Bear Grylls: The Passion Week | Jesus: Refugee, Renegade, Redeemer

January 29, 2025 | S1:E5

The world’s most recognizable adventurer, Bear Grylls, embarks on a journey 2,000 years in the making, retracing the footsteps of Jesus in Israel. Each episode immerses viewers in the raw, untamed landscapes of the Holy Land while exploring the real story of the simple carpenter who changed the course of history. Using his signature survival skills, Bear dives into the life of the Refugee, Renegade, and Redeemer—Jesus of Nazareth.

#Salvation #Bible #Gospel #WorldHistory #Jesus #BibleHistory #JewishTradition #inActive #Cross #Crucifixion #Messiah #Judaism #GardenofGethsemane #BearGrylls #BiblicalFestivals

Closed captions

Show Timecode

Jesus: Refugee, Renegade, Redeemer | Bear Grylls: The Passion Week | Jesus: Refugee, Renegade, Redeemer | January 29, 2025

Jesus refugee renegade redeemer with bear
00:00:59.993 --> 00:00:03.763
Grylls is brought to you by mercy ships.
00:00:03.763 --> 00:00:06.099
Mercy ships dot org. be
00:00:06.599 --> 00:00:08.468
Part of the adventure.
00:00:08.468 --> 00:00:17.510
Bear grylls: whoo!
00:00:17.944 --> 00:00:19.345
♪♪♪
00:00:19.345 --> 00:00:23.149
Bear grylls: i'm bear grylls, and i've been
00:00:23.149 --> 00:00:24.551
To the highest point on the planet,
00:00:24.551 --> 00:00:26.486
And i'm now here at the dead sea,
00:00:26.486 --> 00:00:28.488
At the lowest point in the entire world.
00:00:28.488 --> 00:00:31.458
Get ready for the ultimate adventure.
00:00:31.458 --> 00:00:34.160
♪♪♪
00:00:34.160 --> 00:00:39.799
Bear: i'm in israel following the footsteps
00:00:39.799 --> 00:00:42.168
Of a man who changed the entire world forever.
00:00:42.168 --> 00:00:47.407
The refugee, the renegade, and the redeemer,
00:00:47.407 --> 00:00:51.544
Jesus of nazareth.
00:00:51.544 --> 00:00:58.384
Bear: since leaping into the holy land,
00:00:59.252 --> 00:01:01.554
I've followed the starlit path that the magi took to bethlehem,
00:01:01.554 --> 00:01:05.925
Waded into the jordan river where jesus was baptized,
00:01:05.925 --> 00:01:09.863
Tried to walk on water on the sea of galilee,
00:01:09.863 --> 00:01:12.832
And i've even explored jerusalem,
00:01:12.832 --> 00:01:15.168
Where jesus healed the sick, flipped tables,
00:01:15.168 --> 00:01:17.937
And challenged the religious elite.
00:01:17.937 --> 00:01:20.540
And now i'm in the spot where jesus spent
00:01:20.540 --> 00:01:23.543
The most agonizing night of his life.
00:01:23.543 --> 00:01:26.913
This is the garden of gethsemane just outside the city walls,
00:01:26.913 --> 00:01:31.551
And this is where jesus came to
00:01:31.551 --> 00:01:34.187
The night before he gave himself up
00:01:34.187 --> 00:01:36.523
To the authorities.
00:01:36.523 --> 00:01:38.057
If as he claimed, he was god down on earth as man,
00:01:38.057 --> 00:01:42.795
Here to redeem and bring back all of humankind
00:01:42.795 --> 00:01:46.299
Into love and freedom and connection with god,
00:01:46.299 --> 00:01:49.969
Then arguably what was about to happen
00:01:49.969 --> 00:01:53.139
Was the most important few days in the history of humankind.
00:01:53.139 --> 00:01:59.212
The sun is about to rise here, and i'm gonna head into the city
00:01:59.212 --> 00:02:03.983
To find out what really happened in those final few days
00:02:03.983 --> 00:02:08.555
Before jesus's death,
00:02:08.555 --> 00:02:10.223
That time now that is celebrated all across the world as easter,
00:02:10.223 --> 00:02:15.061
But at this time it was a jewish passover,
00:02:15.061 --> 00:02:18.131
Time of high tension and celebration,
00:02:18.131 --> 00:02:22.168
But the world was about to change.
00:02:22.168 --> 00:02:27.307
Bear: today i'm retracing these final climatic moments
00:02:28.408 --> 00:02:31.778
In the life of jesus.
00:02:31.778 --> 00:02:34.113
I'll follow the path where jesus carried the cross,
00:02:34.113 --> 00:02:37.584
Visit golgotha, the site of his execution,
00:02:37.584 --> 00:02:40.753
And explore the depths of a cave just like the one
00:02:40.753 --> 00:02:43.957
Where jesus was buried.
00:02:43.957 --> 00:02:45.992
But first, i'll start at the spot
00:02:45.992 --> 00:02:47.961
Where jesus faced one of the biggest villains
00:02:47.961 --> 00:02:50.530
In the story, the jewish high priest
00:02:50.530 --> 00:02:53.132
Joseph ben caiaphas.
00:02:53.132 --> 00:02:59.606
Bear: hey, father kelly.
00:03:00.106 --> 00:03:01.507
Eamon kelly: welcome, bear.
00:03:01.507 --> 00:03:02.942
Bear: nice to meet you.
00:03:02.942 --> 00:03:04.377
Bear: father eamon kelly is a renowned speaker, guide,
00:03:04.377 --> 00:03:06.679
And youtuber here in israel.
00:03:06.679 --> 00:03:09.015
And i love his passion for the jesus story.
00:03:09.015 --> 00:03:11.818
Bear: so, this is where jesus was dragged by those soldiers.
00:03:11.818 --> 00:03:14.654
Eamon: we remember this wonderful mystery here,
00:03:14.654 --> 00:03:16.389
This powerful mystery.
00:03:16.389 --> 00:03:17.824
Bear: yeah, tell me about the mystery.
00:03:17.824 --> 00:03:19.459
Come on.
00:03:19.459 --> 00:03:20.860
Bear: at the start of the passover,
00:03:20.860 --> 00:03:22.295
Jesus was welcomed into jerusalem
00:03:22.295 --> 00:03:24.464
With crowds of cheering fans,
00:03:24.464 --> 00:03:27.133
And now he's been arrested by soldiers
00:03:27.133 --> 00:03:29.636
In the middle of the night, then dragged into trial
00:03:29.636 --> 00:03:32.705
Before the high priest.
00:03:32.705 --> 00:03:35.408
But i have my own theory
00:03:35.408 --> 00:03:36.843
Behind this sudden turn of events.
00:03:36.843 --> 00:03:39.212
When jesus entered the city, he made a big scene
00:03:39.212 --> 00:03:41.714
At the temple.
00:03:41.714 --> 00:03:43.316
He toppled over the money tables and called the religious leaders
00:03:43.316 --> 00:03:45.852
Robbers and thieves.
00:03:45.852 --> 00:03:48.021
Now to be fair, these guys did seem pretty corrupt.
00:03:48.021 --> 00:03:51.257
I like to think of them as religious mafia,
00:03:51.257 --> 00:03:54.160
And their mob boss was high priest caiaphas.
00:03:54.160 --> 00:03:57.764
This guy was out for revenge.
00:03:57.764 --> 00:04:00.667
And here we are in the very spot where many believed
00:04:00.667 --> 00:04:03.436
The secret midnight trial took place.
00:04:03.436 --> 00:04:06.172
Eamon: right now we are in mount zion,
00:04:06.172 --> 00:04:08.274
And mount zion was part-- the elite part
00:04:08.274 --> 00:04:10.710
Of the upper city, very close to the temple.
00:04:10.710 --> 00:04:13.212
Bear: but why did they drag him to this house?
00:04:13.212 --> 00:04:15.581
Eamon: this is the-- in the gospel account,
00:04:15.581 --> 00:04:17.550
Says caiaphas was the high priest,
00:04:17.550 --> 00:04:21.054
And the high priest was the head dude.
00:04:21.054 --> 00:04:22.789
Bear: so, was this like a, like, the jewish religious court?
00:04:22.789 --> 00:04:27.093
Eamon: yeah, absolutely. it's supreme court.
00:04:27.093 --> 00:04:29.262
It's supreme power in the religious sphere.
00:04:29.262 --> 00:04:32.398
Prior to this moment, they were debating,
00:04:32.398 --> 00:04:35.234
"what do we need to do with this troublemaker
00:04:35.234 --> 00:04:37.437
From galilee?"
00:04:37.437 --> 00:04:38.871
Bear: why? what's he done wrong?
00:04:38.871 --> 00:04:40.273
All he's done is violating the sabbath,
00:04:40.273 --> 00:04:42.208
You're saying.
00:04:42.208 --> 00:04:43.609
Eamon: in jerusalem at this moment,
00:04:43.609 --> 00:04:45.044
There is a huge tension boiling, why?
00:04:45.044 --> 00:04:47.714
Because jesus already has been a couple of years
00:04:47.714 --> 00:04:49.415
In public life doing miracles.
00:04:49.415 --> 00:04:51.451
He has raised lazarus from the dead the week before.
00:04:51.451 --> 00:04:53.920
Everybody in jerusalem knew all about it.
00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:55.822
So, these miracles become-- they consolidate
00:04:55.822 --> 00:05:00.793
The popular understanding that jesus is the messiah.
00:05:00.793 --> 00:05:05.331
Now the messiah in jewish thinking
00:05:05.331 --> 00:05:07.734
Would throw out the romans, that there would be
00:05:07.734 --> 00:05:10.470
A military victory.
00:05:10.470 --> 00:05:12.271
Bear: not for a second did they believe him?
00:05:12.271 --> 00:05:14.107
They didn't think he really was the messiah.
00:05:14.107 --> 00:05:16.008
They were just trying to-- they were just scared
00:05:16.008 --> 00:05:18.177
Of this guy who was gaining popular momentum,
00:05:18.177 --> 00:05:20.513
Raised somebody from the dead, and just wanted
00:05:20.513 --> 00:05:24.250
The problem to go away?
00:05:24.250 --> 00:05:25.685
Eamon: for their minds, jesus is a troublemaker.
00:05:25.685 --> 00:05:28.321
He's upsetting the status quo order.
