It was truly an unusual sight for all Jewry to see a man of righteous character mixing freely and perhaps cheerfully with the uneducated common people, with tax collectors who were virtually expelled from the synagogues and Jewish society, and with the so-called “sinners” – the far-religious lovers of entertainment.…
In the biblical religion of Israel (the era of the Second Temple), the central and obligatory element according to the Torah was sacrifice: daily sacrifices, sacrifices on holidays, sacrifices for sin, purification, and so on. After the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in the seventieth year of…
At noon the marble villa gleamed in the sun. Inside, in the cool of the atrium, a patrician in a spotless toga sat by a low table. A servant handed him a cup of dark, thick wine—aged and aromatic, as if it had absorbed the centuries of his noble lineage.…
A man blind from birth does not know the difference between light and darkness—there is no bright morning or dark evening for him. Words like white, red, or blue are for him nothing more than sounds, behind which he guesses some meaning, but never truly experiences it. Yet he feels…
Here is an actor standing backstage. The dim light is filtering through the cracks in the curtain, the stage is breathing loudly with emptiness, the audience is waiting in the hall. He closes his eyes. He takes off – invisibly, but noticeably – the clothes of everyday worries, like an…
The sun was high, generously flooding the rocky banks of the Jordan with light. The river, slow and warm, flowed between willows and reeds. Bright reflections lay on the surface of the water – like silver birds that had settled down to rest. People stood on the shore with bare…
It was the third year of Jesus’ public ministry. He stopped in Bethany before attending the last Passover in His earthly life in Jerusalem. The villagers, including Lazarus, Martha and Mary, held a celebratory dinner in Jesus’ honor at the home of a certain Simon “the leper.” Lazarus and his…
One day a disciple came to Jesus and said, “Master, I would like to become one of your dedicated disciples, but my father is dying; may I go home to bury him?” Jesus replied something like this: If you want to be a messenger, you must leave the burying of…
Jericho in the time of Christ was an oasis fragrant with dates, roses, and road dust. A wealthy trade hub on the caravan routes, it bustled with noisy bazaars and guards at its gates. The weather was hot; above stretched an almost cloudless blue spring sky, and the blinding light…
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Imagine that before you stands a being that knows everything about you. It sees not only your deeds but also what kind of person you could become under different circumstances. It knows your whole life — past, present, and even what has not yet happened. It looks at you and notices things you do not…
There is a striking detail in John’s account of the crucifixion: Jesus’ legs are not broken. At first glance this looks like a random historical minor detail, but in John’s text it carries powerful symbolic meaning. John insists that Jesus is literally the Passover Lamb. At the end of the crucifixion narrative we are told…
Many contemporary evangelicals believe that a war in the Middle East must occur for Christ to return. That creates a serious moral dilemma when believers support real wars in the region and forget their Teacher’s command to overcome evil with good. It’s a very interesting and complex topic. American evangelicals link Middle Eastern wars to…
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