So you heard the strategy lax is going to start in the left lane and here's anthony avery spar to get things going 2014 I can't believe that lax one.   I can't believe that it did but it did and This is the race to two you win a point if you win the first game What a point if you win the second game you win both games You're moving on if we're tied after two we'll have a one-ball roll-off to determine the winner Last night Darren did a nice job for NYC with three strikes in a spare day We did have the one split a couple of strikes, so he did fine He's using a different orb tonight, but that looked like it was a little left to target off his hand and The six catches enough of the ten pin, but I'm not sure you can roll the ball on the lane any prettier than that That was a late ten brother that ten almost got slapped over into the seven pin spot Just another exceptional year for the guy who's in the front runner for a player of the year again 24 out to six looking strike track there speaking of somebody who was perfect last night The Ninth and the edge of all of those frames five and ten They dropped that was a good three board move to the right for Jacob butchered. You're right. He's looked so good. I Think you're getting a good look at Stuart is at his best and the talent. He has 23 remember coming off of that second place finish last one, but look at these numbers I mean that is playing some incredible angles They're getting smoked right now Take out with a strike here close out game one Another flat ten So what does he have to do differently? He's got to get a different ball in his hand because that ball is DOA when it's getting to the pins if he makes it They'll capture game one and he missed it now Sherman. He strikes out. We go to a roll-off game one Unbelievable Let's see what he can do He doesn't need three right now. He needs one remember his first shot three six nine ten The same kind of shot we saw earlier and the missed ten pin in the tenth frame does not hurt LAX There Daren Tang to lead things off now. They've switched to the left lane Yesterday was a real fair Second time he looked out of the approach exactly what's up. I'll get right back to you Spar Into the pocket for a strike Carolyn can you hear Randy? I know it's loud Carolyn cannot hear Randy. That's how loud it is. We'll try Andrew King right after this There was a foul called on Sean Perry who is the foul line official has ruled a lavery spar fouled. Let's take a look at it So we can get that From some kind of replay Here we go right here watch his left foot That's a foul then he pulls his foot back off of the approach and no we don't have replay in bowling We have a line judge that watches all the players and in he's the determining factor as to whether or not the players stay behind the foul line Lavery Spar's got to make an emotional recovery and get a spare out of this The best he could have done. Yeah, and you know what if you're gonna do it The camp doesn't hurt you exactly in the first frame and we're just gonna try to pour as many shots in there as we can And just ride it out and hopefully we can get the second game The beauty of team bowling watch the numbers on the right I saw that happen to him a couple of times at the touring players championship against Anthony Simonson that exact same hit ring ten with the seven-pen Unbelievable it cost him a major Set the record back there. Yeah All right, so I'm not going back there. Yeah, it's it's hard for her to hear Pretty good there all the fame stuff right there Still got game. Oh, yeah Now so cut the deficit to 21 Jacob butcher By the way, we talked about Jason Del Monte is player of the year candidate Well, here's mr. Perfect not Kurt Henning the former pro wrestler, but Stu Williams Big shot It's the foundation frame the ninth frame Max score and now you've got the possibility of an open frame in the ninth Had to try something you just can't If you like watching a bowling ball curve swipe right And watch this this time it's already into the mid-220s Marshall has to strike out and hope for an opening from Dick Allen It did happen in the first game. I mean, you know that yeah ten pin and missed it uncharacteristically I think he figured that one out. That was a beauty giving him a chance that light needs a mark Dick Allen has not looked like dick Allen tonight And then a few after that enough has to make gotta make it Now it's not completely over because they still need seven. He's okay though. It's okay


What's up everybody once again is Brand Man Sean and I'm back with another video and today we're talking about something that a lot of people struggle with and that is getting high engagement when you're running a YouTube ad. I'm going to talk about why I came up with this idea working with a client and he asked to get a 10% like to view ratio on his videos and I had to kind of break down why this is extremely important if you want to make sure that you're leveraging not only your YouTube ads but just really a lot of your campaigns correctly. This should just take about five minutes. So tune in. All right we got to start here man. The industry average, the industry average when it comes to likes to views is only 4%. So that's only 40 likes per 1000 views and not only that the comment to view ratio is even smaller which is only 0.5% right? That's five comments per 1000 views and if you don't believe me let's get into some examples. So let's start with Roddy Rich's The Box one of the most popular songs this year. Bar none took off went crazy, TikTok all that good stuff. But when you look at the actual view to like ratio what do you see 3.1% remember industry average and that's really doing very well actually 4%. 3.1% is the like to view ratio for this video and then 0.14% was the comment ratio and that's with having a lot of comments. Then we can move on to Gary Vee's video right here. Just to show you that this isn't just music videos. Gary Vee has 2.2% likes to view ratio on this video while he has 0.4% comment to view ratio. See this stuff translates everywhere. But then we can go back to this episode of Joe Budden's podcast there's a clip here and we see that the actual comment engagement is a little bit higher the industry norm. As a matter of fact it's double so this thing is doing crazy in terms of the engagement through comments. Why is that though? Well often times it's going to depend on what is the content of the video and this video right here like a lot of topics on Joe Budden is very engaging because it talks about relationships and so many people have something to say when it comes to relationships their own perspective, dating yada yada yada. So that's probably why you see such a high engagement ratio here but when you look at the like ratio again that's down to 2% which is have the industry average which I would say isn't even the industry average I think those numbers are outdated that is doing very well. And check out this video from one of my favorite artists to watch Moxis. This comment to view ratio is off the charts 1.1% but I think I can explain this away because also I mean it's crazy when you look at the likes to view ratio as well you're talking about almost 10% but when you check out one of Moxis other videos one of his most popular videos actually is closer to industry average where you talk about that 0.6% comment to view ratio and then 3.6% like to view ratio. So what would I say is probably an explanation that helps with this video well he did a collaboration and not only has Moxis been building a lot of his following through YouTube already over the years which means these are people who are inclined to be active engaging on YouTube so has the person he's collabed with Joey and it's a thing that they collaborated so a lot of times when you have moments where fans see you as having a big win or a big moment that they're a part of you'll find higher engagement on those particular videos but at the end of the day you again should expect the industry average so keep those things in mind but we're not actually at the part where we talk about why it's so hard to do well when we get into the ad game because when you're dealing with ads first and foremost you already have to optimize you need to find what I call the sweet spot where you're getting results like this right here's something that we're running for a client right now and she's super dope if you look at comments you're seeing this week spot where people are finding the ad and letting you know that I found the ad I mean you have two people saying something like her lat ad literally stopped me in the middle of a neo soul marathon the bag lady can wait but bag lady Erica by do bag lady can wait right that means you're finding those people who really connect with what you're you're actually advertising same thing with this other person he was listening to the Fuji's he was actually walking over to the computer to cut the ad off before you cut it off next thing you know he's he's lost in the sauce he's commenting on this video now right that means he clicked through the ad and loved it so much he's commenting on the video let alone a comment like this right accuracy is extremely important but a huge part of the expectations right that can ruin your ad program is not understanding one this context of industry average and then number two check this part out so if all we've just discussed this is how you have to be able to look at it when it comes to running your ads and that'll change things for you one we have these three categories engagement misspelled that there we go and then you have the actual YouTube video all right so these things in mind let's remember that you have a 4% like to view ratio and you have a 0.5 comment to view ratio good Lord these numbers are ugly but you get the point all right and now remember whatever you have with the YouTube views I meant yeah the YouTube views that's your conversion so you're going from here to here you have a thousand views here oh my gosh these these are horrible but you know what I'm saying right that's why we have the audio to go along with it what is the last category the last category is the actual YouTube ad so if you keep consume sumer behavior in mind remember it's not just one barrier what you have with a YouTube video you're adding an additional barrier because consumer behavior you know anything about funnels you always hear people talk about clicks what's the click-through rate how do I go from one click to the next and every single click between a behavior that you want is a barrier it makes it harder to actually get that result so now you add an extra barrier between engagement where now it was only one barrier between engagement before when you have a YouTube ad because people are watching it as a pop-up remember that now they have to click through to the actual YouTube video and then they have the possibility to engage and that's why it's so important right here for you to have accurate optimized advertisement right because