00:05:28.321 --> 00:05:30.690
Bear: renegade.
00:05:30.690 --> 00:05:32.125
Eamon: yeah, probably, they would probably consider him
00:05:32.125 --> 00:05:34.293
That way.
00:05:34.293 --> 00:05:35.695
Bear: why are they scared of this?
00:05:35.695 --> 00:05:37.130
Eamon: because every passover, the romans brought in
00:05:37.130 --> 00:05:39.198
Thousands of soldiers to jerusalem, why?
00:05:39.198 --> 00:05:41.334
Every year, once a year at passover,
00:05:41.334 --> 00:05:44.337
They gather to celebrate the liberation from slavery
00:05:44.337 --> 00:05:47.306
In egypt.
00:05:47.306 --> 00:05:49.008
And so, it's a feast of liberation,
00:05:49.008 --> 00:05:51.711
A feast of freedom.
00:05:51.711 --> 00:05:53.679
And the last thing they have right now is freedom,
00:05:53.679 --> 00:05:55.782
Because they're controlled by the romans.
00:05:55.782 --> 00:05:57.183
So, caiaphas, let's say, had a good read
00:05:57.183 --> 00:05:59.819
Of the situation politically.
00:05:59.819 --> 00:06:01.220
He didn't want an insurrection in jerusalem
00:06:01.220 --> 00:06:03.890
That would provoke the romans to come in and just massacre.
00:06:03.890 --> 00:06:08.361
It's like explosive.
00:06:08.361 --> 00:06:09.796
It's the moment is ripe for trouble.
00:06:09.796 --> 00:06:12.465
He needs to eliminate jesus.
00:06:12.465 --> 00:06:14.901
Bear: jesus was the ultimate threat
00:06:14.901 --> 00:06:16.903
To caiaphas, to his peace with the romans,
00:06:16.903 --> 00:06:19.972
And his money making machine at the temple.
00:06:19.972 --> 00:06:23.042
In the secret trial, caiaphas and his cronies
00:06:23.042 --> 00:06:26.179
Brought false witnesses to lie about jesus.
00:06:26.179 --> 00:06:30.016
This wasn't about justice, it was more like
00:06:30.016 --> 00:06:32.819
An alleyway meeting with the mob,
00:06:32.819 --> 00:06:35.321
And through it all, jesus remained utterly calm
00:06:35.321 --> 00:06:38.224
And silent until caiaphas asked him the big question.
00:06:38.224 --> 00:06:43.596
Eamon: caiaphas comes straight out with it,
00:06:43.596 --> 00:06:45.431
And he says, "are you the christ,
00:06:45.431 --> 00:06:48.100
The son of the living god?"
00:06:48.100 --> 00:06:50.336
And jesus says, "i am."
00:06:50.336 --> 00:06:52.772
Now for you and me, i am father kelly, you are bear.
00:06:52.772 --> 00:06:57.443
So, what's the big deal?
00:06:57.443 --> 00:06:59.879
But actually the word i am was never said, why?
00:06:59.879 --> 00:07:02.682
Because it's the name of god.
00:07:02.682 --> 00:07:05.451
Bear: what is the jewish word for that?
00:07:05.451 --> 00:07:08.120
Eamon: well, they use outside words for god.
00:07:08.120 --> 00:07:10.590
They use, they say hashem, the name.
00:07:10.590 --> 00:07:13.125
They won't say the word i am, which is yahweh.
00:07:13.125 --> 00:07:16.896
So, when jesus was speaking and he said, "i am,"
00:07:16.896 --> 00:07:20.733
Where he's apparently making himself equal to god,
00:07:20.733 --> 00:07:23.870
And that's against the jewish law.
00:07:23.870 --> 00:07:27.540
Bear: jesus is finally asked the only question
00:07:27.540 --> 00:07:30.776
That really matters, "are you the messiah?"
00:07:30.776 --> 00:07:36.549
Even today, his response would be controversial.
00:07:36.549 --> 00:07:40.319
For the jewish people, i am is actually the name
00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:43.422
God gave himself.
00:07:43.422 --> 00:07:46.158
When moses met god in the burning bush,
00:07:46.158 --> 00:07:48.728
God told moses to call him, "i am."
00:07:48.728 --> 00:07:53.232
Jesus has been called any number of names, still is,
00:07:53.232 --> 00:07:57.003
But here in his own words he clearly defines
00:07:57.003 --> 00:07:59.972
His true identity.
00:07:59.972 --> 00:08:02.241
Bear: so, that was like the final straw for them,
00:08:02.241 --> 00:08:03.776
Is like--
00:08:03.776 --> 00:08:05.177
Eamon: they tear their garments, they spit at him.
00:08:05.177 --> 00:08:09.582
"what more do we need?
00:08:09.582 --> 00:08:11.450
He is worthy of death."
00:08:11.450 --> 00:08:13.352
Bear: the tide was turning against jesus,
00:08:13.352 --> 00:08:16.255
And not even his closest friends stood up for him.
00:08:16.255 --> 00:08:20.026
Amazingly, jesus had predicted this would happen.
00:08:20.026 --> 00:08:23.963
Peter couldn't believe it, but jesus insisted,
00:08:23.963 --> 00:08:27.366
"before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times,
00:08:27.366 --> 00:08:31.837
And there hiding in the darkness of caiaphas's courtyard,
00:08:31.837 --> 00:08:35.841
That's exactly what happened.
00:08:35.841 --> 00:08:39.111
Three times people accused peter
00:08:39.111 --> 00:08:41.681
Of being one of jesus's disciples
00:08:41.681 --> 00:08:44.317
And three times peter denied even knowing him.
00:08:44.317 --> 00:08:49.622
At this moment, peter comes face to face
00:08:49.622 --> 00:08:52.658
With jesus, and peter, overcome with guilt,
00:08:52.658 --> 00:08:56.562
Runs away and weeps bitterly.
00:08:56.562 --> 00:08:59.732
Bear: jesus was let down by his closest, you know,
00:08:59.732 --> 00:09:03.369
Not because they didn't love him or trust him,
00:09:03.369 --> 00:09:07.707
It's just they were scared and they were human,
00:09:07.707 --> 00:09:09.842
And it's like, i'd probably have done the same.
00:09:09.842 --> 00:09:13.846
You know, thank goodness that we don't have to be brilliant
00:09:13.846 --> 00:09:19.518
To be friends with jesus, i think is what i feel
00:09:19.518 --> 00:09:22.922
At the end of this.
00:09:22.922 --> 00:09:24.557
Bear: the chief priests were determined
00:09:24.557 --> 00:09:26.759
To have jesus killed, but only a roman governor
00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:29.829
Could authorize the execution.
00:09:29.829 --> 00:09:32.398
So, jesus was brought before pontius pilate.
00:09:32.398 --> 00:09:36.168
For centuries, many wondered if this guy even existed,
00:09:36.168 --> 00:09:40.573
But just over 60 years ago, archaeologists discovered
00:09:40.573 --> 00:09:44.043
A 1st century stone a few miles from here.
00:09:44.043 --> 00:09:47.446
Known as the pilate stone, it bears the name
00:09:47.446 --> 00:09:50.182
Of the roman governor tasked with keeping peace
00:09:50.182 --> 00:09:53.352
In ancient jerusalem.
00:09:53.352 --> 00:09:55.221
History remembers pontius pilate for his infamous dilemma,
00:09:55.221 --> 00:09:59.392
What to do with jesus of nazareth.
00:09:59.392 --> 00:10:04.430
Now i'm making my way to the historic location
00:10:04.430 --> 00:10:07.533
Where jesus faced the supreme roman authority
00:10:07.533 --> 00:10:11.137
In jerusalem.
00:10:11.137 --> 00:10:16.999
In jerusalem.
00:10:16.999 --> 00:10:18.577
Bear: pilate had an impossible decision to make
00:10:19.545 --> 00:10:21.080
With jesus.
00:10:21.080 --> 00:10:22.515
Andrew ollerton: yeah, he did, and he wanted
00:10:22.515 --> 00:10:23.916
To get rid of jesus without murdering him.
00:10:23.916 --> 00:10:26.052
Bear: i'm back with my good friend
00:10:26.052 --> 00:10:27.520
Andrew ollerton, a theologian, pastor, and author.
00:10:27.520 --> 00:10:32.725
We're here at the church of the flagellation,
00:10:32.725 --> 00:10:35.628
Where the jesus story takes a very dark turn.
00:10:35.628 --> 00:10:39.598
Andrew: the place is packed.
00:10:39.598 --> 00:10:41.133
Pilate is quaking with the fear of rome, you know.
00:10:41.133 --> 00:10:43.803
So, he's thinking, how can i shut them up
00:10:43.803 --> 00:10:45.404
And send them away and give them what they want?
00:10:45.404 --> 00:10:47.606
So, he does two things really.
00:10:47.606 --> 00:10:49.041
He beats jesus.
00:10:49.041 --> 00:10:50.443
Bear: he wouldn't have done it though, would he?
00:10:50.443 --> 00:10:51.877
Andrew: no, he had the soldiers do it.
00:10:51.877 --> 00:10:53.279
These guys were pros, right?
00:10:53.279 --> 00:10:54.780
They did this all the time, and they knew how to do it.
00:10:54.780 --> 00:10:56.449
They had these whips that would have bits of metal
00:10:56.449 --> 00:10:57.883
And bone in it.
00:10:57.883 --> 00:10:59.885
I mean, this hasn't got all of the dangerous stuff
00:10:59.885 --> 00:11:01.487
On it, but you can imagine when you get
00:11:01.487 --> 00:11:03.089
A bit of pig bone and some metal on the end of this,
00:11:03.089 --> 00:11:06.325
And then this is-- the person is strapped down,
00:11:06.325 --> 00:11:08.427
So their back is exposed, they're taut,
00:11:08.427 --> 00:11:10.663
Powerless to defend themselves.
00:11:10.663 --> 00:11:12.431
Imagine the lashings with this, the bits digging in.
00:11:12.431 --> 00:11:15.267
You know, that's enough to properly destroy
00:11:15.267 --> 00:11:18.504
Someone's flesh, rip them up, shred them.
00:11:18.504 --> 00:11:20.973
Bear: well, so when pilate brings jesus back,
00:11:20.973 --> 00:11:22.575
What sort of state would he be in?
