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Hi everyone. 
Welcome back to the podcast, 

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we're all about helping. 
You understand the gospel 

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The text, what does it mean in 
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So that when you hear this 
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Today, we're looking at a fairly
famous, passage wearing Luke 

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chapter, 19, verses 45 to 48. 
This is what you would hear in 

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today's mass, Jesus went into 
the temple and began driving out

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those who are selling according 
to scripture. 

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He said, my house will be a 
House of Prayer but you have 

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turned it into a robbers Den. 
He taught in the temple 

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everyday, the chief priests, and
the scribes with the support of 

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the leading citizens. 
Tried to do away with him, but 

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they did not see how they could 
carry this out because the 

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people as a whole hung on his 
words, So what's the context of 

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this passage? 
What has happened? 

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Just prior to today's saying 
here, so Jesus has just arrived 

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in Jerusalem for the last week 
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So we're here at the beginning 
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and verse 45 says, Jesus went 
into the temple. 

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So the Temple of course, was the
center of Jewish life. 

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It was always very busy and it 
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where God dwelt among his 
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In a special manner, it was the 
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economy and religious life. 
The temple itself was divided 

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into different compartments and 
you've probably seen these maps 

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of the temple. 
There's sort of inner courts and

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outer courts, and it appears 
that the same we're looking at 

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today, happens in the outer 
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Gentiles. 
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outdoor Courtyard. 
It's called the outer court. 

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Now, it's pretty close to 
Passover when the scene happens.

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So, the whole area would be 
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People would be very, very busy,
and history tells us that in 

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passover's, it was so busy at 
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pilgrims. 
In In Waves, they couldn't all 

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come in at once. 
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and Luke just go straight into 
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Luke says he began driving out 
those who we're selling now. 

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The other gospel writers, tell 
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There's people there who were 
selling animals particularly now

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the fact that they're selling 
animals is not a bad thing in 

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itself. 
That's actually a needed Market.

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You did need people near the 
temple who could sell animals 

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because in order to go into the 
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certain sacrifices, you have to 
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you need animals. 
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selling animals to the Jews, 
it's not actually a bad thing. 

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It's a needed Market. 
Some people can't get their own 

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animals before they get to the 
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Particularly if they're 
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In Israel, they might not have 
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So many people when they get to 
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animals. 
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animals would be sacrificed as 
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particular, Lambs would be the 
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the Passover week now. 
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tell us that the market for 
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It used to be located on the 
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So outside the city nowhere near
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So it used to be, that is 
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They pass the Mount of Olives, 
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could buy animals if they needed
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Actual Mountain, but some 
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It's not entirely clear. 
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that in the time of the high 
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high priest. 
At the time of Jesus, he allowed

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some animals to be sold in the 
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So, it was a recent change in 
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Now, the other gospels also tell
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sitting in the temple as well. 
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Market because you needed to 
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Jewish money in order to do the 
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Devices in the temple. 
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with the fact that these things 
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The problem he has is the 
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He has a problem with the fact 
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happening in the outer Court of 
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temple is supposed to be for the
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It's the only part of the temple
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into to worship. 
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that. 
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and worship god, there would do 
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But here, these Merchants have 
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Court, which makes it very hard 
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worship God. 
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Here says stop turning. 
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robbers, probably. 
Also the people who are here who

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are selling the money making 
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probably inflating the prices, 
so there's probably like 

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extortion going on as well, but 
the main thing Jesus mentions 

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here is the fact that they are 
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outer court, for worshiping God,
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for. 
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drives them out and we know from
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made a whip to do this, Jesus is
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public scene. 
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The point is to get the 
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that the area can be cleared and
people can come back in and 

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worship. 
That's why he chases them out. 

