Passover, one of Judaism's most revered holidays, honors the ancient Israelites' freedom from slavery in Egypt.
Jesus atefigs, which we know from the fact that on his way to Jerusalem, he reached for a fig tree but it was not the season for figs. At the Last Supper in John's Gospel, Jesus gives Judas a morsel dipped in a dish, which almost certainly was a dish of olive oil. What is Jes...
“You have judged correctly,” Jesus said. 44Then he turned toward the woman and said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You did not give me any water for my feet, but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. 45You did not give me...
Stephen? The Jews found many ways to kill, besides crucifixion (which is — by the way — how the fanatics prepare their lamb for passover even today in Isrealhell.) As far as the burning of Rome, one might well ask — was it to further the building of a new marketplace for Jew ...
17 So when the crowd had gathered, Pilate asked them, “Which one do you want me to release to you: Jesus Barabbas, or Jesus who is called the Messiah?” 18 For he knew it was out of self-interest that they had handed Jesus over to him. 19 While Pilate was sitting on the judge...
Back to Jerusalem: I was getting famished and saw this sign, but of course the place was closed. Even as I write this my tummy is growling: No soup for me! Kubbe has semolina dumplings in it. I won’t mention the soup dispenser in Seinfeld. ...
When he was tempted Luke 4, it was said that the tempter "departed from him for a season." There is no improbability in supposing that he might be permitted to return at the time of his death, and exercise his power in increasing the sufferings of the Lord Jesus. In what way this ...
The 10th of Tevet is one of the four fasts associated with the destruction of the temple of Jerusalem. Specifically, it marks the beginning of the siege around Jerusalem by the Babylonians, prior to the destruction of the first Temple. (What a coincidence that Iraq is ancient Babylonia.) ...
With this, Jesus describes a fractal, and specifically the multi-dimensional fractal matrix of a living, conscious mind. Everybody who has ever entered this miraculous collective mind has done so at the child's level: at such a simplified level that one can still see the whole. Not every...
He is the new sacrifice, the unblemished male lamb offered to God on the high holy day of Passover, the Israelite celebration of remembrance when God saved Israelites from the cruel bondage of Egyptian servitude. When Jesus died, the temple veil was shorn in two. That veil, depicting the ...