when you do this this gives you a better chance of converting and getting a higher number to actually views the YouTube video this there's no guarantee we have the whole idea when it comes to statistics when you can say all right you can expect a 4% like to view ratio in a 0.5% comment to view ratio but when it comes to a YouTube ad to YouTube actual video view ratio not the view when I viewed it while as I add but a click-through onto the actual YouTube ad stage where I have the possibility to engage that click through is all dependent on how well you target so that could be massively different for some people right people can have 50 in every 1000 some people can have a hundred every 1000 there could be some people that only have one in every 1000 so keep that part in mind as well so this is why it's so hard to hit a number like 10% engagement when you're running a YouTube ad why because you have to go through so many hurdles and if you don't understand this there's a lot of artists that will have great results right a lot of you people who I mean by you people you people know who you are right a lot of you people will run your ad right and have great results but not know it because you don't have context of not only industry average but then understanding the additional barriers that are ad will be going through so a great performing ad will be far away from your expectations and now you don't feel good based on your results even though your actual results are great and that disconnect messes a lot of artists a lot of marketers up keep that in mind that's yet another video hopefully that's helpful if you like this video go ahead like button if you like it might as well share it if you're not subscribed you know what to do hit that subscribe button


from our studios in the heart of Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, California. This is a CUBE Conversation. Hello everyone, welcome to theCUBE's CUBE Conversation here in Palo Alto, California. The CUBE studios, I'm John Furrier, host of theCUBE. We're here at Reinhardt-Kwela, who's the principal engineer, cloud platforms and solutions group at Cisco. Reinhardt, thanks for coming in. Good to see you. Thanks for having me. So, technical conversation around cloud is something that we love having. We've seen the evolution of the past decade, cloud 1.0, compute, storage, Greenfield cloud opportunities, great SaaS applications being built. You've built apps for over a decade, SaaS apps. That's right, been delivering applications both to data centers and then of course later into cloud for a number of years. So you get some scar tissue, you have some successes, you've had some struggles probably with on-prem, but the world's changed a lot and again we've been covering this for a couple of years now. We saw public cloud, all the benefits, no questions. Great, you can lift and shift stuff up there, no problem. The complexities are still there and now the trend is everything's shifting back to on-prem with cloud. So now the hybrid model has been validated. Amazon Outpost, Anthos from Google, Azure Stack from Microsoft. Clearly this, all the cloud vendors are telegraphing. They are doing it. This is a reality. This has been validated. Yeah, I think that's the most surprised to those of us who've been deploying for a number of years. We've always had data centers where we're running our applications with data centers and yes, we started taking that into the cloud but there was always components of our infrastructure that continue to run on-prem. Whether for historical reasons, for data gravity reasons, policy reasons, any number of reasons. But what we did learn was how to operate our applications differently and so for the last number of years we've been moving a lot of the advantages of that cloud back to on-prem. So I want to get your thoughts as principal engineering. Look at the overall Cisco holistic portfolio of products because Cisco is a standard in the enterprise. Every big company has Cisco gear at some level form of another. You've been dealing with networking for years but now that networking becomes so much more an acute issue because you still got to move packets around. Another abstraction layer does networking, security, networking all tie into the growth area that is now this next generation of cloud, cloud 2.0, intelligent edge, data center on-prem. What's the Cisco story? Why Cisco? Why now? What's the story? Well, the amusing thing of course is the cloud doesn't exist without networking. The very first thing when you set up an Amazon, you know, a compute in Amazon is you set up a virtual private network and you start deploying into that network. So it's always been true that networking is at the core of cloud and so the complexity that we're seeing over time is that the workloads are everywhere. The workloads aren't just in my data center and I'm not paying it into the data center networking or just cloud networking. It's connecting them together, securing them, making sure that they're fast and well managed. And so it's always been true that networking is at the core of this and as the edges get blurry, as we move workloads from one place to the other, all of the things that Cisco does around managed networks, programmable networks, secure networks all become even more important. And everything's amplified too in terms of its purpose. You're seeing automation is a big trend that's impacting the infrastructure and app developers. You've deployed SaaS apps within Cisco for over a decade. You've seen your share of successes and issues. But now as the data becomes critical, you got security perimeter issues are gone. You got surface area with industrial and IoT. It's only getting more complex. So the complexity never went. But it's still complex, even the same problem. What's changed? What's going on? Well, so one of the things that's changed is that we've, and this is something we can credit the cloud providers for doing is we've learned to treat our infrastructure in a different way. I mean, the way we deploy and manage everything, including networks compute even applications, operating in the cloud demanded that we automate those things. They demanded the way, you know, when you're managing now fleets of thousands or tens of thousands of machines at scale in the cloud. And when your cloud provider won't promise you that any machine won't go away at any moment, you get good at replacing machines. And now we take those same tools, concepts, ways of operating that we did in the cloud and we apply them on-prem. And so a big part of what Cisco has been doing across our entire portfolio is ensuring that every piece of it from networking to storage security is programmable and drivable through automation. You and I were talking before we came on camera and I wrote this down. A phrase you'd like to use is referring to Cisco, why Cisco is, we bring cloud innovation on-prem. What do you mean by that? Well, really it's taking these new ways of doing things, these new opportunities. You know, when we talk about, we've had some funny conversations with our security guys, for example, where historically in security we would have some policy, we would deploy applications against that policy. Once every six months or 12 months we would audit against that. Well, one example of bringing the cloud innovation on-prem is the way you deploy that software is, or deploy a new policy is via software. And so auditing that is checking your code before you commit it that says this is what it's going to do. Running, reporting on the things that you've deployed so that you can see. So it's taking these advantages of automation and observability and things like code review that are just normal practice in software development and apply them to infrastructure. And so again, what Cisco is doing is making sure that all of our infrastructure can be programmed in that way, providing tools that allow us to program the things like the network services orchestrator or Cloud Center suite that allow us to deploy applications or networks or whatever else as software entities. Tell about the reality of the person who's been innovating in the cloud and their reaction when they come back on-prem and go, okay, I've been doing this in the cloud and then I turn around and I see all this. Is this the cloud innovation dynamic that you're referring to? Is it the realization that I had some innovation in the cloud, agility, automation and then trying to figure it out or applying it or both? What's the reality when someone goes, wow, I'm on-prem now, what's that innovation layer?  And one of my first rules at Cisco was I was working on the Webex operations team and the way we ran that operations was typical of the time it was built. And we did an acquisition of a company that had been operating in Amazon. And when they saw the way that we had to deploy and manage their application on an infrastructure, they were horrified. It's like, what do you mean I can't deploy a server in five minutes? What do you mean that I can't manage the workflow in this way? And so for them, it was a shock and horror that they didn't have this infrastructure and that's when we deployed our first private cloud in Webex was to support that style of deployment. The flip side of that is the people who are operating those existing data centers with those existing workflows, their world changed. I mean, they had to learn new ways of doing things. They had to learn new ways of managing their infrastructure. Coding skills were a requirement, not something that a few guys did scripting in the back. So it's like, there was a lot of change to the people and to the way we did things. But really it's a matter of bringing those, bringing the cloud, bringing software development to operations, bringing software programmable to hard, programmably to hardware. Yeah, I mean, that's a great point. I mean, we cover that a lot in the queue but I think one of the things you pointed out is the realization that, okay, great, new way of doing things, innovation, but as you kind of pointed out, there's a double edged sword there. The command and control of the network, which has been an old style tactic, which doesn't go away. You still need to have control of certain things and on-premise, you certainly can control it on-premise, on cloud, you can, I think you can control it through software, but this is the deep dive tech conference I want to have with you because we're talking about app deployment, Kubernetes management and the reality of, I have my own gear on site as well as I'm maybe server listening to the cloud. This is the new reality that you have to manage the control. So take us through those layers, app deployment, Kubernetes and the reality of managing infrastructure on a future basis. Sure, so when we think about the application deployment, it's very easy to kind of think about it in terms of the layers and the programmable layers that you provide and I'll just touch, we won't go into detail in