed by that.
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And he said I'm not
going to let Jesus be taken,
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I'm going to step in.
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Fortunately
later on that virtually
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undermine Jesus'
defense before Pilate.
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Because his whole
point was that my servants
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won't fight to
protect me because
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I'm not a political king.
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Peter acted the political
role and whenever politics
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and religion get together,
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bad things happen,
and that's what was
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happening here. Right.
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So let's move on and
we can go to verses 12-27
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and we see the trial
before Annas and also Peter
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in the courtyard going on here.
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We talked already about
the fact that Annas is running
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this trial as the
high priest of choice.
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Notice, he is the one
that the Jews really felt
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was the high priest
because he was still alive
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having been high priest but he
is sort of getting their heads
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together saying how shall we go
about presenting this to Pilate.
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So Annas is still
respected perhaps as a smart one
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who can really
put it all together
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and then they
send it to Caiaphas
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who is bit more of
the hard headed one
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and then it goes on to Pilate.
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So anyway
interesting piece of this,
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let's read verses 20
to 23, I think it is.
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Let me have a look here.
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Yes. Some very interesting.
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Go back to 19 to 23.
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"The high
priest then asked Jesus
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about his disciples
and of his doctrine.
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Jesus answered him, I
spoke openly to the world
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I have always
taught in the synagogues,
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and in the temple,
where the Jews always meet
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and in secret I
have said nothing.
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Why do you ask me?
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Ask those who have heard me,
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what I said to them
indeed they know what I said.
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And when he had
said these things,
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one of the officers
who stood by struck Jesus
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with the palm of
his hand, saying,
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Do you answer the
high priest like that?
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Jesus answered him,
If I have spoken evil,
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bear witness of
the evil but if well,
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why do you strike me?"
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Anything strange there
that you didn't expect?
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Well, the high priest,
here is a religious leader
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using violence to
hit an innocent man,
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which is uncommon,
it's like going to church
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and here is the passive,
you know, why did you do that?
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And how does Jesus respond?
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You, know what's my wrong here?
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He protests. Yeah. Yeah.
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What would you think,
Jesus should have done?
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What does He say in
the sermon on the Mount.
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If somebody strikes you
on the cheek, what do you do?
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Let him-- give
him the other cheek.
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To give the other cheek, yeah,
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Jesus doesn't do
that here, does He?
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Right. Now in
the Gospel of John,
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Jesus is much more assertive.
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In the synoptics
Mathew, Mark and Luke,
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He is the lonely
Jesus, meek and mild.
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You know that we often think of.
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John has this masculine Jesus
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who doesn't put
up with nonsense.
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High priest asked
Him a dumb question,
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He says wait a minute,
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He says why do
you even need to ask.
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All kinds of people heard me.
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I haven't been
teaching in secret.
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What I'm teaching
is public knowledge.
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You don't need
to even ask me this.
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That's a pretty
assertive answer.
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And that's why He
gets slapped on the face
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and then He says, who
gave you the right to hit me.
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Sometimes I think we tend
to take one piece of a Bible
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and we run with
it to an extreme.
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We can say, okay, you
always turn the other cheek.
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You never defend
yourself and so someone
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might let someone
come into their house
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and violate the
family and things like that.
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No, Christians
are not be a doormat
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that people just walk over.
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If there is a balance
between on the one hand
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in many circumstances, it
might be a powerful witness
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to turn the other cheek.
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But in other circumstances,
it's a powerful witness
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to speak up for yourself
and to defend the helpless
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and to defend the oppressed.
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So Jesus shows us that
this idea of a simple rule
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for all situations is
probably not the most healthier
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or the most mature
approach to His teachings,
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but Jesus himself in
different circumstances
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could act a
little bit differently.
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The other side of
this I like is as people
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look at me they probably
don't see too meek and mild,
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I'm a fairly big guy,
I have got a big voice,
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I don't mind
saying what I think,
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you know things like that.
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And I remember much of my life,
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I kind of felt
guilty about that,
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and thought that I
should be more like Jesus
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and then I
discovered John's Jesus,
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and I said all right, you see.
