[unknown] - Lenten Meditation and Music (1997)
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- | Almighty God, your blessed son, was lead by the spirit | 0:04 |
to be tempted by Satan, come quickly to help us who are | 0:06 | |
assaulted by many temptations, and as you know the weakness | 0:11 | |
of each of us, let each one find you mighty to say, | 0:14 | |
through Jesus Christ, your son, our Lord, amen. | 0:18 | |
(piano music) | 0:24 | |
(choir singing) | 0:40 | |
- | Early in the morning, he came again to the temple. | 4:54 |
All the people came to him and he sat down | 4:58 | |
and he began to teach them, the scribes and the pharisees | 5:00 | |
brought a woman, who'd been caught in adultery, | 5:03 | |
and making her stand before all of them, | 5:06 | |
they said to him, "Teacher, this woman was | 5:09 | |
caught in the very act of committing adultery." | 5:11 | |
Now in a loll, Moses commanded us to stone such woman, | 5:15 | |
now what do you say, they said this to test him, | 5:19 | |
so that they might have some charge to bring against him, | 5:22 | |
Jesus bent down, and wrote with his finger on the ground. | 5:26 | |
When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up, | 5:31 | |
and said to them, "let anyone among who is without sin, | 5:34 | |
be the first to throw a stone at her." | 5:38 | |
And once again he bent down, and wrote on the ground. | 5:41 | |
When they heard it, they went away one by one, | 5:45 | |
beginning with the elders, Jesus was left | 5:48 | |
alone with the woman standing before him, | 5:52 | |
Jesus straightened up, and said to her, | 5:54 | |
"Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" | 5:58 | |
She said, "No one, sir." | 6:02 | |
And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you, go your way | 6:05 | |
and for now on, do not sin again. | 6:09 | |
Neither do I condemn you, go your way, | 6:14 | |
and for now on, do not sin again." | 6:18 | |
(choir singing) | 6:27 | |
- | Toward the end of his critique of pure reason, | 10:02 |
Emmanuel Comte admits that reason alone fails us | 10:05 | |
on just two points, within the limits of reason, | 10:09 | |
one can explain neither the existence of evil, | 10:13 | |
nor the presence of hope, how is it possible to hope | 10:17 | |
in the midst of evil, evil itself is a great mystery. | 10:22 | |
Why are you so bad, no more to the point, why do I sin? | 10:28 | |
Why am I conjunctively disposed to organize the | 10:34 | |
whole world around me, and I lie, why I even stand on | 10:37 | |
the bathroom scales fully clothed in the morning, | 10:42 | |
I say, why, such heavy cloths I have on today. | 10:46 | |
Look I'm not right left to my own devices, I will always | 10:51 | |
present to you my idealized image, I will manipulate, | 10:55 | |
I will love me and I will use you to love me even more. | 11:01 | |
In short, I sin, there are seasons of the church here | 11:07 | |
more incomprehensible than Lent, but Lent, this 40 day | 11:12 | |
focus on our sin and it's consequence, this annual call | 11:17 | |
to repentance and introspection, Lent, has the cold, clear | 11:22 | |
ring of reality about it, doesn't it? | 11:26 | |
All new age or pop psychology, blatant wishful thinking | 11:29 | |
to the contrary, we, no I sin, Lent's 40 days is about | 11:34 | |
that, where you there when they crucified my Lord? | 11:42 | |
As a matter of fact, yes, you organize a good old | 11:47 | |
fashioned crucifixion for the child molester, | 11:51 | |
a convenient store stick up man, a welfare chiseller, | 11:54 | |
the president of the NRA, a sleazy TV evangelist, | 11:57 | |
what's a guy that produces MTV's Real World? | 12:01 | |
I'll be there, God help us, we have marched up | 12:04 | |
calvaries so many times to nail somebody to the wood | 12:08 | |
in our righteous indignation, yeah I was there, what of it? | 12:12 | |
God help us, and what hope, how to account, not for evil, | 12:18 | |
but how more difficultly, how do you account for hope? | 12:26 | |
If reason can't explain evil, is it anymore helping | 12:32 | |
in moving toward hope, one reason we or I find it hard | 12:36 | |
to be honest, where in the world do you take these moments | 12:42 | |
