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show nodes today, we're looking 

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at Luke chapter 11 verses 47 to 
54. 

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Jesus said a less for you who 
build the tombs of the prophets 

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the menu ancestors killed in 
this way. 

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You both witness what your 
ancestors did and approve it. 

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They did the killing you. 
Do the building? 

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And that is why the wisdom of 
God said I will send them 

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prophets and apostles some they 
will Slaughter and persecute so 

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that this generation will have 
to answer for every prophets 

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blood that has been shared since
the foundation of the world, 

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from the blood of Abel, to the 
blood of Zechariah, who was 

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murdered between the Altar and 
the sanctuary. 

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Yes, I tell you this generation 
will have to answer for it all. 

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Alas for you lawyers who have 
taken away. 

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The key of knowledge, you have 
not gone in yourselves and have 

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prevented others going in. 
Who wanted to when he left the 

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house, the scribes and the 
Pharisees began a furious attack

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on him. 
And tried to force answers from 

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him on innumerable questions. 
Setting traps to catch him out 

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in something. 
He might say, So a really 

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interesting passage today and 
there's a bit to talk about 

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here. 
Let's start by thinking about 

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the context. 
So Jesus, at this point is 

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moving From Galilee to Jerusalem
for the Final Phase of his 

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ministry and his going through 
various towns on the way and 

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he's been invited to eat at a 
Pharisees house. 

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The Pharisee notices that Jesus 
doesn't perform. 

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The usual ritual Washings before
eating and he questions, Jesus 

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about it. 
Jesus. 

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Then used that as an opportunity
to tell the What their biggest 

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issue is so in verses 37 on 
words of this chapter and you 

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would have heard this in the 
last few days of the podcast. 

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Jesus says the biggest issue 
with the Pharisees is they focus

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on external Purity rather than 
internal Purity. 

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And in yesterday's episode just 
before today he has said the 

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Pharisees actually make it more 
difficult for people to come to 

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God, rather than easier. 
Their job is supposed to be to 

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help people get to God, but 
they're actually doing the 

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opposite. 
So, all of that has Has 

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happened. 
And now we get to verse 47 and 

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Jesus says, a less for you or 
more literally there. 

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Whoa, to you and we talked about
what the words mean in 

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yesterday's episode alas for you
who build the tombs of the 

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prophets. 
The men, your ancestors killed. 

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So the Jews, the Jewish leaders 
in Jesus time, they claim to 

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honor the Old Testament prophets
and they built elaborate tombs 

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and memorials for them and said,
lots of prayers and decorated 

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these terms. 
So they did honor the prophets 

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or at least they thought they 
did. 

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In fact, the Jewish leaders in 
Jesus time, they distance 

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themselves from the action of 
the previous Jewish leaders, so 

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they consider themselves 
different than their 

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forefathers. 
They say to themselves, we would

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never kill a profit but that's 
not how Jesus understands it. 

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Because in verse 48, Jesus says 
to them in this way, you both 

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witness what your ancestors did 
and approve it. 

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They did the killing you. 
Do the building as in the 

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building of the terms there. 
So Jesus sees Is the fact that 

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the Pharisees, build the tombs 
of the prophets? 

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He sees that as a symbolic of 
the fact that the Pharisees are 

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actually complicit in the acts 
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Their forefathers do the 
killing, and the Pharisees, do 

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the building, but there's more 
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As Jesus is going to go on, to 
say, it's really how the 

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Pharisees are going to treat the
future messengers of God. 

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That makes them the most 
complicit. 

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It makes them the most, like, 
their forefathers because as 

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we'll see, Jesus says, the 
Pharisees are actually going to 

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treat future profits in exactly 
the same way as their 

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forefathers treated the previous
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So they're not much different 
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49. 
Jesus now says this and that is 

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why the wisdom of God said and 
then he has an extended quote, 

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the wisdom of God, that's an 
interesting phrase and in a lot 

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of Bibles, this'll be capitals, 
the wisdom of God. 

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So who is the wisdom of God? 
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the word of God himself as in 
it's something that God himself.

