happen. It sounds too childish to be real. There was also a nebulous figure wrapped in simple loin cloth who runs away and appeared to be with Jesus so he was not entirely on his own. The whole scene seems to fail the reality test. What really happened then ? Jesus does not sound like a determined warrior spurning the enemy. He sounds not just human but very lonely and abandoned. He must have known that their was no way out, yet there was so much that he could have done, like spoken softly and even rhetorically in a manner that could have turned the tables on the lynching party. He did nothing. Or so it would seem. It also sounds like a moral story – one of duty betrayed and the loneliness of the one who wears the crown and the full responsibility of destiny. The fleeing figure could be a reflection of the future betrayal by Peter – the coward with lack of conviction or dedicated loyalty.
The constant attack on the priesthood.
There is very little to add to the constant confrontations that Jesus had with the Pharisees who literally made him come up in a rash with their mannerisms and influence in the lives and behaviour of others. They were censorious and uncompromising and this can be clearly seen, even today, in the public behaviour of the fundamentalist extremists in Jerusalem before the walls of the historical and hardly worth adoring, Herod. What is even more curious and quite unacceptable is that the wall is treated and almost tacitly acknowledged as the one Jews would have liked to have been there instead – that of Solomon – another acknowledged Pagan. The bible and all ancient records make it quite clear that if ever there was a Temple of Solomon, it was not in Jerusalem. A lively debate with most
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