of latten truthfulness and honesty, wallow in our sin, | 12:47 | |
say, oh guilt is good, good for what? | 12:52 | |
No, if there is hope for us, for me, it might be a hope | 12:56 | |
not of our own devising, it must be some external | 13:03 | |
more than me gift, sin must be forgiven to be faced, | 13:08 | |
I need a God who doesn't shirk from taking me as I am, sin, | 13:16 | |
and all, some savior who doesn't shrink even from a cross, | 13:22 | |
because having me very long, and I'll find a cross for you | 13:29 | |
that fits, oh, God help us, and he does. | 13:33 | |
(choir singing) | 13:45 | |
- | When we gaze upon the crucifixion of Jesus, | 17:07 |
we are also reminded of the enviability of our own death, | 17:10 | |
Henry Owen, who's spiritual writings have inspired so many | 17:15 | |
of us reflects, upon the reality of death is his book, | 17:19 | |
Walk with Jesus, his words are especially poignant | 17:23 | |
giving Owens' own recent death, in the following excerpt, | 17:27 | |
he reminds us that in the light of the cross, | 17:32 | |
our own death is illumined with hope and meaning. | 17:35 | |
People are dying, every day, every hour, every minute. | 17:41 | |
They die suddenly or slowly, they die on streets of big | 17:45 | |
cities or in comfortable homes, they die in isolation | 17:49 | |
or surrounded by friends and family, they die in | 17:53 | |
great pain, or as if falling asleep, they die in anguish, | 17:57 | |
or in peace, but all of them die alone, facing the unknown, | 18:02 | |
dying is indeed a reality of daily life, and yet the world | 18:09 | |
generally goes about it's business, disowning this reality, | 18:13 | |
dying is often a hidden event, something to ignore or deny, | 18:18 | |
but all of life comes to an end, dying belongs to living. | 18:23 | |
Jesus was nailed to the cross, and for three hours he | 18:30 | |
was dying, he died between two men, one of them said to | 18:33 | |
the other, "We are paying for what we did, | 18:38 | |
but this man has done nothing wrong." | 18:41 | |
Jesus lived his dying completely for others, the total | 18:44 | |
exhaustion of his body, the abandonment by his friends, | 18:48 | |
and even of his God, all became the gift itself. | 18:53 | |
And as he hung dying in complete powerlessness, | 18:58 | |
nailed against the wood of a tree, there was no bitterness, | 19:02 | |
no desire for revenge, no resentment, nothing to cling to, | 19:06 | |
all to give, by being given away for others, his life | 19:12 | |
became fruitful, Jesus the completely innocent one, | 19:16 | |
the one without sin, without guilt, without shame, | 19:22 | |
died an excruciatingly painful death, in order that death | 19:26 | |
no longer would have to be ignored, but become a gateway | 19:30 | |
to life, and a source of a new communion, | 19:34 | |
as we look at the dying Jesus, we see the dying world, | 19:39 | |
Jesus, who on the cross, drew all people to himself, | 19:43 | |
died millions of deaths, he died not only to death of the | 19:47 | |
rejected, the lonely and criminal, but also the death of | 19:51 | |
the high and powerful, the famous and the popular, | 19:54 | |
most of all, he died the death of all the simple people | 19:59 | |
who lived their ordinary lives who grew old and tired, | 20:03 | |
and trusted that somehow their lives were not in vain. | 20:07 | |
We all must die, and we all will die alone, no one can | 20:13 | |
make that final journey with us, we have to let go what is | 20:18 | |
most our own, and trust that we did not live in vain. | 20:23 | |
Somehow, dying is the greatest of all | 20:28 | |
human moments, because it is the moment in | 20:31 | |
which we are asked to give everything. | 20:34 | |
Jesus' death reveals to us that we do | 20:38 | |
not have to live pretending that death is | 20:40 | |
not something that comes to all of us. | 20:43 | |
As he hangs stretched out between heaven and earth, | 20:45 | |
he asked us to look our mortality straight in the face, | 20:49 | |
and trust that death does not have the last word. | 20:54 | |
We can then look at the dying in our world | 21:00 | |
and give them hope, we can hold their dying bodies | 21:02 | |
