I don't know what they disturb my ideas. They change the way they are. You typed it during the class. Yeah. I think it's all given a follow-up class. You didn't start the program. No, no, no, no, I started it. Alright, welcome back. We'll continue the class. Jefina has posted a question here which I wanted to see before the break. So yeah, why were palm branches used to greet Jesus when he was coming in? This was palm branches symbolized victory in the ancient world when a victorious king would come back from battle in fact. I know they would meet him even as he's entering the gates of the city. They would meet him with palm branches to signify that he has won a great victory and now he's walking back bringing a lot of wealth from the enemy, bringing a lot of slaves from the enemy. So it is a time of celebration and the palm branches were supposed to represent that. So when Jesus is making his entry here into Jerusalem they are anticipating a great victory over the Romans. So when they are waving those palm branches they are declaring and saying oh this Roman rule is now going to be over very soon, our king is going to liberate us and so they are so disappointed when Jesus does not turn out to be the savior that they wanted him to be. So which is why they turn against him so easily. Their political ambitions were shattered. So palm branches mainly symbolized victory in battle and so they're associated with royalty, with warfare, with victory and all of that. Any other questions if anyone has you can post it or you can just you know unmute and also ask. Before the break we were looking at a couple of references from Isaiah which talk about how certain people will not be receptive to what the Messiah wishes to bring to them and yeah. So we looked at one verse which was mentioned in John 12 38. There's another verse also mentioned which is in verse 40 and 41. If someone could please read out that just verses 40 and 41. It is significant what is being mentioned over there 40 and 41.  These things Isaiah said when he saw his glory and spoke of him. Now look at the context of this Jesus says the light is still there I'm still here believe in me and some people who have seen the signs he has performed they choose not to believe and he goes away he hides himself from them and why does he hide from them and no longer pursue them because the words of the prophet Isaiah are being fulfilled. So the Lord has revealed his arm to these people and they refuse to believe it. Now that is a reference to Isaiah 52 10. In Isaiah 52 10 this is what it says the Lord will lay bare his holy arm in the sight of all the nations and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God in the Old Testament wherever you have the term arm the arm of the Lord the right hand of God these are basically metaphors symbolizing the strength of God. So if I were to say the arm of that King is strong it's basically me declaring and saying oh that he's very victorious in battle so the arm basically the arm the right hand these are terms which symbolize our victory so the Lord he lays bare his holy arm he reveals how powerful he is how victorious and triumphant he is for all the nations to see that's exactly what Jesus was doing you know for the for the for three years while he was in Israel he was demonstrating he was laying bare his holy arm and showing look I have come in triumph and victory I'm defeating sickness I'm defeating sin I'm you know turning people to righteousness and there are greater things to come the kingdom of heaven is near all of this he is saying and the people rather than bowing down and worshiping many of them are turning against him and why are they turning against him that is explained in the other prophecy in the from the book of Isaiah which is mentioned over here in our verse 40 where it says he has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts so that so that they neither see with their eyes nor understand with their hearts nor turn and I would heal them so if they were willing to turn then I would heal them but because they are not willing to turn God has chosen to harden them because they have chosen to be hard hearted God has cooperated and made them even more hardened in their hearts okay so now the interesting thing is what is mentioned in verse 41 it says Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus glory and spoke about him so it seems to indicate over here that Isaiah saw Jesus glory when these words were conveyed where exactly are these words taken from these words are actually you know he has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts this is a verse which is from Isaiah chapter 6 Isaiah chapter 6 is that very famous chapter where Isaiah sees the Lord seated on the throne you know in the temple and it says that even as the angels are crying out holy the temple is shaking because of their cries of worship so that is the setting and it says Isaiah it says over here Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus glory when he saw the the Lord seated on the throne he saw the Trinitarian God he not just saw the God the Father he actually sees Jesus on that throne he sees the Trinitarian God on that throne and the words are actually spoken by God himself over there if you go to Isaiah 6 the Lord says you know that the people's hearts will be hardened their eyes will not see I am going to do this to them because you know they have chosen to to not accept me not obey me not repent of their sins and so he speaks words against them and then Isaiah says how long should I keep proclaiming this negative message of judgment Lord and then the Lord says until all the cities have become empty you know because judgment is going to come upon this nation because they are not submitting to me and then in the last verse over there in Isaiah 6 in verse 13 he says you know the the land will be laid waste but there'll be one stump which is left you know like when you cut off a oak tree and only that stump of the tree is left out of that stump a new sapling sapling grows a small new plant begins to grow out of that old stump and so God says seated on his throne he says the land will be laid waste all these people who are nowhere with hardened hearts they will all you know come under judgment but there will be one holy sea one small remnant of people who will be willing to place their faith in me and return to me and