00:11:22.575 --> 00:11:23.976
Andrew: well, there's an old prophecy
00:11:23.976 --> 00:11:25.411
In isaiah, and i think of that one
00:11:25.411 --> 00:11:27.513
To just answer your question, it says that
00:11:27.513 --> 00:11:29.248
He was marred beyond human likeness.
00:11:29.248 --> 00:11:31.317
It's like this is more of a piece of meat
00:11:31.317 --> 00:11:34.120
Than a human now.
00:11:34.120 --> 00:11:35.521
It's like he's been so butchered,
00:11:35.521 --> 00:11:37.123
And it says he was, people turned their faces
00:11:37.123 --> 00:11:39.024
Away from him.
00:11:39.024 --> 00:11:40.459
It's like it's appalling.
00:11:40.459 --> 00:11:41.961
Bear: 'cause all the flesh is ripped off, he's bleeding.
00:11:41.961 --> 00:11:45.331
And i guess pilate thought showing this broken jesus
00:11:45.331 --> 00:11:48.801
Would be enough.
00:11:48.801 --> 00:11:50.202
Andrew: but it wasn't enough, you know,
00:11:50.202 --> 00:11:51.637
For the jewish leaders, caiaphas,
00:11:51.637 --> 00:11:53.806
They weren't just gunning for blood,
00:11:53.806 --> 00:11:55.975
They wanted death.
00:11:55.975 --> 00:11:57.476
You know, they wanted him to be snuffed out completely.
00:11:57.476 --> 00:11:59.645
And so, you know, eventually pilate realizes
00:11:59.645 --> 00:12:02.481
He's cornered, and he washes his hands,
00:12:02.481 --> 00:12:05.151
Which is his way, really, of-- i think he's actually mocking
00:12:05.151 --> 00:12:07.319
One of their traditions, 'cause in the old testament
00:12:07.319 --> 00:12:09.622
You were to wash your hands if you were innocent
00:12:09.622 --> 00:12:11.023
Of a murder.
00:12:11.023 --> 00:12:12.458
And he's basically saying, right,
00:12:12.458 --> 00:12:13.993
"this is on your heads now," and they actually accept that.
00:12:13.993 --> 00:12:15.394
They say, "yeah, this is on us and our families,
00:12:15.394 --> 00:12:17.530
We'll take the blame for this, crucify him."
00:12:17.530 --> 00:12:20.833
Bear: looking back 2,000 years, i can't wrap my mind
00:12:20.833 --> 00:12:24.036
Around this moment.
00:12:24.036 --> 00:12:25.671
In just a few days, the same crowds
00:12:25.671 --> 00:12:28.207
Who claimed jesus as a king
00:12:28.207 --> 00:12:30.376
Were now calling for his crucifixion.
00:12:30.376 --> 00:12:33.078
It just doesn't make sense.
00:12:33.078 --> 00:12:35.014
I think pilate must have felt the same way.
00:12:35.014 --> 00:12:37.883
Even his wife had been plagued by dreams
00:12:37.883 --> 00:12:40.719
That jesus was an innocent man.
00:12:40.719 --> 00:12:43.389
But in the end, pilate let the mob decide for him.
00:12:43.389 --> 00:12:47.760
He offered them a choice.
00:12:47.760 --> 00:12:49.428
He could free jesus or free a murderer
00:12:49.428 --> 00:12:53.599
Called barabbas.
00:12:53.599 --> 00:12:55.835
The people chose to free barabbas,
00:12:55.835 --> 00:12:59.705
And to jesus they shouted, "crucify him."
00:12:59.705 --> 00:13:03.943
So, pilate washed his hands of responsibility
00:13:03.943 --> 00:13:07.947
And surrendered jesus to his brutal roman gods.
00:13:07.947 --> 00:13:12.685
Andrew: he had been called king of the jews,
00:13:12.685 --> 00:13:14.086
And they're like, "all right, let's dress him up
00:13:14.086 --> 00:13:15.521
Like a king, you know, play with that idea."
00:13:15.521 --> 00:13:17.623
So, you know, you've probably heard
00:13:17.623 --> 00:13:19.425
Of the crown of thorns, you know,
00:13:19.425 --> 00:13:20.860
Something maybe even chunkier than this
00:13:20.860 --> 00:13:23.762
Was pressed down onto the skull of jesus
00:13:23.762 --> 00:13:26.565
As a sort of mock crown.
00:13:26.565 --> 00:13:28.467
So, they put that on his head, and then they put a robe on him.
00:13:28.467 --> 00:13:32.605
So, they're teasing him, they're mocking him.
00:13:32.605 --> 00:13:34.306
And it's because from here,
00:13:34.306 --> 00:13:35.741
Jesus then was taken to crucifixion.
00:13:35.741 --> 00:13:37.910
Bear: so, how does the crucifixion work?
00:13:37.910 --> 00:13:40.045
How do they take him there?
00:13:40.045 --> 00:13:41.447
Andrew: yeah, so, i mean, you imagine this.
00:13:41.447 --> 00:13:42.882
They've whipped you, flogged you,
00:13:42.882 --> 00:13:44.283
You're wrecked as a body, mocked as a person,
00:13:44.283 --> 00:13:48.721
And then there's this huge wooden beam
00:13:48.721 --> 00:13:50.389
That you have to carry, right?
00:13:50.389 --> 00:13:51.957
Bear: well, the cross beam.
00:13:51.957 --> 00:13:53.392
Andrew: the cross beam, yeah.
00:13:53.392 --> 00:13:54.793
So, they make him carry it, part of the punishment.
00:13:54.793 --> 00:13:57.229
Yeah, and this is in the heat of the day,
00:13:57.229 --> 00:14:00.132
And it's probably about 800 meters
00:14:00.132 --> 00:14:02.268
To where he's actually crucified.
00:14:02.268 --> 00:14:03.669
Bear: that's a long way.
00:14:03.669 --> 00:14:05.104
Andrew: this beam alone may have weighed
00:14:05.104 --> 00:14:06.906
About 150 pounds, 70 kilograms.
00:14:06.906 --> 00:14:10.809
Bear: well, that's heavy.
00:14:10.809 --> 00:14:12.244
Andrew: well, it is, and i know you work out,
00:14:12.244 --> 00:14:13.646
But we've got, you know, an opportunity
00:14:13.646 --> 00:14:15.080
Just to see if you can lift it.
00:14:15.080 --> 00:14:16.482
That is about-- we think that weight
00:14:16.482 --> 00:14:18.117
Is about the same as the cross beam
00:14:18.117 --> 00:14:20.586
That jesus would have had to carry
00:14:20.586 --> 00:14:22.154
On 800 meters after getting flogged.
00:14:22.154 --> 00:14:24.156
Bear: really?
00:14:24.156 --> 00:14:25.591
Andrew: yeah, come on.
00:14:25.591 --> 00:14:30.529
Bear: wow.
00:14:30.829 --> 00:14:32.264
Andrew: yeah, that on you--
00:14:32.264 --> 00:14:39.805
Bear: wow. oh boy.
00:14:39.805 --> 00:14:45.477
Andrew: eight hundred meters, you know,
00:14:45.477 --> 00:14:47.346
And you're in good shape, you've not been flogged.
00:14:47.346 --> 00:14:49.982
Bear: we've drunk water, we're well fed.
00:14:49.982 --> 00:14:51.850
I mean, imagine the state that jesus--
00:14:51.850 --> 00:14:53.819
The amount of blood he's lost.
00:14:53.819 --> 00:14:58.524
I'm not man enough to be able to--
00:14:58.524 --> 00:15:00.793
I'm no jesus to be able to carry that 800 meters,
00:15:00.793 --> 00:15:03.195
But let's walk it.
00:15:03.195 --> 00:15:04.630
Andrew: the via dolorosa, okay, let's do it.
00:15:04.630 --> 00:15:08.500
Bear: jesus was a dead man walking.
00:15:09.234 --> 00:15:11.503
His path to crucifixion is called the via dolorosa,
00:15:11.503 --> 00:15:15.174
Which means the way of suffering.
00:15:15.174 --> 00:15:17.876
Along this winding road are 14 stations,
00:15:17.876 --> 00:15:21.380
Each representing a key moment in jesus's journey
00:15:21.380 --> 00:15:25.050
To death, from the trial before pilate
00:15:25.050 --> 00:15:28.654
All the way to golgotha,
00:15:28.654 --> 00:15:31.256
The site of the horrific crucifixion,
00:15:31.256 --> 00:15:33.892
Death, and burial of jesus.
00:15:33.892 --> 00:15:37.262
Being here, walking on the very same path
00:15:37.262 --> 00:15:40.199
Where jesus carried his cross, it feels heavy and sacred.
00:15:40.199 --> 00:15:45.571
At the time of jesus, this was just the top
00:15:45.571 --> 00:15:48.007
Of the hill, this is golgotha.
00:15:48.007 --> 00:15:49.875
Andrew: this is golgotha, yeah. bear: which means what?
00:15:49.875 --> 00:15:51.677
Andrew: it means the place of the skull.
00:15:51.677 --> 00:15:53.512
So, down beneath what we're going to go into now
00:15:53.512 --> 00:15:55.781
There are tombs where they bury people,
00:15:55.781 --> 00:15:58.851
But above it, there was a prominent place overlooking,
00:15:58.851 --> 00:16:01.186
And this is one of the main routes
00:16:01.186 --> 00:16:02.588
Into jerusalem.
00:16:02.588 --> 00:16:04.023
So, this is perfect for the romans.
00:16:04.023 --> 00:16:05.424
You know, prominent place, loads of traffic.
00:16:05.424 --> 00:16:07.292
This is the place to nail him publicly as an enemy of rome,
00:16:07.292 --> 00:16:11.463
And this is what happens.
00:16:11.463 --> 00:16:12.898
Bear: the church of the holy sepulcher
00:16:12.898 --> 00:16:14.767
Was established in 335 ad, nearly 1,700 years ago,
00:16:14.767 --> 00:16:20.706
And every year over 1 million people
00:16:20.706 --> 00:16:23.776
Come to visit.
00:16:23.776 --> 00:16:25.778
Across jerusalem, you can easily spot the church
00:16:25.778 --> 00:16:29.281
With its blue sky domes.
00:16:29.281 --> 00:16:31.550
The smaller dome covers the traditional site, golgotha,
00:16:31.550 --> 00:16:35.821
Where jesus was crucified.