in our arms and trust that mightier arms | 21:06 | |
than ours will receive them, and give them | 21:09 | |
the peace and joy they always desire. | 21:12 | |
In dying all of humanity is one, | 21:16 | |
and it was into this dying humanity that | 21:19 | |
God entered in Jesus Christ to give us hope. | 21:22 | |
Let us pray. | 21:28 | |
Oh, Christ our Lord, we are overwhelmed by your willingness | 21:31 | |
to give your all for our sake, we wonder what thoughts | 21:35 | |
went through your mind as you hung there on the tree. | 21:40 | |
What inner strength sustained you when you were | 21:43 | |
abandoned by everyone you loved? | 21:46 | |
What comforted you as you faced the abyss of death? | 21:49 | |
What gave you the courage to endure the suffering | 21:52 | |
and shame without anger or bitterness? | 21:55 | |
What hope enabled you to accept | 21:58 | |
powerlessness, trusting the outcome to God? | 22:01 | |
Your willingness to die on the cross remains | 22:07 | |
a mystery to us, but also a source of comfort and strength | 22:10 | |
because you lived and died and rose again, we have | 22:15 | |
confidence that our lives and deaths are not in vain, | 22:19 | |
because you walked the path that we must walk, | 22:24 | |
we can face death without fear, knowing that | 22:27 | |
death does not have the last word. | 22:30 | |
May the certainty of hope give us courage to live | 22:34 | |
and die as you lived and died, with nothing held back. | 22:37 | |
Help us open ourselves to the suffering and dying | 22:42 | |
of those around us, and also may they experience | 22:45 | |
compassion and hope, unite us in our shared suffering | 22:49 | |
that our individual burdens may be lightened, | 22:54 | |
and teach us how to live that in our lives, | 22:58 | |
the world may gain a glimpse of your | 23:01 | |
love given freely to all people. | 23:03 | |
In the name of our Lord and Savior, | 23:07 | |
Jesus Christ, we pray and hope, amen. | 23:09 | |
(choir singing) | 23:15 | |
- | Oh, all you who pass along this way, behold, | 26:33 |
and see if there is any sorrow, like unto my sorrow. | 26:38 | |
These words from the Book of Lamentations, | 26:44 | |
are the text you have just heard set to music by | 26:47 | |
Pablo Casals, an ancient text dating back to the | 26:49 | |
six century BC, married to a modern composition | 26:54 | |
written in 1942 AD, an unlikely match? | 26:57 | |
Spanning a bridge of 26 centuries in time. | 27:02 | |
What might have drawn this gifted composer | 27:06 | |
to these particularly anguished words? | 27:09 | |
Going back to the days after the Babylonian invasion | 27:13 | |
of Jerusalem in 587 BC we find a city which lay | 27:16 | |
in ruins, the palace and temple had been destroyed, | 27:21 | |
many, many people had been killed, | 27:26 | |
and leading citizens had been deported to Babylon. | 27:28 | |
The Book of Lamentations tells the heart breaking story | 27:31 | |
of the struggle for survival for those who were left | 27:35 | |
behind, graphic vignettes of the suffering of the people | 27:38 | |
are included, especially the children. | 27:42 | |
We read of infants and babes who faint in the street, | 27:45 | |
of children who beg for food, but there is no food, | 27:49 | |
and even of mothers who resort to cannibalism. | 27:54 | |
It's as if the poets are driving home the point that | 27:58 | |
can a people be even more devastated than this, | 28:01 | |
than when their own children cannot survive. | 28:05 | |
The sorrow and grief experienced in the face of war, | 28:09 | |
is so powerfully expressed in Lamentations, | 28:13 | |
that is has echoed throughout the ages | 28:17 | |
as a testimony to the horrors of violence. | 28:19 | |
Jews recite Lamentations to commemorate the fall of the | 28:22 | |
second temple, and Christians use parts of the book, | 28:25 | |
including this text, during holy week services. | 28:28 | |
Thus Pablo Casals, as an artist and Christian, | 28:33 | |
who's life was forever changed by the | 28:37 | |
ravages of war, chose a text with a rich | 28:39 | |
heritage to address the suffering of his own time. | 28:42 | |
In the spring of 1939, he became an exile after | 28:47 | |