submit to me and that remnant they will be like the holy seed that is coming out of the stump you know and so over here in verse 42 you know in John chapter 12 verse 42 it says yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him so there is a small remnant that is choosing to place its faith in Jesus even though the rest of the nation you know chooses to turn against him and these are at the moment secret believers because it goes on to say they have not openly acknowledged their faith for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue and it says in a negative way it says in verse 43 for they loved human praise more than praise from God you know so these are the hidden believers and because they want to continue being praised by humans they choose not to honor God and Nicodemus in fact is one of them he has not yet revealed that he is a follower of Jesus because in John chapter 7 we saw right the Pharisees they they say oh have any of the rulers or any of the Pharisees believed in him no it's only the purish people who are believing in him is what they say and Nicodemus is sitting right there and he tries to defend Jesus and they turn on him so at that time they're not even aware that he has become a follower of Jesus so Nicodemus and some others have placed their faith in Jesus but they're not openly acknowledging it because they love human praise more than the praise of God but later we see Nicodemus after the crucifixion of Jesus now when it's no more you know it seems pointless to even be taking sides with Jesus at that time he comes forward and even though he thinks that Jesus is dead he chooses to be identified with Jesus he brings spices to lay on his body and to honor him so I think at that point he reveals himself to be a true follower where he feels that nothing more is to be gained because Jesus is dead but he still steps forward to identify himself with with his master you know who has been crucified so I think at that time the true followers the genuine followers are shown and revealed you know at that time so now should we say that it is wrong for anyone to remain a secret believer should everyone openly acknowledge that they are followers of Christ what about people who are living in the Muslim countries you know where you will be killed for your faith in Jesus what about the secret believers in China should we say that those people are hiding their faith in Jesus because they love human praise more than the praise of God no because you know for them it's a matter of life and death here these people are hesitating to acknowledge their faith because they don't want to be put out of the synagogue they don't want to be excommunicated but today we are living in a world where a person can just be killed you know because of their faith and so there are people in countries who choose to keep their faith in the Lord a secret but one thing is required verse 47 it says if anyone hears my words but does not keep them I do not judge that person the words which I have spoken if he says in the Lord says in verse 48 the very words I have spoken will condemn them so it is maybe alright for a person to be a secret believer but they must be true followers who are hearing the words of Jesus and keeping them then that would make them true believers so they may not be in a position to openly acknowledge and say I am a follower of Christ they may need to stay hidden because otherwise they would be killed outright but there should be people who are hearing his words and keeping them because that is the sign of a true believer yeah so maybe we'll just move into John chapter 13 where we will try to cover up to verse 30 because verse 31 onwards is where Jesus starts his final teachings you know just before his crucifixion he wants to prepare his disciples so he imparts some very very important teachings to them verse 31 onwards today we will only stop with verse 30 so John chapter 13 begins with this event where Jesus washes the feet of his disciples maybe we could just read verse 3 onwards so maybe we could read out verse 3 up to verse 7 verse 3 Jesus knowing that the father had given all things into his hands and that he had come from God and was going to God rose from supper and laid aside his garments took a towel and girded himself after that he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples feet and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded then he came to Simon Peter and Peter said to him Lord are you washing my feet Jesus answered and said to him what I am doing you do not understand now but you will know after this yeah um yeah before we get into this passage Jefina has raised a hand you can go ahead with your question So I have questions from the previous chapter from John in verse 34 we see the people answered them we have heard from the Lord of Christ in minus four levels how can we say the Son of Man must be lifted up so there I think who in this Son of Man I have a quite a doubt in this because I am in my personal studies I am reading SAGIL and we see SAGIL you have called us Son of Man over there God calls us Son of Man so I actually wanted to ask this question for a long time then we say Son of God it makes sense Jesus is the Son of God so what the Son of Man film actually signifies overall level of Bible that's one of my questions and I also want to know the reference where it says Christ in minus four level you say Daniel Okay the question that Jefina has raised is regarding the term Son of Man you know which was used in the previous chapter Jesus says when I am lifted up I will draw all people to myself and so with regard to that they say who is the Son of Man that you are talking about because the Messiah is supposed to live for ever all right so Jefina's question was even Ezekiel is also referred to as the Son of Man so how should we understand this term Son of Man because obviously when Ezekiel was called Son of Man he was not referring to him as Messiah on the other hand in Daniel 7 where it refer where where the term Son of Man is used very specifically over there it talks about a divine Son of Man because over there God says he will appoint this Son of Man as the judge and king who will judge and rule over all the nations okay so here it's talking about a divine king in Daniel 7 so the answer to that would be when Ezekiel is referred to as a Son of Man it's just talking about his