{"id":13420,"date":"2022-11-11T19:15:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T19:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=13420"},"modified":"2022-11-11T19:15:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T19:15:25","slug":"john-1826","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/13420\/john-1826\/","title":{"rendered":"John 18:26\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Good Morning, Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">John 18:28 says, \u201cThen they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium, and it was early morning.\u00a0\u00a0But they did not enter the praetorium so that they would not be defiled but might eat the Passover.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Why would entering the\u00a0praetorium\u00a0have defiled the Jews?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Those foolish, evil men!\u00a0\u00a0How God must have felt seeing them worried about defiling themselves for Passover when they were leading the Lamb of God to slaughter!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Beth D.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">P.S.\u00a0\u00a0I have heard you pray when we are all together\u00a0and ask God to let us honor His Son.\u00a0\u00a0I feel that prayer this morning.\u00a0\u00a0It left me asking God to please let me have a heart to honor His Son.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Hi Beth.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Entering the praetorium would not have defile those men any more than they were already defiled in God\u2019s sight, but their tradition held that entering a Gentile\u2019s residence would defile them, and the praetorium was the official residence of the Roman governor.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\">Yes, to be given heart to honor God\u2019s Son is a great blessing, earnestly to be desired.\u00a0\u00a0May God always do that for us!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning, Pastor John, John 18:28 says, \u201cThen they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium, and it was early morning.\u00a0\u00a0But they did not enter the praetorium so that they would not be defiled but might eat the Passover.\u201d Why would entering the\u00a0praetorium\u00a0have defiled the Jews? Those foolish, evil men!\u00a0\u00a0How God must have felt seeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}