his Spanish homeland was occupied by fascist | 28:51 | |
forces, he writes of that time, | 28:53 | |
"These things were too horrible to think about, | 28:56 | |
but I could not drive them from my mind. | 28:59 | |
I shut myself up in a room with all the blinds drawn | 29:03 | |
and sat staring into the dark, perhaps in the darkness | 29:06 | |
I hoped to find forgetfulness, relief from the pain, | 29:10 | |
but an endless panorama passed before my eyes. | 29:14 | |
Horrors I had witnessed in the war, faces of dear ones, | 29:18 | |
cities in ruin, and weeping women and children. | 29:23 | |
I remained in that room for days, | 29:27 | |
unable to move, perhaps near to madness or to death, | 29:29 | |
I did not really want to live." | 29:35 | |
But Casals never succumbed to the despair which threatened | 29:39 | |
to destroy him, he obtained a simple residence in | 29:42 | |
southern France, in a little village called Prada. | 29:46 | |
There he embarked upon a campaign to elicit | 29:50 | |
aid for the tens of thousands Spanish refugees, | 29:53 | |
even though conditions in Prada were | 29:57 | |
both difficult and dangerous, the conditions | 29:59 | |
in the refugee camps were far worse. | 30:02 | |
Men, women and children, herded together like animals | 30:05 | |
in tents and crumbling shacks, with no | 30:08 | |
sanitation facilities, little water, | 30:11 | |
and barely enough food to prevent mass starvation. | 30:14 | |
Casals was a tireless advocate for his people, | 30:18 | |
in spite of poor health, carrying on voluminous | 30:22 | |
correspondence, loading supplies, visiting the camps, | 30:25 | |
and giving benefit concerts on his cello around France, | 30:29 | |
even though his hands were beginning to tremble | 30:33 | |
because of so much letter writing. | 30:36 | |
After the end of the war, he continued to carry | 30:39 | |
the banner for world peace throughout his lifetime. | 30:42 | |
Having experienced suffering first hand, | 30:45 | |
he was unafraid to acknowledge the suffering | 30:48 | |
of others, and he was unwilling to let | 30:51 | |
the rest of the world forget about their plight. | 30:54 | |
All you who pass along this way, behold and see if | 30:58 | |
there is any sorrow like unto my sorrow, | 31:03 | |
could it be that uttering such a lament, | 31:07 | |
is one of the greatest acts of fidelity to God? | 31:10 | |
As it was in the days of the Babylonian exile, | 31:14 | |
of World War II, and now in our own time, in the | 31:17 | |
midst of unspeakable suffering, God hears our every cry. | 31:23 |
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- | "The quality of mercy is not strained. | 2:06 |
"It falleth on the earth, as gentle rain." | 2:09 | |
Shakespeare's words memorized by | 2:13 | |
generations of school children | 2:15 | |
speak to the power of mercy to completely change | 2:17 | |
the giver, the receiver, and the relationship. | 2:20 | |
But while God's mercy is pure and abundant, | 2:25 | |
it is our human tendency to find ourselves | 2:29 | |
very constrained about asking for God's mercy. | 2:32 | |
Many of us spend far more time believing we | 2:37 | |
deserve more than life is giving us. | 2:39 | |
We are loath to truly believe, | 2:42 | |
as our scripture and faith teaches, | 2:44 | |
that we are all sinners, and as such, all deserve death. | 2:47 | |
Self examination, and repentance, | 2:52 | |
is hard, intentional, focused work. | 2:54 | |
Life is already too demanding, too busy, | 2:58 | |
we are afraid to take the time to be quiet, | 3:02 | |
prayerful and open to asking for God's mercy, | 3:04 | |
because it might mean asking and hearing, | 3:08 | |
that we must change. | 3:11 | |
To ask for God's mercy is to ask for something | 3:15 | |
far more shattering, far more devastating, | 3:18 | |
far more transforming than a perfunctory absolution, | 3:21 | |
as if forgiveness is a get out of jail free card. | 3:25 | |
We are like young child, hysterical about be put | 3:31 | |
into time out for misbehavior. | 3:34 | |
We dread a season of being asked by God | 3:37 | |
to consider what much change in order for us to come | 3:40 | |
into a closer relationship with the one who loves us | 3:43 | |
