From Hosanna to Crucify Him: The Shift in Attitude

You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a couple of friends talk

about the Bible in fun, in practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome

to the Bible Guys. It is good to be here today. My name

is Chris and I'm Jeff, and we together are Chris and Jeff Bible.

Yeah. So, man, this is going to be a good episode today

because we're getting into more of the last days of Jesus as we're heading towards

this Easter week. And yeah, it's really amazing. Yeah, and it

sort of worked out that it's right at Easter, right, do we plan

that sort of sort of? Yeah, it was a lucky not a lucky

but a happy, happy fortuitis serendipitous. Yeah, there we go. Well,

hey, today we have a segment called Mailbags. I love these.

Yeah, let's see if we can do this. Ready mail bags? No?

No, no, ready, Oh I don't know that mail bag.

I don't know what you trying to do. Harmonize harmonic mail bags? All

right, I forget it. Well we tried it. Yeah, yeah,

sorry you didn't want to jump in. No. Hey, this episode of

Mailbag says this. Cliff k wrote in thank you Cliff k And he said,

tell about a time in your past when something was very dangerous or scary

that happened to you, and you look back at that moment now and think

I should have died or been seriously injured. But I didn't even have a

scratch on me. Well, that is a very specific story there, Cliff.

Yeah. I was going to say, I don't think that applies to

me. Yeah. Could you always get hurt? Yeah? Yeah, I'm

always hurt. Yeah, So tell tell everybody how many things you've gotten hurt.

So I've never broken a bone doing dumb things. Okay, So when

it says something very dangerous is scary that happened to you, Yeah, I

happened to me, That's what That's what happened. So I've had over twenty

sets of stitches, not twenty stitches. I've had to go get ditches twenty

times. Okay. I've dislocated both my shoulders, my left shoulder twice,

both my elbows, six of my ten fingers, my left hip, both

my knees. We just go on. Wow. Yeah. So yeah,

most of the time when I do something dangerous, I also get hurt.

I don't know that I have very many times where I should have died and

didn't, right right, yeah, yeah, yeah, how about you though,

Well one story. I have ten of these stories, honestly goodness,

because I don't know how I come, you know, out unscathed on a

couple of these scenarios. But I think of one that's pretty funny. When

I was in college, I was working for my wife's father, who was

my girlfriend at the time, and he had sent me over to work at

this rich guy's house. It was the same rich guy that had the Lamborghini.

I was telling you, yeah, yeah, yeah, remember that one.

Did I tell that story on here? Yes? This is the same

okay guy And he had a two story barn where the Lamborghini in the Porschure

in and he wanted me to stain the whole thing. So it turns out

I didn't know much about anything, so I stayed it all wrong. I

had to get a professional committed like because because instead of just doing it slap

by slat, I did it like with the ladder. I did like one

section, then I did the other section. I kept on living the ladder

and you can see the lines. Yeah much. I didn't know at the

time, right because I'm not a stainers anyway, So I did all three

sides of the barn, and then the front side of the barn was over

a bright, bright, bright pearl white driveway, and so and and by

the way, I had a dark brown stain. So I got a ladder,

and I didn't have any drop cloth. How dumb am Mike. But

I'm like, I'm like eighteen at the time. So I climb all over

the ladder. I hung the can on the little hook and I dipped it

and I'd start staining, and all of a sudden, one little drop would

fall down. Boop, it would hit the white driveway. I had to

climb all the way down. I get the little turpentine. I goog goog

goo google, and I go all the way back up, and I'd try

really hard enough to do a drip and then boop, another drip. I

go all the way back down the whole thing, right, So, and

I was too dumb to say, hey, I really need a drop cloth

here, but I was like, no, I could do it. So

anyway, I saw a wasp nest right, so I spray it and and

and no. Then I run and then I come back, and I'm thinking

hey, it's you know, everything's dead. So I come up to stain

it right where the wasp nest is, and there's like a lone survivor wasp

who crawls just over the wasp nest and falls like on my neck, right,

so he's like dead, but he's falling on my neck. Well,

I'm on like two stories. I'm two stories high, like I'm at the

peak of the barn. You understand how high that is? Right, Okay,

I fall off on the cement. I should died. Yeah, right,

So what it ends up happening is I start freaking out and I fall

down and on the way down, I'm like somehow I like hit the ladder

and I land bam on the cement. And I'm telling you, after this

incident, I get up. I was fine. I don't know how I

was fine. The angels must have just caught me. But listen, I

land on the ground. That's how, That's how your whole life spent.

