Comments for A Week in Jerusalem

Comment on Easter Sunday – I went back by Mel

Mel — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:28:14 +0000

Accidently clicked on your link from Ship of Fools. Just wanted to say I love your work-it’s a beautiful take on Easter and your characterisations are very well done.

Comment on Wednesday – What did he mean? by Caroline

Caroline — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:01:21 +0000

I’d like to think that what he had heard haunted him for the rest of his life, and maybe even bagan to make sense at some point.

He must at least have felt that he was missing something vitally important.

Comment on Wednesday – What did he mean? by Ernest

Ernest — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:30:49 +0000

I wonder if I were to visualise myself into the Place of Nicodemus, how would I have understood – steeped in scripture, but with no insight into people or a new, vital message?

This was a totally new idea – that ANYONE was eligible to be saved, not just the Jews, who believed themselves to be the “Chosen” ones of God. It would have taken a huge movement of heart, mind and spirit within Nicodemus to make him ’see’ and understand.

We don’t get a follow up on Nicodemus, what he did later, but presumably, having been totally unable to interpret what was being said to him, he went back and joined the cabal who condemned Jesus.

Comment on Palm Sunday – Come Down by Caroline

Caroline — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:39:36 +0000

I love the thought of Zaccheus – small, disliked, humble insofar as he recognised and accepted the way his fellows felt about him – yet he recognised something that was more important than his reputation, his money and the contradictions of his life. He saw Jesus, and everything else just fell away.

Comment on Palm Sunday – Come Down by Ernest

Ernest — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:54:19 +0000

An interesting example of Jesus coming to save the Sinners. From this story, you can actually visualalise ‘Zacchaeus, straining and nearly falling from the tree, trying to get the best view of ‘the teacher’ who he recognised as the Messiah.

For someone in a position, where he was dispised by all for doing the Roman’s dirty work – he is given the highest to see perhaps heaven on earth, with Jesus in his house.