the products, but ultimately today for an application, someone deploying an application, increasingly that means pushing application into Kubernetes. In other words, I'm going to package my application as a container, I'm going to hand it to Kubernetes through Kubernetes API and I'm going to expect Kubernetes to do the deployment and manage that. Okay, so that just makes the problem for the guy one layer below you, where does Kubernetes come from? It's like who deploys and manages Kubernetes and so there's a number of different solutions in the public cloud, you can use AKS or the Google's Kubernetes service or Amazon's any of these, but on-prem, where does it come from? Who's going to manage it for you? Who's going to create that? And so Cisco Container Platform is a product to deploy and manage Kubernetes to offload that from the developer, I mean from the operations guy or the platform manager. Of course that deployer of Kubernetes expects programmable infrastructure. I need to be able to deploy a VM or manage hardware that runs below that. That's your innovation message. Yeah, it's like. It's the innovation they want. They need, well ultimately the guy wants the simple push the button and get the application deployed. That means someone has to get this layer deployed and well to get that layer deployed, what's there? And so we continue to support virtualization managers whether VMware or our own CVM, Cisco Virtual Infrastructure Manager. All of these products is like, how do I manage this pool of hardware to provide that next layer of service? And so, but in every case, the programmability of the infrastructure as far down as you can go becomes paramount so that when the guy racks a piece of hardware in the data center, he doesn't want to think about how does this RAID card need to get configured, right? He just wants to rack it, plug it in and then turn it over to software as quickly as possible. And that's the cloud innovation on-prem you're referring to. That's making it cloud-like operations for agility, automation, provisioning. Consistency, reliability, observability. Giving an example of that, I mean when we were talking originally and we were starting these cloud deployments and we had this conversation with Infosec about which application lives in which zone and how do you manage that? And we're like, well, the zoning processes that you use in the past don't apply anymore. The way we manage that thing is with security groups and the security groups are created this way. Here's the software. Here's the software that, when I'm talking about software, I'm talking about configuration scripts in this case, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, whatever, that generate those security groups and generate those rules. And it's like, it changes the way the security guy interacts with your team. It's no longer file a ticket to review your app and app deployment and have a new ticket to do a deployment. It's something that they can do in real time. We're talking about moving these processes left, moving the audit of a system all the way back up to the software development stage and then giving them the tools to verify that afterwards. And their eyes literally popped open. It's like, you mean at any moment, at any time, I can say show groups and see what the security posture is right now. And it's like, yes. And that's what sold them on letting us behave in this new way was the ability to audit in real time. Yeah, and this is a major advantage. This brings up the question that comes up all the time. And I want to get your thoughts on this because this shapes into the overall cloud architecture, cloud portfolio in this case, for Cisco products is workload portability. It used to be, oh, the one way trip to the cloud. Not anymore. It's not a one way trip to the cloud. It's now bi-directionally got on-premise been validated by Outposts, Anthos and Azure Stack. This is going to be an operating model to your point about the cloud innovation. Now workload portability. I think that's been validated. So I think we recognize, the industry recognizes that it's not just public cloud everywhere. It's hybrid. This has been validated. You agree. Absolutely. There were many things that we never did move to the cloud never would move to the cloud. Whether it's for policy reasons or the quantity of data that we had or systems that weren't available in the cloud. For example, dev test labs that have soundproof rooms. We saw audio equipment. We saw phones and we have to test those phones. Those aren't ever going to be in the cloud. They're going to be in their soundproof rooms so we can test audio pairing. And there's stuff like that that always lives in our world. There's a myriad of compliance for us that requires it too. Compliance things. Whether it's a Fed ramp compliance, this data has to be in this country, US in that case, European privacy things. It could be, I was talking to one bank a number of years ago now that we're talking about deploying Kubernetes for them. It's like, what applications are you deploying? Why do they need to be here? Well, they've got a mobile first application. They want to use all the latest and greatest ways to build and deploy that application. But the data that that application is accessing is in the mainframe. It hasn't moved in 10 years, 20 years. It's not going to move anytime soon. So you put the application next to the data that it needs. In IoT, it might be control devices or video devices or any number of things. It's like, I think there's a trend overall. It's less about workload portability for a lot of people or being able to move workloads. It's saying, where's the best place for this particular workload to run? And so then provide the appropriate infrastructure to run that workload. And that's where we get back to saying, wait a minute, I want to use containerization. I want to use orchestration systems. I want to use all these modern tools for doing this, but still put the workload where it needs to be. That is a profound statement. I just want to just quickly unpack that a little bit because that really is the card of the issue of cloud innovation. The workloads are going to be defining the requirements it needs, whether it's cloud selection or where it resides on-prem with what resources underneath it. That's not saying a company has to decide that because of that workload, the entire company has to use that because the choices now, because of the levels of granularity that cloud brings, the applications can get almost custom built or not custom built, but a specific hardware and compute to serve their needs. So if it's your sole sourcing, a set of resources for the workload. It's not saying that the infrastructure has to be that for everything. This is the whole single cloud versus multi-cloud dynamic. Yeah, I mean, in fact, one of the things that we're seeing more and more in our customers is they don't have one cloud. They have multiple clouds for multiple purposes. On-prem, there's not one big private cloud that runs everything. There's lots of Kubernetes clusters. And one of the things that a product like CCP does is allow you to deploy and manage multiple Kubernetes clusters for multiple purposes, multiple problem domains, multiple political domains, financial domains. Who's paying for this thing?  You still get to take advantage of all the way you deploy and package and run these applications, which is just hands down better than we ever did before. And that's some of the innovation we have. Now, once you start doing this, once you start deploying these applications in multiple places, in multiple, well, where are your security boards? Where are your perimeters? How do you secure any of this? How do you connect all this stuff? How do you visualize all this stuff? And so as you look at our products from, we talked a little bit about the infrastructure pieces of that, the Kubernetes deploying to an infrastructure manager, deploying ultimately to hardware, every layer of that, UCS and CVIM and CCP, all of those layers are there and programmable. Okay, now I'm deploying workloads, now I've got to connect the things together. How do I monitor it? How do I, and so that's why you see products like StealthWatchCloud and AppD and the other applications to do monitoring and security across a now fully distributed application. You know, sometimes it's hard for me as a cube host to kind of get the story out about certain trends, especially when big players like Cisco involved. A lot of people know that I'm pretty bullish on Cisco. I've been very vocal about the Cisco opportunity with respect to cloud and critical by the way in some areas, I think I would probably advise certain things to be certain ways. But one of the things I think is a great opportunity that you guys have, and you're kind of getting at it, I want to just get your reaction and thoughts on this, is that what you're talking about here is an environment that's going to be constantly dynamic. That's constantly changing and being complex is not going away, abstracting the way the complexity is the game. But Cisco's always been successful in multi environments, multi, different environments because networking has always been about diversity of networks. Camp is this and SD went, so it's not a new concept for Cisco to deal with this concept of multiple environments. Do you agree with that? And what's your reaction to that? How would you answer that? Is that something you think Cisco's going to be dominating in? Is that the reason why Cisco can solve up all these, serve up all these choices? What's your thoughts on that? I would have to say that overall that the integrating lots of disparate things, connecting lots of disparate things is in Cisco's DNA. I mean, from our original routers and switches at the very beginning, it was always multiple things connected to each other, often multi-vendor working across standards and across standard things. When we talk about Kubernetes, we're not talking about the Cisco Kubernetes, we're talking about Kubernetes, like the real thing, the actual Kubernetes, we're talking about, and we're talking about Steven, we're talking about OpenStack of Standard, we're talking about, so across all these boards, connecting and integrating disparate things is kind of what Cisco does. And so if you're deploying applications, you've done that, and certainly your customers are, they're never going to have one general purpose situation that's going to be scenarios, right? And certain things will be guiding principles, some will be governors and dictate things that might not be classic, cloud native, can you talk about that and give some examples of why that's important and the reality of that statement? Yeah, so just to use one example of an application, WebEx Teams, our enterprise chat application, for example, that is your classic microservices, modern cloud native application. There are three ways of deploying applications in that platform that are appropriate