00:16:35.821 --> 00:16:38.390
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a stone quarry
00:16:38.390 --> 00:16:42.428
Which fits the description
00:16:42.428 --> 00:16:44.129
Of the earliest christian writings about this spot.
00:16:44.129 --> 00:16:47.900
Beneath the larger dome you'll find a shrine
00:16:47.900 --> 00:16:50.602
That houses a stone cut tomb dating back to the 1st century.
00:16:50.602 --> 00:16:55.007
This is believed to be the actual tomb of jesus.
00:16:55.007 --> 00:17:04.583
Andrew: so, this is beneath
00:17:05.184 --> 00:17:07.619
The church of the holy sepulcher.
00:17:07.619 --> 00:17:10.656
This is a holy site, like, the holiest of sites.
00:17:10.656 --> 00:17:13.859
I mean, it's pretty certain.
00:17:13.859 --> 00:17:15.360
This is where jesus was crucified.
00:17:15.360 --> 00:17:18.097
Bear: and obviously at the time, this, you know,
00:17:18.097 --> 00:17:19.932
They've built a church over it now,
00:17:19.932 --> 00:17:21.333
But at the time, this was just top of the hill
00:17:21.333 --> 00:17:23.836
Outside the city wall, bare rock, beating sun.
00:17:23.836 --> 00:17:26.839
Andrew: we're kind of standing on the spot
00:17:26.839 --> 00:17:28.273
Where jesus is then spread out.
00:17:28.273 --> 00:17:30.676
So, you know that he's pinned down
00:17:30.676 --> 00:17:33.045
To that wooden cross beam.
00:17:33.045 --> 00:17:34.480
Not nails through the hands actually,
00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:37.015
The nails would have gone through the wrists, right?
00:17:37.015 --> 00:17:39.151
They didn't want it tearing away.
00:17:39.151 --> 00:17:40.953
So, they smashed nails through the wrists,
00:17:40.953 --> 00:17:42.955
And then they lifted that up.
00:17:42.955 --> 00:17:45.124
So, this high above the crowd
00:17:45.124 --> 00:17:48.627
There's this prominent execution.
00:17:48.627 --> 00:17:51.330
Bear: it's hard to imagine just how horrific
00:17:51.330 --> 00:17:54.399
This scene would have been.
00:17:54.399 --> 00:17:56.668
Jesus lifted above the crowds, his feet nailed to the cross.
00:17:56.668 --> 00:18:02.007
The sign above his head declares him king of the jews.
00:18:02.007 --> 00:18:07.146
Now only a few brave followers remain,
00:18:07.146 --> 00:18:10.883
Including his mother, who can only watch
00:18:10.883 --> 00:18:13.719
As her son suffers excruciating pain.
00:18:13.719 --> 00:18:17.856
A handful of roman soldiers cast lots for jesus's clothes.
00:18:17.856 --> 00:18:23.028
Jewish religious leaders and passers by
00:18:23.028 --> 00:18:25.564
Hurl insults at the failed messiah.
00:18:25.564 --> 00:18:29.368
These are the eyewitnesses to the death of jesus christ,
00:18:29.368 --> 00:18:33.438
And his final dying moments are some of the most pivotal
00:18:33.438 --> 00:18:37.676
In human history.
00:18:37.676 --> 00:18:43.004
In human history.
00:18:43.004 --> 00:18:45.217
Bear: the cross is a symbol of, like, hope and love
00:18:46.285 --> 00:18:49.755
And peace and unity and-- but actually,
00:18:49.755 --> 00:18:51.790
It's this instrument of torture.
00:18:51.790 --> 00:18:54.593
Andrew: amazing, isn't it?
00:18:54.593 --> 00:18:55.994
You know, we're so removed
00:18:55.994 --> 00:18:57.429
From what actually happened here.
00:18:57.429 --> 00:18:59.798
We don't see public executions, and the romans were brutal.
00:18:59.798 --> 00:19:02.668
They wanted this suffering to last,
00:19:02.668 --> 00:19:04.603
'cause one of the ways people died from crucifixion
00:19:04.603 --> 00:19:06.438
Was asphyxiation.
00:19:06.438 --> 00:19:07.839
They slumped down and their lungs collapsed
00:19:07.839 --> 00:19:10.042
And they couldn't breathe.
00:19:10.042 --> 00:19:11.810
So, the romans sometimes even fitted a little seat
00:19:11.810 --> 00:19:14.313
So that the person couldn't drop their body down
00:19:14.313 --> 00:19:16.215
And die.
00:19:16.215 --> 00:19:17.649
You know, they were literally stopping them
00:19:17.649 --> 00:19:19.218
And hanging them there to make them suffer.
00:19:19.218 --> 00:19:22.120
Bear: and who else was crucified there?
00:19:22.120 --> 00:19:24.489
Andrew: well, either side of jesus
00:19:24.489 --> 00:19:26.225
Were two other people being crucified.
00:19:26.225 --> 00:19:27.726
They were robbers, possibly violent insurrectionists,
00:19:27.726 --> 00:19:32.030
You know, sort of terrorists, you might say,
00:19:32.030 --> 00:19:33.665
But certainly violent criminals.
00:19:33.665 --> 00:19:35.901
One of them, he must have seen something different in jesus.
00:19:35.901 --> 00:19:39.671
He starts to reach out to him, and he actually says,
00:19:39.671 --> 00:19:42.407
"remember me when you come into your kingdom."
00:19:42.407 --> 00:19:44.576
And jesus says, i think it's the most incredible thing,
00:19:44.576 --> 00:19:47.346
He says, "today you will be with me
00:19:47.346 --> 00:19:50.015
In paradise."
00:19:50.015 --> 00:19:51.650
This is a brutal, violent man.
00:19:51.650 --> 00:19:54.686
It's like he's promising him paradise, extraordinary.
00:19:54.686 --> 00:19:57.155
Bear: i kind of relate to that of, like,
00:19:57.155 --> 00:19:59.725
You don't have to be super spiritual.
00:19:59.725 --> 00:20:01.493
All he did was in desperation look at jesus, say,
00:20:01.493 --> 00:20:04.930
"remember me.
00:20:04.930 --> 00:20:06.365
Be with me, don't forget me," and it's, like, done.
00:20:06.365 --> 00:20:09.668
Andrew: just reach out. bear: reach out.
00:20:09.668 --> 00:20:11.069
Andrew: just reach out.
00:20:11.069 --> 00:20:12.504
You know, the other thing he says from the cross
00:20:12.504 --> 00:20:13.905
Is he speaks out over the crowd that's hammering him
00:20:13.905 --> 00:20:17.709
With taunts, and jesus says, "father, forgive them.
00:20:17.709 --> 00:20:20.746
They don't know what they're doing."
00:20:20.746 --> 00:20:22.180
I mean, if ever someone practiced
00:20:22.180 --> 00:20:23.582
What they're preaching, he said love your enemies
00:20:23.582 --> 00:20:26.852
Earlier in his teaching, and now he's doing it.
00:20:26.852 --> 00:20:29.187
Bear: and what?
00:20:29.187 --> 00:20:30.589
And then he's up there, how long would he been up there?
00:20:30.589 --> 00:20:34.192
Andrew: you know, jesus, it was six hours.
00:20:34.192 --> 00:20:36.795
So, from 9 o'clock in the morning,
00:20:36.795 --> 00:20:39.398
And then at midday, at 12, after three hours,
00:20:39.398 --> 00:20:42.734
This unnatural darkness descends on the land.
00:20:42.734 --> 00:20:45.971
It's kind of spooky really, but it gives--
00:20:45.971 --> 00:20:48.774
The bible gives the sense that as this happens,
00:20:48.774 --> 00:20:52.644
All of the darkness of evil is falling onto jesus
00:20:52.644 --> 00:20:57.115
At this moment.
00:20:57.115 --> 00:20:58.550
It's like he's taking on himself all this evil,
00:20:58.550 --> 00:21:01.386
And it's in that he cries out, "my god, my god.
00:21:01.386 --> 00:21:03.889
Why have you forsaken me?"
00:21:03.889 --> 00:21:05.424
Bear: so, why is he saying that? why is he shut away from god?
00:21:05.424 --> 00:21:08.093
Andrew: this is what he said, isn't it?
00:21:08.093 --> 00:21:09.494
That he's going to take on himself
00:21:09.494 --> 00:21:10.929
The sins of the world?
00:21:10.929 --> 00:21:12.331
And i think that's the darkness, three hours of that.
00:21:12.331 --> 00:21:16.234
Bear: and did they-- is it actually documented
00:21:16.234 --> 00:21:17.936
That the, what?
00:21:17.936 --> 00:21:19.338
The sky went black in the middle of the day?
00:21:19.338 --> 00:21:21.440
Andrew: yeah, yeah.
00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:22.841
And that is cross-referenced in other accounts.
00:21:22.841 --> 00:21:25.344
Not only that, but as he died, you know,
00:21:25.344 --> 00:21:27.079
There was an earthquake, rocks were split.
00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:30.082
You know, some of these things--
00:21:30.082 --> 00:21:31.650
Bear: and you would be really, if you were, like, a soldier,
00:21:31.650 --> 00:21:33.118
You'd be going, what is going on?
00:21:33.118 --> 00:21:35.420
Andrew: well, the roman centurion
00:21:35.420 --> 00:21:38.323
Who at the very end, when he hears some of the things
00:21:38.323 --> 00:21:40.292
Jesus says from the cross, it's the roman centurion
00:21:40.292 --> 00:21:42.961
Who says, "surely this man was the son of god."
00:21:42.961 --> 00:21:46.598
You know, he arrives at an extraordinary conclusion,
00:21:46.598 --> 00:21:49.368
'cause this is an extraordinary death.
00:21:49.368 --> 00:21:51.703
Bear: so, he goes through all of this horrific torture,
00:21:51.703 --> 00:21:54.706
Crucifixion, thieves either side of him,
00:21:54.706 --> 00:21:58.009
Has that connection with the thief,
00:21:58.009 --> 00:22:00.312
But then eventually, i guess, dies.
00:22:00.312 --> 00:22:01.713
Andrew: he reaches his end.
00:22:01.713 --> 00:22:03.148
Yeah, 3 o'clock in the afternoon he dies.
00:22:03.148 --> 00:22:05.016
But before he does, he says, "i thirst."
