This is what Jesus tells Peter.

He's like, the gates of hell will never, we'll never overcome, will never conquer the rebellion you are now leading.

What I'm creating after the temple will be orders of magnitude greater, unable to be conquered by a Roman force.

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In Luke 24, Jesus told his disciples that every part of the Bible is about him.

In each episode, hosts David and Seth

work through a passage of scripture to see how it be talking about Jesus cursing the fig tree.

Right. I mean, two weird things there that I don't often about Jesus cursing the fig tree. Right.

I mean, two weird things there that I don't often say.

Curse and fig tree.

Right.

But tell us why we should be very excited about this.

This is probably one of the more strange stories in the Holy Week narrative.

And an interesting thing to focus on for an entire day.

Sure.

Different religious traditions kind of lump this in with the temple cleansing. And that's probably, I mean, they celebrate both the cleansing of the temple and the cursing the picture in the same day. Yeah, because they have similar themes. They have very similar themes. And I think that's the most important thing for people to understand about the fig tree is that it's not a tutorial on how to throw mountains

into the ocean or to wither your own fruit trees in your backyard, but it's actually about the

temple and everything that Jesus has done already. So that's the big idea that's happening. So then

if we're if we're saying that you're going to want to understand the fig tree in light of what's just occurred at the temple.

That's right.

Why don't you give us a quick synopsis of what just happened in the cleansing of the temple?

Yes.

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