helplessness his sheer humanity his utter and total dependence on God it's being used as a term of weakness but in Daniel 7 when it speaks of the Son of Man that Son of Man is talked about as a ruler whom God himself has appointed and anointed you know to be to be the ruler over all nations so there is a great difference so when Ezekiel was called Son of Man he would definitely not have thought in terms of any kind of divinity all right so the term is used in two different ways and these people who raise this question and they ask oh the Messiah is supposed to live forever and you're talking about being lifted up you're talking about dying so what kind of a Son of Man are you when they ask that question they are they have understood that Jesus is referring to himself as the Daniel 7 Son of Man the divine king and he's not really referring to himself in the Ezekiel sense of the term all right so in Daniel 7 it does talk about a divine Messiah who will be a ruler in Ezekiel it only talks about a helpless and weak human Son of Man in that sense so Jesus whenever he uses the term is always indicating Daniel 7 so he wishes to indicate that he is the Son of God but he's also the one who was promised in the Old Testament so he uses the term in that sense all right coming back to this passage which we were kind of getting into Jesus it says in verse chapter 13 verse 3 it says Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power so fully knowing his power fully knowing his authority fully knowing who he is that he is the Almighty One that he is part of the Trinity having understood these things he gets down on his knees to start washing the feet of the disciples he is not doing this because he is humble and downtrodden and oppressed and helpless he is doing it as king is doing it as God is doing it having all authority and power and knowing fully what his status is so here it's very very clearly being indicated to us that service does not mean something low it does not mean something that is very no very base rather service is something that is a characteristic of divinity service is something so high and valuable that the divine God who is fully aware of his power chooses to do it you know which is why he says the rulers of the world you know they regard that you know showing their authority and superiority is what makes them powerful but he says I have come to show you something else that actually serving serving someone that is actually authority and power you know so Jesus presents a different perspective of what power is of what authority is and he so having understood his status he chooses to serve and he says you know you should be following this example so rather than lording it over others you would be people who serve others and this is not just a sign this is not a sign of humiliation rather in fact it shows that you do have power and authority in me all right so that's the that's the learning that Jesus wants to bring out to them so having understood who he is his status his power he chooses to perform this act and so for the disciples this is something very shocking they have only understood lordship as you know bossing over people they have not understood it as service and so here Peter objects and he says Lord are you washing my feet and in the Greek the way the wording is phrased it brings out the significance of what Peter is saying so if we were to translate the Greek wording literally into English this is how it would sound Lord you of mine washing the feet no I mean maybe you were doing a little translation that's basically how it comes out Lord you of mine washing the feet no so you and me are contrasted over here you are Lord you are master you are the messiah that we were you know waiting for me I'm just the disciple and my feet you are washing you know so there's a sheer contrast the master is not supposed to be doing such things it's the disciple who is supposed to be doing such things and why is the master doing it so he very clearly brings out in this question the shock value of what is being done over here is unable to understand why a master would do that and then Jesus says what I am doing you do not understand now but you will know after this okay then this is Peter's response he says you shall never wash my feet and Jesus answers and says if I do not wash you you have no part with me unless I wash your feet you cannot even have any part with me you cannot be you know even my disciple or part of my family and then in response Peter says Lord not my feet only but also my hands and my head because if that is what's going to make me a part of you then I'd rather that you know that you don't just wash my feet I wish you would just wash you know even my hands and my head is his response because he really wants to be a part of this Jesus he wants to be a part of his life you know so so here is the statement that Jesus makes he says if I do not wash you you have no part with me now all religions basically teach that humans they serve the gods that they have created they go to them they worship them they offer things to these gods they do all of that because they are reaching out to these gods to win their favor to somehow make those gods accept them and grant them what they want but that really doesn't work because these gods are so substandard that they need to receive something from humans you know which will make them feel good so these are very substandard gods that these humans have created for themselves the living god on the other hand what can man ever give to him I mean what can humans ever offer to him that would in some way elevate him he is already the almighty one he is completely other you know that word holy literally means set apart he's completely set apart what can a mere human give him that would make him maybe better or feel better about himself or make him more superior or make him more or you know increase his status in any way so he the almighty one he chooses to reach out to humans and do something for them and they can never really do anything for him so human religions have it all wrong they think that they can win the favor of the gods by offering something to those gods and pleasing them in some way but the almighty one says you humans have nothing to offer me I am the one in all my superiority who can offer something to you and then once we have received from him you know what he is