Whassup, bro's!
Well, it's Easter weekend and the Easter bunn... nope, I'm not gonna do it, I thought about it, but I'm not gonna say it. I'm gonna take a moment now to talk about the real meaning of Easter for me.
Yesterday (for 'tis the early hours of Saturday UK time when I write this!), I went to a Good Friday service under the proviso that I was to perform a dramatised reading of a section of the post-Crucifixion period. I was to emulate the role of a centurion (thank goodness it wasn't fancy dress or I'd have looked a right... well, tool!) who was justifying why he'd done what he'd done, merely stating that he was just following orders from Pontius Pilate.
You know? At this point I confess that when I was younger, I used to hate drama...
No I mean seriously because it meant coming out of my shell and that was something I just couldn't bring myself to do!
Why? Because I was afraid of making an a$$ of myself, which is the whole point of drama!
Now? Well, I've already detailed some of my exploits of recent years (the best one was of course being nominated as a team leader without even seeming to try on my part!) and it leaves me marvelling where I'll be in five years time, simply because I grabbed life by the balls and lived it in a balls-to-the-wall kind of never say never attitude (feck! that reminds me of a certain song by a certain gobsh... no, I won't say that, it's not nice!)... better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all... or failure is the first step to success, whichever way you wish to look at it.
Back to point, following the Centurion, there was Pilate's account of why he did what he did... he was the man that made it abundantly clear "look, bro's, I find this man (talking of Jesus of course) completely innocent yet you want Him punished!" - his take being that he was just following orders and that people should then look to Caiaphas, the leader of the High Court at that time.
Caiaphas was an interesting one because he claimed that all he was doing was upholding the law, which was something that somebody had to do whether they liked it or not. To him, Jesus was a man that was being punished for showing audacity to claim that not only was He a prophet from God, but He was going to ascend to His right hand.
Finally, there was everyone's favourite betrayer; Judas Iscariot and of course this is an often misunderstood chap whom people like to use when they talk about football transfers as an example (who can forget the Spurs fans' reaction when Sol Campbell stepped across North London to sign for Arsenal?!). When, in actual fact, and this is the truth the way I see it... Judas was a man who had a love of money, scripture tells us that every so often he would help himself whenever the fancy took him, proving that he was just a man after all.
So why all the hatred for him, bro's?!
Someone had to be the tool that was used to have Jesus handed over from the seemingly 'untouchable' state of going around healing & prophesying in the Name of God on the Sabbath to a state whereby he could be arrested for trumped up charges of heresy and blasphemy. The bro' was merely being used by God to ensure that His plan went off without a hitch!
Contentious? Hardly when you look at it in close enough detail as I have done!
Final Thought
With all this now said and done for today, what is left is to get you to have a look at the story for yourself in the gospels of Matthew & Luke to see first of all the comparable differences in the accounts, followed by the fact that each person had a role to play in ensuring that God's plan, to have Jesus born a man, die a man to be raised up again on the third day, went off without a hitch!
Interesting don't you think? ;)
Or, you can just class it as hogwash and ignore it, the point is that I've said my bit as 'The Lanky Penguin' (a moniker which I assure you I will address in the days to come!) standing on his lot, staking his claim for what he believes in... why?
BECAUSE HE CAN!!!
Peace out & respect, bro's!
S.R. Cook
(aka The Lanky Penguin)
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