Come and study holy scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast,

The Whole Council of God. Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the

Reformed Church, but now an Orthodox priest serving at St. George Orthodox Cathedral in Charleston,

West Virginia. But so Judas now, they've given him some

money. He's now working on a plan. Notice once again, in the absence of the multitude, right?

They're very happy about this because, well, see, now we've got an inside man. You've got somebody in

his inner circle. So Judas is with him. Remember, Jesus is going and

preaching in the temple during the day, going out to Mount Olive of it to sleep in the evening. So

Judas is not only with him when he's around the people in the day, Judas knows where he's at

at night when the people

aren't around. So if we could go get him there, spirit him away, we won't have a mob scene on

our hands. We'll have plausible deniability. We can blame it on the Romans. Right? We could say,

oh, hey, the Romans got a hold of him, right? You know, that happens. You go around claiming you're the

Messiah. Romans are going to crucify right? You know, that happens. You go around claiming you're the Messiah.

Romans are going to crucify you.

You know, we try to warn him.

Then came the day of unleavened bread when the Passover must be killed.

Notice.

Right?

He's already said it twice. Now he says it two more times,

right, to make sure we're thinking about this. And he sent Peter and John saying, go and prepare the Passover for us that we may eat. Now remember, Passover refers to two things.

Passover refers to the original event in Egypt, the 10th plague, and then Israel being set free,

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