offering the salvation the eternal life that he is offering out of gratitude we begin to serve him so the service in no way you know which we are offering in no way is being offered to earn something no he could never offer him something of so much value that you know we earn something from him we are nothing so we come to him hands completely empty and we admit to him lord we are nothing we have nothing to offer you are the almighty one you are the one who has everything and we come with empty hands acknowledging our sheer helplessness and our simpleness and we are grateful for what you have to offer so in the religions of the world the people are going and saying you know I'm going to be giving you this many kilograms of gold and they think that by giving these gods that gold they are earning his favor especially in our country we have politicians who go to the temples and with the great pride they offer kilograms of gold to these to these deities to win the elections they hope that the deities will give them success in the elections if they give the gold so the human religions basically feel that they can offer something to these gods of value which will somehow elevate their status but the living god says there's nothing that you can you can offer me so which is why Jesus was never really happy with the Pharisees the Pharisee the Pharisee attitude was we oh lord are keeping all these rules and regulations we have we are now worthy of being your followers so even as we come to you and offer our tithes and offer all our ceremonies to you accept us but Jesus was saying acknowledge that you are nothing admit that you are sinful admit that you're totally helpless and that you have nothing to offer come to me in that state admitting that you are nothing and that I you know am everything and only I can provide something to you so come to me with empty hands and they were not willing to do that they were very proud about who they were and what they have to offer and that cannot really lead to a relationship so here Jesus is saying to Peter you can give me nothing I the master I need to wash you if I serve you then you can be a part of me and then out of gratitude you can choose to begin serving me and Peter not having fully understood what Jesus is saying he says oh lord if you wash me that's the only way I can be a part of you then please lord even my head even my hands you know wash even that and then Jesus says he who has bathed needs only to wash his feet but is completely clean and you are clean but not all of you for he knew who would betray him therefore he said you are not all clean now when what is Jesus indicating over here what exactly is Jesus talking about um John 15 3 you know explains that to us even as we you know even as we would be covering that next class um in John 15 3 Jesus says to them you are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you these believers these disciples they believed everything that Jesus spoke to them they accepted it they submitted to it and by doing that the word cleaned them they because they accepted his word his word worked in their lives and it cleaned them um we have the same thing even in John chapter 6 uh verses 63 and 64 where Jesus says the words I have spoken to you they are full of the spirit and life and um he goes on to say yet there are some of you who do not believe so those who have believed they have received the words which are full of spirit and of life and those words have cleansed them so these Peter and these other disciples who have believed in his word and they have submitted to it and they have chosen to obey it they have been made clean by the word of God and so Jesus says to them because you have trusted in me you have already been made clean and so now all you need to do is continue to come to me for regular cleansing your um so when any unconfessed sins are there we come to the Lord and we confess and he forgives us of them so we are already clean it's just that we need to continue coming to him for um you know uh to maintain that relationship with him uh to to to to continue enjoying the sanctification that he is granting us on a regular basis you know so that's the reason that we come to him uh so uh so so Jesus brings out this principle and then he goes on to say um in maybe we could read out verses 12 to 17 if someone could please read out verses 12 to 17 so when he had washed their feet taken his garments and sat down again he said to them do you know what I have done to you you call me teacher and Lord and you say well for so I am if I then your Lord and teacher have washed your feet you also ought to wash one another's feet for I have given you an example that you should do as I have done to you most assuredly I say to you a servant is not greater than his master nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him if you know these things blessed are you if you do them in yes so here the Lord says um now that I your Lord and teacher have washed your feet you also should wash one another's feet just in the earlier passage Jesus made it very clear it's not just talking about a physical washing it's also talking about a spiritual washing so what is he uh you know indicating over here uh yes the people these disciples of his should help each other you know serve each other but there's also a spiritual meaning um not only would they be physically serving each other and helping each other in a spiritual sense they should build each other up and help one another you know in in in serving him and maintaining their spirituality um the uh we could we could say Galatians 6 1 to 2 brings out this very clearly it says over there in Galatians 6 1 to 2 brothers and sisters if someone is caught in a sin you who live by the spirit should restore that person gently in other words they are washing the that person you know helping that person uh get back on his feet and you know to be cleansed of the sin in which yes he is caught so it says brothers and sisters if someone is caught in a sin you who live by the spirit should restore that person gently but watch yourselves or you also may be tempted and then in verse 2 it says uh Galatians 6 verse 2 carry each other's burdens and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ so here when Jesus says you also should wash one another's feet there are two things that he's talking about first is physical service