Hey my friends it's Matt this is the 10 minute Bible hour

podcast and it is very nice to be back with you and current on the book of Matthew as we're chipping away at that.

We're in Matthew 26 and we are just coming off of the instigation, the initiation rather, of this sneaky sly plot that

Caiaphus and his other religious leader buddies are putting together to get Jesus

arrested in a way that won't cause the city of Jerusalem to melt

down on Passover week and have a big giant riot.

People in Jerusalem, like they're really into the riots and Rome was really leery about the riots and their

partners the religious leadership they were really wary about riots as well and

so they're playing it safe but they're definitely backed into a corner and they're going to have to make a move here.

They can't let the Jesus thing just go unchecked.

So the question that we are waiting to have answered is how exactly are they going to make their move and what is Jesus and team Jesus

gonna do in response to that. But we're gonna have to wait to find out how all of that

plays out because the next thing we get in

Matthew 26 is this beautiful little interlude outside of Jerusalem this calm in

the midst of the storm and that picks up in verse six and it goes like this

while Jesus was in Bethany in the home of man known as Simon the leper a woman came to him with an

alabaster jar of very expensive perfume which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table.

Okay, Bethany is a couple miles maybe outside of Jerusalem. I don't know, I've only been there once and I got a little

disoriented. That town those streets of the old city is baffling. I am a go

places and become oriented like a homing pigeon kind of guy that sort of

map orientation thing is super important to me for some reason and Jerusalem is one of

the most scrambling places I've ever been for that.

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