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I'm Jensen Holt McNair. In all good movies, there comes a point when the two main adversaries meet and have a final showdown.

Usually it feels kind of like a relief when they

finally meet. Despite what may be a dangerous confrontation, the whole movie has built up to this

moment. Like there's been skirmishes, chance meetings, but in each one they've held back,

there's no clear winner yet, no resolution,

just tensions rising, anger boiling, and then you reach the breaking point. Now today, in Mark

14 verses 53 to 65, we reach that moment for Jesus and the religious leaders. They've come

head to head before. They've confronted one

another. They verbally sparred up into this point. But today, Jesus is being brought before the

Sanhedron, the judging body of the religious leaders, before the high priest to stand trial for all

that they believe he's guilty of. Now this is the moment in the

movie where we expect the triumph of our hero. Jesus to offer one final blow to the Sanhedron,

to prove his innocent, to stand justified before them, to shame them for the ways that they've mistreated and harassed him.

The crowd, the people will finally realize that he's the hero, he's the king, and he will overcome.

But this isn't a movie, and that isn't the story that Mark is telling in his gospel.

Verse 53, they took Jesus to the high priest,

and all the chief priests, the elders and the teachers of the law, came together. Peter followed him

at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest. There he sat with the guards and warmed himself

at the fire. Okay, so Peter is here, a disciple with his own

expectations. He wants to see what happens, wants to watch and see how Jesus overcomes. He knows that

Jesus is the Messiah and he knows that the Messiah is king. He knows that Jesus has to remain victorious. So he comes, he

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