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Question: Hi, I was doing my daily reading this morning and became a little angry at Matthew 27:63, where the Pharisees called Jesus an “imposter.” Continuing the reading, the sentence said, “This last deception will be worse than the first.” This got me wondering: what did the chief priests and Pharisees mean by “the first”.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[127],"class_list":["post-12819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-about-this-site"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7071,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/should-we-be-picky\/","url_meta":{"origin":12819,"position":0},"title":"Should We be Picky?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"July 6, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jeffrey W. 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