00:22:05.016 --> 00:22:07.319
And suddenly you realize, oh yeah, he's thirsty.
00:22:07.319 --> 00:22:09.221
He's, you know, he's got that, all that visceral kind of pain
00:22:09.221 --> 00:22:12.057
Of thirst.
00:22:12.057 --> 00:22:13.492
But then they lift up a drink to him,
00:22:13.492 --> 00:22:15.193
And it's only when he's had that drink,
00:22:15.193 --> 00:22:17.028
Almost as if that drink is him saying,
00:22:17.028 --> 00:22:20.232
"i'm drinking that final cup."
00:22:20.232 --> 00:22:23.301
You know, that final passover cup
00:22:23.301 --> 00:22:25.370
That he never drank with his disciples,
00:22:25.370 --> 00:22:26.905
Now he's having that drink, as if to say this is the end.
00:22:26.905 --> 00:22:30.976
Bear: yeah, 'cause they'd have four cups of wine,
00:22:30.976 --> 00:22:33.378
But they only had three cups.
00:22:33.378 --> 00:22:35.414
Andrew: it was the third cup he took,
00:22:35.414 --> 00:22:36.848
The cup of thanksgiving, and then they left.
00:22:36.848 --> 00:22:39.518
It says that after that, abruptly, they left awkwardly,
00:22:39.518 --> 00:22:43.188
The disciples confused.
00:22:43.188 --> 00:22:44.589
You know, they hadn't finished the meal.
00:22:44.589 --> 00:22:46.057
But i think jesus said, "i thirst," took the cup,
00:22:46.057 --> 00:22:48.527
And because then he says these words,
00:22:48.527 --> 00:22:50.095
He says, "it is finished."
00:22:50.095 --> 00:22:52.664
And notice he doesn't say, "i'm finished."
00:22:52.664 --> 00:22:54.499
It's not some resignation of defeat.
00:22:54.499 --> 00:22:56.268
It's this announcement of some kind of
00:22:56.268 --> 00:22:58.170
Strange victory or completion.
00:22:58.170 --> 00:23:00.105
And that's what passover should have finished with.
00:23:00.105 --> 00:23:02.407
As if jesus saying, "now the real passover,
00:23:02.407 --> 00:23:05.210
Now the real salvation is done.
00:23:05.210 --> 00:23:06.945
I've done it.
00:23:06.945 --> 00:23:08.380
It's finished. the work is complete."
00:23:08.380 --> 00:23:09.781
Bear: job done. andrew: yeah, job done.
00:23:09.781 --> 00:23:11.716
Bear: "it is finished," jesus's dying words
00:23:11.716 --> 00:23:16.688
Mark the completion of his mission.
00:23:16.688 --> 00:23:19.558
At the last supper, jesus compared himself
00:23:19.558 --> 00:23:22.227
To the passover sacrifice.
00:23:22.227 --> 00:23:24.629
Like the lamb, his body would be broken,
00:23:24.629 --> 00:23:28.133
His blood poured out for the forgiveness of sins.
00:23:28.133 --> 00:23:32.604
And now at that same moment, roughly 3 pm.,
00:23:32.604 --> 00:23:36.541
The high priest is sacrificing the passover lamb
00:23:36.541 --> 00:23:39.978
In the temple.
00:23:39.978 --> 00:23:41.646
Jesus wasn't the messiah anyone expected.
00:23:41.646 --> 00:23:44.883
His mission granted people freedom,
00:23:44.883 --> 00:23:47.118
Not from empires and governments,
00:23:47.118 --> 00:23:49.454
But from the forces that imprison us from within.
00:23:49.454 --> 00:23:52.958
By now, the people had known jesus as a refugee,
00:23:52.958 --> 00:23:56.328
Fleeing his homeland.
00:23:56.328 --> 00:23:58.096
They'd known him as a renegade who defied religious
00:23:58.096 --> 00:24:00.899
And political powers.
00:24:00.899 --> 00:24:02.934
But in his death, he becomes something else entirely,
00:24:02.934 --> 00:24:07.305
Redeemer.
00:24:07.305 --> 00:24:09.174
Bear: oh, its amazing just being able to feel, like,
00:24:09.174 --> 00:24:12.277
Feel the ground that this all happened on.
00:24:12.277 --> 00:24:17.282
Andrew: yeah, you know, this is a site
00:24:17.282 --> 00:24:20.252
Of brutal torture and execution.
00:24:20.252 --> 00:24:22.487
Yeah, it absolutely is.
00:24:22.487 --> 00:24:24.189
But jesus transformed it into a site of beautiful hope
00:24:24.189 --> 00:24:27.859
And redemption as well.
00:24:27.859 --> 00:24:29.294
You know, he is the redeemer, and so this guy,
00:24:29.294 --> 00:24:30.929
The thief on the cross next to him,
00:24:30.929 --> 00:24:32.430
The roman centurion, these people
00:24:32.430 --> 00:24:34.466
Are finding hope right out of his death.
00:24:34.466 --> 00:24:37.335
It's such a beautiful, beautiful summary
00:24:37.335 --> 00:24:39.938
Of what he really came to do.
00:24:39.938 --> 00:24:41.506
Somehow, through this death-- the mysterious work of god is
00:24:41.506 --> 00:24:43.808
Somehow through this death hope is coming to the world.
00:24:43.808 --> 00:24:46.678
Bear: you know, it's that thing of i could never believe
00:24:46.678 --> 00:24:48.446
In a god that hadn't suffered, hadn't experienced
00:24:48.446 --> 00:24:51.550
What so many people-- horrors that people go through.
00:24:51.550 --> 00:24:55.620
But this is such an image, isn't it, of, like,
00:24:55.620 --> 00:24:58.523
Suffering and pain and isolation and rejection and brokenness
00:24:58.523 --> 00:25:03.862
And separation.
00:25:03.862 --> 00:25:05.330
Andrew: one of the prophecies says that
00:25:05.330 --> 00:25:06.798
Surely he has taken up our pain and borne our sorrows.
00:25:06.798 --> 00:25:10.302
You know, he's kind of made our pain
00:25:10.302 --> 00:25:12.003
And our sorrows his own.
00:25:12.003 --> 00:25:13.638
And so, the cross is simultaneously bloody execution
00:25:13.638 --> 00:25:17.876
And beautiful hope.
00:25:17.876 --> 00:25:19.477
Bear: i can't imagine jesus's friends
00:25:19.477 --> 00:25:22.047
Saw this moment as hopeful.
00:25:22.047 --> 00:25:25.083
Jesus is dead.
00:25:25.083 --> 00:25:26.518
Their mission over.
00:25:26.518 --> 00:25:29.020
He was most likely buried a short distance from here.
00:25:29.020 --> 00:25:32.691
Today that site is covered by a shrine
00:25:32.691 --> 00:25:35.727
And surrounded by seekers.
00:25:35.727 --> 00:25:39.264
So, once again, i'm heading out of the city.
00:25:39.264 --> 00:25:42.033
I want to know what that dark, terrible moment
00:25:42.033 --> 00:25:45.337
Was really like when jesus's body
00:25:45.337 --> 00:25:48.773
Was finally sealed inside that stony, pitch black tomb.
00:25:48.773 --> 00:25:56.007
Was finally sealed inside that stony, pitch black tomb.
00:25:56.007 --> 00:26:02.390
I'm back with my friend christine caine,
00:26:03.191 --> 00:26:05.893
This time in an empty cave.
00:26:05.893 --> 00:26:08.563
Jesus would have been buried in a place just like this.
00:26:08.563 --> 00:26:12.367
Bear: yeah, it's funny, i've spent so much of my time,
00:26:12.367 --> 00:26:15.236
You know, on adventure, surviving often in caves.
00:26:15.236 --> 00:26:17.572
And there's such a feel, isn't there?
00:26:17.572 --> 00:26:19.007
Once you go in, you can't hear the outside world.
00:26:19.007 --> 00:26:22.110
It's cool, you know, but also i suppose
00:26:22.110 --> 00:26:25.013
For indigenous cultures, it was also a place of death.
00:26:25.013 --> 00:26:28.716
Christine caine: yes. oh, very much so.
00:26:28.716 --> 00:26:30.284
And i mean, it was a cave just like this
00:26:30.284 --> 00:26:32.020
That jesus was placed in
00:26:32.020 --> 00:26:34.756
After he was crucified on the cross.
00:26:34.756 --> 00:26:36.557
I mean, i think, particularly though
00:26:36.557 --> 00:26:37.959
In jesus's time, this was where you buried
00:26:37.959 --> 00:26:40.928
Upper wealthy people.
00:26:40.928 --> 00:26:43.531
So, that's quite wild, because jesus was crucified
00:26:43.531 --> 00:26:46.934
As a criminal.
00:26:46.934 --> 00:26:48.369
Bear: so, how did that work out?
00:26:48.369 --> 00:26:50.071
'cause he certainly wasn't a wealthy man.
00:26:50.071 --> 00:26:51.472
He lived as, like, a poor, poor man.
00:26:51.472 --> 00:26:55.810
Christine: definitely.
00:26:55.810 --> 00:26:57.245
Well, this guy, his name is joseph,
00:26:57.245 --> 00:26:59.547
Joseph of arimathea, he basically was
00:26:59.547 --> 00:27:02.483
Part of the religious group, and he knew
00:27:02.483 --> 00:27:04.652
What happened to jesus was not fair,
00:27:04.652 --> 00:27:06.754
And the trial wasn't just, the execution wasn't just.
00:27:06.754 --> 00:27:10.391
And so, he jumps in and offers his own cave,
00:27:10.391 --> 00:27:13.895
His own tomb, and that's a really big deal.
00:27:13.895 --> 00:27:16.431
Bear: i find it interesting that the man
00:27:16.431 --> 00:27:18.566
Who provided the burial cave for jesus
00:27:18.566 --> 00:27:21.669
Was actually a pharisee.
00:27:21.669 --> 00:27:23.104
He was, like, a part of the elite,
00:27:23.104 --> 00:27:24.739
'cause sometimes you get the impression that, you know,
00:27:24.739 --> 00:27:27.575
He was all-- jesus was always down
00:27:27.575 --> 00:27:29.911
On the religious elite and the pharisees.
