Welcome back to James Pilpre. I'm Joe Heschmire. I've got two very exciting pieces of news to share with you before I get started on today's episode.

Number one, this time next week, we should have the debate with Doug Wilson that I just did.

It should be live and up and you should be able to watch it in this entirety.

I will also have an episode that's basically a version of my opening statement like I normally do,

and then you can kind of go from there and watch the entire episode.

So that's really exciting.

There's even more exciting news that's coming this Sunday.

I won't tell you what it is.

I'll let you figure that out for yourself, but I hope you're spiritually preparing for it.

To that end, I wanted to share an angle on Holy Week that I don't

hear people talk about or appreciate because it's kind of subtle. I know, as I was preparing this

episode, like there's a lot of stuff we talk about with Holy Thursday, with the institution of the

Eucharist and the priesthood, with Good Friday, what does it mean for Jesus to down on the cross?

How does the cross pay for our sins? Holy Saturday? What do we make of Christ being in the tomb? And is this a

dissent into the hell of damnation? No. Or is it going to shale this kind of place of the dead?

Yes. And then, of course, all the meanings to Easter Sunday itself. So it's hard to say anything on Holy Week and what's called the Tritome, these final three days of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and then Holy Saturday leading into the Easter Vigil. It's hard to say anything on that that you may not have already heard before. But I want to do my best to present one of the pieces of

biblical evidence you might not be familiar with, pointing towards both the death and

resurrection of Jesus Christ, and actually a lot more, and then highlight the special role

that Simon Peter has to play in that, which is kind of unique and surprising. So first,

what is the evidence? Well, the evidence is the sign that Jesus gives. So, for instance, in Matthew 16, when the Pharisees and Sadducees

come to Jesus, they test him, and they ask him to show them a sign from heaven. It's very clear from

the text. This is not a good faith attempt to understand Jesus better. They're just demanding

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