When?

When shall the people of the world learn to live together in peace and love?  When will we learn to give up all our fears?  We are all so afraid of anything or anybody who is different, not seeing that all are created by the same God.  How can we learn to put other people's need first?  Can we ever learn to let go of the me-first mentality?  For this is a great part of what is needed.  God's peace will only come if we all work at it and are willing to let go of our favorite private dreams and take hold of the dream of peace.  If we will let Him, God will show us how to let go of fear and learn how to live together in peace.

Together

Come together, 

Be together, 

Worship together, 

Show together 

God's love 

For all people 

Together.

Let us

Let us learn 

To live together 

And as people

Of God, 

Come together 

In peace and love, 

Showing all people 

How to live 

Together 

In peace and love.

John

                                                      John     

Well, it's evening finally, and after that crucifixation.  I still don't understand why the 

authorities felt it necessary to kill Jesus, but I guess I'll never understand.  We buried 

Jesus in a tomb given us by Joseph, but it was so late that we couldn't complete treating 

the body.  We'll have to do that after the Sabbath.

Jesus was quite the teacher, and I guess what was wrong is that He said some things that 

threatened the system that was set up.  We never quite understood what He was saying at the 

time, and right now we still don't.  So much was so far beyond what we were taught all our 

lives untill we met Jesus.

I'm taking care of Jesus' mother.  He asked me to do that before He died.  She's really 

very upset by the whole thing, and doesn't want to talk to anybody right now.  You do 

understand, don't you? I'll talk to you more after the Sabbath, when we've had a chance to 

settle a bit.  And no, we don't know what we are going to do next.  We'll see.  After the 

Sabbath then?

Caphias

Caiphas

We killed Jesus?   Look,, from what we could see and what we knew about the man, he was a danger to the country, to all the people.  We have to be so careful with those Romans hanging around.   Having them here makes things incredibly difficult. They have given us rules to follow that are against everything in our religion.    From what we heard about what this Jesus taught, it seemed to us that He was a danger to everyone who was Jewish. 

Let's face it, the man was a rebel.  That's the way it seemed to us.   And we had to protect the people, didn't we?  We thought that He was going to try to set Himself as a king, and we couldn't have that.   Just think what those Romans would have done.   Why, the whole of the country would have been destroyed!   I tell you, we are better off without THAT man wandering around with His teachings!! 

Nicodemus 

You're asking me about how Jesus was tried and convicted?   I wasn't called to that meeting,  which by the way was illegal.   Caiphas wanted to be sure of the outcome, so there were some of us who weren't called.   And to have a trial at that time of night,  why,  it just isn't done!   

Jesus was a good man and didn't deserve to be crucified.   He wasn't a rebel, but a teacher or a wandering preacher.  I guess He taught some things that went against what the leaders in Jerusalem were teaching. They do like to be in control and keep control you know.  They say it's in the best interest of the people and the country.  But I don't know,  I  just don't know.

A man in the crowd 

What?  Oh,  yes I'll talk with you..   What can I tell you?  Yes,  I  was one of the crowd that told Pilate crucify  that Jesus.  After all,  He wouldn't do what He was supposed to do,  overthrow those blasted Romans!  What good He if He won't deliver us from them?   We want to be free to rule ourselves without outsiders!! 

What??    Of course the Messiah is going to be a warrior leader and fight and show us how to beat all our enemies!  It says so in the  Holy Scriptures!  The Priests have taught us that for years.  And they Nicodemus couldn't be wrong about that!   They're the ones who have the time to study the Scriptures.   We sure don't have time for that. We all have to work and work hard just to get by.  So we depend on the Priests and scribes to tell us what is in there.   They couldn't be wrong,  God wouldn't let that happen.  So you see,  this Jesus just had to be the  wrong man,  not the Messiah we have been waiting for.  And we didn't need him around to teach the wrong things.   The way I see it,  we did the right thing in giving him to the Romans to crucify .  Less trouble that  way.   Oh,  excuse me,  the wife wants to go home.  Gotta keep ‘em happy,  you know. 

Nicodemus 2

Yes, I'll talk to you again. After all, I was a supporter of Jesus. He was a good man and had a lot of great ideas that if followed,would have improved our religion. The others didn't agree with me. hence, the death of a good man.

What? Why wasn't I there if I supported Him? OK, put this in what you're writing,those  of us who supported Jesus were not notified about what was an illegal meeting With us there, they couldn't have decided to kill Him. And they knew it!.

What about the tomb? Go ask Joseph  of Arimetha about that. I don't know anything about that right now.