It All Goes Back To The End

The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapters 21-28

Jerusalem, the "Holy Land" were thousands of knights would fight in order to find the Holy Grail, and also fighting for the land. In this case, Jesus home. At least he was received with love and care, not with sticks and angry mobs. "And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee." (21:10-11) They all knew who he was, so ate least his disciples did something. He arrived, and what did he find? "And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves." (21:13)Humans are ambitious and terrible.

I like Jesus great ways of responding back. He is not only witty, but he shuts them up immediately. The Pharisees, the ones who are not okay with anything, obviously need to contradict Jesus, since Jesus is not true for them. "If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?" (22:45)They never dared to ask another question. Ha ha.

During the last super, Jesus mentions that one of his apostles will betray him, and after his death, all of them will freak out and leave. I guess he wanted to start positively. Being there, the last time eating of Jesus (since the wine is his blood and his body bread)and he tells them they will all become cowards. "Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I? And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me. The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born. Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said." (26:21-25)

I think being the one to betray Jesus, it must be a very bad profile. Thanks to Judas, Jesus was crucified. Why did Judas want to betray him? For what, money? Money can be wasted in no time, but the Son of God! After the miracles, the knowledge and the Holiness? How could he! It was so stupid, and vile. I imagine with anger how Judas would kiss Jesus in the hands showing the soldiers who the great man was. What would he receive, money, so he could waste it in no time.

As humans are evil, and will always be, they want to kill Jesus. Pilate is not strong enough to declare this man innocent. I guess it wasn't Pilate's fault fully. If he didn't crucify Jesus, I guess the angry mob would crucify him, and Jesus. So we turn back to the same story, Jesus in the cross, suffering for the humans he loved. And there, the humans who hated him, and declared death for him. "And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (27:45)

Jesus And All His Friends

The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapters 11-20

Jesus grows,into and adult. Performing more and more miracles. As said before in the other Gospels, he multiplied bread and fed thousands, resurrected some people, gave sight to the blind and cleansed the leprous. Simple stuff. Even so, his so called followers still did not believe him, until he walked on water. If Jesus couldn't give more proof. Not even a miracle worked for people to believe him.

Disciples are disciples, so they must be useful in something. "And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities." (11:1) So Jesus sends them off, to teach about him, and spread his popularity worldwide.

It is a tough job God expected from his son. Trying to change the wholes people thoughts and believes. "At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes." (11:25)Humans always go with the flow and nobody ever thinks for themselves. If they do, they are persecuted and killed, since that is what humans do. The, here comes this man, saying he is the "Son of God" and the " King of Jews". Obviously, the actual King of Jews must be infuriated. Anyways, people wont care of a wimpy man, so at least God did send him with something, miracles. Even so, miracles are not enough! How could one single man, of so any miracles, and at that time I think miracles didn't occur very often, and still, not be believed? What ere they back in that time?

It isn't so hard to believe watching while it actually happens. In today's society, it wouldn't matter since everything is a scam, or it works in order to win money. TV commercials and the Televentas is just stupid. A product that may grow your hair back with the latest technology and lazors. Or the abdominal thing that may grow your muscles in just fifteen days! I guess people back in that time would actually believe TV, but not the miracle man who is just curing a blind man.

It's A Jesus!

The Gospel According To St. Matthew Chapters 1-10

Everyone begat ten others. Those ten others begat other twenty, and it all starts with Abraham. After many generations of begating more and more people to this overpopulated world, finally came Jesus. "Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost." (1:18) Having the son of the most powerful being according to the Bible, must be very special. Simply knowing that God has chosen you to deal with this, its just too much. There is Mary, an extremely normal woman, whose life will change as soon as an angel comes and tell her she has the Messiah in her womb.

It must be so confusing, but also exciting. Telling this great news to Joseph was really hard. I think that in the beginning he thought "Is this woman insane?" or "What have you been drinking?" I guess it is simply too hard to believe. Anyways, it took another angel to get down there and convince Joseph of Mary's insanity. "But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost."(1:20) Finally after generations of begating more and more people, at least someone wasn't worthless.

I guess everything was fine until they came. "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem," (2:1) These "wise" men just came along to the currently King of the Jews "Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him."(2:2) Could not they be wiser? They just endangered the child and made thousands of others die in his place. It wasn't wise at all. Thanks to them, now Joseph and Mary had to become outlaws. Well done.

As Jesus grows int o an adult, he must start his quest. As God's son, he needs friends to bring home. "And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power againstunclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease." (10:1)is friends followed him, but Jesus was not that popular at all. Anyways, I still find very interesting how Jesus encouraged them to enter his group. "But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues; 18 And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles. 19 But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. If they follow him, they will all be persecuted, or maybe tortured and killed, but they should not be afraid. No wonder why Jesus didn't have so many friends.

We Foolish Idiotic Killers!

The Gospel According To St. Mark Chapters 12-16

The story of the vineyard made me think about society today. A humble man who grows a vineyard. He is doing pretty well, but the husbandmen are jealous and kill all the servants the lord of the vineyard would send. "And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard."(12:2)Humans have been very violent and stupid. Not mentioning that many kill themselves during wars trying to be at "peace", they just get killed, leaving us int he same situation we are today.

