Welcome to Form Now. I'm Tim Gray, president of the Augustine Institute. And joining me as Dr. Michael Barber, who is a professor of scripture here at the August Institute. And we're going to continue our ongoing Bible study on the Gospel of Matthew. And this has been an intense Bible study, Michael, because I think we're in episode, I don't know, what is it now, 38. It's getting close to the end, 37. So we're hoping that we can finish with 40 as a biblical number.

It's amazing.

We've been doing this since before COVID really hit.

So I feel like this has been something that we've been at for a while now.

Yeah, that's a marker.

It's like pre-flood.

I mean, pre-COVID is epic distinction now.

Before COVID, BC.

Yeah, that's right.

So, you know, the last time we covered Matthew chapter 26, and we went all the way through

as Jesus is being tried and mocked, and we saw it at the end that he was being mocked as a

prophet.

And then what follows is that last little section of chapter 26.

And we mentioned this, that Peter is denying Jesus three times in the courtyard of the high

priest at fulfilling Jesus' prophecy to him at the last supper.

And that, of course, is an ironic truth because Jesus is being

mocked as a prophet as his prophecy is being fulfilled and Peter's denying him. And that sets us up for

chapter 27. That's right. You want to take us to 27? There's a nice opening there that's going to quote.

I think this is important. So we have, when morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel

against Jesus to put him to death.

And they bound him and led him away and delivered him.

And the Greek word there is paradigone.

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