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We model the total mass and galactic substructure in the strong lensing galaxy cluster MACS J0138.0-2155 using a combination of Chandra X-ray data, Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) spectroscopy, and Hubble Space Telescope imaging. MACS J0138.0-2155 lenses a source galaxy at z=1.95 which hosts two strongly lensed supernovae, Requiem and Encore. We find MACS J0138.0-2155 to have an X-ray temperature of 6.7 +/- 0.4 keV and a velocity dispersion of cluster member galaxies of 718^{+132}_{-182} km/s, which indicate a cluster mass of ~5 x 10^{14} solar masses. The round morphology of the X-ray emission indicates that this cluster is relaxed with an ellipticity within the lensing region of e=0.12 +/- 0.03. Using 18 of the brightest, non-blended, quiescent galaxies, we fit the cluster specific Faber-Jackson relation, including a set of 81 variations in the analysis choices to estimate the systematic uncertainties in our results. We find a slope of alpha = 0.26 +/- 0.06 (stat.) +/- 0.03 (sys.) with an intrinsic scatter of 31^{+8}_{-6} (stat.) +/- 4 (sys.) km/s at a reference velocity dispersion of ~220 km/s. We also report on significant galaxies along the line-of-sight potentially impacting the lens modeling, including a massive galaxy with stellar velocity dispersion of 291 +/- 3 km/s$ which lies close in projection to the central cluster galaxy. This galaxy is part of a small group at a slightly higher redshift than the cluster., Comment: submitted to Open Journal of Astrophysics