<TITLE>08. Par 65-74</TITLE>L-65 And you don't see believers and unbelievers together, unless there's some kind of a purpose for it. There is something--something wrong. This guy had a trick up his sleeve. He wanted to play it on Jesus.

L-66   Now, you take people, like you take young people, young teen-age children, they don't like to be around with the old folks, because they--they have things in common. The young married couples, they have things in common. The old people, they don't want to be around the kids so much. They--they got things in common.

L-67 When you see a little girl hanging with grandma all the time, now, there is--there is something wrong there. There's too much difference in their age. She is either grandma's pet, or grandma's got a sack of candy somewhere. See? There, there's a--there's a trick somewhere. I got a grandchild, myself, and I know. There's a little trick somewhere. See? And you see her hanging around grandma, grandma has got a--a sack of candy or something.
So this Pharisee had something up his sleeve.

L-68   It all happened at a ministerial meeting where they gather together. And the subject was discussed about this Fellow Who called Himself a prophet. And they didn't believe He was a prophet. Because, they couldn't see a man, that wouldn't go along with them, all their doctrine, that could be a prophet. And so, in this ministerial meeting, they had decided that He wasn't a prophet.

L-69 And this old Pharisee was going to prove it to them, that He wasn't a prophet. The Pharisee was going to--to--to make it sure, and to show the congregation, all the people in that city, that He wasn't a prophet, before He ever visit the city. He had never been in that city before. So, before He come, he was going to expose Him. Oh, that spirit, it still lives. Going to expose It, do something to hinder the meeting that He would have had there.

L-70   So we find out that he said, "I'll make a dinner, and I'll invite everybody, and get everybody in the city, around. And then we'll prove that he's not no prophet. We'll prove it."

L-71 So, Pharisee might have thought that, in doing this, he would have--he would have got a little... maybe become, after while, one of the presbyters, or something. He'd have--he'd have... He'd really made a hit with his group. He was going to make fun, at the banquet, of the Lord Jesus, to prove that He wasn't a prophet, do put Him on the spot somewhere. Then he would be a big fellow among them, become some great man.

L-72   Now, we find out that the courier returns back and tells his master, "I found him. He promised. And he'll be here, because I just tell the way he acted. He, He'll be here." All right.

L-73 Now, the Pharisee waited for this certain time. And they knowed when to make this banquet, when everything was just right. Perhaps we'll think, in our little drama tonight, that--that he made it in a time when the grapes was ripe. If you was ever in Palestine when grape time, or even California, when them great big clusters of grapes are just bleeding, ripe, the whole country, the valley is just full of--of that sweet-smelling odor from those grapes. He knowed just when to make it right. So, he set that time, on a certain day they would have this feast.

L-74   Till, finally, the time come, was when the feast was going to be carried on. And he invited everybody to come, that he could, to come up, all the celebrity, and all the associations, and so forth, and all the clubs that was in the city, that he belonged to. They was all coming out to his great, fine palace. It set out high, stood out as an estate there in the city. And the time arrived for this to be done. Course, the yard was all taken care of, and the tables were all set, and the banquet room ready.


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