There will never be peace, just hatred. I guess it is natural for humans to feel hatred, but they are evil. We think we are superior to animals since we have the so called wits and a fat thumb. The thumb was the doom for everyone, humanity, nature and earth. According to the Bible it wasn't actually the thumb (we should not be against the thumb) but Adam and Eve, and the Tree of Knowledge. They are the doom of everyone. Yeah, God made a little mistake, so he sends a lot of people to change the world, including Jesus. Seriously, they failed. All of them. "And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?" (12:26)They keep on mentioning Moses, which is mentioned in John's Gospel too. Apparently, he was important. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Supposedly the followers of God that would change humankind. Sorry, but no change was made.

God, in such desperation, sends his own son, Jesus. What do humans do? Kill him. He was salvation, the only door for freedom. What do we do? Shut it close, persecute him and kill him. "Thou art not far from the kingdom of God"(12:34)Jesus was crazy! Everyone is way back form getting to the kingdom of God. I guess God didn't realized there was no hope, and decided to take his Son back to him. At least it could have been less painful.

Jesus's Got Talent

The Gospel According To St. Mark Chapters 7-11

The Pharisees, such delicate people who are not satisfied with anything. There comes Jesus, seen as an ordinary man, and with five loaves of bread, and simply two fish, he gives food for thousands of people. But, no, they are not satisfied. They just continue seeing Jesus as an ordinary man, no, a scam which only happens to cure the sick and feed the poor. What do they say? " Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?" (7:5)

Jesus would've been the solution to world hunger, but the idiots of that time decided to kill him. There is no good in humanity. Every time they see something good, they tend to destroy it. Jesus, a great example, famous, talented people. Michael Phelps, for instance. He is not even human! How could that guy win eight Olympic gold medals? He is a freak! But obviously, the pressure, society, made him do one of the worst things an athlete could do. And media helps to spread the word killing his career, his passion and his life. Tiger Woods. A great golf player. People wanted him to fail. He was ratted out by his prostitutes. Killed his life, his career and his dignity. It is obvious, nobody can take goodness. Everybody is waiting in the back, waiting for you to fail, and enjoying each moment.

It Was A Miracle

The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapters 1-6

We start as Jesus already an adult. To my surprise, John, my dear John appears Baptizing Jesus. "And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan." (1:9)It turned out to be St. John was a great St. Baptizing Jesus doesnt happen everyday. Even so, it is Mark here who should be the protagonist, since actually this is the Gospel According to St. Mark, not Jhon.

When Jesus was near some fisherman, he said: "And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men." (1:17)How to fish men instead of fish. By that time, I would simply continue fishing my fish, since everybody likes food, needs food, and demands food. Fishing men...what can you actually do with men? Work? I guess fishing for followers is a better reason.

Mark tells us about Jesus great miracles. "And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed." (1:42) Cleaning a leprose, resurrecting a girl, and multiplying bread and fish to thousands of people. He just did miracles like any day routine. He would just say "I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house. And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; in so much that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion." (2:11-12) It turns out to be that miracles are the new fashion now.

Leaving my bad knowldege of my own religion aside, I still couldnt beleive that Jesus could only get faith through people by just miracles. His apostles did not understand what Jesus would say, until he made another miracle. When Jesus suddenly came walking on the water towards them, they finally realized that this dude was powerful.

A Crown Of Thorns

The Gospel According to St. John Chapters 14-21

Death can never be taken easy, and the one who does, is just weird. Every time I think of death, I can never imagine how it really is. As many books describe, first they feel lots of pain (usually they are killed) and suddenly inner peace. But how is an author supposed to know how death feels like? You can only live once.

Knowing you have to die is obvious, everybody dies, but no one knows when. Jesus, predicts his own death since he predicts Judas betrayal. Before, Jesus had said " Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?" (6:71)It turned out to be that the devil was Judas. "Judas then, having received a band of menand officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons." (18:3) His betrayal was Jesus's ticket to death. Even though Jesus knew, I guess he must have been scared, especially knowing what was waiting for him.

Pilate's decision was very hard. "What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all". (18:38)After he decided he wouldn't choose, he let the people choose over Barabbas, an evil maniac murder and robber. "Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber." (18:40) I guess people prefer having a robber in their houses than a man who hasn't sinned at all.

Right in this part, where Pilate was thinking of Jesus fate was were I first saw the Passion of Christ. Through the movie, we could see Jesus suffering, and we also suffered with him. It was terrible, how the soldiers treated him, and how the people would believe in doing this. I still cant believe that such people could do such evil. Then, we saw Da Vinci's Code. The angel who had saved a monk once would kill, and then he would torture himself with the whips that also tortured Jesus.

What most freaks me out is the Christ's many people usually have. Why do they always have to put suffering? There it is, Jesus, with a crown full of thorns, his hands bleeding with needles, and his whole body whipped and weak. I cant believe people can sleep with that scene on their heads or in front of them.