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It's not to make a scene. 
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back in and verse 46. 
He says, according to scripture,

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or we can translate that as it 
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So Jesus, here is going to quote
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So Jesus sees the Old Testament 
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And he's going to quote from the
Old Testament, to help the 

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merchants that he's just driven 
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See why he's doing what he's 
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And this is what he quotes. 
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Prayer but you have turned it 
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Now, that's actually two 
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Testament. 
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be a House of Prayer. 
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then but you have turned it into
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It's from Jeremiah 7 verse 11. 
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Bible and in the time of Jesus, 
they commonly would do this. 

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They would put two parts of 
scripture together and put them 

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into one Court in order to make 
their point and the church 

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fathers did a lot of this as 
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things from that. 
It teaches a certainly that they

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saw All of the Old Testament, 
scripture to be equally 

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authoritative. 
They could just pull a verse 

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from here in a verse from there 
and put them together to help 

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make a point. 
So it's really interesting the 

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way they use scripture. 
So these courts that Jesus uses 

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helps us understand what his 
problem is. 

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His problem is that they've 
turned the temple from a House 

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of Prayer into a robbers Den. 
He wants people to be able to 

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access God in the temple. 
That's his heart's desire, but 

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the merchants are preventing 
that from happening. 

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In the eyes. 
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verse 7, which says my house 
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context. 
Isaiah is prophesying, that one 

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day, God will gather all the 
nations to himself in the time 

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of Jesus. 
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stopping that passage, from 
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the temple should be a House of 
Prayer. 

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But according to Jesus, these 
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happening there, obstructing 
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Jeremiah passage, Jeremiah 7 
verse 11, you have turned it 

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into The robbers Den in context,
that's from a sermon, that 

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Jeremiah delivers against the 
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despite their sinfulness, and in
context G, Jeremiah gives this 

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sermon that supposed to be a 
warning that if the Jews don't 

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repent, the temple will be 
destroyed. 

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While the situation in Jesus 
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similar to what was going on in 
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So, it's significant that Jesus 
chooses a part of Jeremiah 

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sermon, which is all about 
predicting the The temple 

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because what is what happens to 
Jerusalem shortly after Jesus 

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dies. 
It is also destroyed because 

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they did not repent. 
Also notice what Jesus does, he 

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he's quite aggressive, he puts 
people out of the temple, some 

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Scholars. 
Think that, that foreshadows the

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temples destruction, which is 
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his expulsion of the animals 
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prophecy that the sacrifices in 
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Would soon. 
Stop some Scholars. 

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See, there's a lot of 
significance to what Jesus does 

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here in the temple. 
Now that's all Luke gives us. 

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Luke gives us a very short 
description of Jesus cleansing 

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the temple. 
That's all he has to say about 

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it. 
The other gospels tell us Us a 

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bit more though. 
But look, continues in verse 47.

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He said Jesus taught in the 
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So, Jesus is in Jerusalem for 
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till now, he's been preaching in
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Israel. 
But now, in the last week of his

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life, he preaches in the temple,
the greatest worship place for 

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the Jews, it was common for 
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the temple that was allowed and 
often Jews would come, and 

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listen to the preachers as part 
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Particularly during Passover, 
they would often be preachers. 

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That, that would come to listen 
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So, all during Passover week, 
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temple. 
Now, later In this passage, we 

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learned that his preaching to 
what the Greek says, is layoffs,

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La OS. 
So he's preaching to an English.

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That's all the people. 
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layoffs, implies not. 
Just crowds in general like he's

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been speaking to on the roads. 
No, this is the people who are 

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responding positively to Jesus, 
it's his disciples basically. 

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So those who are here in the 
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All who have accepted Jesus and 
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So, that's in contrast with the 
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So, in Jerusalem, at this time, 
there's all sorts of crowds. 

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But here, Jesus preaches to his 
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The people who are listening to 
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So all week during Passover, 
Jesus continues to speak in the 

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temple and he also has a lot to 
say to the Jewish priests and 

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the other Jewish leaders in this
last week of his life, we're 

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going to see what he has to say 
in the coming chapters. 

