Witnesses to the atonement – biased, hostile, and independent. An unfair trial. Who shall I send? The slow grind that was the crucifixion. Making olives from oil. A temple on Golgotha. The detail in the garment.
Link to the description of what Christ suffered on the cross:
https://www.apu.edu/articles/the-science-of-the-crucifixion/
[00:00:15] Jason: Welcome to the weekly Deep Dive podcast on the Add on education network. The podcast where we take a look at the weekly come follow me discussion and try to add a little insight and unique perspective. I am your host Jason Lloyd, here in the studio with our friend and this show’s producer, Nate Pyfer.
[00:00:32] Nate: Wow, nice. Yeah, it was a really hard r at the end of Pyfer. A little aggressive on the aggressive ‘r’ there. “Er”, okay. But it is me though.
It was not a mispronunciation.
[00:00:44] Jason: No. You are here.
[00:00:46] Nate: I am here.
[00:00:47] Jason: We are in the studio.
[00:00:48] Nate: Let’s do this.
[00:00:49] Jason: Nate, do you have a lot of snacks? You ready to go?
[00:00:54] Nate: I actually do. I’ve got my almonds.
[00:00:56] Jason: Okay.
[00:00:57] Nate: I’ve got my fresca.
[00:00:59] Jason: Because all I’m saying is, are we.
[00:01:01] Nate: Going to be a burner tonight? Barn burner?
[00:01:03] Jason: We might be here a while. Okay.
I can’t promise we’re going to get this one done on time. There’s just a lot to cover and I’m super excited to get into it.
[00:01:10] Nate: I do appreciate you giving me and everybody listening, a fair heads up warning, tonight’s going to be a barn burner.
[00:01:18] Jason: I mean, all throughout the Old Testament, as we were talking about the scriptures, it seemed like everything revolved around the Atonement. And we are here. I was very excited. We talked about Gethsemane last week and I feel like there’s a lot of depth there. But we’re getting to the culminating event and Christ on the cross and I can’t tell you how I don’t even know if excited is the right word. Right. There’s a lot of emotion that comes with this. There’s some gravity to it, there’s some reverence that’s involved, there’s some excitement.
[00:01:51] Nate: It feels like we’ve been building a lot of this towards this episode.
[00:01:56] Jason: Yeah.
[00:01:58] Nate: I don’t think that being excited takes away from any of the reverence of it. I can say that we are definitely not going to be having kind of the usual hijinks, you know what I mean? Like Amy Grant’s not going to be making an appearance.
I know, but part of it is we do have a lot of content to talk about tonight and there is definitely an excitement to get to really discuss this incredible universal event, but it definitely will not carry the same.
It’s going to be taken very hopefully, reverently.
It’ll be fun, but it’ll still be fun.
[00:02:40] Jason: Well, and and we’ll start off I’ll start painting with broad strokes and and we’ll go in kind of 1000 foot view and as we start going into some of these details, we’ll get into a little bit more. But to start us off, if I were to talk about sitting in court, right? And I needed somebody to come witness, bear witness about what I have done or haven’t done to try to get me off the hook.
And I think about the weight of the witness that’s coming. If it’s my wife or if it’s my mom and they love me and they’d lie for me or do anything for me and they wouldn’t. I mean, they’re honest people. But you can see that when you have a witness that’s a friendly witness, we’ll say it might not bear the same weight as, say, a hostile witness. If I have somebody that absolutely hates me and has gone on record a...