for the three different things. We've got the services themselves, the media bridges or the switching engines that are run as containers in a container orchestration fabric. There's the VM-based things that are things like media bridges that don't run in containers very well, not because of the problem of the containers, but because of the overlay networks that containers bring within and the way you route data to those. And then we've got physical machines where we're actually running certain things on physical machines. And so all of these exist in any kind of, even a brand new modern application. And so even within a single product family, there's not one true way of doing things. So it's what's the appropriate way to deploy this application? What's the right deployment target for this thing? And then how do I connect these? You mentioned infosec, so politics might be a driver that have nothing to do with technology. It could be a human capital resource issue. It could be something scalable. And the politics can be even these weird temporal things. It's like, look, I can spend three weeks trying to convince an infosec to do things in a particular way. Or I can just deploy somewhere where it makes him happy and move on. Move on to the next problem. And then later when they catch up with the way we're doing things, then we may move it later. The other thing about timing on all of this is the story is changing constantly. When we deployed that application, we did not use Docker containers. Everybody says, why aren't you using Docker? Because Docker didn't exist three years ago. It's like the wood decisions we were making at that time are changing ever more rapidly. And the reality for our enterprise customers is that you don't just forklift one and replace it with another one. You tend to manage them all in parallel. Even as you're making transitions, eventually you kind of get rid of the old stuff, maybe. The mainframe still exists. But in general, for most of our enterprise customers, it's not an or. It's not on-prem or the cloud. It's not containers or physical machines. It's and. I'm running all of the above. And to your point about the Docker containers not being around when you guys were doing that, that's going to be a concept that's going to be applied down the road. Hey, that wasn't around when we set the architecture. So as an enterprise, your customers that you talk to, what is the guiding principles? What's the preferred architecture? Again, a lot of choices.  What are some of the decisions they have to make? So to future proof, because they don't want to foreclose an opportunity and or create technical debt for that matter. Why would they do that? So they have to kind of be holistic in their thinking. Yeah, future proof is always a funny concept because the reality is that the way you do things will change. You didn't make something that was future proof. You built an environment that allowed you to do this way and that way. So if you take a look at the way we deployed, for example, our infrastructure in general, we start with the UCS substrate. We can run Oracle on bare metal on those things when we need to. We can run virtualization on top of that and run a layer VMs on top of that. We can run containers. Now I've got choices. Common substrate, common way of managing those things, but at least three different ways of deploying on those. And so ultimately we're looking for standards, standard practices that enables me to do the and where I can run things side by side. I can connect things. I can secure things over the top, but run all the above. And it's really a matter of building things that have kind of clean architectural layers where one thing consumes the other and then be able to mix and match and plug them together Lego styles or. This is a great chat. And it reminds me of a conversation that we've been having here in theCUBE. We've been doing a series with engineering leaders. And you mentioned foreclosing the future or future proofing, which is kind of a buzzword. The conversation happening in the technical circles is about technical debt. And I think, you know, I've always seen that enterprise, you know, cost of ownership, you know, on the shark fin, the iceberg and what you don't see. Certainly that's been a paradigm that's been, you know, known. But now you're getting into this notion of not just so much future proofing, it's really the balance of technical debt because you know something new is coming. This is a modern concept that takes cost of ownership and future proofing and kind of puts it into reality because you're essentially taking on some sort of technical debt to move from point A to point B, but you don't want to take on too much that you can't pay it back if new technology comes in. So this is what's been going on with some of the top customers that we've been talking to. And a new management concept. This is kind of a modern, new management discipline. Your thoughts and reactions to that? Ooh, so there's at least two different vectors to talk about on this. So one of the things is how do I take these older applications, these older ways of managing things and incrementally improve them? Because we can actually make it, it is easier today to deploy a process running on a machine than it ever was before. And five years ago I would have a ticket, some guy would go and install software manually. Today we don't do that, we use configuration management, puppet chef, Ansible, et cetera. We improve the way I do those things incrementally rather than just forklift them. I'm not rewriting these applications and saying, okay, we're going to make these into cloud native applications and microservices and blah, blah, blah and re-platform them. No, I incrementally improve the way I operate that thing. Even if it's just deploying the hardware more consistently underneath or improving this layer. So I incrementally reduce my debt by applying, again, deploying some of these new cloud innovations. They're grown out of the cloud to the existing ways of doing things. But the other point I'll make on a lot of this is that certainly for our team and for a lot of the customers I talk about, we don't just arbitrarily go and re-platform things, right? It's like, if the thing is working, let it continue to work, deploy the new thing alongside it. You know, we're more concerned about delivering new features, new capabilities, new things. And we do that and we concentrate our efforts and our engineering efforts on that and not constantly rewriting the past. And containers certainly can help you there too. Absolutely, containers are a beautiful tool for that, for encapsulating dependencies around a thing. And so you'll find in many cases, we have applications that are not ready to deploy, to run in Kubernetes with a scheduler that's going to move it around, but I can still take advantage of container packaging and run it on a physical box with a normal Linux operating system and containerize there. So it's hugely valuable. Right, I want to get your thoughts on one last talking track that is relevant to something that we've been covering. Stu Miniman, co-host of theCUBE with me in many of these events around networking. We both love networking, both networking nerds. Always joke about how networking is where you can go to find out what the state of the industry is. Look at what's going on in the network. Because network ultimately tells the truth. Moving things around, security people go to the network. You're starting to see all these, everything's revolving around the network now, more than ever.  But you just made a comment before we went on camera. You said, just adding another layer of networking. If you think about what you just said, the networking paradigm is just kind of slowly moving to another layer. So networking is happening. It's just happening differently. So as the DevOps innovation in the cloud happens, it's really a network innovation. Because security pivots off the network data, use application, instrumentation on the network data, everything's around networks. It's intrinsically tied.  And a network identity, an address. VMs, multiple network interfaces, multiple on every VM, Kubernetes. An IP address per application. It's like the networking space is exploding as we move up. And yes, we now have a network connectivity and management problem that's order of magnitudes more complicated than it was before. Because now individual workloads have IP addresses. And by the way, I'm deploying workloads in multiples. I don't run a single application or run a pool of applications. Each one has an address. And so yeah, so networking continues to be intrinsic and it just moves up. And it's fascinating too. We always speculate about looking for that new technology, the new protocol, something new, the shiny new toy. But if you think about it, all the science and intellectual property has been built already. It's usually a combination of a couple different things. In network theory and network management, the concepts are still around. They're just being applied differently now. This seems to be the- Yeah, the grand or sliced into smaller, the bytes are smaller that you're dealing with, right? Everything has an IP address. We've got thousands of IP addresses now that we're managing. We have an IP address management problem. We have other things to manage now. But it's- The game is still the same. The game is still the same. It's still TCP-IP networking. So final question, bottom line. Why Cisco and the cloud networking as it comes together as this stuff starts to modernize hybrid, certainly reality, hardcore as people are doing today. Multi-cloud is another reality right around the corner. Why Cisco? Why Cisco's products and portfolios for the cloud? Well, fundamentally, as we said earlier, the cloud is a networking problem. Networking underpins everything we do. The networking from physical networking, the compute has to run on something. So networking, compute, orchestration systems for all of that, security that overlays all that. I think Cisco uniquely has all of the components that it takes to build a modern infrastructure stack and in fact deploy applications to that. And I think the breadth of knowledge and capabilities that Cisco has across those is unique. And then also I would say Cisco's experience. We have many, several of the world's largest SaaS applications in the Cisco family. Things like umbrella, DNS security, or WebX, web conferencing. We also have deep expertise in running applications and that's within the Cisco area of our domain of expertise. Certainly in good position. I'm really bullish on what you guys can do. I think the network is where the trust is. That's where the data is. That's where the action is. And I think that's the cloud 2.0 equation. Thanks for coming in. Thanks for the insight. Raina Arquella, Principal Engineer, Cloud Platforms of Cisco Cisco here, sharing his insight on this CUBE conversation. I'm John Furrier, thanks for watching.


