#gospels
Scenes from the Life of Christ: 10. Entry into Jerusalem, Giotto, between 1304 and 1306
The Incredulity of St. Thomas, François-Joseph Navez, 1823
Noli me Tangere, Master of the Lehman Crucifixion (Jacopo di Cione?), between 1368 and 1377
Christ and His Disciples in Emmaus, Jacob Andries Beschey (1710-1786)
(Walters Museum Amida Gospels MS W.541 5v detailthedigitalwalters… 17th c. Amida, Armenia.)
Matthew 25:40
First edition of the Gospels in Anglo-Saxon, with parallel text in English. It is one of four books printed in Anglo-Saxon types by John Daye for Matthew Parker (1504-1575), Archbishop of Canterbury, who in 1574 left his marvellous collection of over 600 medieval manuscripts to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
What is notable about the Alexander Turnbull Library copy is the inscription found on the title-page, which notes that this book was presented as a gift by Parker to the lawyer and MP Sir John Savile (1546-1607) of the Middle Temple on 15 August 1571.
The volume was received by the Turnbull Library in 1974 as part of the Sir Arthur Howard bequest.
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The Gospels of the fower Euangelistes translated in the olde Saxons tyme out of Latin …London: Iohn Daye, 1571, Alexander Turnbull Library, Howard 25.
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John 14:7 - “Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.”
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I love Peter. My church is beginning a new sermon series on Peter after Easter, so I’ve been sort of doing my own “research” beforehand. This website: http://www.guidedbiblestudies.com/topics/simonpeter.htm has sort of a basic overview of Peter’s life/time with Jesus. It’s awesome.
The more I look at Peter, the more I see myself. Peter was passionate and loyal, but also frail and weak-hearted and rash when he should have trusted or had better faith. John was the “good child”… Peter was the leader. How many times have I been that in my life?
I love seeing how Peter’s change from fisherman to founder of the Church wasn’t instantaneous or even easy - it was JOURNEY, much like that of Pilgrim’s Progress. Peter makes sooo many wrong choices, some of which may even have been well-meaning. But he, like King David, always LEARNED from his mistakes. John was the devoted, loving follower. Peter went in and out, fearing and then trusting - but when he came out the end, it made him into a ROCK.
When Jesus named Peter “Petrus”, he was not referring to Peter’s PRESENT state - he was referring to what he would become.
How often do we not believe God’s words in our life because we look at ourselves and say “me? now? yeah right.”? But God doesn’t look at us NOW - he looks at what we can BECOME. Like Peter, he knows we’re humans.. we mess up… but he also knows that if we make it through, we will be strong as a rock when we come out on the other side.
That ending statement is so true though. The irony of this situation is that Jesus did the exact same thing to Judaism. He was raised a Jew and was devout. He respected the ideals behind the faith and taught the lessons of the scripture as well but he just couldn’t abide by the elitism of the teachers of the faith or by how people would take advantage of others who were faithful. Even with the faith being a law (literally and socially) that excluded anyone who did not identify as Jewish Jesus practiced what he preached.
He taught the infidels and outsiders; he engaged socially with pariahs; he spoke to women with greater respect than their culture expected; he welcomed the downtrodden, the sick and the social outcasts. Heck when a roman general (I think that was the correct rank though I could be wrong) came to him asking for his… friend? to be healed Jesus basically told him “yeah buddy your guy is healed cuz you had the courage to ask regardless of your own religion/faith/ideals.”
Jesus taught and healed and helped and lead the people around him. He didn’t care about who you were or where you came from as long as you didn’t disrespect others in their practices, or take malicious advantage of them. And this guy was a passive aggressive radical in his day. Like so many of his actions are taught as peaceful or passive were actually socially incitive.
Jesus was a devout Jew but he was devout to the faith not the self-serving interpretations. He would clash with the leaders of the different sect but he would still defend the temples and places of prayer. He still taught the faith from the scriptures. He still attended the rituals, prayers and celebrations. He still practiced his faith. He just did it in the truest sense of his understanding of it.
If Jesus can stand strong with his faith while setting it apart from the establishment then so can you.
*pinches nose and sighs Jewishly* It was just Shavuot.
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