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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 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. 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, the 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 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 denier of robbers.

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