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Jesus is big enough for
all of our personalities.
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John's Jesus is my
Jesus that was your thought.
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We shouldn't try to
mold everybody into one mold.
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Unity, the unity that
Jesus prayed for is not a unity
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where everybody thinks
alike, everybody acts alike,
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everyone is a same personality.
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But it is unity in a blend
of different personalities,
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unity in a blend of
different ways of thinking,
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that is what makes the
unity so striking in the world.
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When a couple gets
together and gets married,
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there is a unity there but they
are not going to think alike,
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they are not going to
have the same personalities.
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In fact people tend
to marry their opposite
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because they want to
balance themselves out.
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And then after you get married
you look at your opposite
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and say why did I do this to me?
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Why did I do it to myself?
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And so learning to
deal with differences,
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learning to forgive, learning
to get along with people
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who think differently
is the essence of the unity
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that Jesus was praying for
and we see here in the story
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Jesus was not a cookie
cutter Christian so to speak.
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Jesus could
sometimes He would be silent
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in some parts of
this trials He was silent.
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Before Annas here,
He is very assertive.
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So you want to get
both pictures of Jesus.
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Don't just make a judgment
from one piece of the Bible.
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So often we argue over things
where both of them are right.
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They are both seeing
something in scripture
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that's worth remembering
and so finding that for me,
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it is the whole Bible
that is the authority.
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Not the Bible that
this person might prefer.
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Thomas Jefferson just cut
out little sayings of Jesus,
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that's my Bible, the
Thomas Jefferson's Bible.
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And it was a good Bible because
it's the sayings of Jesus
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but it isn't the whole picture.
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And when people take
one part of the Bible
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and ignore the rest,
they quickly go to extremes.
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Now we see here that
Annas could not answer
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that question why
do you strike me so,
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it's verse 24 says
that "Annas sent him
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and he sent him bound to
Caiaphas the high priest".
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Right. Now, Caiaphas
has that case to him.
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But, we have nothing
in the Gospel of John
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to tell us what happened there.
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What does happen
here in a double stage
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is that you have Peter
and the beloved disciple out
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in the courtyard and
this is the only gospel
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where somebody is with
Peter and so the role of John
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is portrayed because
he was actually there.
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What's unique here is
it tells us that the maid
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who identifies Peter
was also the door keeper
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and she knew John, so
that's couple of details
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we didn't know from the others,
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tells us the weather was
cold in March in Jerusalem
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it can be quite pleasant
or it can be quite cold,
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that kind of
goes back and forth.
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So tells us the
reason there was a fire
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there was that it
was cold and people
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were trying to stay warm.
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And it also tells us
that he was recognized
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by a relative of Malchus.
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Malchus was the
fellow whose ear he cut off
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and it's a relative of
Malchus that recognizes Peter.
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Oh, you are the one.
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So Peter's boldness
gets him into trouble.
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He is too bold in the garden.
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He is too timid when he
gets into the courtyard.
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There he is not confessing Jesus
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so he is on the
wrong side both ways.
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Peter's someone
who is out of balance.
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So this brings us into
the trial before Pilate.
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And as I mentioned earlier,
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Pilate really is
like a secondary star
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of this one here
because he is much more involved
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then he was in
Mathew, Mark and Luke.
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And here we see Pilate
acting the role of a judge
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and he is actually
doing it pretty properly.
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He is asking
the right questions.
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I mean if you and I were
faced with that situation,
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we might ask
some strange question.
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But Pilate, you see, he's doing
what a judge is supposed to do.
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And seeing how Pilate relates
to Jesus is a very important
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piece of the puzzle
but we will continue
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with that in the next program.
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Well, Dr.
Paulien, I look forward
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to that next Bible study
and you know one of the lessons
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that I have learned is that now
that I think about it sometimes
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in the midst of my
problems and hardships I do,
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I do not consult God
and I don't make it a habit
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to pray about my problems
and allow God to take charge.
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And friends, I invite you to
place God first in your lives,
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that way things can
go better. God bless.
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