enough to die for us. | 3:47 | |
And like that same child furious at the parent, | 3:50 | |
our tears give away sooner or later to a far | 3:53 | |
more powerful desire to be held, to be embraced, | 3:57 | |
to be told that, "Child of mine, I love you. | 4:01 | |
"I will never abandon you, I will always seek you, | 4:06 | |
"and always welcome you back." | 4:10 | |
Lent invites us through quiet, through self examination, | 4:14 | |
through confession, to reach for the forgiving, | 4:18 | |
loving arms that are extended across time, | 4:20 | |
across sin, even from a cross of wood, | 4:24 | |
to receive us into his saving embrace. | 4:29 | |
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- | On that fateful day, that Friday, | 10:09 |
Pilot asked him, "Are you king?" | 10:12 | |
Jesus answered, "Do you ask this on your own | 10:15 | |
"or did others tell you about me?" | 10:18 | |
"My kingdom, is not from this world. | 10:21 | |
"My kingdom, is not from here." | 10:24 | |
Each Sunday I try to preach the gospel in a chapel | 10:29 | |
in the middle of a great university. | 10:32 | |
My home is within the domain of higher education, | 10:35 | |
in a college, a large university. | 10:37 | |
Preaching the gospel of Jesus with in an | 10:41 | |
academic setting, in the middle of the world's | 10:44 | |
intelligence, yeah, that's a great challenge. | 10:46 | |
There is something about the gospel, | 10:50 | |
there's something within the message of Jesus, | 10:52 | |
which makes it well, uneasily in a setting | 10:55 | |
like this one, that uneasiness is for me, | 10:59 | |
symbolized by a wood carving the alter at Duke chapel. | 11:03 | |
Here in Duke chapel, high over the alter, | 11:09 | |
carved in lime wood, the central scene, | 11:11 | |
is Good Friday's gospel. | 11:15 | |
Jesus, before pilot. | 11:18 | |
How do you account for this weird, iconography. | 11:21 | |
I don't know of any other church in the entire | 11:25 | |
Christian world that has these particular scenes | 11:28 | |
over its alter. | 11:31 | |
Why, of the scenes from the story of Jesus, | 11:33 | |
this one, and here, center stage, at a university chapel? | 11:36 | |
If you look carefully, you can see them there, | 11:41 | |
Jesus at the center, quite, erect, serene, | 11:44 | |
a sadness carriage of justice swirling around him. | 11:48 | |
See Pilot, on his judgment seat, he looks hesitant, | 11:52 | |
trembling, despite his soldiers backing him up. | 11:57 | |
The (in foreign language), Roman wolf, | 12:00 | |
sign of Pilot's power emblazend upon his throne. | 12:04 | |
See the soldiers, backing up Pilot's power | 12:09 | |
with their swords and their big shields. | 12:12 | |
Now, why? | 12:16 | |
Of all the scenes from the story of Jesus, | 12:18 | |
why this one here, focal point at a university chapel? | 12:20 | |
I think I know. | 12:27 | |
I think you know. | 12:28 | |
"Are you king of the Jews," Pilot asked, | 12:30 | |
he asked with a certain condescending sneer, I think, | 12:33 | |
big, powerful, Pilot, with the legions of Rome, | 12:37 | |
and all it's classical western civilization | 12:41 | |
backing him up. | 12:44 | |
Powerful, Pilot, before this whipped, bleeding, | 12:45 | |
bedraggled, Jew, Jesus. | 12:48 | |
Pilot asked, "Are you king?" | 12:52 | |
Some of the soldiers surly snickered. | 12:55 | |
Jesus replys, "Are you asking this on your own, | 13:00 | |
"or did one of your bosses in Rome, | 13:03 | |
"write out the question for you?" | 13:05 | |
Pilot, like any good bureaucrat, knows not how | 13:07 | |
to think for himself, Jesus implies. | 13:10 | |
Little todies, can't speak without checking it out | 13:15 | |
with their superiors up at city hall. | 13:17 | |
"Well how should I know who you are, I'm not a Jew am I?" | 13:20 | |
sneers Pilot, and Pilot, despite himself, | 13:23 | |
has answered truthfully by his sarcastic question. | 13:28 | |
Pilot doesn't know, can't know. | 13:32 | |
He is a Roman, a Gentile, oh he knows power, | 13:36 | |
the power of the sword, Roman law, Roman legions, | 13:40 | |
all he knows is that kingdom. | 13:44 | |
That kingdom propped up by the sword, the Roman | 13:47 | |