00:27:29.911 --> 00:27:32.480
And i know he did a lot of, like,
00:27:32.480 --> 00:27:34.315
Saying, "you hypocrites," and this,
00:27:34.315 --> 00:27:36.017
And "you're blinding people from truth."
00:27:36.017 --> 00:27:37.685
But there must have been a few good people amongst them
00:27:37.685 --> 00:27:40.922
Who kind of felt it as well.
00:27:40.922 --> 00:27:42.857
Christine: and nicodemus, who also was a religious man,
00:27:42.857 --> 00:27:44.826
Was part of that.
00:27:44.826 --> 00:27:46.260
And they were, like, they understood
00:27:46.260 --> 00:27:48.196
That this man must have been the son of god.
00:27:48.196 --> 00:27:50.665
There was something different about him.
00:27:50.665 --> 00:27:52.667
Bear: and then suddenly here he is now,
00:27:52.667 --> 00:27:54.836
Burying the dead, beaten, broken body of jesus.
00:27:54.836 --> 00:27:59.307
Christine: and then organizes
00:27:59.307 --> 00:28:00.808
The whole burial process as well, because it's
00:28:00.808 --> 00:28:02.944
Quite an elaborate burial process.
00:28:02.944 --> 00:28:05.046
You've got to wrap them up in linen, wash the body.
00:28:05.046 --> 00:28:08.649
But the deal is he was put in a cave like this
00:28:08.649 --> 00:28:11.219
With a stone put on the front of it
00:28:11.219 --> 00:28:13.955
That was at least two tons.
00:28:13.955 --> 00:28:16.023
And so, this thing was sealed.
00:28:16.023 --> 00:28:18.793
Bear: so, what, they would have laid the body of jesus
00:28:18.793 --> 00:28:20.895
In this cool tomb, sealed that entrance
00:28:20.895 --> 00:28:23.331
With a two ton rock.
00:28:23.331 --> 00:28:24.732
Christine: two ton at least.
00:28:24.732 --> 00:28:26.167
They made sure that they had guards,
00:28:26.167 --> 00:28:27.735
And that that stone was rolled very securely
00:28:27.735 --> 00:28:31.005
In front of the tomb.
00:28:31.005 --> 00:28:32.640
Obviously, the religious people and the officials
00:28:32.640 --> 00:28:35.743
Didn't want anyone to try to take jesus
00:28:35.743 --> 00:28:38.412
Out of the cave.
00:28:38.412 --> 00:28:39.847
They wanted everyone to know, oh, he is dead, dead.
00:28:39.847 --> 00:28:42.383
Bear: i know the christian church
00:28:42.383 --> 00:28:44.352
Calls it good friday.
00:28:44.352 --> 00:28:46.354
But to be honest at this stage, it's looking more like
00:28:46.354 --> 00:28:49.357
Bad friday.
00:28:49.357 --> 00:28:50.758
I mean, he's dead, he's buried, sealed, done.
00:28:50.758 --> 00:28:55.596
Christine: done, 'cause you think to get here,
00:28:55.596 --> 00:28:58.232
Judas had betrayed him, peter had denied him,
00:28:58.232 --> 00:29:01.002
He'd gone through the crucifixion,
00:29:01.002 --> 00:29:02.570
None of the other disciples were around,
00:29:02.570 --> 00:29:04.338
So you would have thought, naturally speaking,
00:29:04.338 --> 00:29:06.374
That this sect, this religious group
00:29:06.374 --> 00:29:09.210
Was finished.
00:29:09.210 --> 00:29:10.611
Imagine what everyone's feeling at this point.
00:29:10.611 --> 00:29:12.580
"we thought he might have been the messiah.
00:29:12.580 --> 00:29:15.449
We thought he might have overturned the roman empire.
00:29:15.449 --> 00:29:18.920
We thought he was our hope.
00:29:18.920 --> 00:29:20.721
And now he's dead, buried in a cave."
00:29:20.721 --> 00:29:23.224
Bear: so, then what happens?
00:29:23.224 --> 00:29:24.625
Christine: there's in particular two women,
00:29:24.625 --> 00:29:27.461
And they're the two marys.
00:29:27.461 --> 00:29:29.897
And they couldn't wait for the sabbath to be over,
00:29:29.897 --> 00:29:32.366
Because, of course, you can't go and anoint a body
00:29:32.366 --> 00:29:35.736
On a sabbath, because that's just not done.
00:29:35.736 --> 00:29:38.539
And so, at the first light of sunday,
00:29:38.539 --> 00:29:41.475
First chance they get, they turn up,
00:29:41.475 --> 00:29:44.779
And they're coming to this tomb.
00:29:44.779 --> 00:29:47.415
Bear: so, they're gonna move the stone again and go in.
00:29:47.415 --> 00:29:50.885
Christine: well, on the way, they're having the conversation
00:29:50.885 --> 00:29:52.720
With themselves going, "who's gonna move the stone?"
00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:55.056
And this is where the story gets really wild,
00:29:55.056 --> 00:29:58.459
Because they turn up, the stone, that two tons stone
00:29:58.459 --> 00:30:02.330
Has been moved.
00:30:02.330 --> 00:30:03.931
So, the doorway is open, there is an angel
00:30:03.931 --> 00:30:07.969
Sitting on top of the stone, bright, bright.
00:30:07.969 --> 00:30:11.472
His clothes are shining bright light,
00:30:11.472 --> 00:30:14.442
And he's asking them, "why are you looking
00:30:14.442 --> 00:30:18.980
For the living amongst the dead?"
00:30:18.980 --> 00:30:21.182
And the women are absolutely freaking out.
00:30:21.182 --> 00:30:23.784
Bear: well, where we are in this cave,
00:30:23.784 --> 00:30:25.953
Down the end is a place of death.
00:30:25.953 --> 00:30:29.423
Should we go to the cave entrance?
00:30:29.423 --> 00:30:30.825
Christine: let's go. bear: come on, then.
00:30:30.825 --> 00:30:35.396
Bear: there's something powerful about actually going inside
00:30:36.530 --> 00:30:40.434
This sort of place.
00:30:40.434 --> 00:30:41.836
It really is a place of death.
00:30:41.836 --> 00:30:43.871
It's cold, it's dark, it's where bodies
00:30:43.871 --> 00:30:46.807
Were left sealed to decompose.
00:30:46.807 --> 00:30:49.777
And in any other story, this is where stories end.
00:30:49.777 --> 00:30:55.883
But for me, what is so intriguing,
00:30:55.883 --> 00:30:57.685
So powerful about this journey
00:30:57.685 --> 00:31:00.554
Is that on this rare occasion, the tomb is
00:31:00.554 --> 00:31:04.792
Actually just the beginning.
00:31:04.792 --> 00:31:08.162
So, what?
00:31:08.162 --> 00:31:09.563
They turn up here, and the stone is just gone.
00:31:09.563 --> 00:31:12.166
Christine: gone, and there's an angel
00:31:12.166 --> 00:31:13.567
Sitting on it.
00:31:13.567 --> 00:31:15.036
I mean, you gotta understand how supernatural this is.
00:31:15.036 --> 00:31:17.338
The guards are terrified, because they know
00:31:17.338 --> 00:31:19.907
They're gonna lose their life.
00:31:19.907 --> 00:31:21.342
Bear: why would they lose their lives?
00:31:21.342 --> 00:31:22.743
Christine: if those guards had let jesus
00:31:22.743 --> 00:31:24.412
Somehow get out, you're dead.
00:31:24.412 --> 00:31:27.081
There is no plan b, because they were placed there
00:31:27.081 --> 00:31:29.850
To make sure that that stone stayed there
00:31:29.850 --> 00:31:32.753
And that jesus was in there for this very reason,
00:31:32.753 --> 00:31:35.556
So that when people started coming around, going,
00:31:35.556 --> 00:31:37.258
"see, he was the king, he was the messiah,
00:31:37.258 --> 00:31:40.227
He defeated death," they could say,
00:31:40.227 --> 00:31:41.996
"no, he's dead in that tomb."
00:31:41.996 --> 00:31:45.399
But not only is he not dead, you gotta laugh.
00:31:45.399 --> 00:31:48.536
He even folded, man, his grave clothes,
00:31:48.536 --> 00:31:51.172
And folded them and left them in there
00:31:51.172 --> 00:31:53.407
And said peace out.
00:31:53.407 --> 00:31:54.942
Bear: but do you not think he could have, like,
00:31:54.942 --> 00:31:56.911
Been half dead on the cross and then buried, rested,
00:31:56.911 --> 00:32:01.248
Moved the rock out of the way,
00:32:01.248 --> 00:32:02.950
Folded his clothes, and gone?
00:32:02.950 --> 00:32:05.252
I mean, just being a cynic. well, why not?
00:32:05.252 --> 00:32:07.121
Christine: well, you know, it takes
00:32:07.121 --> 00:32:08.556
A heck of a lot more faith to believe
00:32:08.556 --> 00:32:10.424
That jesus wasn't dead.
00:32:10.424 --> 00:32:11.859
I mean, we are talking roman execution, crucifixion.
00:32:11.859 --> 00:32:16.030
I mean, the most barbaric form of execution ever
00:32:16.030 --> 00:32:19.433
In the history of humanity.
00:32:19.433 --> 00:32:20.868
I mean, after they put the crown of thorn, they nailed
00:32:20.868 --> 00:32:22.770
And hammered his hands and feet to a cross.
00:32:22.770 --> 00:32:25.873
Then they stuck a spear in his side.
00:32:25.873 --> 00:32:28.275
Blood and water's coming out.
00:32:28.275 --> 00:32:30.378
On top of that, the sabbath was coming.
00:32:30.378 --> 00:32:32.480
So, they were going along, breaking everyone's legs
00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:36.250
To make sure they were dead, because you can't have
00:32:36.250 --> 00:32:38.152
A criminal hanging on a cross during the sabbath.
00:32:38.152 --> 00:32:41.122
Well, when they got to jesus, he was already dead,
00:32:41.122 --> 00:32:44.425
To the point that he was the only one
00:32:44.425 --> 00:32:46.060
They didn't even need to break his legs.
00:32:46.060 --> 00:32:47.762
That's how dead he was.
00:32:47.762 --> 00:32:49.163
He was dead, dead, not pretend dead.
00:32:49.163 --> 00:32:51.165
They then take him, they put him in this tomb,
00:32:51.165 --> 00:32:54.235
They roll that stone, they put guards around it,
00:32:54.235 --> 00:32:57.271
'cause they're like, "this guy's not getting out."
