1. Pain and suffering; it can feel like punishment from an angry God, and we try to figure out the cause, to our own frustration.
  2. Waiting on God can seem like slow motion torture sometimes.
  3. Judas, Peter, and you are all betrayers of Jesus, and yet He does the work necessary to forgive your sins.
  4. Peter's profound promises to perfectly protect the progeny of the Padre putter out. Jesus is tormented to His core knowing what He is about to face, but commits Himself for you.
  5. The day of Jesus' death races ever nearer, and we see both a woman who believes upon Him and a man who betrays Him.
  6. When God changed Jacob’s name to Israel, thereafter his story was linked into as God’s story. Psalm 8 speaks of the human being, as humanity, but also of Christ.
  7. One at the right hand, and one on the left . . . but Jesus doesn't think that means what they think it means.
  8. This episode deals with the problem of divine threats.