The following sermon is by John MacArthur, pastor, author, and Bible teacher with Grace to You.

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And now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.

Here is Grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

Now, I said last Sunday that we were going to this Passion Week look at the Gospel of Mark

and see his accounts of the events that took

place the week of the Lord's crucifixion, and I want to stay with that.

So you can open your Bible to Mark Chapter 14, Mark Chapter 14.

And I will read a section of that. That will be the main focus in a moment,

but I want to just sort of set the stage a little bit. The Jewish ruling council,

Supreme Court of Israel called the Sanhedron, all the religious leaders wanted Jesus

dead. They were jealous of his power. They were jealous of his popularity. They hated his message

of gracious salvation.

And of course, he had amped up their hostility by attacking the entire operation of the temple early in the week.

And in the several days since he entered Jerusalem and assaulted the temple and threw out the

money changers and the buyers and sellers and denounced it as a denounce denounce it as a denet

of robbers.

Since that time, he has engaged in ongoing dialogue with the leaders, and that has not helped

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