Oh, let the Son of God enfold you with His spirit and his love.

Let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you,

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the Word for today, Pastor Chuck continues with Christ our Passover as we pick up in Matthew chapter 26 verse 2 and now with today's message

here's Pastor Chuck as he had finished the discourse now he said to his disciples you know in two

days is going to be the feast of the Passover and the son of man is to be betrayed, to be crucified. Now, if he was saying this on

Monday, it meant that the feast of the Passover in two days would, of course, be on Wednesday.

And Jesus was crucified on the feast day, the feast of the Passover.

So it would appear that Jesus was probably crucified on Wednesday,

which would then give you the three days and the three nights in the heart of the earth.

People have an awful hard time figuring that from a Sunday aspect.

From a Friday crucifixion to a Sunday morning, three days and three nights takes a lot of juggling.

So, after two days, the feast of the Passover, and the son of man is betrayed to be crucified.

Then assembled together the chief priest, the scribes, the elders of the people, and to the palace of the high priest.

The high priest was called Caiaphas.

Actually, there were two high priests,

Caiaphas, and Anas,

Caiaphas, the appointment of the Roman government,

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