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Spoke at some point, the wisdom 
of God, something that came out 

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of God's mouth. 
Now, the next quote though that 

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apparently, the wisdom of God 
said, according to Jesus, these 

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words are never recorded in 
scripture. 

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So when did God say this? 
Maybe God said this to Jesus in 

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heaven as a conversation between
the Trinity or maybe it was part

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of a Jewish Tradition at the 
time that it was something God 

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had said it's not entirely 
clear. 

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But Jesus says, these are the 
very words of God. 

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Now there's a further 
complication though because in 

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the original Greek, there's no 
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So we don't actually know when 
The court finishes. 

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And when Jesus starts to add his
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So here in verse 46, 48, Jesus 
basically says, here's a quote 

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that God has said, but we don't 
know when the quote finishes, 

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and when Jesus starts to talk 
himself, so it's kind of 

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complicated what further 
complicates it though, is that 

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if you look at Matthews version 
of this speech in Matthew 

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chapter 23, it just has Jesus 
saying these words rather than 

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saying that God set them just 
Jesus comes right out. 

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And says them himself. 
So, there might be, if we put 

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Matthew and Luke together, this 
might be a very subtle hint that

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the gospel, the gospel authors 
did understand Jesus to be God. 

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And in fact, to be the wisdom of
God, which, of course we believe

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as Christians. 
But let's work with the text. 

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We have now different Bible 
translations will have the quote

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ending in different places. 
Even the ones I looked at 

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preparing for this episode, a 
slightly different from how the 

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lectionary has it. 
But here's the entire quote as 

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today's election area puts it. 
So this is Currently something 

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God said, I will send them 
prophets and apostles. 

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Some they will Slaughter and 
persecute so that this 

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generation will have to answer 
for every prophets blood that 

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has been shed since the 
foundation of the world, from 

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the blood of Abel to the blood 
of Zechariah, who was murdered 

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between the Altar and the 
sanctuary. 

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So it's a fairly long quote 
there from god. 

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Let's try and break it down a 
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So the first thing in this 
quote, God says, is, I will send

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them prophets and apostles. 
Now, the reference here is 

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firstly to the Old Testament 
prophets. 

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So God says I will send them 
prophets and he's done it. 

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But then there's this second 
phrase, I'll send them Apostles.

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This is almost certainly 
referring to the Twelve 

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Apostles. 
As in the New Testament era, the

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apostles are going to be a 
continuation of the ministry of 

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the prophets in the Old 
Testament, which is interesting.

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You've probably never perhaps 
considered this part of Luke 

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before where God himself says, I
will send Them prophets and 

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apostles. 
In fact, Matthews version of 

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this text in Matthew, 23 says, 
Jesus says to the Pharisees, 

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some of these Apostles you will 
kill and crucify and Scourge in 

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your synagogues. 
So clearly the apostles that God

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is talking about here are the 12
apostles, God here promises to 

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send the Jewish leaders, the 
apostles, just as God sent Old 

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Testament prophets to reveal his
will. 

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Now, in the New Covenant, the 
apostles are going to be God's 

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prophets, who were Went to 
reveal, God's will to the Jewish

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people, the quote continues, 
some they will Slaughter and 

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persecute and of course, in the 
Old Testament when ever a 

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prophet was sent by God to bring
a message, the Jewish leaders 

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didn't treat the prophet 
particularly. 

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Well, there will almost always 
rejected and they were often 

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killed by the Jewish leadership.
So we know that the Jewish 

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leadership in the Old Testament,
hated the prophets of God, and 

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here, Jesus says, they're going 
to treat the early, Christian 

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leaders, the apostles, the same 
way. 

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They will be slaughtered and 
persecuted by the Jewish 

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leaders. 
So it's quite a remarkable 

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prophecy, here of Jesus, he's 
saying the coming Apostles will 

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be treated in the same way as 
your father's treated, the 

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prophets verse 50, so that this 
generation. 