where you choose to serve the other brothers and sisters you choose to help them in their time of need you are there for them physically but in a spiritual sense also you carry each other's burdens you help one another stay true to the Lord to continue growing in God so we have a spiritual responsibility towards each other we also have the physical responsibility of being there for people when they require help so in both of these senses we are supposed to be there for one another so if someone reduces this teaching to the you know simple act of physically washing feet in a ceremony it kind of deprives this command of its true meaning you know because people make much about the ceremony of feet washing which is good because it's a very you know powerful symbol but we need to go beyond just that symbol it is easy to you know put on gloves you know take some clean water and that person who is sitting over there obviously has clean feet and you know just go through the ceremony of washing but what about when that person is in a time of need are we willing to make the sacrifices needed you know and invest our time in helping that person are we willing to you know take money out of our pockets and you know assist that time in their assist that person in their time of need if we see that person struggling in their spiritual work are we willing to take the time to sit with them and talk to them and encourage them and build them up with the faith those things will involve a more literal washing one another's feet than just the ceremony the ceremony is easy you know but what Jesus is asking for over here is actual service the way he served his disciples so we should go beyond just the physical act of you know washing feet and we should be there for people physically we should also be there for them spiritually so this would actually fulfill the you know command which Jesus is giving over here and that is why Jesus says in verse 17 now that you know these things you will be blessed if you do them so we are not blessed by just knowing about these things we are blessed when we act out these things in our everyday lives so it's a question that we would need to ask ourselves am I there physically for people when they are in a time of need and they require help am I there for them spiritually to build them up to support them in their Christian walk if I am doing that then yes I'm actually washing their feet I am fulfilling the command which the Lord laid down and the Lord would be very pleased with us you know when we follow this command in this manner all right we have about 10 minutes left so maybe we could just very quickly look at this portion where now Jesus starts talking about this person who will betray him so Jesus says to Peter you are clean but not all of you okay so he refers to Judas who is going to betray him and it says in verse 21 where Jesus says very truly I tell you one of you is going to betray me so in verse 22 the disciples are very surprised to know they do not know whom Jesus is talking about so it says his disciples stared at one another at a loss to know which of them he meant and then in verse 26 Jesus says it is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish then dipping the piece of bread he gave it to Judas the son of Simon is carried and then it says in verse 27 as soon as Judas took the bread Satan entered into him so this whole thing about taking the bread dipping it and giving it it all sounds so much like the you know celebration of the Lord's table these are all words terminologies that we use when we are talking about the Holy Communion so if we were to you know just quickly turn to Matthew chapter 26 verses 21 to 28 where this same you know event is being described there in Matthew 26 verse 22 you know it says when the people when the disciples hear that you know someone is going to betray Jesus it says they were very sad and began to say to him one after the other surely you don't mean me oh Lord you know and then when it comes to Judas turn he also says the same words that is in Matthew 26 verse 25 then Judas the one who would betray him said surely you don't mean me Rabbi you know so they all say this and over there Jesus says in verse 23 the one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me will betray me so here in the John passage it says the one to whom I dip the bread and give he is the one who will betray in Matthew 26 verse 26 it very specifically says Jesus took bread and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to his disciples saying take and eat this is my body and in John that is what in the book of John that is what Jesus is doing for Judas is carry it is dipping the bread giving it to him no almost like almost like as if he is saying take and eat this is my body and in verse 27 it says as soon as Judas took the bread Satan entered into him because you see he has not taken that bread with the right attitude what has happened for the other disciples when they took the bread you know later Jesus breathes upon them and they receive the Holy Spirit on the other hand over here when Judas takes that bread with the wrong attitude rather than the Holy Spirit approval of the Holy Spirit resting upon him rather instead of that you have Satan entering into him do you see the seriousness of this you see we are partakers of Jesus Christ we are partakers of what he has done on the cross for us so we come to him with reverence acknowledging that he the master has given everything to people who come with empty hands who can give him nothing we have nothing to offer we come with empty hands and he the one who is everything has sacrificed for his son he sacrificed all that he has for us and so he gives to us freely and we are receiving that something which we could never earn we are receiving so we come to him with deep reverence with submission not having any kind of dirt in our hearts you know submitting it to him and saying Lord I have nothing so if I have done anything wrong please Lord I confess that before you so forgive me because I wish to honor you in my life with that attitude we come to him and he freely gives his bread to us you know his body and his blood he gives it to us on the other hand his Judas he is you know he so innocently like all the other disciples says Lord do you mean me you know he says you know he is coming there with deception is coming there with such a