00:32:57.271 --> 00:32:59.573
There was no room for error.
00:32:59.573 --> 00:33:01.008
There is not a possibility that jesus wasn't dead.
00:33:01.008 --> 00:33:04.512
Bear: it's funny, little details like that,
00:33:04.512 --> 00:33:08.115
That was always convincing for me.
00:33:08.115 --> 00:33:10.484
Christine: there was no one that was gonna be able
00:33:10.484 --> 00:33:12.319
To bust jesus out.
00:33:12.319 --> 00:33:13.854
Only jesus could bust jesus out.
00:33:13.854 --> 00:33:15.790
Bear: to me it speaks of perfect, meticulous,
00:33:15.790 --> 00:33:20.327
Beautiful, preordained planning, signed, sealed, delivered.
00:33:20.327 --> 00:33:28.102
Christine: well, you know, you've nailed it.
00:33:28.102 --> 00:33:29.670
That's exactly what it is.
00:33:29.670 --> 00:33:31.105
Bear: i find it interesting that you say the first people
00:33:31.105 --> 00:33:33.808
That discovered this were two women.
00:33:33.808 --> 00:33:36.444
Christine: this is a big deal because, you know,
00:33:36.444 --> 00:33:38.312
Back in those times, a woman's testimony
00:33:38.312 --> 00:33:41.615
Was never received in court.
00:33:41.615 --> 00:33:43.451
I mean, she had no rights.
00:33:43.451 --> 00:33:46.787
Totally, yeah, you couldn't have done it.
00:33:46.787 --> 00:33:48.322
So, here we have the resurrection of jesus.
00:33:48.322 --> 00:33:51.459
This is what the whole christian faith
00:33:51.459 --> 00:33:52.993
Is based on, and he entrusts it to the testimony of women.
00:33:52.993 --> 00:33:58.232
I mean, this is wild.
00:33:58.232 --> 00:33:59.667
He totally empowered and dignified women.
00:33:59.667 --> 00:34:02.670
Bear: in a way for me that feels authentic,
00:34:02.670 --> 00:34:05.239
Because it's like you-- it's not what you'd plan
00:34:05.239 --> 00:34:07.975
If you were trying to hoax it.
00:34:07.975 --> 00:34:10.177
Christine: well, that's what i think,
00:34:10.177 --> 00:34:11.579
Because it turns everything on its head,
00:34:11.579 --> 00:34:13.347
'cause you think, "i wouldn't do that,"
00:34:13.347 --> 00:34:14.748
But he did that.
00:34:14.748 --> 00:34:16.217
And then, you know, he's there when the women see him.
00:34:16.217 --> 00:34:19.820
So, they see him for themselves.
00:34:19.820 --> 00:34:21.589
And again, this is a freaky--
00:34:21.589 --> 00:34:23.324
Bear: what do you mean they see him, how?
00:34:23.324 --> 00:34:24.725
Christine: well, they thought he was a gardener.
00:34:24.725 --> 00:34:26.260
So, here the women suddenly spot who they think is a gardener.
00:34:26.260 --> 00:34:30.097
Then he calls them, this is jesus's first word.
00:34:30.097 --> 00:34:33.868
You know, he calls her by her name.
00:34:33.868 --> 00:34:36.437
His first word, the resurrected jesus,
00:34:36.437 --> 00:34:39.340
Is, "woman," and then he's like, "mary."
00:34:39.340 --> 00:34:42.543
As soon as she hears her name with his voice,
00:34:42.543 --> 00:34:46.080
She knows that this thing's real.
00:34:46.080 --> 00:34:48.883
Bear: and then what happens?
00:34:48.883 --> 00:34:50.417
Christine: well, then she's, like, goes to try to grab him,
00:34:50.417 --> 00:34:52.753
And he's like, "no, no, not yet.
00:34:52.753 --> 00:34:54.688
But go and tell the disciples that i'm risen from the dead.
00:34:54.688 --> 00:34:58.926
I am who i said i am."
00:34:58.926 --> 00:35:00.561
So, off the women go to tell everyone.
00:35:00.561 --> 00:35:03.397
Bear: and do they believe the two women?
00:35:03.397 --> 00:35:06.100
Christine: well, you know, not everyone does,
00:35:06.100 --> 00:35:08.102
But, like, thomas is like, "i don't believe this.
00:35:08.102 --> 00:35:10.538
I need to see him.
00:35:10.538 --> 00:35:11.939
I need to touch his hands and his feet."
00:35:11.939 --> 00:35:14.074
Bear: so, then now what's jesus's reaction to that?
00:35:14.074 --> 00:35:15.910
Christine: you know, the amazing thing is
00:35:15.910 --> 00:35:17.311
That jesus then appears to thomas,
00:35:17.311 --> 00:35:18.746
And he goes, "okay, so you wanna see that i'm real?
00:35:18.746 --> 00:35:20.881
Well, here it is."
00:35:20.881 --> 00:35:22.283
Bear: and who else did he then appear to?
00:35:22.283 --> 00:35:23.884
Christine: well, to the disciples,
00:35:23.884 --> 00:35:25.986
To peter, to 500 other people.
00:35:25.986 --> 00:35:29.089
Bear: five hundred? christine: over 500.
00:35:29.089 --> 00:35:31.058
Bear: oh, that's interesting. i didn't know that.
00:35:31.058 --> 00:35:32.960
And where does it-- where does all this then
00:35:32.960 --> 00:35:34.762
Eventually lead the disciples and jesus?
00:35:34.762 --> 00:35:38.065
Christine: well, for that, i think you're gonna have to go
00:35:38.065 --> 00:35:39.800
To galilee.
00:35:39.800 --> 00:35:41.235
Bear: back to galilee.
00:35:41.235 --> 00:35:46.003
Bear: back to galilee.
00:35:46.003 --> 00:35:50.945
Bear: i'm headed back to the place
00:35:51.712 --> 00:35:53.347
Where jesus's ministry began, the shores of galilee.
00:35:53.347 --> 00:35:58.319
This is where jesus called out to his first disciples
00:35:58.319 --> 00:36:01.689
To leave their fishing boats and join his renegade mission.
00:36:01.689 --> 00:36:05.726
And now his friends are back fishing again.
00:36:05.726 --> 00:36:09.530
♪♪♪
00:36:09.530 --> 00:36:16.637
Bear: look at that for a background.
00:36:16.637 --> 00:36:18.038
Yo'el berkowitz: it's fantastic.
00:36:18.038 --> 00:36:19.540
Bear: last time i met yo'el, we talked about the stories
00:36:19.540 --> 00:36:22.009
That jesus told in galilee.
00:36:22.009 --> 00:36:24.211
And now i'm here to explore jesus's last great appearance
00:36:24.211 --> 00:36:27.881
In this region.
00:36:27.881 --> 00:36:29.316
Bear: super cool. look at this.
00:36:29.316 --> 00:36:30.818
Yo'el: well, i thought that a proper galilean breakfast
00:36:30.818 --> 00:36:33.754
Would be suitable.
00:36:33.754 --> 00:36:35.189
Some special grilled fish and bread.
00:36:35.189 --> 00:36:37.925
Bear: yeah, so good.
00:36:37.925 --> 00:36:39.360
Yo'el: and more than that, the food of joy.
00:36:39.360 --> 00:36:43.564
Bear: yeah, come on.
00:36:43.564 --> 00:36:44.999
It's never too early for a glass of wine, is it?
00:36:44.999 --> 00:36:47.034
Yo'el: well, absolutely, especially in israel.
00:36:47.034 --> 00:36:49.703
Bear: why was this breakfast so special?
00:36:49.703 --> 00:36:52.573
Yo'el: well, we read up from the gospels
00:36:52.573 --> 00:36:54.408
Of a fish and bread breakfast that jesus makes
00:36:54.408 --> 00:36:58.545
For his disciples, but you have to remember
00:36:58.545 --> 00:37:01.048
The setting that is going on here
00:37:01.048 --> 00:37:02.449
Before that happens.
00:37:02.449 --> 00:37:03.951
After the crucifixion of jesus, they come back here
00:37:03.951 --> 00:37:07.688
And they go back to being fishermen.
00:37:07.688 --> 00:37:09.390
Bear: what do you think they were thinking
00:37:09.390 --> 00:37:11.625
At this stage?
00:37:11.625 --> 00:37:13.060
Yo'el: it must have been confusing.
00:37:13.060 --> 00:37:14.528
It's like there's a tremendous disconnect.
00:37:14.528 --> 00:37:16.597
The adventure of the past three years
00:37:16.597 --> 00:37:18.299
And the trauma of the crucifixion
00:37:18.299 --> 00:37:21.068
And then the drama of his reappearing to them,
00:37:21.068 --> 00:37:23.971
And then they are back in-- fishing on this lake again.
00:37:23.971 --> 00:37:26.473
There's a real disconnect between there.
00:37:26.473 --> 00:37:28.275
Bear: 'cause they were obviously doubting,
00:37:28.275 --> 00:37:29.877
You know.
00:37:29.877 --> 00:37:31.278
Yo'el: they were back on the boat.
00:37:31.278 --> 00:37:32.713
Bear: they were back on the boat,
00:37:32.713 --> 00:37:34.114
And i like that 'cause i have loads of doubts.
00:37:34.114 --> 00:37:36.717
I really do.
00:37:36.717 --> 00:37:38.118
I have-- i'm, like, such a skeptic often,
00:37:38.118 --> 00:37:41.088
You know, and really struggle with so many things,
00:37:41.088 --> 00:37:45.492
And it's like i need reminding every day.
00:37:45.492 --> 00:37:48.929
Yo'el: and just imagine what it is to fish in this context.
00:37:48.929 --> 00:37:52.466
Throughout the night, you throw your net
00:37:52.466 --> 00:37:54.768
Into the water,
00:37:54.768 --> 00:37:56.170
You're gonna be diving in to retrieve it,
00:37:56.170 --> 00:37:58.505
And doing that again and again until the morning
00:37:58.505 --> 00:38:01.475
And have nothing afterwards is a complete emptiness.
00:38:01.475 --> 00:38:06.080
Does that reflect something of the emptiness
00:38:06.080 --> 00:38:07.815
For the past three years?
00:38:07.815 --> 00:38:09.416
All of that and there's nothing?