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Now this phrase, this 
generation, it means the Jewish 

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leaders in Jesus time. 
This generation will have to 

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answer for every prophets blood 
that has been shed since the 

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foundation of the world. 
What the Greek. 

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They're actually says, is this 
generation of the blood of all 

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the prophets will be required of
this generation. 

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What does this mean here? 
Jesus says that the Jewish 

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leaders in Jesus time rejected 
Jesus and the rejected the 

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apostles, but Jesus himself is 
the last and greatest in a long 

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line of prophets who God has 
sent to the Jewish leaders, to 

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turn them back to him, we'll 
think about it. 

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If they reject Jesus, the 
fullest revelation of God's will

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then really bike. 
Attention, the Jewish leaders, 

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reject, all of God's prophets. 
So in that sense, they're 

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accountable for the deaths of 
all of the prophets, there's 

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more to it though. 
Because as we'll see, Jesus is 

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going to say what makes them 
more. 

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Accountable is the way they 
treat the future Apostles as 

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well, but it's pretty strong. 
Strong language here, isn't it? 

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Jesus says the Pharisees will 
have to answer for every 

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prophets blood that has been 
shed that since the foundation 

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of the world. 
Now this is despite the 

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Pharisees claim that they honor 
the prophets and that they're 

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not accountable. 
Notable for their deaths. 

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Jesus says, you are in fact, 
accountable and you will be held

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accountable. 
Then in verse 51, he says, from 

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the blood of Abel to the blood 
of Zechariah, who was murdered 

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between the Altar and the 
sanctuary. 

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Why does Jesus bring up here 
able and Zechariah? 

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It turns out that this is kind 
of like a BRAC. 

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These are brackets indicating 
the entire period of the Old 

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Testament that the Pharisees 
will be accountable for because 

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this is a period in what in 
which, a lot of righteous 

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prophets were killed. 
So, he first mentions, the blood

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of Abel. 
Most people know, the story of 

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Cain killing Abel will able is 
the first righteous person to be

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killed in the entire Old 
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It's very early in the Bible, 
Genesis chapter 4, Cain kills 

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Abel. 
Even though able is righteous. 

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And then Jesus says, from the 
blood of Abel to the blood of 

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Zechariah, who is murdered 
between the Altar and the 

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sanctuary. 
Who is this is Zechariah, that 

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Jesus talks about there's two 
different views here. 

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Well, Matthew actually gives us 
a bit more information about 

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who's Zachariah is, if you look 
at Matthew chapter, 23, Jesus, 

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there says, that Zechariah is 
the son of berechiah, who is 

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Zechariah the son of berechiah. 
He is the prophet Zechariah from

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the Old Testament. 
There is a book in the Old 

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Testament called the book of 
Zechariah. 

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That is the Zechariah. 
That is apparently in mind here.

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Now, his death is not. 
Mentioned in scripture, we don't

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find out how he dies in the Old 
Testament, but Jesus he says he 

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was murdered between the Altar 
and the sanctuary and indeed. 

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In Jesus time, there was a 
rabbinical tradition that says 

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that this Zechariah was killed 
in the temple so that would 

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certainly fit but there is an 
alternative view amongst summer 

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Scholars, though. 
Some Scholars think that this is

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a different exact ariya. 
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different sector. 
I in the Old Testament, he's 

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mentioned in and Chronicles 
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this Zechariah, the son of 
jehoiada. 

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He was definitely murdered in 
the sanctuary that actually says

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that in the Old Testament. 
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well actually, because in the 
time of Jesus, the Old Testament

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in Israel, had Genesis, as the 
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and second chronicles was the 
last. 

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So if this second Zechariah the 
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one that Jesus has in mind. 
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of saying that the Pharisees are
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all the prophets in the entire 
Old Testament, from Genesis 

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through the second chronicles, 
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Testament. 
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some sort of some Scholars, 
think there might be like a 

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copyist area here, where 
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it says, Zechariah the son of 
jehoiada and maybe, at some 

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point, a copyist has changed it 
to Bear a Kya. 

