It's the Saturday between Good Friday and Easter, and I woke up wondering something...
Christians, help me out!
Two thousand years ago, what was Jesus doing? I know the story is that he died yesterday, was buried, and came back to life tomorrow. But what was he doing on this day--on Saturday?
Was he sitting alone in his tomb, just thinkin 'bout stuff? Was his soul down in Hell drop-kicking hordes of demons and Satan? Did he sneak out to sit by the ocean with his Dad, and discuss what would be for dinner tomorrow? Was he captured and tied up in Death's watchtower, trying to Macgyver his way outta there? Were Jesus and the Devil out playing chess? Was he lying in there going, "Owwww...Ouch...Mommie!"?
Or was he standing in line at the DMV? 'Cause that's been known to take up to three days!
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If you look in the King James Bible, several times in the NT the words "it had to be so in order that the ancient prophecies might be fulfilled,"
Now the guys who wrote the king James Version were scholars of classics and pretty shrewd guys. So they knew what the Greek and Roman texts really said (The bible was translated into Aramaic - Hebrew - from Greek and Latin source texts) They also knew if they did not write the stuff King James' protestant buddies wanted to see in there not only would they not be paid they would be killed.
So they gave us these little clues here and there to say: "look this is not what was written, this is how we were told to tell the story."
One of the points where that phrase occurs is where Jesus has to go to Jerusalem.
So on that holiday weekend (Passover) J man could have been doing anything, having a picnic by the Dead Sea with mary Magdalene and the kids, visiting his Dear Old Mum, hanging out with the guys (he had twelve buddies to conform with the Greco-Roman Exuinox myth. And if the latter was the case, then maybe as John suggests he just got rat arsed and slept it off in a cave.
One thing that always bugged me is...if Jesus is supposed to be "up in heaven" now, then that wasn't much of a sacrifice, was it? I mean, if I were asked to be beaten and tortured and hung on a tree to die, I'd say "No Way!"...but if they included that -- after a long weekend -- I would get to become GOD and JUDGE people until the END OF TIME, I'd say "Hell Yeah!"
I mean really? What sort of sacrifice is dying for three days? At least when Elvis died for our sins, he stayed dead!
I still liked Gary Larsen's Easter cartoon of Jesus wakening.
Her best friend has a two-year-old daughter. On Christmas, the little girl announced proudly that it was baby Jesus' birthday (why does he stay a baby for his birthday, when nobody else does?) Today, my daughter asked what she was celebrating and she didn't know. The mother couldn't explain why she hadn't told her it was the day that baby Jesus popped out of the ground, but had a fun time laughing about it.
No, he took the boat to France so he could hitch a ride through the Channel Tunnel and attend the first Glastonbury Rock Festival. His visit to Glasonbury is documented, which is more than can be said for anything he is supposed to have done in Palestine.