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protect against such as disease, dust and pollution as we scrape, scratch and scrub, only prolong… we find that below dwells harmful lies. Subsequently, when we stop and dwell on these thoughts, we feel an ancient futility that was felt by a scriptural writer. Our efforts toward accomplishment drives some of us to anger, others to pleading, a few to bargaining, to shrugs, and still others to the very point of letting go. The thick burden becomes for us a dull, cracking substrate. However, thanks be to God, through Christ Jesus... a gift of eternal hope and faith can rightly cover all things. You see, unlike tired workmen or kings who finitely grip with despair in the face of this sinful misery, God does not rest from the doing of mercy. First, we learn that God came into this vanity save us.., to share our plight. Though innocent, Christ our salvation came into this fallen world deliberately..., to feel the painful pot stirred. We read… So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called the place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha. There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. Pilate also wrote a title and put it on the cross; it read, "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews." Many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek. The chief priests of the Jews then said to Pilate, "Do not write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'This man said, I am King of the Jews.'" Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written." When the soldiers had crucified Jesus they took his garments and made four parts, one for each |
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soldier; also his tunic. But the tunic was without seam, woven from top to bottom; so they said to one another, "Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be." This was to fulfill the scripture, "They parted my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots." So the soldiers did this. But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son!" |
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