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original manuscript here but 

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either way, it doesn't really 
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Jesus is saying that Zechariah 
whichever Zechariah, we identify

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it. 
As he is the last righteous man 

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in the Old Testament to be 
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So in this way, Abel and 
Zechariah servers, brackets for 

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the group of righteous people, 
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will be responsible for, so they
are the brackets. 

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Jesus goes on in verse 51. 
Yes I tell you this generation 

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will have to answer for it all. 
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as each. 
She'll be required of this 

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generation. 
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Pharisees have accumulated from 
the Old Testament era will 

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finally spill over in the coming
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This is what Jesus says, and the
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are going to be judged. 
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When at the Jewish leaders in 
Jesus day punished for their 

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treatment of the prophets and 
the apostles Clearly, if we 

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understand history correctly, 
it's in the destruction of the 

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temple in 70 AD, the 
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and 1870 was brutal. 
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killed and the New Testament. 
Clearly depicts the destruction 

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of the temple. 
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judgment of God. 
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the Jewish leaders for 
continually rejecting his 

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profits and particularly for 
rejecting the Messiah. 

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Now, that might sound a bit 
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Why would Jesus? 
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all of Jerusalem to be wiped 
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Just because of the Pharisees. 
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Testament whenever God judges 
Israel historically suffering in

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Israel is a collective 
experience that falls on both 

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the righteous and the wicked. 
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guilt, we don't have this 
concept as much in Christian 

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theology anymore, but in the Old
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were responsible for The welfare
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And if the Jewish leaders were 
guilty, basically, all of Israel

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was considered guilty in a 
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guilt, this idea of the 
destruction of the temple, being

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a judgment of God. 
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brought out in Luke chapter 21. 
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generation shall not pass away 
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So, we'll look at Luke chapter 
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Now, there's something 
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Let's go back and read the 
entire sort of phrase here and 

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see if you can pick up on Jesus 
main point here. 

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So, going back to verse 47 here,
this is what it says. 

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You build the tombs of the 
prophets, the men, your 

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ancestors killed in this way. 
You both witness what your 

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ancestors did and approve it. 
They did the killing you do the 

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building. 
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God said I will send them 
prophets and apostles, they will

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have to answer for every 
prophets blood that has been 

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shared since the foundation of 
the world, from the blood of 

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Abel to the blood of Zechariah. 
Yes, I tell you this generation 

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will have to answer for it all 
the key thing there that's 

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really interesting and this is 
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If we're looking, at the literal
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that's users particularly words 
like therefore and so we'll up 

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there at the start of verse 49. 
There's a therefore it says, 

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therefore, that is why the 
wisdom of God said, what's going

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on here? 
What's the therefore, if we 

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understand that correctly, it 
seems that Jesus is saying that 

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the reason God is going to send 
the Pharisees future prophets 

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and apostles is so that the 
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be held accountable for killing 
all of God's righteous 

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Messengers and therefore their 
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So in other words, God is saying
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Jesus is speaking here, the the 
Pharisees are guilty for the way

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they have treated, the Old 
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that quite literally, he's going
To send them more profits in the

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form of Apostles and they will 
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And that will serve as proof. 
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they deserve the punishment 
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But that's actually what the 
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It says, the Reason God is going
to send them Apostles is so that

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they can be proved guilty, 
really interesting. 

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And that's why I think looking 
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scripture reveals a lot of 
interesting stuff about theology

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that we might miss, if we just 
skim over it. 

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Going to verse 50 52 Jesus in 
the all turns to the lawyers and

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says, alas for you lawyers. 
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Jewish experts in the Old 
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These are kind of like the 
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Pharisees Jesus says, you have 
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Knowledge, about what will Jesus
doesn't say here, but it most 

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likely means knowledge of the 
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And the image here of key is 
sort of brings to mind like a 

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door. 
It's like the Pharisees have the

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key. 
Should the door to the kingdom 

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of God, but they're not using 
it. 