false heart and because of that when he is even even even in that moment if he had repented and confessed things could have changed but he continues to hold on to the deception and because he comes to the Lord with that deceptive attitude Satan enters into him what a serious thing so we need to be so careful in the way we approach the Lord when we come to him you know for the Holy Communion because we do this in remembrance of him for what he has done for us yeah before we you know further is a question here ma'am there are churches who follow this washing of feet act is it right to do it in literal action at the fastest washing feet of the assistant faster than the church um so yeah you know as a symbol it's a it's a good symbol and it is um it is symbolizing something good so it is all right um but after the ceremony if someone could just stand up and speak for five minutes and bring out the meaning of what has been done and say uh you know we have now washed the feet one another's feet and this is what it symbolizes physically we should be there for each other the way Jesus physically served you know his disciples was there for them are we going to be there for one another in our time of need in the in the same way that he ministered to them spiritually and washed them then we see a believer struggling in their spiritual walk are we willing to sit with them invest time in them that would be the actual washing of feet so if someone could you know speak for five minutes and bring out the meaning of it then the whole thing would become uh something that is pleasing to the Lord so there's no harm in doing the physical uh ceremony but let us back it up with the interpretation so that the congregation knows oh Jesus actually did because Jesus tells Peter very clearly what I'm doing for you now is something spiritual by doing this you're going to become a part of me so there's something more involved in this uh in this physical ceremony there's a spiritual side to it and someone needs to explain that to the congregation otherwise it just becomes a spectacle so yes so it's all right to do it physically but someone should also explain the overall significance of that uh so then it would become more meaningful uh yeah so um we were able to touch upon the main aspects up towards 30 um and so now yeah next next class we will uh begin from verse 31 all right so you know let's just close with the word of prayer if there are any other questions fine otherwise yeah we can we can close with the word of prayer Lord we just thank you for the learnings that we could uh take away today we thank you oh Lord uh that um you uh who have everything are everything chose to give all of that you are that you have your very own son for us who have nothing it is such an amazing and marvelous thing oh lord you who don't need to serve anyone you who don't need to sacrifice for anyone you chose to do that for people who can give you nothing in return it is an amazing thing oh Lord so we pray that we would honor you oh Lord in every way and just as you required and you said that me the master what I have enacted out you must now practice among yourselves help us oh Lord to do that oh Lord I really we pray oh Lord help us oh Lord to to love one another and be there for one another in the way that you were there oh Lord for your disciples help us oh Lord to have hearts of love and service because oh Lord in the next chapters we're going to go on repeating that that we should love one another that we should be there for one another those that was the emphasis of Lord which you laid and that's that's that is what is mainly on your heart so we pray that you would help us to become people who will serve one another and that we will be there for uh each other even in in our spiritual walk oh Lord I pray that you would um make these things very important to Lord uh that you would emphasize these things in our hearts imprinted on our hearts that Lord we will value it the way you want it to value thank you oh Lord in Jesus name amen thank you so much and uh yeah we'll meet again next time


Good evening. This is crime classics. I am Thomas Highland with another true story of crime Listen a maidens laughter a maid of India With bells on her feet That jingle when she runs She's having a lovely time The picnic's been a great success and now her husband's chasing her through the tall grass Here he comes For an older man, he's got a pretty good stride and before she knew it he had his wife circling around an almond tree caught her Then the thing that ruined the picnic for everybody Jealousy lurking nearby with a sledgehammer Tonight my report to you on old six toes how he stopped construction on the BBC and I Crime classics a series of true crime stories taken from the records and newspapers of every land from every time Your host each week. Mr. Thomas Highland connoisseur of crime student of violence Teller of murders now once again, Mr. Thomas Highland In 1880 the great Sepoy rebellion was already just a memory and those who had lived through the hundred days of Lance and torch and British square had settled back with a tight little smile waiting Queen Victoria had been proclaimed Empress and Lord Dundridge was saddling his first pony in the cool gardens outside Bombay And to the west and south Concan province was welcoming spring the soft winds up from the Gulf were cooling and Set us away the temple bells Of other bells, however, those small ones held to the ankles of buggy with golden wires She set them a sway herself She seemed to always be running from this task to that from this person to that on this mission or that and one day she was noticed and admired and Bargain for I have seen her and am told you are her father as I am Has she been spoken for many times the young men of the village all young Men They have youth What have you but I gave my youth for wealth and what would you give for my daughter by he two boats Two bullocks and a field to till My daughter dances lightly to whatever music maybe if I give you this then I shall be poor if you be poor then work My daughter will wait home for you to kiss away the pain of toil My daughter is slender as the reeds on the river and as pliant My daughter's voice is as the loot and her hands are wings Then it is done done buggy Come buggy Bow to your husband Now greet him. I have waited long my lord Command me Command her he