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and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered together and led Him into their council, saying,
the word of the Lord, how He had said to 67 “If You are the Christ, tell us.”
him, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny But He said to them, “If I tell you, you will
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Me three times.” So Peter went out and by no means believe. And if I also ask you,
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wept bitterly. you will by no means answer Me or let Me go.
63 Now the men who held Jesus mocked Him 69 Hereafter the Son of Man will sit on the right
and beat Him. And having blindfolded Him, hand of the power of God.”
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they struck Him on the face and asked Him, 70 Then they all said, “Are You then the Son
saying, “Prophesy! Who is the one who struck of God?”
You?” And many other things they blasphe- So He said to them, “You rightly say that I am.”
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mously spoke against Him. 71 And they said, “What further testimony do
66 As soon as it was day, the elders of the peo- we need? For we have heard it ourselves from
ple, both chief priests and scribes, came His own mouth.”
DAY 5:Why was Saul judged so severely?
When Saul was anointed king by Samuel,Saul was commanded to wait 7 days to meet Samuel
in Gilgal.Samuel would offer burnt offerings and peace offerings,and he would show Saul what he
should do (1 Sam.10:8).After 7 days of waiting and Samuel had not come, the people were scattered
(1 Sam.13:8).Saul’s men were deserting him because of anxiety and fear over the coming battle.
Rather than continue to wait,Saul “offered the burnt offering”(v.9).Saul’s sin was not specifically
that he made a sacrifice (see 2 Sam.24:25;1 Kin.8:62–64),but that he did not wait for priestly assistance
from Samuel. He wished to rule as an autocrat, who possessed absolute power in civil and sacred
matters. Samuel had waited the 7 days as a test of Saul’s character and obedience to God, but Saul
failed it by invading the priestly office himself.
Confronted by Samuel, Saul’s response was “When I saw…”(v. 11). Saul reacted disobediently
based upon what he saw and not by faith. He feared losing his men and did not properly consider
what God would have him do.Consequently,Samuel places the responsibility fully on Saul’s shoulders:
“You have not kept the commandment” (v. 13). “Now your kingdom shall not continue” (v. 14).
Instead of Saul,God was going to choose one whose heart was like His own,i.e.,one who had a will
to obey God. Paul quotes this passage in Acts 13:22 of David. Someone else, namely David, had
already been chosen to be God’s leader over His people.

6 Then Jonathan said to the young man who
May 6 bore his armor, “Come, let us go over to the
garrison of these uncircumcised; it may be that
the LORD will work for us. For nothing restrains
the LORD from saving by many or by few.”
1 Samuel 14:1–15:35 7 So his armorbearer said to him, “Do all that
Now it happened one day that Jonathan is in your heart. Go then; here I am with you,
14 the son of Saul said to the young man who according to your heart.”
bore his armor, “Come, let us go over to the 8 Then Jonathan said, “Very well, let us cross
Philistines’ garrison that is on the other side.” over to these men, and we will show ourselves
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But he did not tell his father. And Saul was sit- to them. If they say thus to us, ‘Wait until we
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ting in the outskirts of Gibeah under a pome- come to you,’ then we will stand still in our
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granate tree which is in Migron. The people place and not go up to them. But if they say
who were with him were about six hundred men. thus, ‘Come up to us,’ then we will go up. For
Ahijah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother,
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the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD’s and this will be a sign to us.”
priest in Shiloh, was wearing an ephod. But the 11 So both of them showed themselves to the
people did not know that Jonathan had gone. garrison of the Philistines. And the Philistines
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Between the passes, by which Jonathan said, “Look, the Hebrews are coming out of the
sought to go over to the Philistines’ garrison, holes where they have hidden.” Then the men
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there was a sharp rock on one side and a sharp of the garrison called to Jonathan and his
rock on the other side. And the name of one was armorbearer, and said, “Come up to us, and we
Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh. The will show you something.”
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front of one faced northward opposite Mich- Jonathan said to his armorbearer, “Come up
mash, and the other southward opposite Gibeah. after me, for the LORD has delivered them into
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