Day 313 (Matthew 26, Mark 14) - Year 6
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Hey, bible readers, i'm trolly couple and i'm your host for the bible recap.

Today's reading is really similar to tomorrow's reading, so today will recap the first half, then tomorrow i'll tackle the last half. Today, jesus drops a bomb shell on his disciples. He says he's only got a few days to live.

The authorities are already padding IT impact and are just waiting for the right moment. Judis knows they want to arrest jesus, and he sees an opportunity to make some cash from IT if he could be the one to turn jesus in. The religious leaders arranged to pay you to thirty pieces of silver for IT, depending who you ask.

This is anywhere from two hundred to two thousand dollars. As soon as judis gives the money, he starts finding an opportunity to make the betrayal happen. There are a few know where the things about this section.

First, we see that gods will always comes to pass. Second, we see that there are passive agents and active agents involved in bringing his will to pass the active agent. Here, judice has woo pronounced on him.

And while first twenty four tells us that would have been Better for him if he hadn't been born, his birth was necessary as a part of god's plan of redemption. Some of you have a really compassionate heart, and you feel sorry for judice, and i'm so grateful for your tender heart. It's important to remember, though, that judice got exactly what he deserved, what we all deserve, in fact, but jesus did not get what he deserved as they sit down to dinner that night.

Jesus makes things awkward right off the bat by announcing that there's a betrayer at the table. They're all modified wondering if they could be them. They all know that they had the capacity to betray him.

They ask, is IT eylan d but juda doesn't ask that. He asks, is IT eye rabbi? He calls jesus teacher, not master, which is a bit of a give away on its own thin jesus.

The firms that, yes, he is the one judis esn shocked by this, he's already got the silver in his pocket. Then jesus blesses the bread and gives thanks for IT. This is a bit of a side note, but this is one of those places in scripture where IT reveals that those are two separate things.

He blesses the food, and he thanks the father. Then he makes reference to a speech gave our earlier remember in john's six, when he talked about eating his flash and drinking his blood. And IT grows.

Everyone out here, he gives them an object lesson about IT. He feeds them what we call the lord supper, or community, or the ukraine, which means to give thanks. And in doing this, he gives them a physical action that connects them to a spiritual reality, just like with baptism.

There are a lot of different perspectives on how and win and why they should be practiced. But there's one thing we can agree on. The lord supper may not always like much, but it's truly the best feast wheel.

Eat on this side of eternity is the most privileged meal in the universe. IT Marks us as god's children, and IT helps our forgetful hearts. Remember, in fact, he commands us to remember to regularly bring IT to mind that his body was broken and his blood was poured out.

For many, we need that reminder, or will become like the people we read about yesterday who didn't wait. Well, they were side track and foolish and fearful. So we partake.

And we remember jesus in his discipline's, eat bread, drink the wine, seeing him. And in john account of the story, cheese's tells you is to do what he's going to do quickly. Jesus knows the timing of IT all.

And I think jesus is also just ready to get IT over with. He knows waiting is hard. After dinner, they head out to amount of olives.

The past over dinner is a big deal, but there is no mention of them eating anything here besides bread. We never see them eat the past over a lamb, which is a command. Why isn't IT mentioned? I'm going to unpack a theory for you.

It's layer so bare with me. And if you have time read exists twelve, one, twenty eight. Because IT really helps get an overall picture of what happened to pass over, also known as the feast of unlived bread. Here are some important points.

It's typically a weak long celebration, but some scholars say that in jesus day, IT was actually in eight day celebration, with the additional day being tacked on at the start of the week, because during this seven day event, the jews aren't allowed to eat anything with eleven in IT. So that day zero was their chance to finish off all the existing leven in their homes before the seven day event actually started. Which means that when jesus in his disciples are having what we've typically thought of as the pass over feed, IT might actually just be a pass over feed where they are kind of cleaning at the fridge.

The original text reflects this two in the greek, there are two different words used for bread, one for unelected and one for eleven. What we see in these passages is that jesus, in his disables, are eating artis, or live in the bread, where as unleaded bread is called asimov. So if this isn't the pass over feast that explains why they have an eaten liam yet put a pin in, there will come back to IT.