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We'll begin here in chapter 14 of Mark at verse 43. I'm going to read to verse 52. I'm going to cover those verses today. So I'll begin with Mark chapter 14, verse 43. And I'll read to verse 52. Immediately while he was still speaking, Judas, one of the 12, with a great multitude with swords and clubs, came from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. Now, his betrayer had given them a signal saying, whomever I kiss, he is the one. Seize him and lead him away safely. As soon as he had come, immediately he went up to him and said to him, rabbi, rabbi, and kissed him. Then they laid their hands on him and took him. And one of those who stood by drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his ear. Then Jesus answered and said to them, have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to take me? I was daily with you in the temple teaching. And you did not seize me, but the scriptures must be fulfilled. Then they all forsook him and fled. Now, a certain young man followed him, having a linen cloth thrown around his naked body. The young men laid a hold of him and he left the linen cloth and fled from them naked. So as I normally do, I give you a background for those perhaps who haven't been with us like last week or whatever. I give a little bit of a background just to remind us what's going on, what's taking place, and I'll pick up and move into the study. We know that Jesus has been ministering in a location there called the Garden of Gethsemane. There's an enclosed orchard. And it's just outside to the northeast of actually to the, yeah, to the northeast of the walls of Jerusalem. And it was a place that Jesus and his men would often spend time. Jesus made it very clear when you read your Bible that he didn't have a home of his own. In Matthew, in chapter eight, verse 20, he had said, Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head. So because he had no place to lay his head, he would receive the hospitality of others. When you read the Gospel of Luke in chapter eight, verses two and three in those verses, they speak of Mary Madeline. They speak of Joanna, the wife of Cousa, Susanna, and many others who provided for him from their substance. And so they would provide for him, including this particular garden, which more than likely was lent to him by one of his followers. Now that night, Jesus went one last time to this garden. And while he is there, as we've already seen, he agonized in prayer. He was awaiting his betrayer's arrival. Now over the years his men had spent many times, many nights in this particular garden. And so by entering into it and being within that, there would have been an awful lot of memories that would have been stirred up, and many of them would have been fond.  And being in that garden would have rekindled memories of those kinds of times. It was a place that they would have been familiar with. It was a place that they more than likely would have been at peace in. It was a familiar place. And they have familiar memories. And Jesus would be there with them and spend some time there, spend the night. They would camp out and he would share with them. They perhaps would be around a fire so that they might be warm. And you can almost see them gathered around the fire and Jesus speaking to them. They'd have fond memories of that. There are places in your life that you have fond memories that you've gone to that. You'll always remember with fondness.  We'd haven't been recently, but San Luis Obispo up the coast. And we have a lot of fond memories that we've been there many times with friends and all. And we've had some sweet times where we've met people and all. I remember going up there for example, on one occasion at a place stopped by, it's called McClintock's, and we stopped by to get something to eat. And while we were there, the waitress speaks to me and she says, you know, I come from your church. I'm up here at San Luis Obispo at Cal Poly. And so that's a good memory to me. I said, is the meal free? But no, it wasn't. But anyway, I remember a Saturday morning, Marie and I got up on a Saturday. We got up a little after eight, we went to a small cafe kind of place where you get cookies and coffee. And I remember walking in and starting to walk in when this young couple was walking out. They opened the door as we were about to walk in. And I thank you. And they said, so you really like San Luis Obispo pastor? They ended up, they were from our church and they had heard me speak of it. And so they went up there and they're like, I have fond memories of the place. Marie and I have fond memories. And you do too, places that you've gone to, maybe for a vacation, maybe for a special time. Well, in the life of these disciples, the Garden of Gethsemane would have been such a place. Jesus would have gone there often with them. They'd have had times where they spoke together where he opened his heart to them. So their memories would be fond, but tonight's a different kind of night. Tonight is a different night. Because as they're walking in, the atmosphere is gonna be different. Jesus has stationed eight of his men at the entrance to this garden. He's gone further in with Peter, James and John. And I had mentioned to you that Peter, James and John had stated that they had an unshakable faith in him. Remember how James and John had said they could drink of the cup that he was gonna drink from.  And so he takes these men in and they're about to learn a lesson and they do learn a lesson about overestimating themselves and their faith. Now while he was there, as we saw last time, he was under intense pressure. He said that it was even unto death. He said, stay here and watch. And he had moved further on into the garden. And we saw how Jesus had prayed. He prayed three times that this cup would be removed from him. And while he was praying this, we also saw that he submitted himself to the will of his father. And in the end, he completely yielded to the father's plan. Jesus had spent much time preparing his men for what he was gonna go through, not only what he would go through, but also what they would go through.  Well that very night, he had once more made it very clear. John records it in chapter 14 and verses 28 and 29 of his gospel. John records it.  If you loved me, you would rejoice because I said I'm going to the father. For my father's greater than I and now I have told you before it comes that when it does come to pass, you may believe. So he's sharing with them, I'm about to leave you. I'm about to go to my father and say to grief, you ought to be rejoicing. Again, he's attempting to prepare them for the coming events. He even told them that they weren't as strong as they thought they were. He went on to say in Mark in chapter 14, verse 27, he had said to them, all of you will be made to stumble because of me this night. Well as we saw, Peter couldn't believe that he would ever deny Jesus. He clearly said it. Even if all stumble, Peter said, I will not.  I'll go to prison with you is what he said. And the scripture says they all said likewise. So in spite of all the preparation, his men failed to take him seriously. He withdrew to agonize in prayer. And as he did so, they fell asleep, not once, not twice, but they fell asleep three times. The emotional stress had sapped their strength. Luke tells us in chapter 22, verse 45, when he rose from prayer, he went back to the disciples. He found them asleep, exhausted from sorrow. We had a young man visiting us from Central California this morning. He came and spoke to me after the service. And he said, you know, I got right with the Lord and I've been clean and sober now for the last three years. And he showed me a band that he has on his wrist and even tattooed on his wrist the day he got right with God and the little ichthuse and the date there. And he was sharing his heart with me and all. And he said, you know, when you said that the disciples had fallen asleep, exhausted from sorrow, he says, I understand that. He says, because when I was an addict, when I was addicted, he said, and I was going through things. He said, I found it easier just to fall asleep and just to try and just sleep through the things I was going through. Well, the men that night were going through so much stress and they were exhausted from it. They actually fell asleep three different times. Jesus had warned them, but they weren't listening. They yielded to their flesh and they were spiritually unprepared. Jesus said that they were to be awake. They should be awake. They should be prepared for the trial that they're gonna face. In Ephesians 5, 14 through 16, Paul said it like this. He said, this is why it is said, wake up sleeper, rise from the dead and Christ will shine on you. Be very careful then how you live, not as unwise but as wise. Make in the most of every opportunity because the days are evil. Wake up sleeper, wake up. Well, they were dealing with their sorrow in a natural way, they were sleeping. And that's why in verse 41 he came to his disciples and he asked them, he said, are you still sleeping and resting? You see, by sleeping they're able to ignore what's going on around them and they failed to be aware of him. But he did not cease being aware of them. He sees a shepherd and as a shepherd he watched over them and he said, take your rest. He allowed them to remain asleep. He was strengthened, he was at peace, he was ready for what he was about to endure. So after strengthening