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On this Good Friday, we are pausing our study of the high-prosely

prayer of Jesus to bring you a special message.

When Jesus' disciples tried to protect him from being arrested on trumped-up charges,

why did he stop them?

Alistair Begg examines Jesus' response and considers what it means for us as believers today.

We're looking at the opening verses in John Chapter 18.

Thank you. looking at the opening verses in John chapter 18.

This scene is probably one of the most dramatic scenes in the Gospels. I'm sure if we were to go through the Gospels together, some of us would choose a different one, if we were choosing a top five,

I would imagine that this scene would be in all of our top fives.

When we read the Gospel accounts, and we're reading in John primarily at the moment,

we recognize that not all the gospel writers cover the same material in the same way.

And in particular, John tells us actually at the end, towards the end of his letter,

that he hasn't chosen to give us, if you like, a complete account of everything.

In fact, he says, you know, if we were to record everything,

then surely there wouldn't be enough books in the world

to contain all the things that Jesus said and did,

which is really a sort of dramatic way of saying Jesus is absolutely amazing and wonderful,

and we could never encapsulate at all. But in this particular incident, as you read this,

if you know your Bible at all, you will find yourself saying, well, it is interesting that John does not record the agony of Githsemini. He is not providing for us what

the synoptics do, and instead he is choosing to, if you like, summarize that or contain all of that,

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