Hello, and welcome to the Scriptures are real podcast.

This is the podcast where we talk about things that make the scriptures real to us,

and this is a special edition.

We're part of our Holy Week edition, where we're trying to help

everyone draw closer to Christ and celebrate the most important thing in the world, which is Christ's

atoning sacrifice for us. I'm your host, Carrie Mielstein, and I'm Julianne. That's my wife, Julianne,

Mulestein, and we're co-hosting these special additions for the Holy Week. And today we're

talking about Holy Tuesday. So Holy Tuesday is another day where he'll wake up in Bethany and go over

the top of the man of olives and come down. And this is the day where in the Mark account,

they encounter that fig tree that we talked about yesterday and the Savior teaches about that.

And he will talk more about hypocrisy when he's down in the temple.

But then he'll go down to the temple and we'll let Julian Ann talk about the temple.

The Savior really loves the temple because he really sees it as his father's house.

And so it's a place of worship and of deep respect for him and love.

And so this is just seen again and again.

And for the Savior, the temple is really a part of Jerusalem as a whole.

And as he comes to Jerusalem in Luke, I'm in Luke right now,

chapter 19, after the whole triumphal entry, he goes and comes near to the city, and he

beheld the city and he weeps over it. And this just

shows his concern for the temple, the people that he loves here in Jerusalem. And now in the

Matthew account, this incident is happening on Tuesday, which is the day that we're commemorating

right now, where Christ is really sorrowing over Jerusalem and knowing the destruction

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