himself in prayer, he's ready to face the enemy. Jesus was ready but his disciples weren't. So notice verse 43 how it says, immediately while he was still speaking, Judas one of the twelve with a great multitude with swords and clubs came to the chief priests and the scribes, came from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. I want you to notice a couple of things that may not be noticeable at first. Notice how in verse 43 Judas is still referred to as one of the twelve, that's interesting. He's still referred to as one of the twelve. All four gospel writers refer to him in this manner. So the question has to be asked, why would they still speak of him in that way? Well it would amplify the amount of treachery. One of Jesus's trusted apostles betrayed him. Now notice in verse 43, Judas is leading a great multitude armed with swords and carrying clubs. Of course Judas would know that place while he'd been there many times but Judas didn't have the same sentimental attachment that the other men would have had. Judas went in there with the purpose of having Jesus arrested. It says in John chapter 18 verse three that Judas having received a detachment of troops and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees came there with lanterns, torches and weapons. So he's got a detachment of troops, he's got officers from the chief priests and Pharisees. So there's a large group of people and you have to picture it this way because we who live in the 21st century, we probably don't really experience this the way that at one time people did and that is we don't really experience quiet and silence. You know, no matter where you live there's always gonna be the sound of a car driving by or a horn honking or an alarm going off or in the case of John gunfire. You're gonna be, I'm just kidding. John's the one who shoots the gun but anyway, there's always gonna be noise. In Chino on 4th of July, you know exactly what I mean. It's just a lot of noise and all of that. Well these men were not around a lot of noise in that capacity. It's a celebration of the Passover and it's quiet. One commentator said it's probably around 11 at night. It's in a quiet garden. The city at that time is probably all the people of the city are probably falling asleep but now here comes a detachment of troops are crossing over the Brook called Kidron and they're entering into a garden. There are three men who are stationed at that entrance to the garden when they see these people arriving. It would have been extremely disturbing. Now you would have heard them long time before they got there. You'd have been hearing the sound of people walking and perhaps mumbling amongst themselves. You will hear that and here they come. Now it speaks concerning a detachment of Roman troops. The detachment of Roman troops is what is called a Roman cohort. A Roman cohort was made up of 600 soldiers. So this is given to us so we might understand that there were quite a number. That's why it's referred to as a great multitude. These men, these soldiers were stationed there in Jerusalem because during especially holidays there was a chance for the Jewish people to rise up and possibly riot because there were zealots among the Jews. One of Jesus' own disciples was a zealot and they were known for wanting to cause interaction during special holidays and things and so they had a detachment that was there on the northwest corner of the Temple Mount in a place called Antonio Fortress. There were also what are called the Temple Police and they had been dispatched by the Jewish authorities and also they're mixed together in the coming and the one who's probably in the front, we'll see in a moment, is a man by the name of Malchus. Malchus was one of the servants of the high priest and so they walk in and as they walk in, they walk directly past those eight who are there stationed at the entrance. Jesus had taken Peter, James and John and gone further in so the eight are there stationed at the entrance as they're entering in and you have Judas walk in there in the front with this large detachment, they have torches, lanterns, some of them are carrying clubs and others have swords so they're armed, they're dangerous and it must've been extremely frightening as they came in and they proceeded to walk directly to Jesus Christ and Judas is there leading them because he's there to betray him. Now what did Jesus do when he sees this and he's aware this is gonna take place because again, look at verse 42 here in Mark. It says rise, let us be going, see. My betrayer is at hand and then 43 immediately while he was still speaking, Judas one of the 12 with the great multitude, swords and clubs came from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders and so he says, my betrayer is here and so it's taking place at that time they've proceeded past the eight they're entering in. What's his reaction while he went out to intercept them? We need to remember that Jesus wasn't hiding somewhere in the darkness of that garden. He knew what was gonna take place and he actually went to greet them, to meet them. That's because the Bible makes it clear he voluntarily came to lay down his life. He didn't attempt to avoid arrest, he approached those who were about to arrest him. Now John gives more detail, let me read to you from John 18 verses four through nine. And John writes, Jesus therefore, knowing all things that would come upon him went forward and said to them, whom are you seeking? They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus said to them, I am he and Judas who betrayed him also stood with them. Now when he said to them, I am he, they drew back and fell to the ground. He asked them again, whom are you seeking? They said, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus answered, I've told you that I am he. Therefore, if you seek me, let these go their way that the same might be fulfilled which he spoke of those whom you gave me, I have lost none. To me, I've always found a ironic humor in this. You have all of these soldiers and you know anybody who's been alive more than 10 minutes know that if you've got a whole group of people, the more the people, the better you are. If it's just you by yourself, that's one thing.  If you've got five or 10 friends, you're the champion of the world because you get strength from all of the people. Imagine the amount of people that are walking with them and they're coming and Jesus walks up to them. You have to imagine that for a moment. And as he walks up, he says, whom are you seeking? And you can see a calmness in the Lord. He went out to meet them. He's not running, he's not hiding. He didn't climb a tree. He's not hiding behind a rock or anything. He walks up to them and he confronts them. He asks them, he interrogates them. They've come to arrest him, but he went and spoke to them. And so as he walks out, he asks, who are you seeking? And they respond. Now, why didn't they say you? Well, Jesus didn't glow in the dark. There was a reason why there needs to be betrayed in a certain way. We'll see that in a moment. So when he's approaching them and asking, whom are you seeking? At that moment, they're not yet sure who he is. And the scripture tells us that when he said, I am he, that they hit the ground. And for me, the ironic humor of it would be that they were standing here and now they're down there and he repeats himself. The first time he says, whom are you seeking? Second time he goes, whom are you seeking? And to me, that's kind of funny. Because they're looking up saying Jesus of Nazareth. And that gives to you insight into his power and authority. It gives you insight into the fact that they could not have taken him. We'll see that again in just a moment. They could not have taken him had he not voluntarily allowed them to. And that shows it. Now in verse 44, his betrayer had given them a signal saying, whomever I kiss, he is the one who sees him and lead him away safely. A short time before Judas had made arrangements to betray Jesus. Remember how that Mary had anointed Jesus with costly perfume? And after she had done that, Judas had made plans. Matthew tells us in chapter 26 verses 14 through 16, one of the 12, the one called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priest and asked, what are you willing to give me if I deliver him over to you? So they counted out for him 30 pieces of silver. From then on, Judas watched for an opportunity to hand him over. You see, Jesus knew that and Jesus spoke to him even at the Passover meal. And he had said to him, what you do, do quickly. And Judas had left immediately and now he's completing his betrayal. Now the sign that he had given was to keep Jesus from melting in with the others or the multitude. He had said to him, lead him away safely. That doesn't mean that he was concerned for the safety of Christ. That simply means place him under guard to prevent his escape. Well, as this is taking place, verse 45, as soon as he had come, immediately he went up to him and said to him, rabbi, rabbi, and kissed him. Then they laid their hands on him and took him. Again, imagine the confusion that's going on in this very quiet place. Imagine, if you can think of this, that Judas is in the front. There's someone with him up there named Malchus, servant of the high priest. Where's Jesus? He's right here. Judas goes up and kisses him. That's the sign he had given. Now I want to develop something. It'll take a moment to do that. Notice verse 45, as soon as he had come, immediately he went up to him and said to him, rabbi, rabbi, and kissed him.  