For 1,500 years since the Exodus, Passover has been celebrated without a break.

This is the final legitimate Passover.

Because the next day, the one who was the true Passover Lamb, Christ our Passover, would

be slain and the reality would come, the substance would come,

and the symbols and the shadows would cease.

Welcome to Grace to you with the Bible teaching of John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

You've heard of missing the forest for the trees.

In other words, it's possible to get so bogged down with what's right in front of you

that you miss the big picture.

You fail to see how the parts make up an even grander hole. And with that in mind,

we're continuing John MacArthur's series called The Divine Drama of Redemption. Based on Mark's

gospel account, it's a high-altitude look at the Easter story and Christ's saving work on behalf of

sinners. If you're a new believer, it will give you a helpful overview

of the details surrounding the crucifixion and resurrection, and even if you're familiar with

how Christ paid the penalty for sinners, this study can give you a fresh perspective on the story

of redemption. So now here's John MacArthur with today's lesson. Well, let's turn to the Word of God, Mark 14, 17, when it was evening he came with the

12th. As they were reclining at the table and eating, Jesus said, truly I say to you that one

of you will betray me, one who is eating with me. They began to be grieved and to say to him one by one, surely not I.

And he said to them, it is one of the twelve, one who dips with me in the bowl, for

the son of man is to go just as it is written of him. But woe to that man by whom the son of Man is to go, just as it is written of him.

But woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed, it would have been good for that

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