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Welcome to Good News on Catholic Spirit Radio, a program for teens and almost.
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Teens to better understand that the gospel of Jesus Christ is relevant in their
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lives, and it's a place where your questions about faith and religion can be answered.
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And now, here's your host, Deacon Al.
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Thank you, John, and welcome to Good News. This is Deacon Al again.
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I'm an ordained deacon of the Peoria Diocese, and I come to you live kind of
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on Memorex here on Catholic Spirit Radio every Saturday and Sunday evening at
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8 o'clock. We share the gospel.
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We talk about how the Word of Christ affects us in our lives,
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especially how it affects the lives of teenagers.
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And I love talking to teenagers as a scout leader for almost 40 years.
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I worked with teenagers almost every day of the week and love their energy,
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love their company, love their wit.
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And it's wonderful now in my ministry that I still get to talk to teenagers
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and now share the joys of Christ as before we were sharing the joys of sailing
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and camping and hiking and the views of the nature that God created for us.
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And now I get to talk about the son that he shared with us.
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And I just love that about my deaconate ministries.
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So, we're heading into Palm Sunday this weekend, which means we're just a week
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away from Feast of the Resurrection, from Easter, from the highlight of our liturgical year,
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from really the whole history of the Church unfolds during this next week.
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This is where Christ establishes all kinds of things from the Mass,
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communion, service to others through the washing of feet, the fact that.
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To lead, you have to serve. And I think that's such an important lesson for us to learn.
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I think if our government officials would learn that, we'd be in much better shape.
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That leadership isn't about power and authority.
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Leadership is about genuine service and self-sacrifice to others.
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And we just don't see enough of that nowadays from any political party.
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No matter what side of the fence you stand on, we're not doing the job for others that we need to do.
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We especially aren't taking care of the poor and the hungry and the immigrant,
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the imprisoned, the elderly.
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All the things that Christ spoke of, we do very, very badly in our government.
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And thank goodness we have so many Christian faiths who have ministries reaching
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out into the communities to make up for what our government doesn't want to do or doesn't find...
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The time or the monetary benefit of doing, but is so important to our life here on earth.
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We're also going to, in today's program, we have a little special presentation.
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I recruited a couple of my parishioners, Denise and Bill, to come in and help
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us with our gospel reading, which is The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, According to Mark.
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And so, in just a few minutes, we'll be going to a reading of the Passion and
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working with my eighth grade confirmation class in our last class.
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I asked, okay, we've been together now for months. You're weeks away from your confirmation.
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Tell me something that you've learned about your faith that you didn't know
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before or didn't fully understand.
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And the conversation quickly turned to two things.
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A lot of people, and these young people especially, these eighth graders,
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had no idea how truly horrific a crucifixion is.
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We spent a lot of time just going through the Passion and explaining what's
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actually involved in scourging and in the crucifixion itself,
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and through the Stations of the Cross, studying what actually happened in those
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short hours between Christ's arrest and His resurrection.
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And it really became evident to them that this truly was a huge sacrifice for
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Christ to make in his humanity.
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What he suffered through this is just.
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It brings tears to my eyes every time I hear the Passion, it brings tears to
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my eyes, thinking that we could take another person, let alone the Son of God,
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but take anybody and subject them to this kind of torture here.
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Through no guilt of their own, Jesus was not found guilty of any crime.
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Instead, he hung on the cross in place of another criminal.
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And that criminal is us. He died for our sins.
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And now on Palm Sunday, we have this joyous moment as Christ enters into Jerusalem
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and is given the reception of royalty.
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And in just a week from now, we're going to hang him on a cross to die.
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And that is such a tragic story.
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And I'm glad that the eighth graders, one of the things they've gotten out of
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this year is to understand just the incredible depth of Christ's love,
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that he would subject himself to the pain and the agony he did just so that
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he could show to us that there is nothing to fear in death and that on the other
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side of that is a new life.
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So, I look forward to sharing today's Gospel reading to you of the Passion.
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We're going to pause for just a couple of moments, and we will return to the
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Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ According to Mark The Passover and the
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Feast of Unleavened Bread were to take place in two days' time.
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So the chief priests and the scribes
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were seeking a way to arrest him by treachery and to put him to death.
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They said, Not during the festival, for fear that there may be a riot among the people.
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When he was in Bethany, reclining at table, In the house of Simon the leper,
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a woman came with an alabaster jar of perfumed oil, costly genuine spagnard.
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She broke the alabaster jar and poured it on his head. There were some who were indignant.
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Why has there been this waste of perfume oil?
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It could have been sold for more than 300 days' wages and the money given to the poor.
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They were infuriated with her.
