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Hey, what's up everybody? Happy Friday and happy birthday to my amazing son, Derek, man, so grateful for

the day that you were born.

I'm Mike Bro, and we are working our way through the Gospel of John, and we are in Chapter 13,

and just a quick on-ramp to where we are.

Jesus' popularity is through the roof right now with the people.

He had done all kinds of miracles, and the latest one had swept through the whole region when he raised someone from the dead, his good friend Lazarus. Well, this miracle was the final straw for the religious leaders.

They began to plot Jesus' execution, looking for a way and the right timing to take him out.

Now, because of this miracle, lots of people are super hopeful that this amazing miracle worker was

the conquering Messiah

that God was going to send someday to wipe out Rome.

And so they line the road to Jerusalem awaiting Jesus' arrival at the Passover feast.

When they see him riding in on the back of a donkey, they begin to cheer and chant,

Hosanna, Hosanna, please save us. Here is our king,

waving palm branches lining the roads with their cloaks to signify a royal red carpet,

and the religious leaders watch all of this and say, look at this. This is what we feared. The whole

world has gone after him. We got to get busy. So Jesus is in Jerusalem, celebrate the Passover,

and let's pick up one of the more emotional events of Jesus' final week in John chapter 13.

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