did to dip three times in santa water Which was the custom for there were to be wed this night to bind her hair in the manner prescribed To spend the appointed hour with her mother the appointed hour with her father and thus anointed with fragrant oils and wisdom To come to him in the place of marriage and the vows were taken and they were wed and went to the hut of the newly married of the village and Removed their shoes before entering Yes, you have six toes since birth a good omen husband buggy beloved Yes draw closer your command Husband first a thing What in the village I come from far to the north a ritual which guaranteed identity? I do not understand identity beloved In case you forget Who you belong to but therefore? These I show you beloved Oka Sienna the million and Needle Well, what reason the tattooing of you please please do not command it Still You may ask why I saw new formerly of wealth and station now whole spike So that they may be driven by you into the ties which hold the rails You may ask why I saw no formerly of wealth and now but an employee of the Bombay Bengal Calcutta and Indian Railroad You may wonder these things and I will tell you I have traded wealth for greater wealth The lands which I had and the animals these I bartered for a bride and such a bride a child of 18 summers who is called Parkie friend friend on do Muscular youth will dare the great hammer while I hold come home with me and I will show her to you Will you come home with me? Yes Well, of course he wants more wine fill high his cup Have I not said it don't do this treasure truly sir Yes, and what do you do on the railroad? Well marvelous things with his hammer all day long. He drives deep the spikes more spikes and deeper than anyone else Poor I might up again very weary and toy This is wine will soothe husband drink Good wise I Sir Yes, the arms of yours could lift him as if he were a child and place him upon his bed Yes, that is here Sleep well honored husband Toiler bring her of bread to this happy house Baggy I know Let us walk to where the night will wash over us I want Come then Do you love me with all the might and passion that is the strength of me my husband has six toes It is written that this is a good omen a man with six toes is said to be blessed in this way He has brought you to me Terry here They tarried and the moon swung over from where it was and became for that brief time Their moon as did all the marvelous things of the night and Baggy forgot all the vows she made to Sonu and made new vows to Dundoo forever always always and forever and Dundoo made promises to her tomorrow night When the old man is asleep here forever always Always and forever Which goes to prove I suppose that railroading men have a certain fascination all over the world and Dundoo of the BBC and I was certainly one who gave rise to the legend Baggy forever there is a thing Listen to what I say. Yes This is wrong.  Did you not hear it?  No Then what? If you were widow If I were widow we would not sneak about as children who do evil tricks True think of it then If you were widow Dundoo Yes, I want to be and So you shall And when they reached the village on the edge of it where they said goodbye They were startled for a moment. Suddenly it was morning and they looked and they saw The sky was blood-red. You are listening to crime classics and your host Thomas Highland 35 years ago this week a few hundred AEF delegates in Paris founded the American Legion today in 17,200 posts there are nearly three million Legionnaires Service to the community state and nation service to veterans and their families These have grown to be hallmarks of American Legion activity without which the nation and its people would be great losers Happy 35th birthday American Legion keep up your great work and continue to grow Now once again Thomas Highland and the second act of crime classics and his report to you on old Toes how he stopped construction on the BBC and I each country has and is proud of its own history of Railroading it may come as a surprise to some that playing track in India has a lore unparalleled in railroading animals To give you a hint There's a saying out of Bombay that never did the Tigers eat so good as when the BBC and I put down a steel through South con can the place that concerns us here tonight Consider the feet if you will 116 miles of rail through jungle swamp and wasteland a body died there for every cross-tie 116 miles of rail plunging progress from Taj Pahor to the sea and Two-thirds of the way the living legend of a man Dundoo And at his feet holding the spikes an old man with a young wife Dundoo Dundoo Terry a minute Say the truth to me of what of my wife. Whatever is she not butchess. Yes. I see how you look at her Oh as young brother to me Happy for my happiness Yes So no yes the next spike cited well To get close to it and line it yes Bring your head closer to it old man and make sure in time for me Why do you stand with hammer poised over your head?  Yeah Let us eat Hired old man you are young you would not know a sigh of happiness if you heard it Oh, I have just breezed one. Oh look how neatly my pride my joy my treasure has made for me my lunch Grape leaves and chutney and coconuts too and you don't do what I bought in the village The same thing each day rice would you like a grape leaf? Well, I hung a knot take it Well, I am an old man and such richness as grape leaves and chutney does not agree with me in truth I would prefer rice, but I would not tell my treasure of it since she Pleasures so in cooking for me. Well, I'm take my rice Mmm That was the young man falling over on his face Because the old man's wife had put cobra venom in the chutney so the old man would die So she and the young man could pursue their love unencumbered But the young man having eaten the poison food became deathly sick He had eaten a dose that would have killed a less strong man, but he was the mighty don do and he did not die A month later. He was well enough to try and this he did. I did not come to you don. Do you know that? Yes Lovely one, what do you do? Kneel to the gods for having preserved you for me add a prayer then of your husband That he should die for my love for you for your love for me Therefore he must and soon I will help together then yes. Oh, yes But the precise opportunity never quite arose either there was someone near or within calling