This
evening, Jesus of Nazareth and a small band of travelers will gather
to celebrate the Passover. He will speak of a new covenant. He will
have a moment of doubt. This moment will pass. He will be taken in
the dead of night by the authorities. He will be beaten with whips
and fists. He will be mocked and scorned and summarily executed.
He lived in a time of war, brutality, hatred, military occupation, political and religious divisiveness, incurable disease, abject poverty, greed, shifting loyalties, and hidden agendas. And yet in the face of this barbarism, the powers that be, so feared his simple message, that they felt compelled to destroy him.
His message was, is, and always will be, love.
He lived in a time of war, brutality, hatred, military occupation, political and religious divisiveness, incurable disease, abject poverty, greed, shifting loyalties, and hidden agendas. And yet in the face of this barbarism, the powers that be, so feared his simple message, that they felt compelled to destroy him.
His message was, is, and always will be, love.
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