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Welcome to 6640, the ministry outreach of Koinnea House and Koinnea Institute.

Today's Bible teacher is Chuck Missler, connecting the Bible to your life and the world around you.

In today's study, Chuck completes his teaching on the book of Matthew.

Chapters 21 and 22.

Thank you. in 22.

And when the chief priests and the Pharisees had heard his parables,

they perceived that he spoke of them, in which we say, no kidding, Dick Tracy.

But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude because they took him for a prophet. You need to understand that his popularity, this is Passover week. There's probably

anywhere from one to two million people in Jerusalem, which for that period is an enormous crowd.

Every able-bodied Jew was to go to Jerusalem on three of the seven Feast of Israel.

On Passover, and that term is used for the collection of three feasts, the Feast of Passover, Feast of a Living Bread, and the Feast of First Fruits.

Collectively spoken of a connotatively as Passover, all occurring in the first month of the religious year.

They also are supposed to be there in the seventh month on the feast of tabernacles.

And there's a strange feast in between those, right in the middle of the year, so to speak,

the feast of Chavot, of Pentecost.

So the place is really crowded, because every able-bodied Jew able to come would be there.

And they'd all heard the stories.

They heard about Lazarus and all this.

And he was too popular for the chief priest to dare mess around here.

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