distance Or the old man didn't rise to the bait There was one night when the bride put a crate a small and deadly snake into Sonu's bed on the very night that Sonu Elected to sleep in the hammock outside Something always seemed to go awry. I cannot stand him. He must die or I shall there is a festival Next week for us of the railroad for the completed section There he will die. I cannot stand him. He must die or I will and the days spun away and a week Until there came a day of festival And mr. Graves of the railroad was concerned that everyone enjoy himself and what do you do, sir? I am a spike holder site Each member of our team is as important as the other. Yes, and who is this lovely trial by your side my wife Charming charming There's a rise up child Charming charming charming a treasure sir. You're blessed. Yes. I Enjoy yourself. Yes, I the BBC and I want you to have a day or remember. Yes. I'm a good day then Barkey did you hear him? I heard notice me. Yes, perhaps perhaps what this is the start of something of Position again and wealth as I was once wealthy Yes, and perhaps again our own land and the house and bullocks and servants Beloved what in your eyes? Am I old? Oh, no, then look at me Yes, what do you see? Wisdom a face which has pushed aside youthful folly to become lined with love and gentleness and knowledge But now you what of me so youthful you are Do you not sometimes miss the folly of youth? Not I but it seems that you do Then let us be foolish. I will flee from you and you will chase me Yes, yes, then catch me catch me You remember the maidens laughter the maid of India Scampering over the field away from the crowd and not running too fast so her husband can keep her in sight And the maiden runs toward her lover who is hiding in the tall grass with a sledgehammer right near that Where the old man caught his wife it is done now it is done hold me As if what as if a great burden had been lifted up from me Now you are widow And I must grieve Then I will be bride again Now we will take this one to the place where I have dug his grave and Put this one in it and cover him with tall grass the stride of you as you walk down do the suppleness the grace And you belong to me forever always always and forever Here for the old man looks small there on the earth. I wish to see him no more And I will cover him baggy Yes, the thing we talked of yes Do it now? Yes, what has happened? Who are you talking about my husband? What happened tell me there we were walking there where the bank was moist He tore the river and the banks lit away and you fell into you fell into the river. Yes Oh crocodile do not say it child child Yes, I saw it. He slipped into the river and the current was strong and then the crocodiles There was no question about it now she was widow and She observed all the self-denials that ritual called for for six months She went about clad in coarse garments her skin whitened with ashes her hair unkempt And when the allotted time was done She washed the morning from her and got out her best silk sorry and the bells again And went into the village and made it known that she was marriageable again And it goes without saying that the first young man in line outside her father's hut Was a hammerman named don do and what will you give to me for my daughter? Peace of mind that your daughter is happy and what will you give to her my strength if I? Refuse you my daughter. There is no refusal. We have looked upon each other and found each other good Bargay Bargay come Bargay Bow to your husband now Greet him. I have waited long my lord Command me I'll help you down, mr. Collins. Thank you mr. Graves I don't know why the company bothered to send you all the way out here mr. Collins, but the BBC and I has a reason for everything mr. Graves Now let's look at it Why you elected to build a spur right here? Why you have all these people building up a road bed when you could run the road by way of mudwap You stand here sir and see for yourself Below you see how the river curves. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes like an eagle in the shape of an S Therefore it would take two bridges to complete but the company chart had but one curve That's why we have men in the fields are digging have them dig away So then you'll give a proper report of me sir with mr. Glenn What's he wants that digger there waving at you? Let's have a look shall win They tell mr. Glendale. It's all been well thought out in the spell be completed before the monsoon Yes, my man. What is it? Do you want looks out where I was digging to provide dirt for the road bed? Well, I'll be that Skeleton that fall No, look there that fall. Yes a thing. Yes six toes on each foot Now there's a thing Now since burning was the manner of disposal of corpses a skeleton in the ground was something to ponder a Skeleton with six toes now Somebody remembered that an old man named son who had had six toes and a young wife So the young wife was questioned by the local authority who happened to be mr. Graves of the BBC and I child Skull crushed in like that He did not fall into the river did he I cannot lie. Yeah, then don't He did not fall into the river now. He was murdered He was murdered by a man of strength according to the fracture By a man of strength. Hmm. You're present husband. Yes. Yes You swear to this? Yes Hmm, you realize it. He'll be hanged. Yes, and what of me? What of me side you and your husband is hanged yes, I dare say you'll be right by his side Her present husband was hanged Then she was in just a moment Thomas Highland will tell you about next week's crime classic All six toes tonight's crime classic was adapted from the original court reports and newspaper accounts By Morton Fine and David Friedkin The music was composed and conducted by Bernard Herman and the program is produced and directed by Elliott Lewis Thomas Highland is portrayed on radio by Lou Merrill in tonight's story Jane Webb was heard as Boggy and her Butterfield as Sonu Featured in the cast were Jack Edwards Banright and Jack Crucian Bob LeMond speaking and Here again is Thomas Highland Next week we will concern ourselves with a band of gay conquistadores Who decided to conquer the land of Peru in the year? 1540 because of what happened to them. It's listed in my files as Francisco Pizarro his heart on a golden knife Thank you. 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