This is a word that speaks much further than that.  It's in such a tense that it's not just a small kiss, it is smothering the face with kisses. Just this last Wednesday, my son, David, had my granddaughter, our granddaughter, Elena, with him.   That's what papa's grandpas do. Well, that's a sign of affection and tenderness. That's what Judas did to Jesus. He wanted to make sure that those who were about to arrest him knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that this was Jesus because you would normally greet one another with a holy kiss. That was just what they would do. So he repeatedly kissed him so that would be real obvious. This is the one, lead him away safely, take him without any problems is the point he's making here. So what he did is he betrayed the Lord with a kiss, which is a symbol of love and affection. Matthew 26 verse 50 gives Jesus his response. Jesus said to him, friend, why have you come? Notice that he speaks to him graciously. He treats him with kindness instead of anger. In Luke 22, 48 it says, Jesus asked Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss? Do you kiss me as a friend while delivering me to my enemies? Well, as this is taking place and they see it, verse 47, one of those who stood by drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his ear. I wonder who that might have been. John chapter 18 verses 10 and 11 says it like this.  The servant's name was Melchus. Now Jesus commanded Peter, put away your sword. Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me? Now, why would Peter be carrying a sword? It was common during that day to be armed. They were from the north and they traveled off into the south. So they would carry a sword with them. It was for obvious protection against wild animals and even the common person who would be coming that route would wear it for protection against those who might harm them. So when he sees what's taking place and it dawns on him that they're about to take Jesus, he drew a sword and he took a swing at the first person he could see. It just so happens it's a man named Melchus. Melchus would have been in the front because Melchus was the servant of the high priest and therefore would have been at the lead of the procession to come and arrest Jesus Christ. And so they're confused about what to do and Luke tells us in chapter 22 verse 49 when those around him saw what was going to happen, they said to him, Lord, shall we strike with a sword? So as they're saying that, what should we do? We don't know what to do. It's becoming a bit chaotic. There's lanterns and the torches and the noise and the voices and Judas has come. He's one of us and yet he's with Melchus and the soldiers and they're confused. And so the apostle Peter just draws a sword and he's looking for an opportunity and he takes it. He hits this man, Melchus. Now this has always been interesting to me when you think about it. It says to us in scripture, he cut off his right ear. Now if this person standing facing this person, if they're face to face, my right hand because Peter would have been right handed, the left hand was used for other things. The right hand would have been used for a sword. He swings with a sword and a man facing him. So if someone is here facing me and hit me and they take off my left ear, then how could they have gotten my right ear? Is it because Peter went like this?  What a punk, but that's what he did. Now Peter, I don't want to say something bad. I don't want to say something bad. I think it was just swinging at a target and it was right there. Now remember this, I want to develop this for a moment with you. Peter had boasted, I'll go to prison with you. And if it comes down to it, I'll die with you. I don't believe that was an impulsive boast at all. We see it here because here comes all these people and you've got to imagine, this is a huge amount of people. It's not like one, two, three. There are quite a number of people in multitude. So he had said that.  To me that's a very courageous thing to do. Again, as impulsive as the apostle Peter is and you see it in scripture. If it's you Lord walking on water, command that I should come and walk. He has an impulsive faith and love in Christ and so I would never want to put him down in any way. This is a man who shows you his heart by his impulsiveness, his willingness, like he had said earlier, his willingness to die. And he did it in the face of a huge mob with a certain knowledge that he would die. He was willing to do that. But somebody once said this, it is easier to fight for Jesus than it is to live for him. There's a certain amount of courage that well it could be over in just a moment. To die for Christ, it's a bit different to live for him. And so he was willing to die but Jesus stops him in Matthew 26.52. Jesus said to him, put your sword in its place for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. My kingdom, Jesus was saying, is not modeled after this world. In this world, the kingdoms are run by tyrants and they fight to keep their power. When Jesus was standing before the Roman governor Pontius Pilate and Pilate was interrogating him, Jesus in John 1836 said, my kingdom's not of this world. My kingdom is not modeled after the world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would fight so that I should not be delivered to the Jews but now my kingdom is not from here. My kingdom is not from this world. Jesus voluntarily allowed himself to be arrested because his hour had come. The scripture must be fulfilled concerning his death on our behalf. You see, that's what Isaiah had foretold when writing of the Messiah in Isaiah 53.7. Speaking of Messiah, he said, he's oppressed. He was afflicted. He opened not his mouth. He was led as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before it shears his silent. So he opened not his mouth. It must go the way that God determined. Malchus was injured but Jesus didn't leave him in that condition. He reached for him. Can you imagine that? And he healed him. His right ear.  The screaming that would have gone on. I can't imagine that getting hit like that and you're stunned and you begin to scream and then Jesus tells, put away your sword. My kingdom isn't like this. Then in the way that he models loving your enemies, he reaches and touches this man's ear and he heals it. And I was telling First Service, if Jesus had a sense of humor, he could have turned his ear upside down facing the other direction. Now that would have been funny.  But here you go. Jesus was not in need of human assistance. Jesus was submitting to the plan of salvation in Acts 2.23. Jesus was delivered by the predetermined purpose and foreknowledge of God. You see, he didn't need help, but if there was help to come, it wouldn't have been by man. It would have been angelic. In Matthew 26.53, do you think that I cannot now pray to my father and he will provide me with more than 12 legions of angels? A legion is as 12,000, that would be rather 6,000. Now that would be 72,000 angels. I don't need you. I don't need your help. I don't need your flesh. I don't need you. My father takes care of me. I'm yielding myself. Well, Jesus answered in verse 48, and he says to them, have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to take me? How was daily with you in the temple teaching? You did not seize me, but the scriptures must be fulfilled. I was with you in the temple. Now he's confronting the leaders, the priests and the elders, the temple guards. And in essence, he's calling them cowards. You have come at night to do what you could not do in the day. You see, the Bible tells us the reason they did this in a secret way is because they were afraid of the people. And so when Judas had contacted them, they were very pleased. In Luke 22, verse two, it says, the chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for some way to get rid of Jesus for they were afraid of the people. But later on in the same chapter, Luke 22, verses four through six, it says that Judas went his way and conferred with the chief priests and captains how he might betray him to them. And they were glad and agreed to give him money so he promised and sought opportunity to betray him to them in the absence of the multitude. So they were very glad that he did this. But Jesus confronts them, verse 49, I was daily with you in the temple teaching. You didn't seize me. Over the years, oftentimes I have taught in that temple. Recently I've been there several times. Why didn't you take me then? You had opportunity to do so. But this is happening that the scriptures must be fulfilled. Matthew says in chapter 26, verse 56, this has all taken place that the writings of the prophets might be fulfilled. The writings of the prophets, one of the things that makes Christianity unique is the reality that we have prophetic scripture. You don't find prophetic scripture in any other religious faith system on the face of the earth, prophetic scripture. God knows the beginning from the end. He knows the end from the beginning. He knows everything, he has all knowledge. Our God is able to say in advance what will take place is what he does. So all the way from the beginning in the book of Genesis chapter three, verse 15, you find the very first, in the first book, you see the very first promise of a Messiah when it says, I will put enmity between you speaking to the serpent and the woman, and between your seed and her seed, the