One of the more controversial aspects of traditional Passion plays is the scene wherein Pontius Pilate offers to release one prisoner to the Jews, as part of what the Gospels indicate is a Passover custom in Roman-occupied Judea. The crowd gathered below chooses the criminal Barabbas, and insist that Jesus be crucified. The scene is [...]
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Garden Thursday – Living The Sermon
Posted in holidays, teachings, Thursday worship, tagged crucifixion, garden of eden, garden of gethsemane, gethsemane, maundy thursday, salvation by character, sermon on the mount, soteriology, thy will be done on 6 April 2009 | 2 Comments »
During the the Sermon on the Mount, while expounding on anger, adultery, oaths, and retaliation, Jesus repeatedly emphasized the importance of intention over action. It is not the act of adultery that makes us adulterers, but the desire. It is not the voicing of our hatred that is the sin, but the hatred itself. The [...]