The angels just you, yeah, bring you to the ground. So I

land on the ground two stories on the cement thing. And then and then

I'm hitting the ladder in the way down. So the can of stain is

sloshing over slash slash blaah. Right, It's just everywhere. Right. Then

all of a sudden, the can falls and I'm laying down on the ground.

I'm pretty hurt, right, and then the can hits my ankle,

lands directly on my ankle and then goes goog gook goo good look good good

good lolok all over the way driveway. So I have to get up,

and I was I didn't know what to do. And it's like literally just

dark brown staying over this pearl white driveway. And then and then then I

just grabbed the turpentine with my teeth right just glug it all over the thing.

And then I grabbed a push broom and I'm trying to scrub it and

it's just, I mean, it's just not coming. It's not working.

It's not working. Then I grab a hose and I and there wasn't a

nozzle. I'm doing the thumb thing and I'm trying to do everything, and

I spray it off into the grass and then finally I got I got it

down to like a bleak gray and then the owner of this billionaire guy,

she she comes running out and she's like what happened? And I'm covered in

stain. I told her I fell two stories. I probably need to go

to the hospital. And I'm showing her everything and she looks at me and

she goes, couldn't you have sprayed it on the left side where the dirt

is. You had to spray it where the grass was. Oh no,

you killed all the grass. And that's what she was mad about. Never

asked me if I was okay, right, and then that was that was

my last day working it. As you can imagine. That's great and rightfully,

so, oh that's great, good story. But I you didn't get

hurt. I didn't go to the hospital because I felt fine. Wow,

I mean I felt like I do now. I was like, oh,

I'm a little sore, But did you land on your head? I don't

even remember. I'm joking. I was joking. That was supposed to be

a joke. Yeah, one, two, five, Yeah, good job,

Chris. Yeah, I got the threes and four is not that so?

Yeah, dude, it was. It was amazing. Well there you

go. I hope that's enough. Cliff. Yeah, well, because he

says he has ten of those. But I think i'd like to move on

if it's okay. Yeah, well that was a long story. That's amazing

man. Yeah. Thanks, okay, Well we're going to die. Well,

you have Matthew twenty seven. So this is Matthew twenty seven, Mark

one and Luke twenty two. And this may be no Mark fifteen. I'm

sorry what I say you said? Mark one, I'm sorry, Mark fifteen,

and Luke twenty two. This might be one of the more difficult twenty

minute segments we've ever had to do, because we're reading Matthew twenty seven,

one and two, Mark fifteen one and Luke twenty two is sixty six or

seventy one. So here we go. Here we go. Council of religious

leaders condemned Jesus. But we didn't see that coming. It says Matthew twenty

seven. Very early in the morning, the leading priests and the elders of

the people met again to lay plans for putting Jesus to death. Then they

bound him, led him away, and took him to pilot the Roman governor.

In Mark fifteen one, it says, very early in the morning,

the leading priests, the elders, and the teachers of religious law, the

entire High Council met to discuss their next step, they bound Jesus, led

him away and took him to Pilot, the Roman governor. And then in

Luke, chapter twenty two, verse sixty sixty says, at daybreak, all

the elders of the people assembled, including the leading priests and the teachers of

religious law. Jesus was led before this high council, and they said,

tell us, are you the Messiah? And he replied, if I tell

you, you won't believe me, and if I ask you a question,

you won't answer. But from now on, the son of Man will be

seated in the place of power at God's right hand. They all shouted,

So you are claiming to be the son of God, and he replied,

you say that I am. Why do we need other witnesses? They said,

we ourselves heard him say it. That sounds like Fridays, Yeah,

very similar for Thursdays rather right. Previously it was the trial before the trial,

right right, And these were all illegal trials. But so there was

the trial with Annis and is trying to make sure, hey, this is

a it's worth bringing it to the Sanhedrin. Then he gives it to Caiaphas,

and Caiaphas pushes further Caiaphus gets the same thing, are you saying that

you're the Messiah? And then finally after Caiaphas's house, now they bring him

to the what's called the High Council here it would be the Sanhedrin. So,

yeah, which would be like the Jewish Supreme Court at that time.

