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I just thought some of you might find my imagination of the scene on Golgotha, after Jesus was take down from the cross, similar to your own. Here it is anyway:
It occurred to me recently what an eerily-surreal scene the site of the cross on Golgotha must have seemed to Jesus' mother and his friends, as they had been left on their own ; his murderers, their retinue of mocking knaves, and the other onlookers having fled in such horror at the testimony of the tearing from top to bottom of the Temple curtain, and the very elements of nature, that this 'truly' was 'the son of God'.
But just to make it all that bit more weird, the mob evidently scurried away in terror, without thinking to apologise to Our Lady and the disciples or begging their forgiveness. The status of Jesus' folk had not been reinstated from that of detritus, keeping the society of a major criminal ; this being highlighted still further by the soldier, a little pip-squeak human-being almost farcically throwing the spear into the heart of Jesus, the Creator of the universe, and everything that exists, whether inert or living. To get the perspective I'm thinking of, listen to this rabbi's hilarious illustration of man's puniness, over against God's literally infinite power and wisdom :
But, back to the scene on Gogotha. One moment, in a sense, prisoners with Jesus, in their loyalty, hearing shouts of scorn, taunting and jeering by the hideous mob at the person they loved, then all of a sudden, a silent, desolate, deserted scene, where they were left alone in their grief, with Jesus' broken-down, mangled and bloody body, setting about performing the burial tasks.
Sorry. I forgot to mention : unless you want to watch the whole video, start at about 1.17 and watch it at least till he mentions the person of 5'7" (the cheeky beggar).
It occurred to me recently what an eerily-surreal scene the site of the cross on Golgotha must have seemed to Jesus' mother and his friends, as they had been left on their own ; his murderers, their retinue of mocking knaves, and the other onlookers having fled in such horror at the testimony of the tearing from top to bottom of the Temple curtain, and the very elements of nature, that this 'truly' was 'the son of God'.
But just to make it all that bit more weird, the mob evidently scurried away in terror, without thinking to apologise to Our Lady and the disciples or begging their forgiveness. The status of Jesus' folk had not been reinstated from that of detritus, keeping the society of a major criminal ; this being highlighted still further by the soldier, a little pip-squeak human-being almost farcically throwing the spear into the heart of Jesus, the Creator of the universe, and everything that exists, whether inert or living. To get the perspective I'm thinking of, listen to this rabbi's hilarious illustration of man's puniness, over against God's literally infinite power and wisdom :
But, back to the scene on Gogotha. One moment, in a sense, prisoners with Jesus, in their loyalty, hearing shouts of scorn, taunting and jeering by the hideous mob at the person they loved, then all of a sudden, a silent, desolate, deserted scene, where they were left alone in their grief, with Jesus' broken-down, mangled and bloody body, setting about performing the burial tasks.
Sorry. I forgot to mention : unless you want to watch the whole video, start at about 1.17 and watch it at least till he mentions the person of 5'7" (the cheeky beggar).
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