Wednesday, June 2, 2010

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)

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

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.