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Jesus said, Let her alone. Why do you make trouble for her? She has done a good thing for me.
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The poor you will always have with you, and whenever you wish, you can do good to them.
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But you will not always have me. She has done what she could.
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She has anticipated anointing my body for burial.
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Amen, I say to you. Whenever the gospel is proclaimed to the whole world,
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what she has done will be told in memory of her.
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Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went off to the chief priests to hand him over to them.
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When they heard him, they were pleased and promised to pay him money.
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Then he looked for an opportunity to hand him over.
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On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the
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Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, Where do you want us to go and prepare
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for you to eat the Passover?
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He sent two of his disciples and said to them, Go into the city,
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and a man will meet you carrying a jar of water.
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Follow him. Wherever he enters, say to the master of the house,
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The teacher says, where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?
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Then he will show you a large upper room furnished and ready.
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Make the preparations for us there.
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The disciples then went off entering the city, and found it just as he had told
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them, and they prepared the Passover.
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When it was evening, he came with the twelve, and as they reclined at table
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and were eating, Jesus said, Amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me,
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one who is eating with me.
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They began to be distressed, and to say to him one by one, Surely it is not I.
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He said to them, One of the twelve, the one who dips with me into the dish.
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For the Son of Man indeed goes as it is written of him.
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But woe to the man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed.
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It would be better for that man if he had never been born.
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While they were eating, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it,
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and gave it to them, and said, Take it, this is my body.
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Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it.
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He said to them, This is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed for many.
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Amen, I say to you, I shall not drink again the fruit of the vine until the
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day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.
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Then after singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
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Then Jesus said to them, All of you will have your faith shaken,
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for it is written, I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be dispersed.
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But after I have been raised up, I shall go before you to Galilee.
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Peter said to him, Even though all should have their faith shaken,
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mine will not be. Thank you.
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Then Jesus said to him, Amen, I say to you, this very night,
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before the cock crows twice, you will deny me three times.
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But he vehemently replied, Even though I should have to die with you, I will not deny you.
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And they all spoke similarly.
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Then they came to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples,
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Sit here while I pray. He took with him Peter, James, and John,
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and began to be troubled and distressed.
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Then he said to them, My soul is sorrowful even to death.
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Remain here and keep watch.
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He advanced a little and fell to the ground and prayed that if it were possible,
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the hour might pass by him.
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He said, Abba, Father, all things are possible to you.
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Take this cup away from me, but not what I will, but what you will.
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When he returned, he found them asleep.
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He said to Peter, Simon, are you asleep? Could you not keep watch for one hour?
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Watch and pray that you may not undergo the test. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
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Withdrawing again, he prayed, saying the same thing.
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Then he turned once more and found them asleep, for they could not keep their
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eyes open and did not know what to answer him.
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He returned a third time and said to them, Are you still sleeping and taking your rest?
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It is enough. The hour has come.
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Behold, the Son of Man is to be handed over to sinners. Get up, let us go.
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See, my betrayer is at hand. Then, while he was still speaking,
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Judas, one of the twelve, arrived, accompanied by a crowd with swords and clubs,
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who had come from the chief priests, the scribes and the elders.
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His betrayer had arranged a signal with them, saying, The man I shall kiss is the one.
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Arrest him and lead him away securely.
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He came and immediately went over to him and said, Rabbi. And he kissed him.
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At this they laid hands on him and arrested him. One of the bystanders drew
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his sword, struck the high priest's servant, and cut off his ear.
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Jesus said to them in reply, Have you come out as against a robber,
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with swords and clubs to seize me?
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Day after day I was with you teaching in the temple area, yet you did not arrest
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me, but that the scriptures may be fulfilled.
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And they all left him and fled.
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Now a young man followed him, wearing nothing but a linen cloth about his body.
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They seized him, but he left the cloth behind and ran off naked.
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They led Jesus away to the high priest, and all the chief priests and the elders
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and the scribes came together.
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Peter followed him at a distance into the high priest's courtyard and was seated
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with the guards, warming himself by the fire.
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The chief priests and the entire Sanhedrin.
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Trying to obtain testimony against Jesus in order to put him to death, but they found none.
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Many gave false witness against him, but their testimony did not agree.
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Some took the stand and testified falsely against him,
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alleging, We heard him say, I will destroy this temple made with hands,
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and within three days I will build another not made with hands.
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Even so, their testimony did not agree.
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The high priest rose before the assembly and questioned Jesus,
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saying, Have you no answer?
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Why are these men testifying against you?
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But he was silent and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him and
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said to him, Are you the Christ, the Son, or the Blessed One?
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Then Jesus answered, I am. And you will see the Son of Man seated at the right
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hand of the power and coming with the clouds of heaven.