occupation forces in Judea, violence, the clenched fist, | 13:49 | |
the Roman Bar Association. | 13:53 | |
"Well my kingdom is not of this world," Jesus tells him. | 13:57 | |
Jesus domain is not the kingdom of Pilot, | 14:01 | |
it's not Rome, it's not the power, the Pentagon, | 14:04 | |
the UN USA GM IBM and all our assorted contemporary | 14:07 | |
imperial powers. | 14:11 | |
"My kingdom, is not from here," says Jesus. | 14:14 | |
And one of the most gorgeous understatements | 14:18 | |
in the whole gospel of John. | 14:20 | |
"My kingdom, is not from here." | 14:23 | |
And as if to close the case, Jesus says, | 14:27 | |
"I have come into the world to testify to the truth." | 14:31 | |
In a last ditch effort to salvage the conversation, | 14:37 | |
Pilot resorts says people around here at the university, | 14:39 | |
so often do when faced with something so threatening | 14:42 | |
as Jesus, Pilot resorts to philosophy. | 14:45 | |
"Now what is truth?" He asks. | 14:50 | |
And the confrontation between Jesus and Pilot, | 14:54 | |
Jesus and Rome, Jesus and Western Civilization 101, | 14:57 | |
is resolved in the conventional gentile fashion, | 15:01 | |
Pilot orders that Jesus be beaten half to death. | 15:06 | |
"My Kingdom is not from here." Jesus says. | 15:10 | |
As the soldiers, just following orders, lead him away. | 15:15 | |
"My Kingdom is not form here." | 15:19 | |
It really isn't you know. | 15:24 | |
You walk out of our gothic Duke chapel into bright sun, | 15:27 | |
and you see the kingdoms here. | 15:30 | |
Divinity, and the dozen verses proceeding this | 15:32 | |
encounter with Pilot, you'll find Jesus encounter | 15:35 | |
with professional theologians. | 15:38 | |
Philosophy, what is truth? | 15:40 | |
ROTC, just following orders. | 15:43 | |
Law, the Judge's name was Pilot. | 15:46 | |
Even our beautiful, chapel, | 15:50 | |
the preacher's name was Caiaphas. | 15:53 | |
Here are kingdoms, here is our power, | 15:56 | |
backed up by government grants, propped up by the | 15:58 | |
economic status quo, here we sit and ponder truth. | 16:01 | |
Here we do the research that leads to the weapons | 16:06 | |
of mass destruction, here is where the best | 16:08 | |
and the brightest of our young come to access the | 16:11 | |
path to power as this kingdom defines power. | 16:13 | |
Here they come to receive our ticket to success, | 16:17 | |
as this kingdom defines success, here. | 16:20 | |
That is why some inspired artisan, placed this | 16:25 | |
particular scene from John's gospel, above our alter. | 16:28 | |
Jesus, judge by everything you and I hold dear. | 16:35 | |
Everything for which we work here. | 16:40 | |
Everything to which we sacrifice our children, | 16:43 | |
everything here, to be assaulted by searing words | 16:46 | |
of Jesus, judgment. | 16:51 | |
"My kingdom is not from here." | 16:53 | |
Our kingdoms, the realms we so murderously defend, | 16:58 | |
are named Bosnia, Northern Ireland, United States. | 17:02 | |
We would do almost anything for our kingdoms, | 17:07 | |
and we have done almost anything in this century, | 17:08 | |
in their defense. | 17:11 | |
More people have been killed in this century, | 17:13 | |
by their own government, than have | 17:16 | |
even been killed in war. | 17:18 | |
The scene of Jesus before pilot, the prophet of truth | 17:20 | |
before the principalities and powers of the modern state, | 17:24 | |
has been reenacted dozens of times in dozens of places, | 17:27 | |
and yet he testifies to the court, | 17:32 | |
"My kingdom is not from here." | 17:35 | |
Having thus judged us, and our empires, | 17:41 | |
standing before us over the alter of our chapel, | 17:44 | |
he invites us to break free, to cut loose, | 17:48 | |
to join him on his way toward a new world, | 17:52 | |
a different kingdom, God's kingdom, a kingdom | 17:56 | |
where the truth can be told. | 18:00 | |
And the innocent need not suffer, and the crucifixion | 18:02 | |
of the righteous ends. | 18:06 | |
A kingdom, thank God, not of this world. | 18:08 | |
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- | Now certain man was ill. | 20:44 |
Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of | 20:46 | |
