Hello and welcome to Bible Stories. We are your host, Todd Heymans and Matt Mullins. It is Easter

Week Wednesday. We're getting closer to the big day. Each day this week we've been sharing

with you and we'll continue to share with you at least one item that Jesus did for you. One thing that happened on Easter

week so we can better appreciate Easter and really better understand what God has sacrificed for us.

So Todd, tell me about Wednesday. Yeah. So Wednesday, if you look at the scriptures that we know

that are recorded about the life of Jesus on Wednesday, there's not a lot. Like there's not a whole lot of storytelling. Like, you know, yesterday there's all these parables. There's a lot of Jesus just teaching a whole bunch in the temple. And I would encourage you to go back because it really is fascinating really obviously all the

wisdom all the instruction that Jesus is giving but the dude must have been in

the temple for a while there's all like their sermons like they are I mean he's

just slinging and it's awesome that being said now we're on Wednesday and Matt

before I even read some of what's happening,

you can tell that there is a storm of brewing. Like, there is a storm that's coming. People are

talking behind the scenes. There's a hatred for Jesus that's continuing to grow. It may not,

it may not be there yet,

I find it interesting that in some ways it's similar to how we can see even outbursts today.

Now, this one's way worse, and it leads to the crucifixion of Jesus on Friday,

but it all starts with people questioning, people saying bad

things, people slamming Jesus behind the closed doors, and then conspiring. What should we do?

So with that being said, we're going to jump into Matthew chapter 26, and here's just a couple

verses, three through five. it says at the same time

the leading priests and elders were meeting at the residence of caiaphas the high priests and they

began plotting how to capture Jesus secretly and kill him but not during the Passover celebration

they agreed or people may riot so we know that we're entering the Passover celebration, they agreed, or people may riot. So we know that we're entering

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