John, Elector of Saxony

And it was written because the Emperor Charles V, who was emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, had been dealing with, and in conjunction with the pope, dealing with this sort of wayward movement that was going on in basically the north, kinda northern outreaches of his Holy Roman Empire for a while, since, you know, if you, if we take 1517 as the starting point, right, you're talking about 13 years now, almost a decade and a half of this upstart monk, Martin Luther, who had seemed to set not just his little area, but more and more and more the world on fire with his teaching specifically on justification, and then, you know, as that related to the buying of indulgences or as that related to the sacrificial system and the mass, all these sorts of things, and was just being a real pain in the rear.

Now, Luther and Melanchthon and their other allies, where Luther taught at the University of Wittenberg, as well as Luther's elector, had been asking for the church to come together to have a d- what was called a general council to help decide what was right teaching for the church, because they felt like they had legitimate objections to the way the church was teaching on many things up to this point.

Luther thought he was gonna get this all the way back in 1521 at the Diet of Worms.

He didn't get it, and at the Diet of Worms, he was basically made a criminal for his teaching, a heretic.

They wanted a general council, which would've been a calling together of the pope and all the cardinals and bishop, you know, as many bishops as would be necessary to have make a decision on this, and they didn't get this.

But what Charles V does is he calls together an imperial diet, where they're going to consider the division and separation of the faith and what, what is the true Christian religion.

And Martin Luther's elector, Elector John, commissions Luther to kinda get together with his, his buddies that help him with these things.

Luther called them his Sanhedrin.

And it was written because the Emperor Charles V, who was emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, had been dealing with, and in conjunction with the pope, dealing with this sort of wayward movement that was going on in basically the north, kinda northern outreaches of his Holy Roman Empire for a while, since, you know, if you, if we take 1517 as the starting point, right, you're talking about 13 years now, almost a decade and a half of this upstart monk, Martin Luther, who had seemed to set not just his little area, but more and more and more the world on fire with his teaching specifically on justification, and then, you know, as that related to the buying of indulgences or as that related to the sacrificial system and the mass, all these sorts of things, and was just being a real pain in the rear.

Now, Luther and Melanchthon and their other allies, where Luther taught at the University of Wittenberg, as well as Luther's elector, had been asking for the church to come together to have a d- what was called a general council to help decide what was right teaching for the church, because they felt like they had legitimate objections to the way the church was teaching on many things up to this point.

Luther thought he was gonna get this all the way back in 1521 at the Diet of Worms.

He didn't get it, and at the Diet of Worms, he was basically made a criminal for his teaching, a heretic.

They wanted a general council, which would've been a calling together of the pope and all the cardinals and bishop, you know, as many bishops as would be necessary to have make a decision on this, and they didn't get this.

But what Charles V does is he calls together an imperial diet, where they're going to consider the division and separation of the faith and what, what is the true Christian religion.

And Martin Luther's elector, Elector John, commissions Luther to kinda get together with his, his buddies that help him with these things.

Luther called them his Sanhedrin.