Right, And so Luke twenty two says, you know, obviously a lot

more information than the other passages here in Matthew twenty seven, mark fifteen,

because there's a conversation and tell us, are you the Messiah? Which again

he had already admitted in front of Caiaphas. Right, but if I tell

you you won't believe me, and if I ask a question, you won't

answer. But from now on the Son of Man will be seated in the

place of power at God's right hand. I love how Jesus points out that

of their unbelief. Basically, right, if I tell you, you won't

believe me, if I ask you a question, you won't answer. It

is it is a how Jesus points out their unbelief. They don't accept it.

There are times in the scripture where Jesus tells the disciples things very plainly,

and yet they don't question it, they don't push back on it.

There's no evidence of them saying, well, wait a minute, we better

be aware of this, because Jesus said we weren't going to be aware of

it. So I think there's a lesson in there. And the lesson is

is that so many times when we think we're right or we think we know

something. You know, if you ever heard the expression you don't know what

you don't know? Yes, And I think sometimes that's probably true. We

hang on to our opinions, and we have our opinions about who God is

and who God isn't. We have our opinions about what God won't do and

what he should do, and we get angry. We hang on to those.

And I can only imagine God in Heaven sitting down and you know,

not judging us, but I guess righteously judging us and saying, gosh,

he just doesn't know what he doesn't know, right, And and and you

know, you hear things and you don't believe it, you know, you're

you're unwilling to accept it, and it really does just, you know,

encourage us to be open to the fact that, hey, you could be

wrong, we could be wrong. Sometimes, you know, no matter how

confident we are when it comes to God, you know, we have to

really be open to hearing. You know that maybe you know the things we

think, or you know obviously evidence in scripture. Right, I'm not saying

question the scripture. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying, sometimes we

form opinions about God, and you know that's it. People get angry with

God for thirty forty years. Sure, Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Yeah, because they God says, my ways are not your ways, my

thoughts are not your thoughts. Sometimes we get angry because we expect him to

do what we decided was important. Right. Well, I mean we just

forget our place and his place as if God needs to behave according to how

we think. Right, that's just arrogance or freshness. Right. So that's

what I'm really trying to say. So God will never be contrary to his

own words, No, never, right, but there are times we can

misunderstand his words. Yes, that's a great way to say that. Well,

thank you, that's what I was meaning. Yeah, I'm earning my

keep today. Well you did that last week too. I rambled on and

then you said a sentence. I'm like, that's what I meant to say.

Well, I had the benefit of you rambling on, and I'm trying

to distill it down to this. Right, here's the whole experience. I

did say a bunch of words. So here's what's happening. There's this preliminary

hearing before Annis that you know that we'd already talked about a couple of days

ago. And by the way, one of the reasons why we love the

Life Application Study Bible is because the notes are great. And then even within

the notes sometimes there's little sidebars that are just so great. There's one about

how Jesus trial was illegal. Maybe you want to talk about that, but

this one is just kind of giving the six stages of Jesus trial, and

right now we've covered three of them. And then Mark chapter fifteen to one

and Matthew twenty seven to one or two tell us that they eventually now they're

taking him to pilot. So this is the beginning of the fourth one.