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At that the high priest tore his garments and said, What further need have we of witnesses?
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You have heard the blasphemy. What do you think?
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They all condemned him as deserving to die.
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Some began to spit on him. They blindfolded him and struck him and said to him, Prophesy.
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And the guards greeted him with blows.
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While Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the high priest's maids came along.
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Seeing Peter warming himself, she looked intently at him and said,
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You too were with the Nazarene Jesus. But he denied it, saying...
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I neither know nor understand what you are talking about.
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So he went out into the outer court. Then the cock crowed.
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The maid saw him and began again to say to the bystanders, This man is one of them.
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Once again, he denied it.
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A little later, the bystanders said to Peter once more, Surely you are one of
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them, for you too are a Galilean.
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He began to curse and to swear, I do not know this man about whom you are talking.
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And immediately a cock crowed a second time.
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Then Peter remembered the word that Jesus had said to him, Before the cock crows
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twice, you will deny me three times.
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He broke down and wept.
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As soon as morning came, the chief priests with the elders and the scribes,
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that is, the whole Sanhedrin, held a council.
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They bound Jesus, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate.
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Pilate questioned him. Are you the king of the Jews?
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He said to them in reply. You say so.
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The chief priests accused him of many things.
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Again, Pilate questioned him. Have you no answer? See how many things they accuse you of.
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Jesus gave him no further answer, so that Pilate was amazed.
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Now on the occasion of the feast, he used to release to them one prisoner whom they requested.
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A man called Barabbas was then
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in prison, along with the rebels who had committed murder in a rebellion.
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The crowd came forward and began to ask him to do for them as he was accustomed.
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Pilate answered, Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?
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For he knew that it was out of envy that the chief priests had handed him over.
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But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release Barabbas for them instead.
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Pilate again said to them in reply, Then what do you want me to do with the
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man you call the king of the Jews?
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They shouted again, Crucify him.
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Pilate said to them, Why? What evil has he done?
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Then they all shouted the louder, Crucify him.
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So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas to them.
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And after he had Jesus scourged, handed him over to be crucified.
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The soldiers led him away inside the palace, that is, the praetorium,
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and assembled the whole cohort.
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They clothed him in purple, and weaving a crown of thorns, placed it on him.
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They began to salute him with, Hail, King of the Jews!
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And kept striking his head with a reed, and spitting upon him.
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They knelt before him in homage, and when they had mocked him,
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they stripped him of the purple cloak, dressed him in his own clothes,
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and led him out to be crucified.
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They pressed into service a passer-by, Simon, a Cyrenian, who was coming in
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from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross.
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They brought him to the place of Golgotha, which is translated place of the skull.
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They gave him wine, rubbed with myrrh, but he did not take it.
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Then they crucified him and divided his garments by casting lots for them to
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see what each should take.
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It was nine o'clock in the morning when they crucified him.
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The inscription of the charge against him read, The King of the Jews.
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With him they crucified two revolutionaries, one on his right and one on his
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left those passing by reviled him shaking their heads and saying Thank you.
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You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,
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save yourself by coming down from the cross.
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Likewise, the chief priests with the scribes mocked him among themselves and
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said, He saved others, he cannot save himself.
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Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross,
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that we may see and believe. Those who were crucified with him also kept abusing him.
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At noon, darkness came over the whole land, until three in the afternoon.
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And at three o'clock, Jesus cried out in a loud voice, Eloi, Eloi,
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lima sabachthani, which is translated, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
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Some of the bystanders who heard it said, Look, he is calling Elijah.
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One of them ran, soaked a sponge with wine, put it on a reed,
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and gave it to him to drink, saying, Wait, let us see if Elijah comes to take him down.
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Jesus gave a loud cry and breathed his last.
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Let us pause in our reading for a few moments of personal prayer.
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Of the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom.
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Then the centurion, who stood facing him, saw how he breathed his last,
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and said, Truly this man was the Son of God.
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There were also women looking on from a distance.
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Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of the younger James,
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and of Joseph and Salome.
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These women had followed him when he was in Galilee and ministered to him.
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There were also many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem.
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When it was already evening, since it was the day of preparation,
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the day before the Sabbath, Joseph of Arimathea, a distinguished member of the
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council, who was himself awaiting the kingdom of God,
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came and courageously went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
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Pilate was amazed that he was already dead.
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He summoned the centurion and asked him if Jesus had already died,
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and when he learned of it from the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.
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Having brought a linen cloth
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he took him down wrapped him
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in the linen cloth and laid him in a tomb that had been hewn out of the rock
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then he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb Mary Magdalene and Mary
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the mother of Joseph watched where he was laid.
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