Mary and her sister Martha. | 20:48 | |
Mary was the one who anointed the lord with perfume, | 20:50 | |
and wiped her feet with her hair. | 20:53 | |
Her brother Lazarus was ill. | 20:55 | |
So the sister sent a message to Jesus. | 20:57 | |
Jesus however had been speaking about his death, | 21:00 | |
but they thought he was referring merely to sleep. | 21:03 | |
Then Jesus told them plainly, Lazarus is dead. | 21:05 | |
For your sake, I'm glad I was not there, | 21:09 | |
so you may believe, but let us go to him. | 21:11 | |
Thomas, who was called the twin, said to his | 21:14 | |
fellow disciples, "Let us also go that we may die with him." | 21:16 | |
When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had | 21:21 | |
already been in the tomb for four days. | 21:23 | |
Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, some two miles away, | 21:25 | |
and many of the Jews had come to Mary and Martha | 21:29 | |
to consol them about their brother. | 21:31 | |
When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, | 21:33 | |
she went at met him. | 21:35 | |
While Mary stayed at home. | 21:37 | |
Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here | 21:39 | |
"my brother would not have died, but even now | 21:41 | |
"I know that God will give you whatever you ask of him." | 21:44 | |
Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." | 21:47 | |
Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again | 21:50 | |
"in the resurrection on the last day." | 21:53 | |
Jesus said to her, "On the resurrection and the like, | 21:55 | |
"those who believe in me, even though they die, | 21:58 | |
"will live, and everyone who lives, and believes in me, | 22:00 | |
"will never die, do you believe this?" | 22:03 | |
She said to him, "Yes lord, I believe that you are | 22:06 | |
"the Messiah, the Son of God, | 22:07 | |
"the one coming into the world." | 22:10 | |
When she had said this, she went back and called her | 22:12 | |
sister Mary, and told her privately, "The teacher is here | 22:15 | |
"and is calling for you." | 22:18 | |
And when she herd it, | 22:19 | |
she got up quickly and went to him. | 22:21 | |
Now Jesus had not yet come to the village | 22:23 | |
but was still at the place where Martha had met him. | 22:25 | |
The Jews who were with her in the house consoling her, | 22:29 | |
saw Mary get up and quickly go out, they followed her, | 22:31 | |
because they though that she was | 22:34 | |
going to the tomb to weep there. | 22:36 | |
When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, | 22:38 | |
she knelt at his feed and said to him, | 22:41 | |
"Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not of died." | 22:44 | |
He was greatly disturbed in sprit and deeply moved. | 22:47 | |
He said, "Where have you layed him?" | 22:50 | |
They said unto him, "Lord, come and see." | 22:52 | |
Jesus began to weep, so the Jews said, | 22:53 | |
"See how he loved him." | 22:56 | |
But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes | 22:57 | |
"of the blind man kept this man from dying?" | 23:00 | |
And Jesus again, greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. | 23:03 | |
It was a cave and a stone was lying against it. | 23:06 | |
Jesus said, "Take away the stone." | 23:09 | |
Martha, the sister of the dead man said to him, | 23:11 | |
"Lord, already there's stench because | 23:13 | |
"he's been dead for four days." | 23:15 | |
Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you, that if you believe, | 23:17 | |
"you would see the glory of God." | 23:20 | |
So they took away the stone, and Jesus looked upward | 23:22 | |
and said, "Father I thank you for having, heard me, | 23:25 | |
"I know that you always here, but I've said this, | 23:28 | |
"for the sake of the crowd standing here, | 23:31 | |
"so that they may believe that you sent me." | 23:33 | |
When he said this he cried with a loud voice, | 23:35 | |
"Lazarus, come out!" | 23:37 | |
The dead man came out his hands and feet bound | 23:39 | |
with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. | 23:42 | |
Jesus said to them, "Unbind him and let him go." | 23:45 | |
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