But there's this preliminary hearing before Annis. Right, because the office of High

Priest was for life, Annis was still the official High Priest, is what

they're reminding us of in the eyes of all the Jews, and so even

though the Romans had appointed another, Annis was still carried so much weight because

in the Jewish mindset he's always a high priest. Now, so sure,

now we have two high priests. Annis is the top high priest. Caiaphas

is the one that has the government influence right now, right, that's how

they saw it, So this is why they would have accepted it. Then

he goes before Caiaphas, and this was conducted at night. It was in

secrecy, which was against the law according to their own Jewish law at the

time. And then it had all kinds of things that mocked justice. And

we can talk about that in a minute. But then those two lead to

what we just read today, Right, the Annis one and the Caiaphas one,

those are at night time. Now we're coming to daybreak. And at

this point, then just after daybreak, there's seventy members of the High Council

and they meant to rubber stamp their approval of the previous hearings to make them

appear legal. So the other two were illegal. So now Caiafis needs to

bring in the other seventy of the High Council and they're basically rubber stamping it,

going, yeah, we did everything legit. It's almost like backdating a

check, right, right, that's what they're doing. They're trying to make

everything legit. And then it says the purpose of this trial was not to

determine justice, but to justify their own preconceptions of jesus guilt. They don't

de Germany. He's guilty. Now. They find a way here by asking

him, are you really the Messiah? He says, you say I am.

They hear him say I am. I'm going to sit next to the

Father. Okay, that's exactly what we're looking for. But they couldn't execute

Jesus. The Romans had removed that right, and so all they could do

is go to Pilot and recommend that Jesus be executed. Right. And so

we're about to move into the Roman authority portion, right, right, because

that's how it ends is they led him away and took him to Pilot,

the Roman governor. So there is another chart here. As you mentioned about

how Jesus's trial was illegal, it says the religious illegal. That's what I

tried to say. Okay, it sounded illegal, illegal, ill legal.

The religious leaders were not interested in giving Jesus a fair trial. In their

minds, Jesus had to die. This blind obsession led them to pervert the

justice that they were appointed to protect. These are some examples of the actions

taken by the religious leaders that were illegal according to their own laws. Number

one, even before the trial began, it was determined that Jesus must die.

We read that already Mark fourteen, John eleven. There was no innocent

until proven guilty approach. Number two, false witnesses were sought to testify against

Jesus. Remember we talked about that last week in Matthew twenty six. Usually

the religious leaders went through an elaborate system of screening witnesses to ensure justice.

Not in this case, they fabricated false ones. Number three, no defense

for Jesus was sought or even allowed in Luke chapter twenty to So Jesus was

not given a chance to defend or anybody else defending him, which is shockingly

irregular, because the Romans expected that you would have a defense, and so

did the Jewish law. Right, so both sides and these guys just we're

going to go find fake accusers, but we're not going to allow you any

attorney to protect you or anybody else to step up in your defense to defend

you. And then number four, the trial is connected at night, as

we just mentioned, which was illegal according to the religious leader's own laws.

And then number five the High Priest put Jesus under oath but then incriminated him

for what he said in Matthew twenty six. And then number six, cases

involving such serious charges were to be tried only in the High Council's rarely reading

place, not in the High Priest's home, which of course we just already

mentioned, right, So yeah, holy cow. So everything about it was

crooked, but they they just had to do this. And keep in mind

as well, the Sabbath is coming up, and so in their on their

timeline, right, so if the Sabbath comes up, that they cannot they

cannot crucify somebody on the Sabbath according to their own loss, right, which

means they've got to push this trial through. So it happens on Friday before

Friday would be on our calendar like a Friday night, right, So Sabbath.

And by the way, this is worth mentioning the Jewish calendar is different

than ours in that it goes from sundown to sundown. Right, so it

goes you know, roughly six ish at night or something like that, all

the way till uh you know, six the next time. So their Sabbath

would have started Friday sundown and then would have ended Saturday sundown based on Genesis

chapter one, the Creation story where it says evening and morning were the first

day, evening and morning with the second day. So because of that,

the Jewish people manage time from evening to morning, not morning to evening like

we do. Yeah, well we do it at midnight, which is yeah,

sort of six hours later, right, so it's really not even like

but we say one one in the morning, two in the morning, but

one in the morning is still dark, which means we're sort of like splitting

the difference. That's right, yeah, we split it. But but anyway,

the point is is that uh uh so like, for instance, we're

about to see uh you know that the events where which uh it gives us

times, it gives us times like it says about the ninth hour Jesus cried

out and all these different kinds of things. Uh you know, that would

be you know, three in the afternoon. So the difficulty that these guys

are facing and so you're gonna find what they bring to pilot. The accusation

is different than what they decided to convict him on here. And did I

did I say that wrong? I think I said it wrong. Isn't it?