00:38:09.416 --> 00:38:11.518
And then there's a guy, there's a man
00:38:11.518 --> 00:38:12.986
Standing on the shore, and he calls out to them,
00:38:12.986 --> 00:38:14.955
"have you caught anything?"
00:38:14.955 --> 00:38:16.657
And they're like, "no."
00:38:16.657 --> 00:38:18.425
And said, "well, throw your net off to the other side
00:38:18.425 --> 00:38:20.794
Of the boat."
00:38:20.794 --> 00:38:22.196
"so, who are you? what are you doing?
00:38:22.196 --> 00:38:23.630
Why are you telling me to do this again?
00:38:23.630 --> 00:38:25.199
Where were you all night?
00:38:25.199 --> 00:38:26.934
You've been sleeping, we've been working,
00:38:26.934 --> 00:38:28.602
And you tell me to throw it again?"
00:38:28.602 --> 00:38:30.137
It says that they did that.
00:38:30.137 --> 00:38:31.538
They threw the net back into the water,
00:38:31.538 --> 00:38:33.307
And then they had this amazing catch, 153 fish.
00:38:33.307 --> 00:38:36.844
They catch everything.
00:38:36.844 --> 00:38:38.278
Big fish all at once.
00:38:38.278 --> 00:38:40.114
Bear: do you think they recognized him,
00:38:40.114 --> 00:38:41.515
Or what happened?
00:38:41.515 --> 00:38:43.016
Yo'el: so, it's at that moment when they catch the fish,
00:38:43.016 --> 00:38:45.953
This tremendous catch, peter, he gets so excited,
00:38:45.953 --> 00:38:50.557
And he jumps into the water, he leaves behind his friends,
00:38:50.557 --> 00:38:53.994
He leaves behind the other students and the fish,
00:38:53.994 --> 00:38:56.330
The big catch is all left behind,
00:38:56.330 --> 00:38:58.198
And he just swims back.
00:38:58.198 --> 00:39:00.634
So, this is where they recognize who it was
00:39:00.634 --> 00:39:02.836
Who gave them that instruction.
00:39:02.836 --> 00:39:04.238
But they didn't know when he told them,
00:39:04.238 --> 00:39:05.906
"throw your nets back in."
00:39:05.906 --> 00:39:07.341
They didn't know. it was just some guy.
00:39:07.341 --> 00:39:09.543
Bear: this meal would have been special,
00:39:09.543 --> 00:39:11.879
You know, 'cause now there's, like, he's here,
00:39:11.879 --> 00:39:16.717
And these guys knew him so well.
00:39:16.717 --> 00:39:18.352
It's not like, is it him?
00:39:18.352 --> 00:39:20.487
Yo'el: peter is the one who is rushing.
00:39:20.487 --> 00:39:21.889
He has this personal need to come face to face,
00:39:21.889 --> 00:39:24.758
'cause he's--
00:39:24.758 --> 00:39:26.193
Bear: 'cause he's-- the last interaction he had
00:39:26.193 --> 00:39:28.829
Was denying him.
00:39:28.829 --> 00:39:30.230
Yo'el: exactly. exactly.
00:39:30.230 --> 00:39:31.865
At the critical moment of need,
00:39:31.865 --> 00:39:34.268
Jesus is in this illegal midnight trial,
00:39:34.268 --> 00:39:38.906
Peter is there, he's denying it.
00:39:38.906 --> 00:39:41.108
"i have nothing to do with that man."
00:39:41.108 --> 00:39:44.211
There is nobody to stand up and say,
00:39:44.211 --> 00:39:47.114
"what you're doing is wrong."
00:39:47.114 --> 00:39:49.616
And peter was the one to do that,
00:39:49.616 --> 00:39:51.585
And he denies him three times in jerusalem.
00:39:51.585 --> 00:39:54.721
Bear: so, what does jesus say?
00:39:54.721 --> 00:39:56.190
Does he say anything to peter now?
00:39:56.190 --> 00:39:58.292
Yo'el: right, so now in this meal
00:39:58.292 --> 00:40:00.727
He recreates that moment,
00:40:00.727 --> 00:40:03.397
And he asked, "do you love me?"
00:40:03.397 --> 00:40:05.466
Out of all things.
00:40:05.466 --> 00:40:07.134
"yes, lord, of course, i love you.
00:40:07.134 --> 00:40:08.902
I surely love you."
00:40:08.902 --> 00:40:10.304
And he repeats this three times.
00:40:10.304 --> 00:40:12.139
"do you love me? do you love me?"
00:40:12.139 --> 00:40:13.740
And peter, he gets offended.
00:40:13.740 --> 00:40:15.809
"of course, i keep telling you yes."
00:40:15.809 --> 00:40:18.278
And jesus response is what's so instructive.
00:40:18.278 --> 00:40:21.148
"you say you love me, take care of my sheep, my flock.
00:40:21.148 --> 00:40:25.085
I need you to feed them, to take care of them."
00:40:25.085 --> 00:40:28.255
Bear: so, who are the sheep?
00:40:28.255 --> 00:40:30.757
Yo'el: it's everybody.
00:40:30.757 --> 00:40:32.159
It's beyond the divisions of jewish, greek, roman,
00:40:32.159 --> 00:40:37.264
Of those time in the 1st century,
00:40:37.264 --> 00:40:38.899
Or today, jewish, arab, greek, whoever we may be.
00:40:38.899 --> 00:40:43.904
It starts in jerusalem.
00:40:43.904 --> 00:40:45.305
It starts with the jewish people,
00:40:45.305 --> 00:40:46.740
But then expands outward to everybody.
00:40:46.740 --> 00:40:49.643
And that is the call that god started from
00:40:49.643 --> 00:40:53.080
In the very beginning.
00:40:53.080 --> 00:40:54.681
Bear: so, i guess what makes this breakfast
00:40:54.681 --> 00:40:56.817
As amazing, is that you're turning
00:40:56.817 --> 00:41:00.787
That moment out there of fishing and despair
00:41:00.787 --> 00:41:04.124
And empty nets and empty hearts and grief into a moment
00:41:04.124 --> 00:41:09.863
Of, like, together, feeding, knowing the almighty quietly
00:41:09.863 --> 00:41:16.336
In here, and then loving each other.
00:41:16.336 --> 00:41:19.640
Yo'el: what's the most important out of all
00:41:19.640 --> 00:41:21.441
Of god's commandments?
00:41:21.441 --> 00:41:23.010
Love the lord your god with your whole being.
00:41:23.010 --> 00:41:25.946
And the second is like it, love your neighbor as yourself.
00:41:25.946 --> 00:41:29.049
Peter is given that opportunity to correct his wrong,
00:41:29.049 --> 00:41:32.486
To be restored.
00:41:32.486 --> 00:41:34.688
"yes, you say you love me.
00:41:34.688 --> 00:41:36.356
Show me by what you do to them, to my people whom i care about."
00:41:36.356 --> 00:41:41.562
Bear: loving each other, that i like.
00:41:41.562 --> 00:41:43.564
Yo'el: yeah, absolutely. absolutely.
00:41:43.564 --> 00:41:45.999
Bear: well, i'll drink to that.
00:41:45.999 --> 00:41:47.701
Come on, let's break some of this bread.
00:41:47.701 --> 00:41:51.071
Yo'el: thank you.
00:41:51.071 --> 00:41:52.506
Bear: when i look back at this journey,
00:41:52.506 --> 00:41:54.207
It seemed so clear.
00:41:54.207 --> 00:41:56.376
Every miracle, every table turned,
00:41:56.376 --> 00:41:59.413
Every wound suffered, everything jesus did
00:41:59.413 --> 00:42:03.483
Was an act of love, even his coming to earth.
00:42:03.483 --> 00:42:08.555
One of jesus's closest friends, john, famously said that
00:42:08.555 --> 00:42:12.659
God so loved the world, he sent jesus, his only son.
00:42:12.659 --> 00:42:18.031
♪♪♪
00:42:18.031 --> 00:42:23.837
Bear: i've realized the message of jesus
00:42:23.837 --> 00:42:26.740
Is all about love.
00:42:26.740 --> 00:42:28.575
It always was and it always will be,
00:42:28.575 --> 00:42:33.246
And his life was never gonna be the end.
00:42:33.246 --> 00:42:37.684
It's really the beginning.
00:42:37.684 --> 00:42:41.455
The jesus story reaches its epic high point
00:42:41.455 --> 00:42:44.791
Near this spot at the mount of olives.
00:42:44.791 --> 00:42:47.694
In a final show of divinity, jesus ascends into the heavens
00:42:47.694 --> 00:42:52.432
While his friends and followers watch.
00:42:52.432 --> 00:42:55.369
That's where he commissions them with an all new mission.
00:42:55.369 --> 00:42:59.706
Go into all the world to tell his story,
00:42:59.706 --> 00:43:03.076
A story of bold humility and radical love
00:43:03.076 --> 00:43:07.481
Where blind eyes see, the lame walk,
00:43:07.481 --> 00:43:11.284
And the dead rise again.
00:43:11.284 --> 00:43:14.054
He called this the good news.
00:43:14.054 --> 00:43:16.723
And to me, that's exactly what this is.
00:43:16.723 --> 00:43:22.829
Jesus's friends would take this news
00:43:22.829 --> 00:43:25.232
Beyond jerusalem, to turkey, greece, rome, and the far east,
00:43:25.232 --> 00:43:31.171
Across oceans and across centuries.
00:43:31.171 --> 00:43:34.675
Now they were the refugees, hunted down
00:43:34.675 --> 00:43:37.477
By religious and political enemies.
00:43:37.477 --> 00:43:40.580
They were renegades upending
00:43:40.580 --> 00:43:42.416
The world's most oppressive powers.
00:43:42.416 --> 00:43:45.452
They followed the path of jesus, the great redeemer,
00:43:45.452 --> 00:43:50.090
Most of them giving their very lives.
00:43:50.090 --> 00:43:54.461
It's a story that continues to this very day,
00:43:54.461 --> 00:43:58.865
But i'll save that for another adventure.
00:43:58.865 --> 00:44:03.603
♪♪♪
00:44:03.603 --> 00:44:03.603

Bear Grylls: The Passion Week | Jesus: Refugee, Renegade, Redeemer

January 29, 2025 | S1:E5

Closed captions

Share