2.43 Palm Sunday

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 18 August 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The Passion story story begins with Jesus in Bethany, a suburb of Jerusalem. Jesus is staying with his best buddies Martha, Mary, and the risen Lazarus. Jesus arranges with his students to organise a grand parade for his entry into the capital. That goes swimmingly. Ebullient from his grand reception, Jesus marches into the Temple, determined to destroy its commercial activities. Jesus then delivers a little apocalypse at the Mount of Olives.

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0:00.0	Gide. I'm Gary Stevens.
0:08.0	And welcome to the second series of the History in the Bible podcast.
0:13.1	More of the history in more of the books in all the Bibles.
0:20.6	Episode 2.43, Palm Sunday.
0:25.6	In the last episode of History in the Bible, I concluded my story of Jesus' late ministry,
0:33.0	as Jesus wended his way from Galilee to Jerusalem.
0:37.2	We now reach the climax of Jesus' life, where he will achieve glory.
0:43.6	This final week of Jesus' life is known as the Passion, from his entry into Jerusalem
0:50.2	unto his death.
0:52.9	If you read the Gospels carefully, the many parables, teachings and miracles of Jesus,
0:58.3	they tell, are usually delivered in small, discrete chunks.
1:03.7	They are pearls on a string.
1:06.5	Most tales only last a dozen or so verses before the next.
1:11.8	You could shuffle these anecdotes any which way.
1:15.7	And that is exactly what the evangelists did.
1:19.5	They plop them into their narratives to suit their own purposes.
1:24.5	The gospel writers often differ on the order of events and where these events take place.
1:31.7	The Passion story is nothing like all the other little stories told of Jesus.
1:37.8	The Passion is the longest narrative in all the Gospels.
1:41.8	You can't reshuffle it.
1:44.0	The last week of Jesus' life stands as a
1:47.0	unified chronicle. For this reason, most scholars think that the passion was the first story
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