Hey my friends, it's Matt, this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and we're looking at

Matthew chapter 26 and very specifically

verse 52 which happens right in the middle of the account of Jesus arrest in the

Garden of Gethsema and in the midst of that arrest the bad guys show up with swords and clubs and

Peter imitates the bad guys he tries to use their ring of power against them

he gets out a sword he cuts off the ear of the servant of the high

priest and then this is what we've been discussing Jesus responds thusly

verse 52 put your sword back in its place, Jesus said to him, for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.

Okay, question, should Peter and the other disciples have known that that's how Jesus would approach it.

Should they have known that he would not like the sword thing?

Okay, let's start with no, it's understandable that they were confused.

If, as we looked at the other day, the material that Luke records in Luke 22 about,

all right, you sell some stuff, buy a sword,

and they're like, all right, well well we got two swords and he says that's enough

if they misunderstood his meaning if they were confused by that if there was a

little bit of give him the stick don't give him the stick in their heads

and they weren't quite sure what to do with it.

Then maybe here in the immediate term

because they still have that conversation ringing in their minds.

Maybe they were confused and they thought possibly

Jesus wanted them to defend him with violence now. But if they did think that,

surely they must have also known that that would be a departure from everything else about how they had done business and what Jesus had taught them.

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