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They're not letting people get 
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The Pharisees have taken away 
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kingdom of God. 
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basically, by their elaborate 
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They actually make it harder for
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So, in other words, they have 
locked up the kingdom of God 

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from the Jewish people by their 
complex system of rules and 

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regulations, that's the opposite
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Jesus goes on, you have not gone
in yourselves so he's He's going

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to get pretty harsh here. 
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not entered the kingdom of God 
because they have not listened 

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to his Messengers. 
Who have explained his will. 

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They haven't listened to the 
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will they listen to the 
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So they have not entered the 
kingdom even though they have 

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the key to and Jesus now says, 
and you have prevented others 

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going in who wanted two or more,
literally there. 

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What it says, use you have 
hindered. 

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Those who were entering, this is
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sin. 
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leaders and said, I supposed to 
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God, but they've done the very 
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Jesus says, they actually 
prevent the Jewish people from 

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getting into the kingdom. 
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two lakhs or that they lack 
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It's just that their 
interpretation of Judaism and 

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their complex system ends up 
distorting God's Will and it 

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makes it harder for the Jews to 
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And, in fact, it makes them 
harder to understand the Messiah

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and to come to them. 
Sia. 

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So, in that sense, the Jewish 
leaders are blocking people from

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getting into the kingdom, of 
God. 

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Think about how different it 
would have been if the Pharisees

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had accepted Jesus as the 
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Probably most of Israel would 
have accepted Jesus as the 

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Messiah, but they look to their 
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Jewish leaders largely rejected 
him, Israel, largely rejected 

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him verse 53. 
So that's the end of the 

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conversation between them. 
Luke now says when Jesus left 

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the house, the scribes and the 
Pharisees began to Furious 

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attack on him what it actually 
says. 

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That's not the best translation.
It's not a furious attack. 

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It says, they began to press him
hard. 

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Now, keep in mind by this point,
the Jewish leaders basically 

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Want Jesus dead. 
They've had enough of him. 

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Luke goes on. 
They tried to force answers from

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Jesus, from him, on innumerable 
questions. 

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Again, what the Greek there says
is they provoked Jesus to speak 

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of many things. 
So they're trying to trap Jesus.

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They trying to get him to talk 
about things that will get him 

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into trouble because they're 
looking for an excuse to punish 

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him basically and to get him out
of the way verse 54, they set 

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traps to catch him out in 
something, he might say. 

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And again, the Greek, there says
they lie in wait for him. 

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And we know that for the last 
part of Jesus ministry, the 

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Jewish leaders are constantly 
looking for opportunities to 

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trap Jesus. 
And there's several scenes that 

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were probably quite familiar 
with where the Pharisees 

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actually come up with several 
trap questions which they think 

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will incriminate Jesus. 
But he gets away with all of 

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them. 
And one example of that is, 

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should we pay the tax to Caesar 
or not? 

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They think that's a good trap 
question but Jesus gets out of 

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it. 
So that's the end of Luke 

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chapter 11. 
It's a pretty long one and we'll

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look at Luke chapter 12 in the 
coming days. 

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The only catechism reference to 
today's passage is in paragraph 

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five seven, nine. 
And this is the same one that we

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looked at yesterday, and it's 
well worth repeating because it 

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gives you a completely different
perspective. 

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On the positives, the positive 
aspects of the way, the 

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Pharisees went about things. 
So catechism of the Catholic 

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Church paragraph, 579 the 
principle of an integral 

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observance of the law, not Only 
in letter. 

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But in spirit was dear to the 
Pharisees, by giving Israel, 

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this principle, they had led 
many Jews of Jesus time, to an 

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extreme religious Zeal. 
This is Zeal, were not to lapse 

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into hypocrisy. 
Could only prepare the people 

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for their unprecedented 
intervention of God through the 

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perfect fulfillment of the law 
by the only righteous one in the

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place of all sinners. 
So I'll include that paragraph 

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in the show notes as well. 
Thanks for listening today. 

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Please share this podcast around
so that more and more people and

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Catholics in particular can 
learn to dive into the word of 

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God in a really academic 
faithful. 

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Systematic way and will continue
to move through Luke in the 

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coming days.