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Matthew's gospel. 
In particular tells us more 

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about the things. 
He preached in the final week 

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And the reaction of the Jewish 
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quarter of Matthew's gospel is 
Jesus preaching in the temple in

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the final week. 
And then we hear that the chief 

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priests and the scribes with the
support of the leading citizens.

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So we have here, a group of 
Jewish leaders, the chief 

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priests, and the scribes, the 
chief Priests of those who were 

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in charge of the temple in 
Jerusalem and the scribes are 

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the experts of the law. 
So they are very highly trained 

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people. 
We also have here, another group

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of Jewish leaders called the 
leading citizens or the 

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principal men of the people. 
These are probably members of 

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the Sanhedrin, most likely the 
leading Jewish Council. 

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That is the most powerful Jewish
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Affairs. 
So in Luke year says, the 

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leading citizens are probably 
means high-ranking members of 

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the Sanhedrin. 
The Sanhedrin was largely made 

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up of Sadducees, so that would 
be wealthy men in Jerusalem who 

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wanted to maintain stability in 
society. 

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So probably here, we're talking 
about Sadducees, the Sadducees, 

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had an alliance with the Romans,
which allowed them to keep their

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positions of authority in 
exchange for cooperating, with 

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the Romans. 
So the Sadducees in Killer want 

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to take Jesus down? 
Because he threatens their 

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wealthy way of life that they're
benefiting from. 

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So, they get together, the chief
priests the scribes, and the 

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leading citizens. 
And the texture says, they try 

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to do away with him. 
By this point, the Jewish 

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leaders are afraid, that Jesus 
is causing too much trouble. 

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Particularly after his entrance 
on Palm Sunday, there's just too

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much of the crowd being stirred 
up and they are probably worried

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that if this continues, the 
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the Romans cracking down on the 
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is not what the Jewish leaders 
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And it says here, they're try to
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be translated as destroy, they 
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Destroy can either mean kill. 
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intensity Chaser, they're 
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And we know that they are trying
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translated discredit, maybe 
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him based on asking him, certain
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get him to say something silly 
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And the whole Jesus movement 
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We'll see this in chapter 20, 
when they try to discredit him 

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with certain questions, they ask
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But they did not see how they 
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people as a whole hung on his 
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here, they realize that there's 
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him, and they coming to hear him
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So they realize they can't 
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Jesus at the moment. 
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There's too many people around 
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If the Jewish leaders, try to 
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be too many people around who 
support him, and it's not going 

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to work. 
That's why they had to take him 

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at night. 
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people around who could support 
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him. 
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chapter 19. 
A really interesting chapter the

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lectionary now, skips over a 
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So you don't get to hear most of
Luke Chapter 20 or the first 

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part of Luke Chapter 20, by 
going to mass. 

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It's never read it Mass. 
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if you have a look at your 
Bible, firstly, Jesus is 

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questioned by the Jewish leaders
and then Jesus tells the parable

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of the wicked tenants and then 
he discusses the issue of paying

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taxes. 
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of chapter, 20 and those verses 
verses 1 to 26, never read on a 

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weekend or a week day. 
You never hear them at Mass. 

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So, if you want to hear a verse 
by verse exegesis of the next 

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part of Luke, so the start of 
Luke Chapter 20, that will be 

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available to you through the 
patreon page. 

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So if you're willing to become a
supporter of the ministry, you 

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can get access to those bonus 
episodes of the podcast, and the

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link for that is in the show 
notes our next week day reading 

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will start. 
At verse 27 of Luke Chapter 20. 

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There's no catechism references 
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So we'll finish it there. 
Please keep praying for this 

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ministry and share it around. 
So more and more people can 

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learn their Bible that Catholics
can be more prepared to hear the

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Bible readings at mass and 
please keep listening in the 

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coming days as we get close to 
the end of the Gospel of Luke