Sunrise to sunrise? That's what? What's that? How we do time?

No? No, no Jewish count or sunrise to sunrise, no,

sundown to sundown is a sundown to say, Okay, okay, I'm sorry,

go ahead. So the difficulty that the Jewish leaders have here is that

essentially they had determined, predetermined they were going to try to convict him on

blasphemy. Right. The problem is the Romans don't care about blasphemy at all.

It's not a capital punishment. It is to the Jewish leaders, right,

it's it's the worst thing. They would stone you to death if they

had a chance for anything that appeared to be or hinted of blasphemy. So

in this case, in order to turn the Jewish people against Jesus, they

needed to convince convict him of blasphemy and then convince the people that he had

spoken against God. That was the only way, right that the people didn't

care about what Jesus thought about Rome. The people cared about what Jesus said

about God, and so that was really really important. And so in this

trial that's what they do. But you'll see in the next day or two

when they go to pilot, their argument for why Jesus needed to die was

he's claiming to be the king of the Jews, which is a totally different

thing, right, right, because they're saying, hey, there's a threat

to you, right. But where the stretch that they're making there is the

fact that Jesus had said, I'll be sitting at the right hand of my

father, right, so I'll be sitting on the throne platform that my father

sits on as ways saying. And so that's how they pivot and go.

So the Romans like, whoa, hey, we don't want any more kings.

What are you talking about? Right, So that's what's going to happen

here pretty soon. But they find themselves in a really, really, really

difficult position where they have to swing the attitude of the people. And so

apparently they were very convincing because we know eventually that people begin to yell crucify

him. The same people who were yelling Hosannah just a couple of days ago.

Now are going to be yelling and crucify him. Something changed, And

you know, in a lot of nations even today, charges of blasphemy will

cause a riot, right, And that's what they were counting on now,

is we need to They were afraid of arresting Jesus in the temple when he

was so articulate and he was so mysterious and the people were so drawn to

him. They didn't want to rest him there because that would cause a bad

kind of riot for them. But instead, what they wanted to do was

to be able to convict Jesus of some kind of heresy of blasphemy. Then

that's why the Sanhedron together, all seventy of them, collude for this,

and then they pivot and get the people to go, oh, my goodness,

he's a heretic blasphemy crucify him right, because it was so embedded in

them that you couldn't do that, and so they needed Jesus to get these

words out. But the Romans again don't care about any of those things.

So the Pharisees are very slick. We've got to change, We got to

find a way to convict Jesus change the attitude of the people, convince Pilot

to kill Jesus all before passover starts, right right, all before the Sabbath

starts. And that's a really that's why they're moving so quickly, they're moving

through the night, They're doing all these things, and you know, it

just kind of points out again. I think the devil thought he was sprinting

to a victory at this point, right, And that's what I think the

devil does a lot of times, is he begins to stack on top of

us, so he gets us to just deviate just a little bit from what

we know is right next thing, you know, opportunity, opportunity, opportunity,

temptation, temptation, temptation, and suddenly you get into a situation where

go, how did I ever get here? It's like a one in a

million chants that I would end up doing this thing. Well, the Devil

was coordinating it all along. He's a pretty good coordinator, and so we

have to really be This is why Peter tells us be careful, right,

because our enemy is prowling around like a roaring lion looking for whom he made

devour. Right, He's always probing the edges, always trying to find a

way to manipulate a situation to ruin your life. And so I think that's

what you see here with these guys. Well, hey, that is our

time and that's great and that's a good place to end. So we will

pick up the story next time in the Bible. Gotsh