seed that he's speaking of is Messiah, he shall bruise your head, you shall bruise his heel. That's the first prophecy of the death of Christ where Jesus crushed the head of the serpent. And the Old Testament contains no less than 300 prophecies concerning Messiah. So as we've seen, Jesus is a fulfillment of the symbol of the Passover lamb, his death, his burial, his resurrection, all of that was prophesied. And so he's saying this, the scripture must be fulfilled. All of what is taking place is according to divine purpose, including what is about to take place. Well, notice verse 50, then they all forsook him and fled. These are the ones Jesus poured his life into. The ways of the mentoring of disciples during that day was for the disciples to voluntarily associate themselves with the rabbi. And the rabbi would accept them and would begin to minister. So they would learn the way that he taught his philosophy of ministry, the way that he prayed, he would teach them these things. And when they were fully conformed to the things that he did, then they were able to be masters and train somebody else. And so Jesus took his men through a mentoring program. And Jesus, as he did so, spent a lot of time. Mark told us earlier in his gospel that he chose 12 that they might be with him. Now when you read your scriptures, you'll see that they have the multitude. And that would be whatever groups of people would show up, that was the multitude to come in here. But out of the multitude, he had the disciples. And out of disciples who are lifelong learners and followers of Christ, out of that group of disciples, he had the 70. Then he had the 12. Then you'll see that there were the three, there were the two, and sometimes there was the one. So you'll see that Jesus spent time with at least the 70 who understood and he could send them out to minister. But he especially spent time with those who were referred to as the apostles 12. And out of that 12, there were times that he would spend time with, well, four of them, Andrew, James, John, Peter. He would spend time with four. There were times it was Peter, James, and John. There were times it was just Jesus and a couple of the guys. And there were times when it would just be John speaking to Jesus. And you can see that there were all these concentric circles of relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. But these are the guys who would walk with him wherever he went. Remember, they didn't drive anywhere. They would walk and during the day of Christ, you could cover about 20 miles just walking during the day. So there were times he would go from the south to the north and it would be several days of walking and hiking. That means that they would very often camp out somewhere. They'd have that campfire thing going and they'd sit around it. They'd talk to the Lord and Jesus would speak to them and Jesus would pour into them. And it wasn't like just once in a while. It's not like today where people have so many distractions, so many things going on. This was a full-time thing. So he was with them quite extensively. For weeks and weeks and months at a time, they would be together and daily he would pour into these men. So they saw these things. They were able to hear him from the very beginning when he was there making water into wine in Cana of Galilee and they saw him as he did the various things through his ministry. They saw Jesus as he would teach. He'd go into a synagogue and they'd listen. He'd go into a person's house and they even saw him and he healed a man of his sins in a house. They saw him do that. They saw him three different times, raised dead people to life. They saw these things. They heard these things when the Pharisees would come up and wanna argue. They would take a step back and they'd say, get him, King Jesus. And Jesus would do that. He would correct them and exhort and admonish and rebuke and they saw all of this. And then later on they'd say, well, you said this today and I really didn't get it. Can you explain it to me? Can you imagine what that would have been like? And then they'd go to sleep next to him and they'd hear the sound of Jesus sleeping and just the thrill of that and they watched it. They saw it and they loved him. They loved him. Who wouldn't? I can imagine what it would have been like to be at a dinner with Jesus. To be sitting on one end of the table and just looking at him as people would crowd around him and I could imagine what it would be like to say that's my master. That's my master. I love him. And they hear him graciously speak. I mean, there were times when officers were sent to arrest him, go and get them and these officers came back and the religious authority said, where is he? You were sent to get him. No man ever spoke like this man. I was spellbound. You're asking me to take this man? I can't do that. These men saw Jesus multiplying, fishing and loaves of bread, two different occasions, feeding multitudes. They saw Jesus when they were at the Gadarenes and here comes the demonic. Now Jesus delivered them and they were at his feet wanting to travel with them. They saw that. They saw that when they had recently come into the city and he's right in on this colt and the people are throwing palm branches in front and they're screaming and all this, Hosanna saved now. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. They saw that. Can you imagine that? And then they had that Passover dinner and Jesus looked at Judas. What you do do quickly. He went out into the night. Jesus is waiting but the men are still busy arguing amongst themselves who's the greatest because that's what they did. And now he's being taken. Peter can't stand it. Peter can't stand back. He can't let that happen. I'm not gonna let this happen. I can't let this happen. And out of an impulsive love and courageous act he pulls that sword in first thing near him. He sees a shadow. It doesn't matter. He hits him. Stop it. Put your sword away. This has to happen. The only thing I can do is fight and die. I don't know what else to do.  They hide in the darkness. They all forsook him and they fled. The ones he poured his life into left him. In Job 19, 13 and 14 it says, he's removed my brother's far from me. My acquaintances are completely estranged from me. My relatives have failed. My close friends have forgotten me. He was abandoned by his men but he wasn't abandoned by his father. They forsook him and fled but his father remained with him. Psalm 2710 says when my father and my mother forsake me then the Lord will take care of me. So this came as no surprise. It wasn't a shock. He had told him, you're gonna do this. Smite the shepherd, the sheep will be scattered. And that's what the enemy does too as a spiritual principle. Smite the shepherd, the sheep will be scattered. Who does the enemy come after the most? He comes after leadership. Keep that in mind. Because if he can cause, encourage a shepherd to fail, he doesn't just do damage to the shepherd. He damages every single person who trusted that shepherd. He damages them all. He can bring down people in the church when the pastor fails. Smite the shepherd then the sheep will scatter. That's why true shepherds need to be very careful and on their guard constantly because if they're taken down the people suffer too. Well, verse 51 says a certain young man followed him having a linen cloth thrown around his naked body and the young men laid hold of him and he left the linen cloth and fled from them naked. They grabbed him and pulled on him and his clothing, his robe if you will came pulling off and he just took off. He ran into the night. Commentators, many commentators say this very well could be Mark who's writing this particular gospel. One said it is probable that he had been awakened from his sleep by the noise made by those who came to apprehend Jesus having wrapped the sheet or some of the bed clothing about him. So when they tried to arrest him he ran to escape. He preserved his own life and so everyone including this person who's unnamed left him and even the Apostle Peter did. The one who said, I'll die for you. Peter is one of those and we'll close with this. One of those examples in scripture of a man who failed terribly but he also becomes an example of God's tenderness and ability to restore those who have fallen. And one of my favorite messages that I receive from this is when Jesus restored his beloved friend, the Apostle Peter. We'll be looking at that. I don't wanna give too much but I'll close with thought. Jesus looks at him and there again in the early morning hazy light, Peter's sitting there and Jesus looks at him and says to him, Peter do you love me? You know all things. You know I have a deep friendship for you. He did that three times and Jesus said to him finally, take care of my lambs and take care of my sheep Peter.  Never forget that. You can run a thousand miles away from God but it only takes one step to come back. Never forget that. It only takes one step to come back and Jesus restores the brokenhearted. He restores those who have fallen. Peter forsook him and fled with the others. Later he will deny that he ever knew him three times and yet three times Jesus asked him, do you love me? Yes, do you love me? Yes, you know all things. You know I love you. Take care of my babies. You're restored. Anybody here who needs to hear those words today, those are for you. You may have run a thousand miles from Jesus. It takes one step to come home. Come home.  That's the God we serve.