There is some debate over which day of the week this all happened on. We know jesus rose on a sunday, and most people are familiar with the idea that jesus died on friday. So I don't need to present that theory to you, but here is a possible problem with that theory.

Remember when jesus told the ferries that they wouldn't be getting any signs from him except what he called the sign of jona? It's in Matthew twelve forty, he says, just as jona was three days and three nights in the belly of the great dish, so will the sun of may and be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. From this perspective, the problem with a friday death is that we can't really get three days and three nights.

So how does this work? One theory I find interesting is the idea that he is start on a thursday. I'm going to give you a bunch of info that may be confusing if you renewed this.

But hang in, there IT all makes sense. It's not only important, but it's beautiful in jewish culture, the day starts at sundown, not midnight or whatever you wake. So the sabis or saturday actually starts at sundown on what we call friday.

In order to prepare themselves to be free from work or travel on sabbath, they have a twenty four hour period every week called the day of preparation. In short, this is friday, except its starts at send down on thursday. Of course, the opening day of passover is also treated like a sabbath, any as its own day of preparation as well.

In the year jesus is believed to have died, the opening day of passover ver was a friday. So, oh, oh, they can use that as their day of preparation, like usual. That means they have to back IT up a whole extra day, making the their preparation thursday, which for them starts on wednesday at send down.

If i've already lost you, check out the image we've link in the showing. Tes, IT will really help. Terry, you said this was beautiful and so far boring. Okay, let me room out on. Pass over practices for a second. In the four days prior to pass over, each family would select their own lab to sort acrimony that bring IT into their home live, with IT feat expected to see if that has any flaws, because IT has to be perfect.

Then on the fourth day, the day of preparation that sacrificed and eat after, send down that paint its blood on the doorways of their homes, on the top, left and right sides of the door, to commemorate what their ancestors did in egypt, in when god passed over their homes and save their lives. That's where this holiday originated. These doreen kings would actually form the four corners of across the left and the right in the blood at the top that would drip down to the ground.

If you want to see a visual aid for this, check out the image reveling in the shows notes. So if jesus was crucified on a thursday, and we back up four days prior to thursday, that's palm sunday, the only day jesus left people publicly and a firm of him as a king. Then there are four days of jesus living among the people of jerusalem, being interrogated and inspected, put the trials and questioning, and he still bound to be, without limit, the perfect, spotless sacrificial lamb of our passover in on the day of preparation.

He is sacrificed. He is the past over lamb. If all these days of the week talk is confusing or if you're interested in reading IT more on this and other theories, including the possibility of a wednesday critiquing, check out the four articles we've linked in the show notes.

But again, I want to point out these are just theories. And what matters most is not which day he died, but that he rose from the did my god shot today was in the lord supper. Two things stood out to me first.

I've always been confused by the fact that jesus fared judice communion, since it's something that's reserved only for true followers of Christ. Why would he beat IT to the man he just identified as his betrayer, a man the rest of scripture Marks out as not being adapted into god's family? I don't know what motive jesus had in doing this, but there's one thing IT revealed to us, the act of taking the lord supper is IT magical.

IT doesn't hold any power to save us. Otherwise I would have been sufficient for judice. And just like when the gospel falls on death years, jesus fed communion to a hard heart, and I imagine IT broke his.

The second thing that stands out to me here is the way this is a four taste, as he tells him to eat his blessing, drink his blood in the elements. They are, in a way, eating the sacrificial al lamb. And by his blood, our sense, are covered. And by his death, our lives are spared. And by his provision, I know one thing for sure, and forever, he is where the joy is.

I know some of you already have your Christmas tree up, and there is no shame in that, but even if you're the kind of person who doesn't even bother to hang a reef, we can all agree that Christmas is about the joy of god, the sun coming to earth. So we've .

stocked our store with his, where the joy is.

Christmas ornaments, their metal and enamel, so even your cat can ruin them. Hopefully, get your ornament and other gift options at the bible recap out com forwards lush store, or click the link in the shower notes, and maybe by next year we'll finally have the accurate nativity that so many of you have requested.