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Now as we come to the word of God this Grace to you Bible Teacher John MacArthur.

Now as we come to the Word of God this morning, I want you to turn back to Mark 11.

This is what is familiarly called Palm Sunday,

and it's the beginning of Passion Week

as we think back to our Lord's arrival in Jerusalem and then his crucifixion and resurrection.

As we come to Mark 11, we have Mark's account of this wonderful, wonderful week.

Obviously, Matthew, Luke, and John also treat the Passion Week in detail, but for this season this year

we're going to look at it from Mark's perspective. We come to the final week of

our Lord's public life and ministry. On Friday of Passion Week he goes to the cross on Sunday as you know he rises

from the dead. So this is the end of his ministry on earth. It begins with his arrival

in Jerusalem at the Passover season and he's not alone there are estimates anywhere from

600,000 to two and a half million people in the land of Israel in and around Jerusalem at Passover

season. And one of the things that leads to that high number of say two and a half million is that there's a

census in 10 year period after our Lord's death ten years later. There was a census that was kept that was found

that indicated there were 260,000 sacrifices made with an estimation of one animal per 10 people that would put the

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